9th K-Space General Meeting

Author: Raphael, Zeljko, Lynda
CWI participants: Raphael, Zeljko, Lynda
# participants: around 35

Summary of Action Points

Lynda to ask for ideas for keynote speakers @ SAMT 2008, by 31/01/2008
Raphael to propose a schedule to DCU and GU for the TRECVID Interactive Search Task, by 31/01/2008
CWI to check that the MPEG-7 specification repository (media wiki) can accept any kind of attachment and to provide the general structure for grouping the MPEG-7 related resources, see http://media.cwi.nl/mpeg7/wiki/index.php/Topics, by 07/02/2008.
INA to solve the timecode shift problem in the metadata of the news video, by 15/02/2008?

ALL: finish the M24 deliverables as soon as possible. Final versions after internal review should be emailed to Craig by 31/01/2008.

Current Status:

16 PhD exchanges (need 18), 9 Researcher exchanges (need 8) and 42 visiting scientists
PhD Jamboree on 14th September 2007 in Berlin (TUB): 1329 euros spent, 14 partners involved, 23 papers/poster presented + social event, around 35 participants, very positive feedback
3 industrial placements (need 3 for the next year): Alia's visit in Google will be counted in this category. Craig can provide us a template for IPR issues if we need. K-Space can cover expenses such as travel expenses: we need to apply and send a request to the NSB
European Master Program: the proposal get rejected (financial implications were not clear, the thematic was too K-Space centric, CVs of professors didn't match precisely the courses that would have been given)
K-Space will not propose a joint PhD program

Organizing upload of software for MM analysis, and finishing the documentation about it.
TrecVID summarization task, joint work of 3.1 and 4.4
Multimedia Flow structuring: Build a real structural model that brings together any types of data and links the semantic metadata to basic segmentation

MPEG-7 library (API) available (Windows MSVC 71. and 8.0), http://mpeg-7.joanneum.at

Official MPEG-7 documents:

Only two partners have sent requests
Gets complicated, can be collective and can be shared among partners, but the license has to be paid every year, and depends on the number of documents, partners and persons accessing the documents
The price for 10 docs, 10 sites, and 10 persons == about 2000 CHF per year + initial costs
Do we need some of these documents?

The main emphasis is to show some integration during the review (that was a comment last year).
COMM is more or less finished!

Java doc finished
Build a new simple COMM API based on ????
Retrieval activities on the COMM development on the KAT
Migrated the COMM to Sesame 2.0 official release (improved performance and stability)

The task 5.1 is considered as finished.

TRECVid Interactive Search Task: AP for CWI to propose a schedule with DCU and GU
Searching and browsing news: AP for INA to solve the timecode shift problem in the metadata
"Stable module for semantic-based techniques for multimodal access to multimedia" is a milestone due by M30. The 2nd review demonstrator will be delivered (need 1 page description)

KAT is a framework: plugin architecture, all major GUI components + analysis plugins
Migrated to Sesame2.0-final
KAT Review Demo: will show image, video and audio analysis and annotation separately
Licencing issue for KAT: should we release it after the project as a complete open source project, BSD type licence? Should be decided in a TMC meeting

TRECVID 2008:

BBC Rushes Summarization: lead by EURECOM, WP6 compiles the final videos to be sent to NIST
Proposal to NSB that K-Space host the workshop/camp for assessing the BBC rushes results
Feature extraction: as previous year ...
Interactive Search Task: focus on interface design, collaboration with WP5.3

SMART society: updates will be send by email in the next 2 weeks, followed by a phone conference for deciding on the roles to take in the society
SAMT 2008: Lynda to ask for ideas for keynote speakers, by 31/01/2008

DCU: TRECVid Interactive Search Task (VideoOlympics 2008)
DCU: Interactive Segmentation Tool. It helps to compare various segmentation algorithms
UEP: SMIL presentation of football video, synchronized with minutes reports, events detection and categorization, players, etc.
ITI: FIRE demonstration, a Fuzzy DL reasoner, used also with the football worldcup video data in order to help synchronize events with the timeline
KU: KAT demo, showing image, video (and audio) annotation separately
QMUL: Content Management and Retrieval System
QMUL: Museum Art Browsing Interface
CWI: Searching and Browsing semantically enriched news
JRS: VAMP - a semantic validation service of MPEG-7 descriptions
JRS: Object/Shot re-detection visualisation using the Semantic Video Annotation Tool
GU: Rushes Explorer, Not sure how it is more than "mSpace" on video
ENST: Mashup of audio and video files based on motion and rythm detection, Extracting voice from background music (male singer then soprano sax)

Ideas from Lynda: give the reviewers a list of useful websites, that have intellectual added value: COMM, VAMP, MPEG-7 Wiki, etc.

2nd Review Meeting: Thu 6th and Fri 7th of March, Berlin (DE)
TMC meeting: Fri 7th of March (afternoon, after the review), Berlin (DE)
10th K-Space Technical Meeting: Wed 14th and Thu 15th of May, Saarbrucken (DE)
TMC meeting: Thu 15th of May, from 17:00 till 19:00 PM, Saarbrucken (DE)
11th K-Space Technical Meeting: Mon 22nd and Tue 23rd of September, Lausanne (CH)
TMC meeting: Wed 24th of September, Lausanne (CH)
3rd Review Meeting preparation: Tue 2nd of December, Koblenz (DE)