MLMI 2008 Programme

Programme Outline

Monday, September 8, 2008

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Thursday, September 11, 2008

Satellite meetings are marked with a *. To attend any of these meetings, please contact: Christine Perey for the AMI Knowledge and KnowHow Transfer, David van Leeuwen for Dutch ASR, François Foglia for the IM2 SAB, and Augusto Sarti for the interproject meeting.

Detailed Programme

MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2008
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:15 Opening
PAPER SESSION 1: Multimodal Processing
09:15-09:45 Ambiguity Modeling in Latent Spaces
Carl Henrik Ek, Jon Rihan, Philip Torr, Gregory Rogez, and Neil Lawrence
09:45-10:15 Visual Focus of Attention in Dynamic Meeting Scenarios
Michael Voit and Rainer Stiefelhagen
10:15-10:45 Decision-level Fusion for Audio-Visual Laughter Detection
Boris Reuderink, Mannes Poel, Khiet Truong, Ronald Poppe, and Maja Pantic
10:45-11:15 - Coffee break
INVITED TALK 1
11:15-12:15 The "Giraffe" - A Mobile Telepresence Physical Avatar
Stephen von Rump (HeadThere Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA)
12:15-13:45 - Lunch break
PAPER SESSION 2: Speech and Language
13:45-14:15 Meta Comments for Summarizing Meeting Speech
Gabriel Murray and Steve Renals
14:15-14:45 Time-Compressing Speech: ASR Transcripts are an Effective Way to Support Gist Extraction
Simon Tucker, Nicos Kyprianou, and Steve Whittaker
14:45-15:15 Modeling Topic and Role Information in Meetings using the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process
Songfang Huang and Steve Renals
15:15-15:45 - Coffee break
PAPER SESSION 3: Interactive Systems
15:45-16:15 The AMIDA Automatic Content Linking Device: Just-in-Time Document Retrieval in Meetings
Andrei Popescu-Belis, Erik Boertjes, Jonathan Kilgour, Peter Poller, Sandro Castronovo, Theresa Wilson, Alejandro Jaimes, and Jean Carletta
16:15-16:45 Computer Assisted Transcription of Text Images and Multimodal Interaction
Alejandro H. Toselli, Verónica Romero, and Enrique Vidal
POSTER SESSION 1
16:45-18:15 List of posters below

18:30-21:30 - Conference Dinner, "Restaurant Polman's huis"
TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008
INVITED TALK 2
09:00-10:00 Measuring interactivity on search engines is hard, unless you're Yahoo, Microsoft, or Google
Mark Sanderson (Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, UK)
10:00-10:30 - Coffee break
SPECIAL SESSION: User Requirements and Evaluation of Multimodal Meeting Browsers/Assistants
10:30-10:45 Making remote 'meeting hopping' work: assistance to initiate, join and leave meetings
Anita H.M. Cremers, Maaike Duistermaat, Peter L.M. Groenewegen, and Jacomien G.M. de Jong
10:45-11:00 Designing and Evaluating Meeting Assistants, Keeping Humans in Mind
Patrick Ehlen, Raquel Fernandez, and Matthew Frampton
11:00-11:15 Extrinsic Summarization Evaluation: A Decision Audit Task
Gabriel Murray, Thomas Kleinbauer, Peter Poller, Steve Renals, Jonathan Kilgour, and Tilman Becker
11:15-11:30 Developing and Evaluating a Meeting Assistant Test Bed
Wilfried Post and Mike Lincoln
11:30-11:45 Physicality and Cooperative Design
Dhaval Vyas, Dirk Heylen, and Anton Nijholt
11:45-12:30 General discussion
Animated by Denis Lalanne and Steve Whittaker
12:30-14:00 - Lunch break
INVITED TALK 3
14:00-15:00 HCI2: Human-Centered Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction
Maja Pantic (Department of Computing, Imperial College London and University of Twente)
PAPER SESSION 4: Human Interaction and Activity
15:00-15:30 Detection of Laughter-in-Interaction in Multichannel Close-Talk Microphone Recordings of Meetings
Kornel Laskowski and Tanja Schultz
15:30-16:00 Daily Routine Classification from Mobile Phone Data
Katayoun Farrahi and Daniel Gatica-Perez
16:00-16:30 - Coffee break
POSTER SESSION 2
16:30-18:00 List of posters below

WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2008
PAPER SESSION 5: Speech Processing
09:00-09:30 A Neural Network based Regression Approach for Recogninizing Simultaneous Speech
Weifeng Li, Kenichi Kumatani, John Dines, Mathew Magimai-Doss, and Hervé Bourlard
09:30-10:00 Hilbert Envelope Based Features for Far-Field Speech Recognition
Samuel Thomas, Sriram Ganapathy, and Hynek Hermansky
10:00-10:30 - Coffee break
STUDENT POSTER SESSION
10:30-12:00 List of posters below

INVITED TALK 4
12:00-13:00 Communicating with a distinctive embodied conversation agent
Catherine Pelachaud (IUT de Montreuil and INRIA Rocquencourt)
13:00-13:15 Closing
SATELLITE EVENTS
Afternoon *AMI Knowledge and KnowHow Transfer Day
Contact: Christine Perey (AMIDA)
Afternoon Dutch ASR evaluation workshop
Contact: David van Leeuwen (TNO)
Afternoon IM2 SAB meeting
Contact: François Foglia (Idiap)
THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2008
SATELLITE EVENT
Morning Interproject meeting on the evaluation of space-time audio processing
Contact: Augusto Sarti (Politecnico di Milano)

List of Posters

POSTER SESSION 1: MONDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2008, 16:45-18:15
Athanasios K. Noulas, Tim Van Kasteren, Ben J.A. Krose
A Hybrid Generative-Discriminative Approach to Speaker Diarization
Gabriel Murray, Steve Renals
Detecting Action Items in Meetings
Harm op den Akker, Christian Schulz
Exploring Features and Classifiers for Dialogue Act Segmentation
Sandro Castronovo, Jochen Frey, Peter Poller
A Generic Layout-Tool for Summaries of Meetings in a Constraint-based Approach
Paul Chippendale, Oswald Lanz
Optimised Meeting Recording and Annotation using Real-time Video Analysis
Roberto Paredes, Thomas Deselaers, Enrique Vidal
A Probabilistic Model for User Relevance Feedback on Image Retrieval
Vasil Khalidov, Florence Forbes, Miles Hansard, Elise Arnaud, Radu Horaud
Audio-Visual Clustering for Multiple Speaker Localization
Tetsuro Onishi, Takatsugu Hirayama, Takashi Matsuyama
What does the Face-turning Action Imply in Consensus Building Communication?
Demos to be announced
 
POSTER SESSION 2: TUESDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2008, 16:30-18:00
Sebastian Germesin, Tilman Becker, Peter Poller
Hybrid Multi-Step Disfluency Detection
Khiet Truong, Stephan Raaijmakers
Automatic Recognition of Spontaneous Emotions in Speech Using Acoustic and Lexical Features
Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Maria-Teresa González, Francisco Casacuberta, Enrique Vidal, Jorge Civera
Introducing Additional Input Information into Interactive Machine Translation Systems
Kazuhiro Otsuka, Junji Yamato
Fast and Robust Face Tracking for Analyzing Multiparty Face-to-Face Meetings
Taras Butko, Andrey Temko, Climent Nadeu, Cristian Canton
Inclusion of Video Information for Detection of Acoustic Events using Fuzzy Integral
Wesley Mattheyses, Lukas Latacz, Werner Verhelst, Hichem Sahli
Multimodal Unit Selection for 2D Audiovisual Text-to-Speech Synthesis
Kristiina Jokinen, Costanza Navarretta, Patrizia Paggio
Distinguishing the communicative functions of gestures
Demos to be announced
 
STUDENT POSTER SESSION: WEDNESDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2008, 10:30-12:00
Mohammad Soleymani
Valence-Arousal Representation of Movie Scenes Based on Multimedia Content Analysis and User's Physiological Emotional Responses
Dejan Arsic, Automated Video Editing for Meeting Scenarios Applying Multimodal Low Level Feature Fusion
Siripinyo Chantamunee
Shot Alignment in Pre-production Video
John Niekrasz
Using Participant Deixis for Conversational NLP
Antje Bothin
Identifying Important Events in Meeting Recordings: Participants' Notes as Clues
Sebastian Germesin
Determining Latency for Online Dialog Act Classification
Marianna Pronobis
Automatic Gender Recognition Based on Audio-Visual Cues
Roald Dijkstra
Rules of Engagement in Social Interaction
 

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