• Image, Video, 3D objects digital libraries
• Multimedia digital libraries
• Feature extraction and automatic content annotation
• Ontologies and efficient data base indexing structures
• Content based retrieval
• Personalization support

CHAIRS

Alberto del Bimbo, Università di Firenze, I
Rita Cucchiara, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, I
Nozha Boujemaa, INRIA Roquencourt, F


INVITED SPEAKER

Ed Chang
University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Google Inc., USA


OPEN SESSION

Organized by Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
Present and future of Audio-Visual Digital libraries Applications


DEMO SESSIONS

DIGITAL LIBRARIES ARCHITECTURAL ISSUES

Distributed multimedia digital libraries on peer-to-peer network
Edoardo Ardizzone, Luca Gatani, Marco La Cascia, Giuseppe Lo Re and Marco Ortolani

DelosDLMS –A Next-generation Digital Library Management System
Gert Brettlecker, Paola Ranaldi and Heiko Schuldt

A semiotic framework for the semantics of digital multimedia learning objects
Michael May


IMAGE DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Region based image indexing and retrieval inspired by text search
Giuseppe Amato, Vanessa Magionami and Pasquale Savino

Combining Features for Image Retrieval by Concept Lattice Querying and Navigation
Giuseppe Amato and Carlo Meghini

On the Scalability and Adaptability for Multimodal Retrieval and Annotation
Z. Zhang, Z. Guo, C. Faloutsos, E.P. Xing and J.-Y. Pan

Design and Development of a Digital Archive of Illuminated Manuscripts
Maristella Agosti, Nicola Ferro and Nicola Orio

Digitization and multispectral analysis of historical books and archival documents: Two exemplary cases
Giuseppe Maino

Clustering by Random Projections: Application to Image Segmentation
Chabane Djeraba

Facial Expression Recognition: a Fully Integrated Approach
Roberto Valenti, Nicu Sebe and Theo Gevers


3D OBJECT DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Using geodesic distances for 2D-3D and 3D-3D face recognition
Stefano Berretti, Alberto Del Bimbo, Pietro Pala and Francisco Jose Silva Mata

A novel prototype for documentation and retrieval of 3D objects
Efstathios Onasoglou, Athanasios Mademlis, Katsikas Dimitrios, Petros Daras and Michael Strintzis

Shape Indexing through Laplacian Spectra
Fatih Demirci, Remco C. Veltkamp and Reinier van Leuken

A Framework of Calculus on Facial Surfaces
Chafik Samir1, Mohamed Daoudi and Anuj Srivastava


AUDIO DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Bringing Mobile Map-Based Access to Digital Audio to the End User
Andreas Rauber

A System for the Automatic Identification of Music Works
Nicola Orio


VIDEO DIGITAL LIBRARIES

Semantic video segmentation using probabilistic relaxation
Arne Jacobs and George Ioannidis

Semantic Video Search
A.W.M. Smeulders, J.C. van Gemert, B. Huurnink, D.C. Koelma, O. de Rooij,
K.E.A. van de Sande, C.G.M. Snoek, C.J. Veenman and M. Worring

Hybrid Ontology and Visual-based Retrieval for Cultural Heritage Multimedia Libraries
Stefanos Vrochidis, Charalambos Doulaverakis, Lambros Makris, Anastasios Gounaris,
Evangelia Nidelkou, Ioannis Kompatsiaris and Michael G. Strintzis

Recording, Indexing, Summarizing, and Accessing Meeting Videos: An Overview of the AMI Project
Alejandro Jaimes, Herve Bourlard, and Steve Renals

Fast and Effective Features for Recognizing Recurring Video Clips in Very Large Databases
Ina Döhring, Rainer Lienhart

Improving the accuracy of automatic tennis video annotation by high level grammar
W.J. Christmas, I. Kolonias, J. Kittler and F. Yan

Object-Based Indexing of Compressed Video Content: from SD to HD Video
C. Morand, J. Benois-Pineau, J.-Ph. Domenger and B. Mansencal

A Video-Browsing-Enhanced Personal Video Recorder
Ajay Divakaran and Isao Otsuka

K-Space Content Management and Retrieval System
Ebroul Izquierdo, Krishna Chandramouli, Marcin Grzegorzek and Tomas Piatrik