Automated Information Extraction in Media Production

2nd International Workshop on Automated Information Extraction in Media Production (AIEMPro09)

Special Session at WIAMIS 2009

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)

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