| CHORUS NEWSLETTER 4 - FEBRUARY 2008 | |
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For this newsletter, our focus is on an interesting white paper ['Towards a Use Case Ontology for Multimedia Information Retrieval'] written by a CHORUS member, Paul King, from the Informatics & Telematics Institute, CERTH Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece. The paper is on the use case work that ITI-CERTH is doing.
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Deliverable D2.1The CHORUS deliverable D2.1 'State of the art on Multimedia Search Engines' has been finalised and is available upon request on the CHORUS website. |
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FUTURE EVENTSCHORUS announces its 2nd Conference held together with the third edition of the Future of Web Search Workshop. The theme of the conference will be “Multimedia retrieval and specialized topics in Web search”. The event is co-organised by Yahoo! Research, the CHORUS Coordination Action, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and co-sponsored by "Govern d'Andorra" and will take place in Andorra on April 4 and 5 of this year. The conference will feature several invited presentations, a session on current European projects on Multimedia retrieval, a Speakers' Corner with challenge questions for the participants, and a concluding panel where workshop results will be summarised and some concluding points on future challenge for successful multimedia retrieval projects will be formulated. If you want to participate, please register as soon as possible at http://grupoweb.upf.es/tfws08/ - space is limited and interest has already exceeded our expectations! The IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2008) in Vilamoura - Algarve - Portugal on April 14-16, 2008 has accepted a "special session" to deal with CHORUS-related matters: "Audio-visual search for the consumer - how to generalise the results?" CHORUS participants who wish to participate should submit a short abstract to the conference, indicating that this special session is where they aim to participate. Authors are required to submit an extended Abstract (maximum of 2 pages) for each paper. More information is available at http://www.isce2008.org/special%20sessionsJUSSI.html The first FP7 Networked Media Concertation Meeting will take place in Vilamoura, in the Algarve, Portugal on 17th April 2008. This event will be collocated with the IEEE ISCE. Attendance to the Concertation Meeting is free but registration is required. More information can be found at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/netmedia/concertation_en.html The fourth meeting of the CHORUS Think-Tank will take place either at the end of March (26th - 27th March) or the beginning of April (9th -10th April). The location and dates will be confirmed shortly. CHORUS is organising a Workshop on P2P Search which will take place in collaboration with InfoScale 2008, the third International ICST Conference on Scalable Information Systems. The event will be held in Vico Equense, Italy from 4th - 6th June. More information on this event will be available soon. You want to participate? Please submit an abstract (maximum of 2 pages) to jylemoine[at]jcp-consult.com |
Past EventsThe NAVS Fall D2 Concertation meeting took place in Brussels on 13th – 14th November 2007. CHORUS participated in the session on Audio-Visual Search on 14th November. The meeting report and presentations are available on the CHORUS website. The CHORUS workshop on metadata in audio-visual/multimedia productions and archiving took place on November 21-22 2007. Some 80 practitioners, researchers, content providers and other interested parties gathered at the IRT headquarters in Munich, Germany. The event was organized by the CHORUS project, with support from the European commission as well as from EBU and IRT. More Experts on Audiovisual Search Engines from Europe met for the 3rd CHORUS Think-Tank meeting (TT-3) from 22nd - 23rd November at the IRT's premises in Munich, Germany. The summary report from this meeting can be viewed here. |