MLMI 2008 Programme
Programme Outline
Monday, September 8, 2008
- Morning: opening, paper session 1, keynote talk by Stephen von Rump.
- Afternoon: paper sessions 2 and 3, poster session 1.
- Evening: conference dinner.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
- Morning: keynote talk by Mark Sanderson, special session.
- Afternoon: keynote talk by Maja Pantic, paper session 4, poster session 2.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
- Morning: paper session 5, student poster session, keynote talk by Catherine Pelachaud.
- Afternoon: *AMI Knowledge and KnowHow Transfer Day | *Dutch ASR evaluation workshop | *IM2 SAB meeting.
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 |
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| 09:45-10:15 | Visual Focus of Attention in Dynamic Meeting Scenarios
Michael Voit and Rainer Stiefelhagen |
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| 10:15-10:45 | Decision-level Fusion for Audio-Visual Laughter Detection
Boris Reuderink, Mannes Poel, Khiet Truong, Ronald Poppe, and Maja Pantic |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 14:15-14:45 | Time-Compressing Speech: ASR Transcripts are an Effective Way to Support Gist Extraction
Simon Tucker, Nicos Kyprianou, and Steve Whittaker |
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| 14:45-15:15 | Modeling Topic and Role Information in Meetings using the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process
Songfang Huang and Steve Renals |
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| 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 |
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| 16:15-16:45 | Computer Assisted Transcription of Text Images and Multimodal Interaction
Alejandro H. Toselli, Verónica Romero, and Enrique Vidal |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 10:45-11:00 | Designing and Evaluating Meeting Assistants, Keeping Humans in Mind
Patrick Ehlen, Raquel Fernandez, and Matthew Frampton |
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| 11:00-11:15 | Extrinsic Summarization Evaluation: A Decision Audit Task
Gabriel Murray, Thomas Kleinbauer, Peter Poller, Steve Renals, Jonathan Kilgour, and Tilman Becker |
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| 11:15-11:30 | Developing and Evaluating a Meeting Assistant Test Bed
Wilfried Post and Mike Lincoln |
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| 11:30-11:45 | Physicality and Cooperative Design
Dhaval Vyas, Dirk Heylen, and Anton Nijholt |
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| 11:45-12:30 | General discussion
Animated by Denis Lalanne and Steve Whittaker |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Daily Routine Classification from Mobile Phone Data
Katayoun Farrahi and Daniel Gatica-Perez |
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| 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 |
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| 09:30-10:00 | Hilbert Envelope Based Features for Far-Field Speech Recognition
Samuel Thomas, Sriram Ganapathy, and Hynek Hermansky |
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| 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) |
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| 13:00-13:15 | Closing | |
| SATELLITE EVENTS | ||
| Afternoon | *AMI Knowledge and KnowHow Transfer Day
Contact: Christine Perey (AMIDA) |
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| Afternoon | Dutch ASR evaluation workshop
Contact: David van Leeuwen (TNO) |
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| Afternoon | IM2 SAB meeting
Contact: François Foglia (Idiap) |
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| THURSDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2008 | ||
| SATELLITE EVENT | ||
| Morning | Interproject meeting on the evaluation of space-time audio processing
Contact: Augusto Sarti (Politecnico di Milano) |
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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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