CHORUS Workshop

A two-day Event was organised at the INRIA Rocquencourt premises consisting of the following: March 13, 2007, 9:00 to 17:30 hours: CHORUS Workshop "Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search" March 14, 2007, 9:00 to 18 hours: D2 Spring 2007 Concertation Meeting March 14, 2004, afternoon: CHORUS WG meeting: Evaluation and Benchmarking A think-Tank meeting was also organised on personal invitation.

CHORUS Workshop Agenda - 13 March 2007
"Use Cases and New Services for Multimedia Content Search"

Workshop Chairs & Moderators: Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA) and Christoph Dosch (IRT)

8:30 Arrival of participants: registration and Coffee

9:00 Welcome by Jean-Pierre Banâtre: Director of European Partnership Department (INRIA)

9:05 Opening of the Workshop by Luis Rodriguez Rosello (Head of D2 Unit-EC): "Multimedia Search Engines: mastering the networked media revolution in Europe"
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9:30 Introduction of Workshop objectives by Nozha Boujemaa & Christoph Dosch

9:45 Chorus event schedule by Jean-Charles Point (JCP-Consult)
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9:55 "Why R&D on audio-visual search engines is such an important and challenging issue" - Alex Hauptmann (Carnegie Mellon University - USA)
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10: 20 "From Research through Innovation to Business" - Roberto Cencioni (Head of E2 Unit-EC)
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10:45 Coffee Break & Poster Session

Views from content creators and content owners (11:10 - 13:00)

11:10 “Multimedia Search Engines: the View from Content Creator and Owner” - David Wood, (EBU)
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11:30 'Multimedia Content Search: The view from the large Audiovisual archive' by Daniel Teruggi, (INA)
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11:50 Statement by Simone Emmelius, ZDF (Public service broadcaster's online service)

12:10 "Picture search challenges" - Tom Wuytack, (Belga)
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12:30 Open discussion: Content Search Use-cases: communality and diversity?

13:00 Lunch & Poster Session

Views from content users and content service providers (14:45 - 16:05)

14:45 "Making media simply enjoyable!" - Hans Van Gageldonk (Philips)
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15:05 "Yahoo! - Social Media in Action" - Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research)
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15:25 "Infom@gic Challenges" - Denis Marraud (EADS)
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15:45 "Searching in and beyond multimedia content" - Andreas Hutter (Siemens)
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16:05 Coffee Break & Poster Session

16:30 Final Discussion - Panel of all speakers & contributions by the auditorium
How big the gap between Use-cases and IT Services for Multimedia Content Search?

17:30 Concluding statement by Loretta Anania (EC - D2 Unit) and Closure of the Workshop

The Deliverable D4.1 on this Workshop is available here