MIR 2008: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Thomas S. Huang:
  What are the 7 millennium problems in multimedia information retrieval? 1
  

Brave new topics

• Junsong Yuan, Jiebo Luo, Henry S. Kautz, Ying Wu:
  Mining GPS traces and visual words for event classification. 2-9
  
• Aiden R. Doherty, Ciarán O. Conaire, Michael Blighe, Alan F. Smeaton, Noel E. O'Connor:
  Combining image descriptors to effectively retrieve events from visual lifelogs. 10-17
  
• Honggang Zhang, Lorant Toth, Weihong Deng, Jun Guo, Jie Yang:
  Monitoring visual focus of attention via local discriminant projection. 18-23
  
• Emily Moxley, Jim Kleban, B. S. Manjunath:
  Spirittagger: a geo-aware tag suggestion tool mined from flickr. 24-30
  
• Hongyuan Cai, Jiang Yu Zheng:
  Locating key views for image indexing of spaces. 31-38
  
• Mark J. Huiskes, Michael S. Lew:
  The MIR flickr retrieval evaluation. 39-43
  

Image retrieval 1

• Jae Young Choi, Seungji Yang, Yong Man Ro, Konstantinos N. Plataniotis:
  Face annotation for personal photos using context-assisted face recognition. 44-51
  
• Mei-Chen Yeh, Kwang-Ting Cheng:
  A string matching approach for visual retrieval and classification. 52-58
  
• Bart Thomee, Mark J. Huiskes, Erwin M. Bakker, Michael S. Lew:
  Large scale image copy detection evaluation. 59-66
  
• Roelof van Zwol, Vanessa Murdock, Lluis Garcia Pueyo, Georgina Ramírez:
  Diversifying image search with user generated content. 67-74
  
• Timothée Bailloeul, Cai-Zhi Zhu, Yinghui Xu:
  Automatic image tagging as a random walk with priors on the canonical correlation subspace. 75-82
  

Audio retrieval

• Siavash Kazemian, Frank Rudzicz, Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu:
  A critical assessment of spoken utterance retrieval through approximate lattice representations. 83-88
  
• Alberto Pinto, Paolo Tagliolato:
  A generalized graph-spectral approach to melodic modeling and retrieval. 89-96
  
• Peter Dunker, Stefanie Nowak, André Begau, Cornelia Lanz:
  Content-based mood classification for photos and music: a generic multi-modal classification framework and evaluation approach. 97-104
  
• Gal Chechik, Eugene Ie, Martin Rehn, Samy Bengio, Dick Lyon:
  Large-scale content-based audio retrieval from text queries. 105-112
  
• Tommi Lahti, Marko Helén, Olli Vuorinen, Eero Väyrynen, Juha Partala, Johannes Peltola, Satu-Marja Mäkelä:
  On enabling techniques for personal audio content management. 113-120
  
• Yi Yu, J. Stephen Downie, Lei Chen, Vincent Oria, Kazuki Joe:
  Searching musical audio datasets by a batch of multi-variant tracks. 121-127
  

Image retrieval 2

• Moonhwi Lee, Cheong Hee Park:
  An efficient image normalization method for face recognition under varying illuminations. 128-133
  
• Arto Klami, Craig Saunders, Teófilo Emídio de Campos, Samuel Kaski:
  Can relevance of images be inferred from eye movements? 134-140
  
• Xianming Liu, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Xiaoshuai Sun, Tianqiang Liu:
  Cross-media manifold learning for image retrieval & annotation. 141-148
  
• Johanna Vompras, Thomas Scholz, Stefan Conrad:
  Extracting contextual information from multiuser systems for improving annotation-based retrieval of image data. 149-155
  
• Changhu Wang, Lei Zhang, Hong-Jiang Zhang:
  Graph-based multiple-instance learning for object-based image retrieval. 156-163
  
• Nikhil Rasiwasia, Nuno Vasconcelos:
  Image retrieval using query by contextual example. 164-171
  
• Hugo Jair Escalante, Carlos A. Hernández, Luis Enrique Sucar, Manuel Montes-y-Gómez:
  Late fusion of heterogeneous methods for multimedia image retrieval. 172-179
  
• Xirong Li, Cees G. M. Snoek, Marcel Worring:
  Learning tag relevance by neighbor voting for social image retrieval. 180-187
  
• Xavier Anguera, JieJun Xu, Nuria Oliver:
  Multimodal photo annotation and retrieval on a mobile phone. 188-194
  
• Huan Wang, Xing Jiang, Liang-Tien Chia, Ah-Hwee Tan:
  Ontology enhanced web image retrieval: aided by wikipedia & spreading activation theory. 195-201
  

Salient points in multimedia retrieval

• Ard Oerlemans, Michael S. Lew:
  Interest points based on maximization of distinctiveness. 202-207
  
• Indriyati Atmosukarto, Linda G. Shapiro:
  A salient-point signature for 3d object retrieval. 208-215
  
• Lei Ding, Mikhail Belkin:
  Component based shape retrieval using differential profiles. 216-222
  
• Xi Li, Weiming Hu, Zhongfei Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang:
  Robust foreground segmentation based on two effective background models. 223-228
  

Frontier talks

• Ramesh Jain:
  Multimedia information retrieval: watershed events. 229-236
  
• Eric Zavesky, Shih-Fu Chang:
  CuZero: embracing the frontier of interactive visual search for informed users. 237-244
  

Video concept, action, and retrieval

• Sang-Hack Jung, Yanlin Guo, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Rakesh Kumar:
  Action video retrieval based on atomic action vocabulary. 245-252
  
• Yuan Liu, Tao Mei, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua:
  Optimizing video search reranking via minimum incremental information loss. 253-259
  
• Alexia Briassouli, Ioannis Kompatsiaris:
  Human activity localization via sequential change detection. 260-267
  
• Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji, Hongxun Yao, Pengfei Xu, Tianqiang Liu, Xianming Liu:
  Place retrieval with graph-based place-view model. 268-275
  
• Ullas Gargi, Jay Yagnik:
  Solving the label resolution problem in supervised video content classification. 276-282
  
• Geert Willems, Tinne Tuytelaars, Luc J. Van Gool:
  Spatio-temporal features for robust content-based video copy detection. 283-290
  
• Jaesik Choi, Won J. Jeon, Sang-Chul Lee:
  Spatio-temporal pyramid matching for sports videos. 291-297
  
• Jingdong Wang, Yinghai Zhao, Xiuqing Wu, Xian-Sheng Hua:
  Transductive multi-label learning for video concept detection. 298-304
  
• Yuedong Yang, Aimin Hao, Qinping Zhao:
  View-invariant action recognition using interest points. 305-312
  

Multimedia retrieval and modeling

• Thierry Urruty, Chabane Djeraba, Joemon M. Jose:
  An efficient indexing structure for multimedia data. 313-320
  
• Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel:
  Applications of description logics to improve multimedia information retrieval for efficient educational tools. 321-328
  
• Gunawan Herman, Getian Ye, Jie Xu, Bang Zhang:
  Improving object detection by removing noisy samples from training sets. 329-335
  
• Rachid Benmokhtar, Benoit Huet:
  Perplexity-based evidential neural network classifier fusion using mpeg-7 low-level visual features. 336-341
  
• Anne-Marie Tousch, Stéphane Herbin, Jean-Yves Audibert:
  Semantic lattices for multiple annotation of images. 342-349
  
• Mouna Torjmen, Karen Pinel-Sauvagnat, Mohand Boughanem:
  Towards a structure-based multimedia retrieval model. 350-357
  

Multimedia browsing and summarization

• Jianping Fan, Yuli Gao, Hangzai Luo, Daniel A. Keim, Zongmin Li:
  A novel approach to enable semantic and visual image summarization for exploratory image search. 358-365
  
• Min Xu, Stan Z. Li, Bin Li, Xiaotong Yuan, Shiming Xiang:
  A set theoretical method for video synopsis. 366-370
  
• Cyril Rohr, Dian Tjondronegoro:
  Aggregated cross-media news visualization and personalization. 371-378
  
• Costantino Grana, Daniele Borghesani, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara:
  "Inside the bible": segmentation, annotation and retrieval for a new browsing experience. 379-386
  
• Anupama Mallik, Pasumarthi Poornachander, Santanu Chaudhury:
  Multimedia ontology learning for automatic annotation and video browsing. 387-394
  

3D Object retrieval

• Zhouhui Lian, Paul L. Rosin, Xianfang Sun:
  A rectilinearity measurement for 3d meshes. 395-402
  
• Zhenbao Liu, Jun Mitani, Yukio Fukui, Seiichi Nishihara:
  Multiresolution wavelet analysis of shape orientation for 3d shape retrieval. 403-410
  
• Ryutarou Ohbuchi, Toshiya Shimizu:
  Ranking on semantic manifold for shape-based 3d model retrieval. 411-418
  
• Gunhee Kim, Christos Faloutsos, Martial Hebert:
  Unsupervised modeling and recognition of object categories with combination of visual contents and geometric similarity links. 419-426
  
• Gabriel Takacs, Vijay Chandrasekhar, Natasha Gelfand, Yingen Xiong, Wei-Chao Chen, Thanos Bismpigiannis, Radek Grzeszczuk, Kari Pulli, Bernd Girod:
  Outdoors augmented reality on mobile phone using loxel-based visual feature organization. 427-434
  

Video retrieval and concept detection

• Sevinc Bayram, Husrev T. Sencar, Nasir D. Memon:
  Video copy detection based on source device characteristics: a complementary approach to content-based methods. 435-442
  
• Bo Geng, Linjun Yang, Chao Xu, Xian-Sheng Hua:
  Collaborative learning for image and video annotation. 443-450
  
• Andreas Baak, Meinard Müller, Hans-Peter Seidel:
  An efficient algorithm for keyframe-based motion retrieval in the presence of temporal deformations. 451-458
  
• Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke:
  Assessing concept selection for video retrieval. 459-466
  
• Jun Yang, Alexander G. Hauptmann:
  A framework for classifier adaptation and its applications in concept detection. 467-474