AIEMPro 2009

Second International Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro09) Special Session at WIAMIS 2009 (http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/)

London, 6-8 May 2009

After the successful exordium at DEXA 2008, the second edition of AIEMPro will have the form of a special session at WIAMIS 2009 (The International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services)

Stay tuned for further information in the next days!

Tentative deadlines:

Paper submission: 11 January 2009 Notification of reviews: 1 February 2009 Final camera ready (this is a STRICT DEADLINE): 13th February 2009

Areas of Interest (not limited to):

* Efficient and real-time audiovisual indexing in acquisition

* Automated repurposing of archived material on new media channels

* Automated news production

* Efficient indexing and retrieval of multimedia streams

* Automatic speech recognition and personality identification

* Collaborative systems for media production

* Information Retrieval systems from Multimedia Archives

* Automated material copyright infraction detection and material fingerprinting

* Content summarisation (e.g., sports highlights)

* Audiovisual genre and editorial format detection and characterisation

* Cross-media indexing and integration

* Content segmentation tools (e.g., shot and scene segmentation)

* Evaluation methods for multimedia analysis tools

Prospective authors must submit their work following the WIAMIS formatting instructions (http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/submissions.php) and send the paper in PDF format DIRECTLY to the organisers by e-mail.

Organisers:

Alberto Messina (RAI CRIT) a.messina@rai.it Jean-Pierre Evain (European Broadcasting Union) evain@ebu.ch Robbie De Sutter (VRT medialab) robbie.desutter@vrt.be	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP