11th K-Space General Meeting
22-23 September 2008, Lausanne (CH)
Author: Raphael
CWI participants: Raphael
# participants: around 35
Table of Contents
Summary of Action Points
- CWI to review D2.12 - Third Yearly report on the summer school, the European integration
of master and doctoral programs by M35 (November)
- CWI do deliver D5.15 - Final report specification on semantic-based techniques for
multimodal access to multimedia by M36 (December); QMUL will review it!
- CWI to fill the indicators Excel sheet by 15/11/2008
OLD APs:
- CWI to provide the general structure for grouping the MPEG-7 related
resources, see http://media.cwi.nl/mpeg7/wiki/index.php/Topics,
by 30/09/2008
- Raphael to see with INA whether it is possible to include more
controlled vocabularies in the news demo, by 30/09/2008
- CWI and QMUL to see whether the techniques used in WP5.4 regarding the
unsupervised image clustering could be integrated in the News demo, by
30/09/2008
- Resources spent: concern about CWI's situation. 23.4 PM remaning to be spent (60.6/80)
between July and December.
- ICT 2008 Lyon: might have a joint networking session between SMaRT and FOCUS K3D
Current Status:
- PhD exchanges: need 2 more by M36
- Industrial placement: need 2 mores by M36
WP3.4 - Content description
- JRS MPEG-7 library: updates in namespaces, extensions with the new profiles
- VAMP update: new command line tool for batch processing, HTML summary of errors generated
- MPEG-7 repository: update of the Media wiki, we can now attach XML
documents
WP4.1 - Multimedia ontology
- Work stated on formal model of events, approach similar to COMM, publication planned for
ESWC 2009
- COMM API released under LGPL v3:
http://launchpad.net/commapi
WP 5.2 - PSI
- The objective was to study the scalability of COMM for storing large set of annotations
- CWI continues to be involved with QMUL, KU and JRS in the evaluation of K-SEM in a distributed
environment. A publication is expected from this work.
WP 5.3 - Semantic Multimedia
- Status update: TRECVid (DCU), Muti-facet image viewer (GU) and News (CWI) activities
- All will be demonstrated during the 3rd year review
- CWI needs to plan the final deliverable D5.15
WP 5.4 - Complementary Resources Analysis
- Presentation of the Ex tool, another information extraction tool
- See the slides ... but might worth to evaluate it as well
WP 5.5 - KAT Multimedia Annotation Tool
- KAT APIs stable
- Released under LGPL: http://launchpad.net/kat
- New plugins: KAA + FiRE; audio annotation tool; complementary resource analysis
- New default plugin: rich and efficient annotation with Linked Open Data
Peter Wilking showed the preliminary results of the TRECVid Interactive Search Task, see the
slides.
- SMaRT had a problem of having 2 web sites,
http://www.smart-society.eu/ and
http://www.smart-network.eu/, with a different
content. The first one is the good one. The K-Space web site needs to be updated to point
to the right place.
- The SMaRT Assembly will be on 02/12/2008, 16:30 PM
- All institutions need to become member of SMaRT, fees = 500 euros per organization. All
need to fill membership form by the end of October
- ICT Exhibition: K-SPACE together with Focus3D and AIM@Shape
- K-Space book: status update includes news from Wiley, need to find a subtitle, issues
with too many authors per chapter
- DCU + GU @TRECVid 2008
- KAT + all plugins (ALL)
- News Demo (CWI)
- VAMP + Semantic Metadata Repository (JRS/CWI)
- Content Management System (QMUL)
- Semantic Driven Media Interfaces (QMUL)
- Automatic ROI Image Tagging (EPFL)
- Professional News Annotation Tool (INA/QMUL)
- Text mining for semantic video analysis (UEP/DFKI/DCU)
- Lead Sheet Generation (GET/TUB)
- Talk Show Segmentation (GET/INA)
- Aspect Browser (GU)
- Poogle (TUB)
- Industrial transfer: KAT to be submitted by KU
- PhD exchanges: Alia to go to DCU?
- K-Space book: TMC recommends to ask Wiley what they prefer as title for the book (and whether
it is good to have a subtitle) since this is a marketting question. Ebroul said that the editors
could negotiate 10% of royalties
- We can spend K-Space money (for travel) between Jan and March if it is for preparing the
review (in the broad sense)
Future of K-Space:
- Ebroul enthousiastic to submit (and lead?) a new proposal, a NoE
- Target the call for April 8th. Ebroul said we could meet by the end of the year
- Check the new organigrame of EU:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/information_society/directory/pdf/organi_en.pdf
Ebroul is for going for D2 or E2 or E3
- Why not submitting to the Unit E4 "Access to Information" which is more HCI?
- ACTION POINT: express interest and ideas, we could have a meeting with SAMT in Koblenz
- All K-Space partners interested except INA (FR) and TUB (GE)
- 4th call does not have Digital Libraries, so we have only D1 (Future Networks),
D2 (Networked Media Systems), and E1 (Language Technologies). E2 (Technologies for Information
Management) is not opened :-( Otherwise, it would be the 5th call.
- A strict follow-up of K-Space has no chance according to Ebroul, because the unit simply does
not exist
- Ebroul wants to go for D2, but much more signal processing. He wants to kick out
Semantic Web technologies or just wants to use it for making the proposal more appealing.
- Possible ideas:
- Discussions largely polluated by Touraj (the EPFL guy) that just talk about 3D, although he is
not competent in this area
- Ebroul retakes the hand, talk about network infrastructure, P2P: is it related to distributed
search?
- Gael suggests to go for emotions (unit E5: Cognitive systems, Interaction) ... see
the HUMAN project, but this one is only about audio. The idea would be to cover all media
- ACTION: everybody to send a short paragraph / idea of what the NoE should be about
to Craig by October 3rd (list: Ebroul, Gael, Marcin, Thierry, Touradj, Raphael, Vassilis,
Jan, Peter, Alan, Joemon, Bernard). Craig will arrange a telecon