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 2

• 09.00: FP7 project PETAMEDIA - Alan Hanjalic (TU Delft)
• 09.15: FP6 project VITALAS - Arjen P. de Vries (CWI)
• 09.30: FP6 project PHAROS - Francesco Nucci (Engineering)
• 09.45: FP7 project LIVINGKNOWLEDGE - Fausto Giunchiglia (Univ. Trento)
• 10.00: The EU AMI and AMIDA projects: Recognition and Understanding of Meetings and Lectures - Hervé Bourlard (IDIAP)
• 10.15: Towards Web-scale content search: the SAPIR approach - Fausto Rabitti (CNR) and Pavel Zezula (Masaryk University)
• 10.30: Round table discussions and questions

10.50: Coffee Break & Poster and Demo Session

• 11.10: Chorus Findings - Ramón Compañó (JRC-IPTS)
• 11.20: The Future of Web Search - Hendrik Speck (Univ. Kaiserslautern)
• 11.40: Search for Mobile 2.0 - Ajit Jaokar (OpenGardens & Futuretext)
• 12.00: Round-table discussion of Options - Ramón Compañó (JRC-IPTS)

12.30: Lunch

• 14.00: Introduction, and brief overview of CHORUS findings and recommendation regarding user-centric SE design – Jussi Karlgren (SICS)
• 14.10: CHORUS studies outcome on use-case typology dimensions - Paul King (ITI CERTH)
• 14:30: VideoCLEF: evaluation of moving image retrieval" - Martha Larson (Univ. Amsterdam) and Gareth Jones (DCU)
• 14.50: User scenarios and user requirements from media professionals - Xavier Vives Surroca (Catalunya TV)
• 15.10: ImageCLEF LS-VCDT: Evaluation of multilabel image annotation incorporating domain knowledge and concept subjectivity - Stefanie Nowak (Fraunhofer)
• 15.30: Round-table discussion and questions

15.50: Closure: Loretta Anania (European Commission)

16.00 Coffee Break & End of Conference

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)".