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CHORUS is a European Coordination Action which aims at creating the conditions of mutual information and cross fertilisation between the European projects dealing with Multimedia Content Search Engines. National and international initiatives are also included in CHORUS action.

In order to gain an overview over the spectrum of attending participants, and also in order to be able to better plan the organisation of the event, we kindly ask you to register as early as possible to the CHORUS event. A small participation fee of 150€ per person to cover the event expenses will have to be paid before the event.

Programme Day 1

Conference Chairs (Day 1 and Day 2):

Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA); Christoph Dosch (IRT); Ramon Compañó (JRC-IPTS)

08.45: Arrival of Participants: Registration and Coffee

Jean-Charles Point

09.15 – 10.00: Morning Session 1: Opening of the Conference – Jean-Charles Point (JCP-Consult)

09.15: Opening of the Conference and statements by EC representative "Multimedia Search in the perspective of Future Internet Services" - Joao Da Silva (EC)
09.35: "Chorus in the landscape of European effort in MMSE” – Luis R. Rosello (EC)
09.50: Introduction of Conference Objectives by Nozha Boujemaa (France)

10.00: Coffee Break & Poster and Demo Session

Nozha Boujemaa

10.30 – 12.30: Morning Session 2: Chorus Roadmap and International Perspectives – Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA)

10.30: Prospective in MMSE Research - Prof. Ramesh Jain (USA)
11.00: Overview of Information Grand Voyage project - Multimedia Search and Interface for Next Generation - Prof.Miki Haseyama (Japan)
11.20: THESEUS – Advanced Services for MMSE – Regine Gernert (Germany)
11.40: A review of first preliminary results from Quaero - Pieter Van Der Linden – (France)
12.00: Chorus Roadmap and recommendations- Nozha Boujemaa – (France)

12.30: Lunch

Christoph Dosch

13.30 – 14.50: Afternoon Session 1: CHORUS Vision and Industrial Trends – Christoph Dosch (IRT)

13.30: Industrial trends for Internet search - Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research)
13.50: "Enterprise search trends and challenges” – Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead)
14.10: MOVIMOS - a scalable, distributed multimedia search engine for mobile applications - Thomas Breuel (DFKI)
14.30: "Chorus Vision: Outcome of the Think-Tank" – Henri Gouraud (INRIA), Pieter Van Der Linden (THOMSON)

Joachim Koehler

14.50 – 16.10: Afternoon Session 2: Highlights from MMSE Research Projects – Joachim Koehler (Fraunhofer)

14.50: Search engine and result optimization: Internet Score Cards - Christoph Glauser (IFAAR)
15.10: Chorus: Status and Challenges of MMSE Technology – Joachim Köhler (Fraunhofer IAIS)
15.30: "3D Scene Structure Analysis for Semantic Annotation and Retrieval of Unedited Video" Oliver Schreer (FH HHI)
15.50: ERC project SECO - Stefano Ceri (DEI, Politecnico di Milano)

16.10: Coffee Break & Poster and Demo Session

16.30 – 17.30: Panel closing session: Disruptive Technologies and Services in the near Future – Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA)/ Christoph Dosch (IRT)
17.30: Closure of Day1 – Loretta Annania (European Commission)

The CHORUS conference is over and we would like to thank all participants and speakers for having made it such a big success!
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The CHORUS Final Conference will be attended by international experts in the field of Multi-Media Search engines and Internet applications and services. In addition, experts from the European Commission will attend and explain the objectives of the Commission in this area. By participating as a sponsor, you could help the CHORUS project to finance the event, and at the same time present the logo or poster of your company or institute to a large audience. For further details and arrangements, please contact Markus Kauber at JCP-Consult or by using the CHORUS contact form (top right corner of page)".