W’MAPS 2009

1st IEEE International Workshop on

Media Information Analysis for Personal and Social Applications (W’MAPS)

July 3rd, 2009, Cancun, Mexico in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2009 conference

Schedule

8.30AM Registration
8.40AM – 8.50AM Welcome Speech by Workshop Chair (Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA)
Oral Session I: New Challenges in Social Media

8:40AM-9:45AM ( Chair – Daniel Gatica-Perez, IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland)
8.50AM - 9.20AM “Making Sense of Meaning: Leveraging Social Processes to Understand Media Semantics” (Invited Paper)

Hari Sundaram (Arizona State University)
9.20AM – 09.40AM “Close & Closer: Discover Social Relationship From Photo Collections”

Peng Wu, Weimin Ding, Zhidong Mao, Dan Tretter (Hewlett-Packard Company)
09.40AM – 09.45AM Open Discussions
09.45AM – 10.15AM Coffee break
Oral Session II: Semantic Media Analysis

(10:15AM - 11:30AM (Chair – Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
10.15AM - 10.45AM “Towards Developing a Unified Multimodal Image Retrieval Framework” (Invited Paper)

Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Zhen Guo (SUNY Binghamton), Ruofei Zhang (Yahoo! Inc.)
10.45AM – 11.05AM “Event Classification in Personal Image Collections”

Madirakshi Das, Alexander Loui (Eastman Kodak Company)
11.05AM – 11.25AM Facial Pose Estimation Using A Symmetrical Feature Model

Raymond Ptucha, Andreas Savakis (Rochester Institute of Technology)
11.25AM – 11.30AM Open Discussions
11:30AM – 1.00PM Lunch
Oral Session III: New Media Applications

1.00PM - 2.10PM ( Chair – Alexander Loui, Kodak Research Labs, USA)
1.00PM – 1.30PM Towards Next-Generation Map Making (Invited Paper)

Xin Chen, Matei Stroila, James Lynch, Narayanan Alwar, Brad Kohlmeyer, Jeff Bach, Roger Hui (NAVTEQ Corporation)
1.30PM – 1.50PM New Social Networking Experience using Eyetap Devices

Lekha Chaisorn and Corey Manders (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR)
1.50PM – 2.10PM Integrating A Gesture Interface To A Commercial Online Dance Game

Ka Yin Tang, Corey Mason Manders, Farzam Farbiz, Mei Hwan Loke, Gim Guan Chua (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR), Chee Yue Ho (Honor Game International)
Oral Session IV: Advances in Audio/Music Processing

2:10PM - 3:10PM ( Chair - Corey Manders, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR, Singapore)
2.10PM – 2:40PM Acoustic Segment Modeling for Speaker Recognition (Invited Paper)

Bin Ma, Donglai Zhu, Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR)
2.40PM – 3.00PM Rhythm Analysis For Personal And Social Music Applications Using Drum Loop Patterns

Hui Li Tan, Yongwei Zhu, Susanto Rahardja, Lekha Chaisorn

(Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR)
3.00PM – 3.10PM Open Discussions & Wrap-up by Workshop Chairs and TPC Chairs