First International Workshop on Video Mining (VM’08)

In association with

IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2008)

Pisa, Italy

19 December, 2008

***ATTENTION: Accepted papers will be invited in the extended form to a book published by Springer.***

Call for Papers

With cameras become pervasive in our daily life, vast amounts of videos are generated in different aspects of our society every day. The popularity of YouTube-like websites is one of strong evidences for this. How to effectively analyze and use the already huge, rapidly growing video data is one of main challenges we are facing. Video processing and analysis techniques become more and more important in the field of computer vision and image understanding and other related areas. There are wide-rage potential video-based applications in many areas including multimedia, human computer interface, security and surveillance, copyright protection, personal entertainment, to name a few.

 

Video mining is to discover and describe interesting patterns in video data, which has become one of the core problem areas of the data mining research community.  Compared to the mining of other types of data (e.g., text), video mining is still in its infancy, and an under-explored field. There are many challenging research problems facing video mining. For example, how to discover knowledge from spatial-temporal data, how to infer high-level semantic concepts from low-level features extracted from videos, how to make use of unlabeled data. Applying general data mining techniques for video data will face a number of difficulties as well, because of the need to analyze large amount of high-dimensional data. To address these challenges, we have to adapt the existing data mining theory or algorithm for video data, or find new techniques and approaches suitable for video data. 

 

This one-day workshop seeks to present and highlight the latest developments in video data mining and video-based applications. It aims to bring together worldwide researchers from related disciplines, to provide a forum for the dissemination of significant research work and innovative practice, and to encourage exchanges, interactions and possible collaboration between participants.

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,

  • Video clustering and categorization
  • Video based object recognition
  • Video segmentation and summarization
  • Video feature extraction and representation
  • Video indexing and retrieval
  • Video search engines
  • Video editing and browsing systems
  • Visual event and activity detection
  • Statistical techniques for video analysis
  • Semantic video content analysis
  • Video processing for HCI
  • Video surveillance (person identification, abnormal activity labeling …)
  • Consumer video applications (sports highlight detection, commercial message extraction …)

 

Program Co-chairs

  • Dan Schonfeld          University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Caifeng Shan             Philips Research, The Netherlands
  • Dacheng Tao             Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
  • Liang Wang              The University of Melbourne, Australia   

 

PC Members

  • Rainer Lienhart        Institut für Informatik, Universität Augsburg, Germany
  • Shaogang Gong        Queen Mary University London, UK
  • Wolfgang Klas          Institute for Distributed and Multimedia Systems, Austria
  • C.-C. Jay Kuo            University of South California, USA   
  • Greg Mori                  Simon Fraser University , Canada         
  • Stan Li                        Chinese Academy of Sciences, China                                       
  • Zoran Dimitrijevic   Google Inc, USA
  • Qi Li                           Western Kentucky University, USA                   
  • Kadir A. Peker          Bilkent University,  Turkey
  • Tao Mei                     Microsoft Research Asia, China
  • Dimitrios Makris      Kingston University, UK              
  • Tianhao Zhang         Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
  • Stephen J. Maybank Birkbeck, University of London, UK
  • Jiebo Luo                   Kodak Research Labs, USA
  • Ashfaq Khokhar       University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  • Qi Tian                       University of Texas, USA
  • Xiaozhe Wang          University of Melbourne, Australia
  • David Doermann     University of Maryland, USA
  • Liang-Tien Chia       Nanyang Technological University, Singapore             
  • Mauro Barbieri         Philips Research, The Netherlands           

 

Important dates

Submission deadline:              August 1, 2008 August 10, 2008

Notification of acceptance:       September 15, 2008

Camera-ready due:                    October 7, 2008

Workshop:                                  December 19, 2008

 

Paper Submission

  • In submitting a manuscript to this workshop, the authors acknowledge that no paper substantially similar in content has been submitted to another conference, workshop, or journal.
  • As tradition at ICDM, a "forward to workshops" mechanism will be adopted this year, where a paper not accepted for the main ICDM conference can be (at the author’s request) "fast-tracked" to this workshop, preserving reviews.
  • The format of the paper is the same as the ICDM main conference paper. Please follow the instructions on the website http://icdm08.isti.cnr.it/. The review process will be double-blind.
  • For the paper submission, please follow the link – Submission Page.

 

Review and publication

Each submission will be reviewed by at least three reviewers from program committee members and external reviewers for originality, significance, clarity, soundness, relevance and technical contents. Accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the workshop proceedings of ICDM 2008, and will be invited to submit in the extended form to an edited book (Springer) by the organizers and/or a journal special issue after conference.

 

Registration
At least one author for each paper needs to register to ICDM 2008.  There is no separate registration for the workshop. The main conference registration covers everything. 
 
Final Workshop Program
TBA
 
Contact
Any information or inquiries regarding the workshop can be forwarded to: 
<caifeng [dot] shan [at] gmail [dot] com> or 
<dacheng [dot] tao [at] gmail [dot] com>.