MCDL Call for participation!

Workshop on Multimedia in Digital Libraries
Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2 and 3, 2003
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Location:
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Conference Center of the Technical University of Crete
Old French School
El. Venizelou str. - Halepa
Chania, Crete, Greece
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Sponsors:
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EU Excellence Network on Digital Libraries DELOS 
US National Science Foundation
Local sponsor: Technical University of Crete
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Workshop General Chair: 
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Stavros Christodoulakis
Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete, Greece
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Workshop Program Committee Co-chairs:
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Ching-chih Chen, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons 
College, Boston, MA, USA.

Stavros Christodoulakis, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, 
Technical University of 
Crete, Chania, Crete, Greece
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Workshop Program Committee Members:
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EU Members       
Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Florence, Italy
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Andreas Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Chris Faloutsos, Carnellie-Mellon University USA
Nicolas Spyratos, University of Paris 6, France
Euripidis Petrakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece.

USA Members
Jerry Goldman, Northwestern University, USA
Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky, USA
Howard Wactlar, Carnellie Mellon University, USA
James Z. Wang, Pennsylvania State University, USA 
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Tentative Program
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June 2, 2003
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Registration: 8:00 - 8:45
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Workshop Opening: 8:45 - 9:15
Welcome by Prof. Yannis Filis, President Technical University of Crete, 
introduced by Workshop General 
Chair, Prof. Christodoulakis
Representative from DELOS, 
Representative from NSF, Dr. James French 
Program Co-Chairs:      Profs. Chen and Christodoulakis

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Workshop sessions    -   From general to specific       

9:15 - 10:40    
Session 1: Multimedia Contents for Digital Libraries

"BBC Archives: From analogue to digital", Chris Wilkie, BBC, England  

"EPT: Edition production technology for multimedia contents in digital 
libraries" Kevin, Kiernan, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

"Designing multimedia digital libraries with content development and 
management: Technology potential and challenges" Ching-chih Chen, Project 
Emperor-I and Chinese Memory Net, Simmons College, Boston, USA

"Preservation of multimedia contents: How the OAIS Model can help" Julien 
Masanes, Bibliotheque National de France, Paris, France

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10:40 - 11:00   Break, Coffee and Tea
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11:00 - 12:00   
Session 2: Preservation and Restoration of Cultural and Heritage Materials

"Nanoparticle technology saves cultural relics, and potential for a multimedia 
digital library" Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy

"Neuro-Media and the preservation of cultural heritage" Ben H. Davis, Davis 
International Associates, Los Angeles, CA, USA

"Digital restoration: Principles and approaches" W. B Seales and Y. Lin, 
Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

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12:00 - 13:20   Lunch
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13:20 - 15:10   
Session 3: Organizing and Indexing of Multimedia Materials for DL

"Management  of TV program and user metadata in UP-TV"  Nektarios Moumoutzis 
and Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece 

"Opales: Digital libraries for humanities" Peter Stockinger, Maison des 
Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France.

"Redundant Communication Elimination Optimization in XQuery for Multimedia 
Contents Management using Metadata in Distributed  Digital Library 
Environments" Soichiro Hidaka and Hiroyuki Kato, National Institute of 
Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

"Semantic Enabled Presentation of Information" Frank Nack, Lynda Hartman, and 
Jacco van Ossenbruggen, CWI, Amsterdam, 

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15:10 - 15:45   Break, Coffee and Tea
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15:40 - 16:30   
Session 4:  Report of the DELOS-NSF WORKING GROUP ON DIGITAL IMAGERY FOR 
SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL MATERIALS

Panel discussion on the Report recommendations, chaired by the co-chairs of the 
Working Group, Ching-chih Chen and Alberto Del Bimbo,  with contribution from  
WG members Kevin Kiernan and James Z. Wang.

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16:30 - 20:00   Tour of Chania, Crete [arranged by the Local Conference 
Committee]
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20:00 - ???     Workshop Dinner
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June 3, 2003
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8:45 - 10:15   
Session 5: Audio and Music and Digital Libraries

"Two novel applications of speech recognition methods for robust spoken 
document retrieval" S.Eickeler, K. Biatov, M. Larson, J. Koehler, IMK 
Fraunhofer, S. Augustin, Germany

"The problem of ingesting and delivering complex objects from digital 
repositories" Michael Kornbluh, Michigan State University, Jerry Goldman, 
Northwestern University, and Dean Rehberger, Michigan State University

"Genre-based organization of music collections using the SOMeJB system: An 
analysis of rhythm patterns and other features" Alexander Trinkl and Andreas 
Rauber, Technical University of Vienna, Austria

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10:15 - 10:30   Break, Coffee and Tea
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10:30 - 12:30   
Session 6: Image Retrieval and Digital Libraries

"Structure and texture from simple images for 2D/3D class-based visual 
retrieval" Carlo Colombo, Alberto DelBimbo and Frederico Pernici, University of 
Florence, Italy.

"Multiple viewpoints: A strategy for searching multimedia content" James C. 
French*, A. C. Chapin and W. N. Martin, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Virginia [*currently with NSF]

"Graphical image retrieval with picture finder" A. Miene, Th. Hermes, and G.T. 
Ioannidis, University of Bremen, Germany

"Indexing in Structured Images: A filter refinement approach to RBIR"  Roger 
Weber and Michael Mlivoncic, ETH, Switzerland. 

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12:30 - 13:30   Lunch
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13:30 - 14:40   
Session 7: Multimedia Content Indexing in Digital Libraries

"Automatic identification of portraits in art image databases" E. Sikudova, M. 
Gavrielidis and I. Pitas,University of Thessaloniki, Greece

"Machine annotation for digital imagery of historical materials using the ALIP 
system"
James Z. Wang, School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania 
State University
Jia Li, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, and 
Ching-chih Chen, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Simmons 
College

"Linking visual and textual data on video" Pinar H. Duygulu, Howard Wactlar, N. 
Papernick, and D. Ng, Informedia Project, School of Computer Science, Carneige 
Mellon University

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14:40 - 15:35   
Session 8, Object-based Video Retrieval and Multimedia Simulation 

"Communicating human experience with video" Jianbo Shi, Department of Computer 
and Information Science, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Hua Zhong, 
Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
"Virtual Vaudeville: A digital simulation of historical theatre" David Z. 
Saltz, University of Georgia

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15:35 - 16:00   Break, Coffe and Tea
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16:00 - 16:40   Session 9, Q&A and Concluding Session
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