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MEDIAMIXER

FP7-318101

Deliverable 4.4.1 Information, Demonstration and Training Event Organization Plan

Coordinator: Vasileios Mezaris (CERTH) With contributions from: Chrysa Collyda (CERTH), Roberto García González (UdL), Lyndon Nixon (STI), Tanja Zdolšek

(JSI), Benoit Huet (EURECOM), Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM), Martin Dow (Acuity), Rolf Fricke (Condat)

Quality Reviewer: Tanja Zdolšek (JSI)

Editor: Vasileios Mezaris, Chrysa Collyda, CERTH

Deliverable nature: Report (R)

Dissemination level: (Confidentiality)

Confidential(CO)

Contractual delivery date: 30 April 2013

Actual delivery date: 30 April 2013

Version: 1.0 Total number of pages: 37

Keywords: Information Event Organization Plan, Demonstration Event Organization Plan, Training Event Organization Plan, Scientific Conferences, Workshops, Industry and Standards meetings, Benchmarking, MediaMixer School

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Executive summary The present deliverable, entitled “Information, demonstration and training event organization plan” consists of six main sections. In the first section a general introduction is given in relation to the MediaMixer overall scope as well as the structure of the plan for organizing information, demonstration and training events.

In order to effectively promote the MediaMixer vision of setting-up a community for media fragment remixing and re-use, MediaMixer will participate to and also organize a series of events on these topics. The plan for event participation and organization is split in three main parts:

Plan for connecting MediaMixer with existing communities and events (Section 2).

Plan for organization of information and demonstration events (Section 3).

Plan for organization of training events (Section 4).

More specifically in the second section, the general plan for connecting with existing communities and events is introduced and then a (non-exhaustive) list of target fora and events is subsequently given according to the nature of the participation and / or connection. Direct contacts with relevant European research projects and other research projects and initiatives in Europe are included, as well as the participation to scientific conferences (excluding workshops, special sessions and/or tutorials that are organizing by MediaMixer partners, which will be discussed in the following section). The plan also includes the participation to industry-oriented and standards-oriented meetings, and finally the participation of MediaMixer to international benchmarking activities. Overall, MediaMixer is planning to participate in tens of conferences and/or workshops, industry and standards – oriented meetings and benchmarking activities.

Regarding the organization of information and demonstration events, the plan presents MediaMixer partners’ organization efforts in conferences and/or workshops. The plan includes organization of workshops in ACM ICMR, in WWW 2013, and in IEEE ICME 2013. In several of these events, MediaMixer partners have already proceeded with proposing a workshop and the related workshop calls for papers are included to this deliverable as annexes. Again, this is a non-exhaustive list; it merely represents opportunities that have already been identified and embraced by MediaMixer. Further opportunities of organizing e.g. a workshop or special session in one of the other various events of interest that here discussed in Section 2 are expected to appear in the near future. Our plan also includes the organization of international benchmarking activities, specifically the organization of a social event detection task as part of the MediaEval 2013 and of a MediaMixer/VideoLectures.net Grand Challenge in the ACM Multimedia 2013. The organization of these activities has also been already proposed to and accepted by the corresponding parent benchmarking initiatives or conferences.

With respect to training events organization, our plan includes the organization of a summer or winter school for students and of a similar event for industry professionals. Our plan also includes the delivery of invited talks by MediaMixer members both as part of the aforementioned MediaMixer events and in other fora.

Finally, this document concludes by providing some impact assessment criteria for the events to be organized and attended (Section 5) and a summary of the events organization and participation plan and its timeline (Section 6). The document also includes four annexes with calls for participation from organizing MediaMixer events, as discussed above.

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Document Information IST Project Number

FP7 – 318101 Acronym MEDIAMIXER

Full Title “Community set-up and networking for the remixing of online MEDIA Fragments”

Project URL http://mediamixer.eu/ Document URL EU Project Officer Sophie REIG Deliverable Number 4.4.1 Title Information, Demonstration and Training

Event Organization Plan Work Package Number 4 Title Information, demonstration and training

events Date of Delivery Contractual M 6 Actual M6 Status version 1.0 final Nature prototype □ report dissemination □ Dissemination level public □ consortium Authors (Partner) Vasileios Mezaris (CERTH), Chrysa Collyda (CERTH), Roberto García González (UdL),

Lyndon Nixon (STI), Tanja Zdolšek (JSI), Benoit Huet (EURECOM), Raphaël Troncy (EURECOM), Martin Dow (Acuity), Rolf Fricke (Condat) Name Vasileios Mezaris E-mail [email protected]

Responsible Author Partner CERTH Phone +302310257770

Abstract (for dissemination)

The present deliverable, entitled “Information, demonstration and training event organization plan” consists of six main sections. In the first section a general introduction is given in relation to the MediaMixer overall scope as well as the structure of the plan for organizing information, demonstration and training events. In order to effectively promote the MediaMixer vision of setting-up a community for media fragment remixing and re-use, MediaMixer will participate to and also organize a series of events on these topics. The plan for event participation and organization is split in three main parts: i) plan for connecting MediaMixer with existing communities and events (Section 2), ii) plan for organization of information and demonstration events (Section 3) and, iii) plan for organization of training events (Section 4). Finally, this document concludes by providing some impact assessment criteria for the events to be organized and attended (Section 5) and a summary of the events organization and participation plan and its timeline (Section 6). The document also includes four annexes with calls for participation from organizing MediaMixer events.

Keywords Information Event Organization Plan, Demonstration Event Organization Plan, Training Event Organization Plan, Scientific Conferences, Workshops, Industry and Standards meetings, Benchmarking, MediaMixer School

Version Log Issue Date Rev. No. Author Change 11/4/2013 0.1 Chrysa Collyda, with input from all contributing authors Initial content 12/4/2013 0.2 Vasileios Mezaris, Chrysa Collyda, with additional input Draft version 18/4/2013 0.3 Vasileios Mezaris, Chrysa Collyda First version 25/4/2013 0.4 Vasileios Mezaris, Chrysa Collyda Revision from QA 30/4/2013 1.0 Vasileios Mezaris, Chrysa Collyda Final Version

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Table of Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................................................................2

DOCUMENT INFORMATION ...................................................................................................................................................3

TABLE OF CONTENTS..............................................................................................................................................................4

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ................................................................................................................................................5

ABBREVIATIONS.....................................................................................................................................................................6

1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................................................8

2 PLAN FOR CONNECTING MEDIAMIXER WITH EXISTING EVENTS ....................................................................................9 2.1 CONTACT WITH RELEVANT RESEARCH PROJECTS ..................................................................................................................9 2.2 SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES............................................................................................................................................ 13 2.3 INDUSTRY-ORIENTED MEETINGS....................................................................................................................................15 2.4 STANDARDS-ORIENTED MEETINGS LIST ........................................................................................................................... 18 2.5 INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING ACTIVITIES LIST .............................................................................................................. 19

3 PLAN FOR ORGANIZATION OF INFORMATION AND DEMONSTRATION EVENTS...........................................................21 3.1 WORKSHOPS AND CONFERENCE SPECIAL SESSIONS ........................................................................................................... 21 3.1.1 ICMR 2013....................................................................................................................................................... 21 3.1.2 WWW2013...................................................................................................................................................... 23 3.1.3 ICME 2013....................................................................................................................................................... 23

3.2 INTERNATIONAL BENCHMARKING ACTIVITIES .................................................................................................................... 23 3.2.1 MediaEval 2013............................................................................................................................................... 24 3.2.2 ACM Multimedia 2013.....................................................................................................................................24

4 PLAN FOR ORGANIZATION OF TRAINING EVENTS........................................................................................................25 4.1 INVITED TALKS ......................................................................................................................................................... 25 4.1.1 RAMSS 2013 at WWW 2013............................................................................................................................. 25 4.1.2 LiME 2013 at WWW 2013................................................................................................................................ 25 4.1.3 FOCAL Metadata Event at Annual Footage Training Week 2013 .......................................................................25 4.1.4 Invited talks in other fora .................................................................................................................................26

4.2 ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS TRAINING EVENTS............................................................................................... 26 4.2.1 Plan for summer/winter school training event..................................................................................................26 4.2.2 Plan for industry professionals training event...................................................................................................27 4.2.3 Plan for invited lecturers in the training events.................................................................................................28 4.2.4 Plan for further distribution of the training materials and lectures of the training events ..................................28

5 IMPACT ASSESSMENT CRITERIA...................................................................................................................................29

6 CONCLUDING REMARKS ..............................................................................................................................................30

ANNEX A CALL FOR PAPERS LIME 2013...........................................................................................................................31

ANNEX B CALL FOR PAPERS MMIX 2013.........................................................................................................................32

ANNEX C CALL FOR PARTICIPATION SED TASK................................................................................................................33

ANNEX D CALL FOR MEDIAMIXER/VIDEOLECTURES.NET GRAND CHALLENGE SOLUTIONS .............................................37

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List of figures and tables Figure 1: Planned MediaMixer events participation.................................................................................................................9 Table 1: Plan to contact with relevant European research projects and other relevant research initiatives. ........................... 10 Table 2: Plan for participation to scientific conferences.........................................................................................................13 Table 3: Plan for participation to industry-oriented meetings................................................................................................ 15 Table 4: Plan for participation to standards-oriented meetings ............................................................................................. 18 Table 5: Participation to international benchmarking activities.............................................................................................. 20 Figure 2: Planned MediaMixer organization of information and demonstration events ......................................................... 21 Figure 3: Special Session on Social Events in Web Multimedia website .................................................................................. 22 Table 6: Proposed lectures – presentations and other sessions ............................................................................................. 26 Table 7: Proposed lectures – presentations and other sessions ............................................................................................. 27 Figure 4: Total planned participation to and organization of events by MediaMixer partners................................................. 30

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Abbreviations ACM Multimedia: Association of Computing Machinery annual conference on multimedia

Acuity: ACUITY UN LIMITED

BVExpo 2014: The essential broadcast and production technology event

CERTH: CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS

Condat: AG CONDAT

DAM: Digital Asset Management Conference

DATA 2013: International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications

ESWC 2013: Extended Semantic Web Conference

EURECOM: EURECOM France

FIAT-IFTA-MMC: Fédération International des Archives de Télévision - International Federation of Television Archives - Media Management Commission

FOCAL: Federation of Commercial Audiovisual Libraries

IASA-BAAC Conference: International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives - Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council Conference

IBC: International Broadcasting Convention

ICIP 2013: International Conference on Image Processing

ICME 2013: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo

ICMR 2013: ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

IDCC: International Digital Curation Conference

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WEII (MPEG): Moving Picture Experts Group

ISWC 2013: International Semantic Web Conference

JSI: Jožef Stefan Institute

LiME: 1st World Wide Web workshop on Linked Media

MDN Workshop: Metadata Developer Network Workshop

Media Annotations WG: Media Fragments Working Group

MediaEval: Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation

Media Fragments WG: Media Fragments Working Group

MMIX: 1st International Workshop on Media fragment creation and reMIXing

OCWC Global Conference: OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference

RAMSS: Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams workshop

SemTech London: Semantic Technologies Conference London

STI: STI INTERNATIONAL CONSULTING UND RESEARCH GMBH

TRECVID: TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation

UdL: UNIVERSIDAD DE LLEIDA

WoLE 2013: 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities

WWW 2013: International World Wide Web Conference

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W3C AC meeting: W3C Advisory Committee meeting

W3C TPAC meeting: W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings

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1 Introduction The vision of MediaMixer is to set up and sustain a community of video producers, hosters and redistributors who will be supported in the adoption of semantic multimedia technology in order to build a European market for media fragment re-purposing and re-selling. In support of this, MediaMixer needs to demonstrate the achievable benefits enabled by the creation, repurposing and reuse of media fragments across borders on the Web, where media fragments are intelligent digital objects identified and classified at a highly granular degree, integrated with knowledge management, and connected at Web-scale.

The use of MediaMixer technologies in real applications and the widespread adoption by the industry require a high level of promotion of these technologies and of their benefits to a number of industry and academic communities. The present document “Deliverable 4.4.1: Information, Demonstration and Training Event Organization Plan”, details our plan for organizing a set of MediaMixer information, demonstration and training events to support this goal.

The deliverable consists of six main sections:

Introduction

Plan for connecting MediaMixer with existing events

Plan for organization of information and demonstration events

Plan for organization of training events

Impact assessment criteria

Concluding remarks

The activities detailed in this deliverable are complementary to other activities undertaken in other work packages of MediaMixer for increasing the community awareness with respect to media fragments technologies, such as the set up of a community portal (WP1), the development of MediaMixer use cases and demonstrators (WP2), and other community building and networking activities (WP3).

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2 Plan for connecting MediaMixer with existing events There are several existing communities, ranging from highly-reputed scientific conferences to other European research projects that are active in one or more of the areas of interest to MediaMixer, e.g video decomposition to fragments, or fragment annotation and representation. We plan to connect MediaMixer with such existing communities and events, in order to promote our vision and technologies to them and raise the awareness of the community on MediaMixer. This plan includes several activities, starting with contacting relevant European projects and other research projects and initiatives in Europe, which develop various technologies supporting the creation and annotation of media fragments, and are aware of the strategic need for establishing coordination and for consolidating efforts towards media fragment reuse. Our plan also includes participating in scientific conferences which are focused on multimedia analysis and data management issues, and participating in relevant industry-and standards-oriented meetings.

By participating to these events MediaMixer will make the relevant communities aware of the MediaMixer technologies; it will provide valuable information on these technologies to the interested parties, and thus promote the uptake of the MediaMixer technologies in real applications towards achieving economic impact. Figure 1 depicts the planned participation of MediaMixer in various events. More details on these events are given in the subsequent event reports of the project.

Project Timeline

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WWWFIAT/IFTA(MMC)

RAMSS

ICMRLiME

OCWC

ESWC demo track ESWC IBC London Technology Booster

Sheffield Doc/Fest Crossover Summit

ICMEDATA

ICIPISWC

MediaEval

ACM Multimedia

IASA-BAAC

TRECVID

BVExpo

WoLE WWW demo track

XInnovations

2012…Noe Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr…2014

IBC

FOCALInnovations forum

semantic media web Media 3.0.13IDCC To be announced

DAM

SemTechLondon

Open Repositories

Screening the future

MDN

Figure 1: Planned MediaMixer events participation

2.1 Contact with relevant research projects

There are many relevant research projects in Europe which develop various technologies supporting the creation and annotation of media fragments. Therefore it is important that a direct contact between such projects and MediaMixer is established. Communication with these research projects will familiarize them with the MediaMixer technologies, making possible for them to examine and possibly support their uptake. Collaboration with these projects may range from simply informing them on MediaMixer technologies and activities through mailing lists, to inviting them to workshops for demonstration or training on relevant technologies, or inviting them as participants or speakers on topics of common interest. We can also invite them to become members of the MediaMixer community or become sponsors of our events. Finally, it should be noted that some of the relevant

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projects, such as Glocal and Chorus+ are recently completed; however, direct contacts with their partners can still be established and maintained, and we have already used and will be using their mailing lists in order to inform stakeholders about relevant events being organized by MediaMixer.

The table below outlines the plan of direct contacts with relevant European projects, as well as other research projects and initiatives in Europe. The first column mentions the relevant project, and the second explains the topics of the project (and therefore the possible connection with MediaMixer).

Table 1: Plan to contact with relevant European research projects and other relevant research initiatives.

Relevant Project Topics/ possible connection with MediaMixer

AXES Access to AudioVisual Archives is an EU FP7 project whose goal is to develop tools that provide various types of users with new engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them discover, browse, navigate, search and enrich archives. The consortium includes professional content owners, academic and industrial experts in audiovisual analysis, retrieval, and user studies, and system integration partners.

(http://www.axes-project.eu/)

Chorus+ Chorus+ is a recently-completed EU FP7 Network of Excellence on Audio-Visual Media Search.

(http://www.avmediasearch.eu/index.php)

DIGOIDUNA (SMART 2010/0054)

APARSEN

The Digital Object Identifiers and Unique Authors Identifiers to enable services for data quality assessment, provenance and access. DIGOIDUNA, an EU FP7 project, is a study on identifiers for digital objects and authors. Contributions towards the persistent identifier interoperability framework for digital contents continue through APARSEN.

(http://www.digoiduna.eu/) (http://www.alliancepermanentaccess.org/)

EIT ICT Labs EIT ICT Labs is one of the first Knowledge and Innovation Communities set up by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, as an initiative of the European Union. EIT ICT Labs target is to empower ICT top talents and bring ICT innovations to life by fostering excellence, talent and entrepreneurship.

(http://www.eitictlabs.eu/)

ForgetIT ForgetIT is an EU FP7 project that combines three new concepts to ease the adoption of preservation in the personal and organizational context, each overcoming major obstacles: 1) Managed Forgetting models resource selection as a function of attention and significance dynamics. 2) Synergetic Preservation crosses the chasm that exists between active information use and preservation management. 3) Contextualized Remembering targets keeping preserved content meaningful and useful. All these have as a prerequisite the analysis and understanding of the multimedia content that needs to be preserved.

(http://www.forgetit-project.eu/)

Glocal GLOCAL is an EU FP7 project that uses events as the primary means for organizing and indexing media. GLOCAL develops a multitude of multimedia content analysis techniques, particularly for event-based multimedia annotation and indexing.

(http://www.glocal-project.eu/)

HBBNext The Next-Generation Hybrid Broadcast Broadband (HBBNext) is an EU FP7 project that facilitates the convergence of the broadcast and Internet world by researching user-centric technologies for enriching the TV-viewing experience with social

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networking, multiple device access, group-tailored content recommendations, as well as the seamless mixing of broadcast content, of complementary Internet content and of user-generated content.

(http://www.hbb-next.eu/index.php)

IKS Early Adopters Programme

IKS is an EU project that will create an open source modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. The result has graduated to an Apache open source project, Apache Stanbol. The Early Adopters Programme included an integration of Apache Stanbol semantic web components with the Fedora Commons media asset repository.

(http://www.iks-project.eu/projects/apache-stanbol)

LinkedTV

Television linked to the Web (LinkedTV) is an EU FP7 project that will integrate a large set of new multimedia content analysis techniques into an annotation tool for the semiautomatic generation of linked video content.

(http://www.linkedtv.eu)

OpenSem The Open Innovation Platform for Semantic Media (OpenSEM) is an EIT ICT Labs activity that aims to accelerate innovation in the field of semantic services for multimedia.

(http://www.opensem.eu/)

PERICLES Pericles is an EU FP7 ICT project that aims to address the challenges to current preservation and lifecycle models taking into account the evolution of dynamic heterogeneous resources. The scope of the project includes media assets and metadata, semantics and socialization of data. There is a strong focus on future commercial exploitation opportunities.

(http://www.pericles-project.eu/)

Presto4U Presto4U is a two-year project supported by a core network of 14 PrestoCentre member organizations in audiovisual production, archiving, technology and research and aims to identify useful results of a decade-long programme of research into digital audiovisual preservation, to raise awareness and to improve the adoption of these both by technology and service providers as well as media owners.

(https://www.prestocentre.org/4u)

RDI The Rights Data Integration project is an EC funded initiative that starts in May 2013. In RDI established Sources and Exchanges from all major content sectors will create a prototype multi-media rights data network. The RDI project will result in the mapping of many controlled vocabularies to one another, from standardised and proprietary schemes and will make use of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework, which enables many-to-many mapping.

SEDICMA The SEDICMA - Connected Media - Service Enabled Devices for Intelligent Connected Media Assistance is a German national project funded by the Federal Ministry of Economy (BMWi) that aims to develop and evaluate core technologies for digital home media assistants. Particularly focuses on the development of TV applications in a home networking context, along with the setup of a hybrid TV as a portal for core functionalities. The device-independent media assistance is realized in the form of Personal Media Recommenders (PMR) and Personal Video Recorders (Assistant Media Services). PMR focuses on a demonstrator of the extraction and evaluation of video content based on its metadata.

(http://www.dai-labor.de/en/irml/sedicma/)

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S-MAX The Social Annotation & eXperiences (S-MAX) is an EIT ICT Labs activity that will develop innovate tools in selected domains to enrich the annotation and to create multi-faceted interactions amongst media contents by involving user communities (crowed-sourcing) through playful interactions, to make media available anytime/anywhere/any device; will develop a new approach to media search, recommendation and personalization, by going beyond media content analysis, crowd sourcing, distilling, matching huge amounts of data and will execute user trials to iteratively improve the tools in near real-world setup.

(will be hosted at: http://s-max.eurecom.fr/)

SocialSensor SocialSensor is an EU FP7 project and is based on exploiting user-generated input for improved media discovery and experience. It develops a new framework for enabling real-time multimedia indexing and search in the Social Web.

(http://www.socialsensor.eu/)

transLectures transLectures is a EU FP7 project that develops innovative, cost-effective tools for the automatic transcription and translation of online educational videos. transLectures will develop tools for use on VideoLectures.NET.

(http://www.translectures.eu)

UK Copyright Hub The Copyright Hub is an industry-lead initiative, supported by the UK government. It will be a portal with intelligent connections to a wide range of websites, digital copyright exchanges and databases, with the focus on making copyright licensing easier and cheaper for and in the digital age.

(http://www.copyrighthub.co.uk)

It is worth noting, for the projects listed in table 1 (above), that:

Most of these projects are currently running (e.g. AXES, ForgetIT, HBBNext, Copyright Hub and most others).

Some of these projects (particularly those that are Integrating Projects) have a strong emphasis on research, and therefore we see them primarily as potential providers of new multimedia technologies to MediaMixer (e.g. LinkedTV, IKS Early Adopters Programme, ForgetIT), while others are more application - or industry-oriented, and we see them primarily as potential users of MediaMixer results, e.g. the transLectures, Presto4U and Copyright Hub projects.

In several of these projects, one or more MediaMixer partners are also included in their consortia (e.g. LinkedTV, ForgetIT, PERICLES, transLectures), and this brings MediaMixer in a very favourable position with respect to both gaining from the extensive research efforts carried out within these projects and promoting the MediaMixer vision and results to them.

Collaboration possibilities that have already been exploited or are under way include the use of the mailing lists of these projects for disseminating MediaMixer events (of significant help to this has been, for instance, Chorus+, which despite having recently been completed, continues to maintain extensive mailing lists of academic and industrial players in the area of audio-visual search and related areas), provision of technology to MediaMixer (e.g. GLOCAL, LinkedTV), and joint organization of events (e.g. the special session at ICMR 2013 (see section 3.1.1) is jointly co-organized by MediaMixer and LinkedTV, while the Social Event Detection task of MediaEval (see section 3.2.1) is jointly co-organized by MediaMixer, SocialSensor and LinkedTV.

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2.2 Scientific conferences

The scientific community that relates to the MediaMixer vision consists of universities, research centres, and research departments of companies. In order to reach this community and inform it of the MediaMixer technologies we plan the participation of MediaMixer partners to scientific conferences via talks and poster presentations as well as demonstrations of the MediaMixer technologies. Target conferences will be the major conferences with a scientific audience interested in multimedia processing, multimedia storage, retrieval, and authentication, data management technologies and applications, and in the Semantic Web. By participating to these conferences many solutions for specific problems will be presented to experts of different domains. This will enable a two-way communication between other researchers, and the group of MediaMixer partners. MediaMixer partners will thus have the chance to discuss about possible solutions to problems that could not be solved until now or that are part of ongoing research. In this way, knowledge from experts that are not involved in the MediaMixer project can also be gathered and reused.

In the table below it is clear that the plan for presence of MediaMixer in various scientific conferences is well-covered by several partners. The first column is the event where partners plan to participate; the second column refers to the location and date of the event, the third column gives a short description of the event and the fourth lists the MediaMixer partners that plan to attend it.

Table 2: Plan for participation to scientific conferences

Event Location/Date Description Partners planning to

attend

ICMR 2013 Dallas,

Texas, USA

16th–19th April 2013

The ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference relates mostly to the media fragment and media analysis communities.

(http://icmr2013.org/)

EURECOM

(see also section 3.1.1)

OCWC Global Conference 2013

Bali Ayodya Resort,

Bali, Indonesia

8th–10th May 2013

The conference theme is delivering quality education. This event allows exploring the global dimensions of the open education movement, recent trends and future directions. This conference relates mostly to the e-learning community.

(http://conference.ocwconsortium.org/index.php/2013/2013)

JSI

WWW 2013 Windsor Barra Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

13th–17th May 2013

The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference aims to provide the world a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture. This conference relates mostly to the media fragment and semantic web communities.

(http://www2013.org/)

EURECOM

STI

(see also sections 3.1.2, 4.1.1 and 4.1.2)

ESWC 2013 “Le Corum”, congress center of Montpellier,

The 10th Extended Semantic Web Conference is a major venue for discussing the latest scientific

EURECOM

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Montpellier, France

26th–30th May 2013

results and technology innovations around semantic technologies. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web and media fragment communities.

(http://2013.eswc-conferences.org/)

Open Repositories 2013

Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

PEI, Canada

8th–12th July 2013

The Open Repositories is an international conference for academics and practitioners around digital media management and curation systems using open source software and semantic web/linked open data. A core part of the theme for the 2013 Conference (Use, Reuse, and Reproduce) is the need to ensure effective collaboration in the repository community in order to achieve the best outcomes. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web and media archives communities.

(http://or2013.net/)

ACUITY

ICME 2013 The Fairmont San Jose, San Jose, California, USA

15th–19th July 2013

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo has around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year. ICME is the IEEE flagship multimedia conference. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications. This conference relates mostly to the media fragments and media analysis communities.

(http://www.icme2013.org/)

EURECOM

CERTH

(see also section 3.13)

DATA 2013 Reykjavik University,

Reykjavik, Iceland

29th–31st July 2013

The 2nd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications covers areas like data management and quality, ontologies and the semantic Web, databases and data security. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web and media rights communities.

(http://www.dataconference.org/)

UdL

ICIP 2013 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre South Wharf, Melbourne, Australia

15th–18th September 2013

The International Conference on Image Processing is the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied image and video processing. This conference relates mostly to the media analysis community.

(http://www.ieeeicip.org/default.asp)

CERTH

ACM Multimedia 2013

Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

21st–25th October 2013

The ACM Multimedia 2013 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to present scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. This conference relates mostly to the media fragments and media analysis communities.

(http://acmmm13.org/)

EURECOM

CERTH

JSI


ISWC 2013 Sydney Convention & The 12th International Semantic Web Conference EURECOM

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Exhibition Centre in Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia

21st–25th October 2013

is the premier international forum for the Semantic Web / Linked Data Community.

(http://iswc2013.semanticweb.org/)

Innovations forum semantic media web

Dates to be announced The semantic Media Web Innovation Forum, explore the meaning of semantic Internet technologies for the development of new business models in the cultural and media sectors. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web and broadcasters communities.

(http://semantic-media-web.de/)

Condat

Xinnovations 2013

Dates to be announced Xinnovations focuses in semantic technologies and their significance for the future Internet, in association with social media and globalization. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web and broadcasters communities.

(http://xinnovations.de/)

Condat

2.3 Industry-oriented meetings

Industry oriented meetings represent another important target for spreading out information on MediaMixer technologies. In the table below there is the plan for the participation MediaMixer to a broad range of specialized industry oriented meetings, to inform the industry about the MediaMixer project and to promote the relevant community awareness. The participation will contribute towards the goal of supporting the industrial uptake of the media fragment reuse technologies.

In the table below, the first column is the industry event where partners plan to participate; the second column refers to the location and date of the event, the third column gives a short description of the event and the fourth column lists the MediaMixer partners that plan to attend it.

Table 3: Plan for participation to industry-oriented meetings

Industry Event Location/Date Description Partners planning to

attend

Screening the Future Tate Modern,

London, UK

7th–8th May 2013

Screening the future is an annual international conference focusing on the latest trends in audiovisual preservation. This conference relates mostly to the media archives community.

(https://prestocentre.org/calendar/screening-future-2013-conference)

ACUITY

FIAT/IFTA - MMC Seminar Changing sceneries, Changing roles part VI

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision Hilversum, Netherlands

16th–17th May 2013

FIAT/IFTA- Media Management Commission organize an international seminar on a highly pertinent topic: METADATA and its current significance to digital AV-archiving. This seminar relates mostly to the media archives

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community.

(http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en/MMCSeminar2013)

MDN 2013 EBU, Geneva, Switzerland

5th–6th June 2013

The Metadata Developer Network Workshop is organized by the Media Information Management Group of the European Broadcasters Union and will cover topics like Semantic technologies and Media Contract Ontology. This workshop relates mostly to the broadcasters and semantic web communities.

(http://tech.ebu.ch/MDN2013)

UdL


12th–16th June 2013 The Sheffield Doc/Fest Crossover Summit organizes documentary-oriented sessions, relating to both new media and productions. These sessions are related mostly to the media producers and media archives communities.

(http://sheffdocfest.com/view/summit)

ACUITY

IBC London Technology Booster

Dexter House, Royal Mint Court,

London UK

25th–26th June 2013

The IBC London Technology Booster conference will examine connected content and will cover topics relevant to the opportunities provided by new convergent media platforms, effectively managing digital assets, and the future role of broadcast in a multicast world. This conference relates mostly to the broadcasters, media producers and media archives communities.

(http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/link=606/)

ACUITY

IBC RAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

12th–17th September 2013

The IBC is the premier annual event for professionals engaged in the content creation, management and delivery of electronic media, entertainment and news content worldwide. This event relates mostly to the broadcasters, media producers and media archives communities.

(http://www.ibc.org/page.cfm/ID=1)

ACUITY

IASA-BAAC 2013 conference

Vilnius, Lithuania

6th–10th October 2013

The 44th International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference, is held jointly with the Baltic Audiovisual Archival Council 10th Annual Conference. Both are sound and audiovisual archiving conferences which will focus particularly in New Ideas and in New Technologies, particularly relevant in today's exciting new

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environment of information exchange, where users are expecting open technologies to provide open content. This conference relates mostly to the media producers and media archives communities.

(http://2013.iasa-web.org/)

DAM 2013 New York, USA

7th–8th October 2013

Digital Asset Management Conference is the premier event in digital and media asset management. This conference relates mostly to the media rights community.

(http://createasphere.com/event/t5/digital-asset-management-conference-new-york)

UdL

BVExpo 2014 Excel, London, UK

25th–27th February 2014

BVE is the essential broadcast and production technology event, showcasing technologies and services for the production, management and broadcast of audio visual content. The BVE hosts 350 brands, including major manufacturers, distributors and resellers of professional production and broadcast equipment and systems. This conference relates mostly to the broadcasters, media producers and media archives communities.

(http://www.bvexpo.com/)

ACUITY

IDCC 2014 Dates to be announced The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) is an established event with a unique place in the digital curation community, reaching out to individuals, organizations and institutions across all disciplines and domains involved in curating data and providing an opportunity to get together with like-minded data practitioners to discuss policy and practice. This conference relates mostly to the media producers and media archives communities.

(http://www.dcc.ac.uk/events/international-digital-curation-conference-idcc)

ACUITY

Media 3.0 2013 Dates to be announced Media 3.0 focuses on how to use media and information provider of social media as an additional source of information. This conference relates mostly to the semantic web community.

(http://www.condat.de/anmeldung)

Condat

SemTech London Dates to be announced The Semantic Technologies Conference focuses in applications of semantics in use today across industry and commerce.

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Awaiting announcement regarding 2013 London Conference. This conference relates mostly to the media producers, media archives and semantic web communities.

(link to be announced)

Through connection with industry bodies such as FOCAL and FIAT-IFTA, partners anticipate further opportunities for dissemination and exchange with industry professionals, and a greater emphasis may be placed on demonstration towards later stages. Opportunities for local industry connections in addition will be leveraged, across the semantic web and digital media fields, which partners anticipate adding an estimated further two to four dissemination and discussion events. Attendance will be motivated, primarily, by the presence of key industry players, such as national broadcasters, major vendor, or business known to be innovating in the intersection between web standards and audiovisual contents. Further consideration will be given to such meetings that concern the current changes within the field of copyright and management of digital rights, including utilisation of open access models, as it is anticipated that MediaMixer both responds to and factors in such current and future changes in regulatory conditions, and their technical ramifications, into its outputs.

2.4 Standards-oriented meetings list

MediaMixer plans to participate with an active role to meetings of formal and ad-hoc standards, particularly to those which the partners also co-create and support. Such meetings include the Media Annotations WG, the Media Fragments WG, the W3C AC meeting, the W3C AC TPAC meeting, the W3C Days German/ Austrian Office 2013, and the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WEII (MPEG).

The table below outlines the plan for participation to standards-oriented meetings. The first column is the standardization event where partners plan to participate; the second column is the activity of the event, and the third lists the MediaMixer partners that plan to attend it.

Table 4: Plan for participation to standards-oriented meetings

Standardization Events Activity Partners planning to attend

Media Annotations WG The mission of the Media Annotations Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to provide an ontology and API designed to facilitate cross-community data integration of information related to media objects in the Web, such as video, audio and images. The Group has produced the Ontology for Media Resources 1.0, a W3C recommendation (second link), and the API for Media Resources 1.0 (third link). This group relates mostly to the media fragment community.

(http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Annotations/)

(http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-10/)

(http://www.w3.org/TR/mediaont-api-1.0/)

EURECOM

Media Fragments WG

The mission of the Media Fragments Working Group, part of the Video in the Web Activity, is to address temporal and spatial media fragments in the Web using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). The Group has produced the Media Fragments URI 1.0, a W3C recommendation

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(second link). This group relates mostly to the media fragment community.

(http://www.w3.org/2008/WebVideo/Fragments/ )

(http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/)

W3C AC meeting

The W3C AC meeting is the Advisory Committee meeting that only W3C members participate. This meeting relates mostly to the media fragment community.

(https://www.w3.org/Member/Meeting/2013ac/June/)

EURECOM

W3C AC TPAC meeting

The W3C Technical Plenary / Advisory Committee Meetings Week bring together W3C Groups, the Advisory Board, the TAG and the Advisory Committee. This meeting relates mostly to the media fragment community.

(http://www.w3.org/2013/11/TPAC/)

EURECOM

W3C Days German/ Austrian Office 2013

The W3C German-Austrian office provides the W3C Days in the context of HTML5. The meeting focuses in the latest developments in HTML5, related technologies and all about the current thinking behind HTML. This meeting relates mostly to the semantic web community.

(http://xinnovations.de/w3c-events.html)

Condat

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WEII (MPEG)

MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) is a standardization group for widely-adopted standards in the areas of video coding and video representation, such as MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and MPEG-7. This group relates mostly to the media analysis community.

(http://mpeg.chiariglione.org/)

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2.5 International benchmarking activities list

International benchmarking activities are excellent fora for demonstrating the scientific value and commercialization potential of emerging technologies. MediaMixer plans to participate in international benchmarking activities such as TRECVID and MediaEval. Particularly in TRECVID, which centers around video analysis, annotation and retrieval, MediaMixer plans to participate (in collaboration with EU research project LinkedTV and ForgetIT) in the semantic indexing task, the multimedia event detection task, and the multimedia event recounting task. The aim of the participation in TRECVID and other benchmarking activities is to address the problems and come up with solutions in the research areas of information retrieval, multimedia content analysis, social media analysis, event detection and event-based multimedia indexing, as well as to communicate with other participants of the benchmarking initiative, liaise and compare results.

The table below outlines the plan for participation to international benchmarking activities. The first column is the benchmarking activity where partners plan to participate; the second column is the activity of the benchmarking initiative, and the third lists the MediaMixer partners that plan to attend it.

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Table 5: Participation to international benchmarking activities

Benchmarking Activities Activity Partners planning to

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TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID)

The TREC Video Retrieval Evaluation (TRECVID) aims to promote progress in content-based analysis of and retrieval from digital video via open, metrics-based evaluation. TRECVID among other will evaluate systems on multimedia event detection and multimedia event recounting, among others. This activity relates mostly to the media fragment and media analysis communities.

(http://trecvid.nist.gov/)

CERTH

EURECOM

MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation (MediaEval)

MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative dedicated to evaluating new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval, such as social event detection for social multimedia. This initiative relates mostly to the media fragment and media analysis communities.

(http://www.multimediaeval.org/mediaeval2013/)

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3 Plan for organization of information and demonstration events Besides participating to existing events, as outlined in the previous section, MediaMixer plans to also organize a number of events such as workshops and demonstrator/evaluation activities specifically for promoting its vision. The plan for the organization of MediaMixer events includes: i) organizing workshops, special sessions, or tutorials in conferences and, ii) organizing specific tasks or challenges in international benchmarking activities. Figure 2 below shows the timeline of some of the events that MediaMixer plans to organize.

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3.1 Workshops and Conference Special Sessions

MediaMixer-organized workshops and special sessions are part of the promotion strategy of MediaMixer. On the one hand they are planned to gather feedback on MediaMixer and on the other hand they are necessary to train developers and researchers, and also to promote other results of the broader community around MediaMixer. We have identified a number of key conferences and related events with which we could co-locate a MediaMixer workshop or other similar activity so as to benefit from the broad participation of the community to such already established events, and in the following section we give a summary of our plan for organizing information and demonstration events of MediaMixer co-located within these conferences. We should emphasize that the events we describe below do not represent the complete set of events that MediaMixer plans to organize; they are merely the most prominent opportunities for event organization that MediaMixer partners are already pursuing. Besides these, practically all events discussed in Section 2 (and to which MediaMixer plans to participate) are also of interest to us with respect to co-locating with them specific MediaMixer events, and we will continue to examine any such opportunities throughout the projects’ duration.

3.1.1 ICMR 2013

ICMR 2013 (http://www.icmr2013.org/) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval.

In view of the fact that the modelling, detection, and processing of events in Multimedia is an area that has started to receive considerable attention by the multimedia community, MediaMixer is going to organize in this conference

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a Special Session on Social Events in Web Multimedia (Figure 3). This session will aim to attract and present the latest developments and results on the discovery of social events from web multimedia content, and on techniques for the detection and retrieval of media items that are related to such social events. By social events, we refer to events that are planned by people, are attended by people, and are represented by multimedia and in general social media content that is captured by people. A lot of the multimedia content out there on the Web has been captured during such an event (e.g. a concert, a football game, an uprising) or is otherwise related to and conveys information about a social event. However, this content is often scattered, i.e., is disassociated from the related events. This, together with the observation that humans often think in terms of events, generate the need for automatically detecting such events from multimedia content. Furthermore, they generate the need for automatically establishing the event-media associations that will allow multimedia browsing and search, as well as social media understanding, in a way that is more complete and more natural to the users. Such technologies are of great importance for supporting the subsequent re-use of social multimedia fragments in multimedia applications, the re-mixing of them, and the development of novel applications on top of these data. This special session that MediaMixer is organizing through the efforts of CERTH and EURECOM has been accepted and will be included in the ICMR conference program in April 2013.

Figure 3: Special Session on Social Events in Web Multimedia website

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3.1.2 WWW2013

WWW2013 Conference (http://www2013.org/) is a yearly international conference on the topic of the future direction of the World Wide Web. The conference provides a premier forum for discussion and debate about the evolution of the Web, the standardization of its associated technologies, and the impact of those technologies on society and culture.

MediaMixer plans to organize the 1st World Wide Web workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) (http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2013/) at WWW 2013 in order to promote the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering media owner stakeholders and semantic media researchers to exchange ideas on current research and development work on online media description creation, publication, and processing. Specifically, MediaMixer through this workshop aims to promote a platform where automatic multimedia analysis results can be integrated into online media descriptions, making media more easily shared, queried and re-used. This will offer a wide range of possibilities for various stakeholders in the creative industries. MediaMixer foresee an opportunity to build a core consensus on Linked Media technology and launch Linked Media for the Web, at the WWW2013 conference. Also, we see WWW as an outstanding opportunity to kick-start collaboration on this emerging field of research. The workshop will focus on identifying the key building blocks required to support the development of new Web tools and interfaces to support the growth and re-use of Linked Media. It will be built on current work in this area and foster collaboration between key stakeholders by supporting discussion also prior and post workshop. The World Wide Web workshop on Linked Media (LiME 2013) that MediaMixer is organizing through the efforts of EURECOM and CERTH has been accepted and will be part of the WWW conference in May 2013. Annex A includes the call for papers for the LiME 2013 workshop.

MediaMixer also supports, through the efforts of EURECOM, the organization of the 2nd International Workshop on Web of Linked Entities (WoLE 2013) (http://wole2013.eurecom.fr/submission), also at WWW 2013. This workshop aims to transparently connect the worlds of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the Giant Global Graph (GGG) using methods from Information Retrieval (IR), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Database Systems (DB). Overall, the focus of this workshop is on reconciling the discussion from related communities in Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, Database Systems and NLP.

3.1.3 ICME 2013

The IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME) (http://www.icme2013.org/) has around 1000 submissions and 500 participants each year. Organized by four IEEE societies since 2000, ICME is the flagship multimedia conference. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities. MediaMixer plans to organize as part of ICME 2013 the 1st International Workshop on Media fragment creation and reMIXing (MMIX’13) (http://mediamixer.eu/event/mmix2013/). This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the different fields that contribute to the development of technologies and applications for media fragment creation and remixing, with emphasis both on the presentation of new supporting technologies for the creation and understanding of media fragments (e.g. video decomposition at different granularity levels; extraction of concepts, events, or textual descriptions that capture the meaning of specific media fragments) and on novel applications of such technologies for media fragment re-use and re-mixing in various domains, such as the traditional media industry, the news industry, video blogging and social media applications, and others. Annex B includes the published call for papers for MMIX’13.

3.2 International benchmarking activities

MediaMixer plans to support existing and establish new international benchmarking activities in relation to media fragment annotation and re-use. Two main opportunities for such activities in 2013 have been identified: supporting a task on the MediaEval 2013 benchmarking initiative, and holding a MediaMixer Grand Challenge as part of ACM Multimedia 2013. MediaEval is a growing benchmarking initiative which attracts more than fifty teams per year that are interested in multimedia analysis and evaluates new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval.

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ACM Multimedia, which is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to present scientific achievements and innovative industrial products, has a special industry-oriented grand challenge program that is attended by more than five hundred participants to the conference.

3.2.1 MediaEval 2013

MediaEval (http://www.multimediaeval.org/) is a benchmarking workshop that evaluates new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval. It generally focuses on human and social aspects of multimedia tasks and gives emphasis to the multi in multimedia. MediaEval attracts parties that are interested in multimodal approaches to multimedia involving e.g. multimedia content analysis music and audio analysis, speech recognition, user-contributed information (tags, tweets), viewer affective response, social networks, temporal and geo-coordinates. MediaEval organizes many tasks that are generally oriented towards user needs in specific application settings and, to the extent possible, are based on scenarios of use derived from real-world problems. In 2013 MediaMixer will support the organization of the Social Event Detection Task (http://www.multimediaeval.org/ mediaeval2013/sed2013/). The Social Event Detection (SED) task of MediaEval 2013 requires participants to discover social events and organize the related media items in event-specific clusters, within a collection of Web multimedia. This specific task is of interest to researchers in the areas of information retrieval, multimedia content analysis, social media analysis, event detection and event-based multimedia indexing. A common dataset will be provided for this task, comprising a large set of images (and possibly also videos) together with their associated metadata (including time-stamps, geographic information, tags, title, description, and information about the uploader). Three challenges will be specified as part of the 2013 SED task: The first challenge will be a completely data-driven one which involves analysis of a large-scale dataset, requiring participants to produce a complete clustering of the image/video dataset according to events. The task will be a supervised clustering task where a set of training event classes is provided. However, these classes are not used during evaluation. This challenge will not specify a particular event or event class of interest. This is a novelty compared to the previous two editions of SED. The other two challenges in 2013 will be similar to those defined in the previous SED editions, each being about finding the events and the related media items that fit to a different event description that will be provided. The 2013 SED task is being co-organized by CERTH and EURECOM. Annex C includes the published call for participation in the Social Event Detection Task.

3.2.2 ACM Multimedia 2013

ACM Multimedia 2013 (MM’13) (http://acmmm13.org/) is the worldwide premier multimedia conference (since 1993) and a key event to present scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. The Multimedia Grand Challenge program in ACM Multimedia presents a set of problems and issues from industry leaders, geared to engage the Multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry’s 3-5 year vision for multimedia. The Multimedia Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009 and has established itself as a prestigious competition in the multimedia community.

MediaMixer plans to organize as part of the ACM Multimedia 2013 Grand Challenge program the MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET - Temporal Segmentation and Annotation Grand Challenge (http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-multimedia-grand-challenge-solutions/mediamixervideolectures-net-grand-challenge/). VideoLectures.NET (which is an award-winning service of the MediaMixer partner institution JSI) mostly hosts lectures 1 to 1.5h long linked with slides and enriched with metadata and additional textual contents. With automatic temporal segmentation and annotation of the video VideoLecture.NET would gain on efficiency of its video search engine and be able to provide users with the ability to search for sections within a video, as well as recommend similar content; this would be excellent demonstration of the clear benefits of MediaMixer promoted technologies for the world industry. According to the definition of our planned MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET Grand Challenge the challenge participants will have to develop tools for the automatic segmentation of videos that could then be implemented in VideoLectures.NET. The effectiveness of the tools will be evaluated according to three criteria: quality of segmentation and annotation, service effectiveness and efficiency of the underlying algorithm. The Challenge is co-organized by JSI and CERTH. Annex D includes the published call for MediaMixer/VideoLectures.net grand challenge solutions.

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4 Plan for organization of training events In this section we elaborate on our plans for organizing training events for the industry and the scientific community. Training of both academia and industry members is an important factor for promoting the MediaMixer vision and the uptake of the related technologies. This section comprises of three subsections:

Plan for invited talks, including invited talks in related high-profile conferences and workshops, as well as talks given to industrial partners as part of bilateral arrangements.

Plan to organize a school for academia members (mostly graduate students and researchers) that can combine delivering in-depth lectures with giving to its participants the possibility for gaining hands-on experience on the use of media fragment annotation and re-use technologies, and of the effectiveness, privacy etc. issues that may arise.

Plan to organize a training event more focused on industry professionals.

4.1 Invited talks

4.1.1 RAMSS 2013 at WWW 2013

The ability to get real-time information from others has enabled to follow events live, to discover breaking news, to find out about trending topics, and to help on natural disasters, among others. This presents new challenging issues for the research community in order to quickly make sense of torrential social streams as they come out, and to make the most from the fresh knowledge available on these streams. The International Workshop on Real-Time Analysis and Mining of Social Streams workshop (http://www.ramss.ws/2013/) aims to bring together experts in the real-time analysis and mining of social streams, as well as to further develop and exchange knowledge around these tasks. The workshop seeks contributions that analyze and mine social streams as they become publicly available. EURECOM has been accepted to present and will be invited speaker at the workshop in May 2013. EURECOM plans to present the MediaFinder that collects, enriches and visualizes Media Memes shared by the crowd.

4.1.2 LiME 2013 at WWW 2013

The 1st World Wide Web workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013) (http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2013/), as mentioned in Section 3.1.2, promotes the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering media owner stakeholders and semantic media researchers to exchange current research and development work on online media description creation, publication, and processing. STI has been accepted to present and will be invited speaker at the workshop in May 2013. STI plans to introduce in its talk a set of novel application domains that will benefit from broad understanding and acceptance of Linked Media standards. It will also provide an overview of current practices and specification efforts in the domain of video and Web content integration, drawing from the MediaMixer project.

4.1.3 FOCAL Metadata Event at Annual Footage Training Week 2013

The Annual Footage Training Week 2013 (http://www.focalint.org/footage-skills-and-services/training/event/207/annual-footage-training-week-2013) focuses to footage industry - image archivists, footage researchers, production managers, producers, directors with any media background. The training week aims to expand the knowledge and appreciation of footage archives, systems and uses. The Annual Footage Training Week 2013 includes the “METADATA AND WHY IT IS IMPORTANT” Conference. ACUITY plans to contribute to this event, which will be by giving a talk or participating in a panel at the FOCAL Metadata Conference. The training week will take place in July 2013 at London-UK (various venues).

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4.1.4 Invited talks in other fora

The four invited talks outlined above are just an indicative set of talks that have been scheduled and planned so far. They do not represent an exhaustive list of the talks that MediaMixer partners will give throughout the project. Again, all the events listed in Section 2 as events of interest to MediaMixer may serve as fora for giving invited talks, and MediaMixer partners will actively pursue organizing more invited talks in these events. All these invited talks that will be (co)-organized or supported by MediaMixer aim to bring together many people with aligned interests and common objectives and highlight the most recent development in the area of media fragment creation and re-use, and in other closely-related areas.

4.2 Academic and industry professionals training events

The school and the industry professional event aims at offering participants from all over the world – both PhD/MSc students or young researchers, and media professionals/practitioners – top level education in the emerging area of media fragment technologies and applications. It will combine delivering in-depth lectures with giving to its participants the possibility for gaining hands-on experience on the use of media fragment annotation and re-use technologies, and of the effectiveness, privacy and other issues that may arise. A school is planned to be organized for academia members (students and young researchers), while a second training event is planned to be organized for industry professionals, allowing for specialized lectures to be delivered. For organizing these training events it is important to decide dates early enough and to start publicizing the events in order to attract a good number of attendees. In the following sections a brief description of the planned lecture topics, for every training event, is given.

4.2.1 Plan for summer/winter school training event

The school’s program will be organized for graduate students working towards a PhD or MSc degree or young researchers. Students will have the opportunity to attend in-depth technology-oriented lectures, and will work in small teams on a student project. They will also be encouraged to bring their poster describing their research work, so that they will have the chance to present this during the poster session and get feedback from fellow students and school’s lecturers. The participation of a few senior academia members to the school (as invited lecturers) will also contribute to the further promotion of MediaMixer to the academic community. Two awards are planned to be given, at the closing session of the school, for the best student project, and the best student project runner-up. The awards will be jointly decided by the school’s organizers and by vote of the attendees.

The table below outlines the proposed lecture topics (and all other sessions) for the summer/winter school. These lectures are distributed over a 4-day period (i.e., this program is based on the assumption that the school will run for four days). However, it should be noted that the duration that will be finally chosen for the school depends on several parameters, including whether it will be co-located or not with other major scientific events (e.g. a major conference); in the latter case, it may be advantageous to reduce the school’s duration by one or two days, in order to make it most attractive to the attendees of the other co-located events. If this is the case, the program of the school will be adjusted accordingly.

Table 6: Proposed lectures – presentations and other sessions

Lecture topics and other sessions

1st Day Welcome; What is Media Mixing? Break Media fragmentation and annotation technologies Lunch break Semantic multimedia remixing Break

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Student projects: team building and assignments 2nd Day Social media analysis technologies Break Semantic technologies for copyright management Lunch break Student project work time 3rd Day Applications of media fragment technology VideoLectures.NET: Media fragments and learning materials re - use Break Media fragment repository archive management for media production Lunch break Media fragments in the News business Break Applications for editors and broadcasters using annotations, media fragments and recommendations 4th Day Student project work time Lunch break Student project presentations (and awards) Break Wrap up (panel and discussion) Closing of the school

4.2.2 Plan for industry professionals training event

The industry professionals training event will be organized for professionals of the media-related industry (e.g news professionals, media archivists). The event is planned to run for two days. The participating professionals will be given through this event the opportunity to gain a much more profound understanding of MediaMixer technologies that cannot possibly be achieved by isolated talks.

The table below outlines the proposed lecture topics (and all other sessions) for the training event.

Table 7: Proposed lectures – presentations and other sessions

Lecture topics and other sessions

1st Day Applications of media fragment technology VideoLectures.NET: Media fragments and learning materials re-use Break Media fragment repository archive management for media production Lunch break Media fragments in the News business Break Applications for editors and broadcasters using annotations, media fragments and recommendations 2nd Day Legal aspects of media exchange and reuse Break Interactive session: discussion on business opportunities and barriers for the technology in relation to media fragment reuse Lunch break

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Break Wrap up (panel and discussion) Closing of the event

4.2.3 Plan for invited lecturers in the training events

According to the proposed topics, lectures will be given on the areas of video fragmentation and annotation technologies, semantic multimedia remixing, social media analysis technologies, semantic technologies for copyright management, media fragments analysis, applications for editors and broadcasters using annotations and legal aspects of media exchange and reuse. Experts in all these domains are planned to be invited both in the summer/winter school and in the industry professionals training event. Proposed lecturers from within the MediaMixer consortium are: Martin Dow (Acuity), Rolf Fricke (Condat), Dr. Roberto Garcia (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya -UPC), Dr. Benoit Huet (Eurecom, France), Dr. Vasileios Mezaris (CERTH), Dr. Lyndon Nixon (STI Research), and Davor Orlic (VideoLectures.Net). A few highly-reputed experts outside the MediaMixer consortium will also be invited to give lectures as part of these training events.

4.2.4 Plan for further distribution of the training materials and lectures of the training events

VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures hosted in VideoLectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events such as conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science. All lectures, accompanying documents, information and links are then systematically selected and classified through the editorial process. VideoLectures.NET and its parent institution MediaMixer partner JSI, plan to cover all summer/winter school lectures, as well as the industry professionals training event, and host the resulting video recordings, so as to promote the MediaMixer idea, knowledge and technology not only to the attendees of these events but also to the broader scientific community and the general public.

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5 Impact Assessment Criteria The participation in conferences, meetings and benchmarking activities, the organization of information and demonstration events, as well as the organization of training events will be evaluated according to the impact assessment criteria specified below for every specific event category.

Participation to conferences, workshops, as well as standards and industry-oriented events and benchmarking activities will be assessed according to the following criteria:

number of events that MediaMixer participates

quality and impact of these events (number of participants/attendees)

diversity of the contacted communities (we need diverse communities to spread out the MediaMixer technology)

The impact of the organization of workshops will be measured using the following criteria:

number of workshops/special sessions that MediaMixer organizes

number of participants to the workshops/special sessions

number of papers (presented in these events)

quality of the main conference that the organized workshop/special session is co-located with

quality of the invited speakers of the organized events

With respect to the organization of benchmarking activities the following criteria will be measured:

number of participants and of results sets that are submitted to these activities

diversity of the participants

The criteria for assessing the impact of training events organization are:

number and quality of the invited speakers

number and diversity of the participants

further distribution of the training materials, recorded lectures etc. to the broader scientific community and the public.

Finally to assess the invited talks given by MediaMixer lecturers, we will use the following criteria:

quality and impact of the events where these talks are given

number of attendees

We will seriously take these impact assessment criteria into account when planning and organizing the various MediaMixer events, and we will also use these criteria when reporting on the events attended and organized by MediaMixer in subsequent deliverables D4.2 and D4.3.

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6 Concluding Remarks The focus of this deliverable has been the planning of participation to and organization of activities for the dissemination of MediaMixer technology and results. An effective plan which will drive in a succeed promotion of the MediaMixer is a crucial element for the success of the project. We reported on our plans in detail in Sections 2 to 4 of the present document, for different types of events and different levels of involvement of MediaMixer. Figure 4 gives a pictorial summary of the main events that MediaMixer plans to participate or organize, throughout the timeline of the project. In subsequent deliverables of the WP (D.4.2 and D4.3) we will report on the organization of these events, also on new opportunities for optimizing MediaMixer events that may arise in the following months.

Project Timeline

Participation in events

Organization of information and demonstration

events

WWWFIAT/IFTA(MMC)

RAMSS

ICMRLiME

OCWC

ESWC demo track ESWC IBC London Technology Booster


ICMEDATA

ICIPISWC

MediaEvalACM Multimedia

IASA-BAAC

TRECVID

BVExpo

WoLE WWW demo track

XInnovations

Special Session on Social Events in Web Multimedia at ICMR

1st World Wide Web workshop on Linked

Media (LiME) at WWW

2nd International Workshop on Web of

Linked Entities (WoLE) at WWW


1st International Workshop on Media fragment creation and

reMIXing (MMIX) at ICME

IBC

FOCALInnovations forum

semantic media web Media 3.0.13IDCC To be announced

Social Event Detection Task (SED) at MediaEval

MediaMixer / VideoLectures.NET -Temporal Segmentation and Annotation

Grand Challenge at ACM Multimedia

DAM

SemTechLondon

Open Repositories

Screening the future

MDN

Figure 4: Total planned participation to and organization of events by MediaMixer partners

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Annex A Call for papers LiME 2013

Call for Papers, First Worldwide Web Workshop on Linked Media (LiME-2013)

Location and date WWW’13 conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 13th of May, 2013.

Paper submission deadline February 25th 2013, 23:59PM Hawaii Time

For details on paper formatting and submission instructions, see http://www.linkedtv.eu/event/LiME2013/

Workshop topics and themes Today’s Web is a rich media Web – non-textual content is often now the first destination of online agents rather than HTML/textual resources. As a result, access to structured annotation of the online media is increasingly important for new Web applications capable of media search, retrieval, adaptation and presentation. Yet, the online media annotation space is still limited, fragmented and lacking in consensus for building Web tools and interfaces to support it. The W3C Ontology for Media Resources provides mappings between 18 different multimedia metadata schema or standards and took a first step towards a common schema model, which now requires championing in the research and industry communities. The least common denominator approach followed by the W3C group has lead to a small and useful vocabulary that fails to support more advanced use cases that require to describe the multimedia content at a fragment level and go beyond simple tagging. Furthermore, automatic multimedia analysis results are not considered by this vocabulary.

If the future Web will be able to fully use the scale and quality of online media, a Web scale layer of structured media annotation is needed, which we call Linked Media, which is inspired by the Linked Data movement for making structured descriptions of resources more available online. Mobile and tablet devices, as well as connected TV introduce novel application domains that benefit from broad understanding and acceptance of Linked Media standards. LiME-2013 aims at promoting the principles of Linked Media on the Web by gathering media owning stakeholders and semantic media researchers to exchange current research and development work on online media description creation, publication, and processing.

Important aspects to discuss revolve around (1) emerging approaches to online media descriptions (2) extracting such descriptions and linking them to external resources (3) aim to showcase practical use cases in this domain, also covering interaction aspects for single and group users. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:

- Approaches to online media descriptions

Aligning the fragmented approaches to online media description, its publication, and processing

Tools and approaches to search and retrieval of online media based on its structured description, scaling to the Web

Addressing issues of trust, quality and rights of online media;

- Extracting and linking

Tools and approaches to lower the cost of creating structured descriptions of online media resources;

New methods of automatic, real time, metadata extraction of any online media content (including live streams);

Ideas how to incorporate Linked Data into media description (and benefit from the additional metadata of the Linked Data cloud);

New methods for automatically assessing the suitability of (non-trusted) content for interweaving (e.g. violence detection, nudity detection), and publishing such assessments

- Showcases, business models and assessment

New Web applications making use of Linked Media, also across different platforms. Including evaluation with end-users, suitable business models.

Approaches to tracking user interaction with media (and exploiting this knowledge to enrich annotations);

Workshop co-chairs Vasileios Mezaris, Johan Oomen, Raphaël Troncy

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Annex B Call for papers MMIX 2013

Call for Papers 1st Int. Workshop on Media Fragment Creation and Remixing

(MMIX 2013) http://mediamixer.eu/event/mmix2013/ Held in conjunction with the 2013 IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013)

San Jose, California, USA, July 15-19, 2013

While technologies for the manipulation of complete videos have been well-studied and are already used in relevant

applications, e.g. in stock footage portals, media libraries or TV archives, where entire videos may be found and also

purchased for re-use in new media production situations, these applications and markets do not permit the easy

purchase or sale of smaller fragments of multimedia content. Making possible the latter would have significant benefits

for both the creators and the potentials consumers of the content, most notably in terms of lowering the cost associated

with re-using and re-mixing existing pieces of multimedia content towards creating new multimedia experiences. Besides

benefits, though, the manipulation of multimedia content at such a finer granularity level also presents significant

challenges, both purely technological (e.g. with respect to the automatic creation of meaningful media fragments, or the

extraction of information that can describe such fragments and make them easily searchable) and more application-

oriented ones (e.g. with respect to the required user interfaces, the use cases and even the business models associated

with the re-use and re-mixing of media fragments).

This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the different fields that contribute to the

development of technologies and applications for media fragment creation and remixing, with emphasis both on the

presentation of new supporting technologies for the creation and understanding of media fragments (e.g. video

decomposition at different granularity levels; extraction of concepts, events, or textual descriptions that capture the

meaning of specific media fragments) and on novel applications of such technologies for media fragment re-use and re-

mixing in various domains, such as the traditional media industry, the news industry, video blogging and social media

applications, and others.

Research topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Multimedia fragmentation techniques

Concept detection from media fragments

Event detection from media fragments

Event recounting and textual description of media fragments

Media fragment description

Media fragment search and retrieval

Media fragments in the social Web

User interfaces for media fragment manipulation

Novel media fragment re-use and remixing results with commercial application

Paper submission deadline: March 7, 2013.

We encourage researchers from industry and academia to submit original works. Submitted manuscripts should be no

longer than 6 pages, including all text, figures, and references. They must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready

format (double-column, 10-pt font, letter (8.5×11-inch) paper) and must be submitted as PDF files. Please note that

reviewing is double blind. Further information for prospective authors (including Latex/Word templates and detailed

instructions for preserving the anonymity of the submissions – same as those for the ICME main track submissions) can

be found on the ICME web page, http://www.icme2013.org.

Organizers:

Dr. Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France

Dr. Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH-ITI), Greece

Dr. Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria

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Annex D Call for MediaMixer/VideoLectures.net grand challenge solutions

Call for Multimedia Grand Challenge Solutions: The MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET Temporal Segmentation and

Annotation Grand Challenge ACM Multimedia 2013 Grand Challenge Program, Barcelona, Spain, October 21-25, 2013

http://acmmm13.org/submissions/call-for-multimedia-grand-challenge-solutions/mediamixervideolectures-net-grand-challenge/

Challenge description:

VideoLectures.NET mostly hosts lectures 1 to 1.5h long linked with slides and enriched with metadata and

additional textual contents. With automatic temporal segmentation and annotation of the video we would gain on

efficiency of our video search engine and be able to provide users with the ability to search for sections within a

video, as well as recommend similar content. This would mean that the challenge participants develop tools for

automatic segmentation of videos that could then be implemented in VideoLectures.NET.

The criteria for the evaluation of the proposed solutions to this challenge include the quality of the segmentation

and the annotations, the duration of the required processing in time, and the ease of integration of the proposed

solutions into VideoLectures.NET.

A dataset of Videos from VideoLectures.NET will be provided. Participants are also free to use additional datasets

for testing their approaches, in addition to the videos provided by the Challenge organizers.

Submissions and publication of results:

Submissions should depict working, presentable systems or demos, using the provided grand challenge dataset,

and should describe why the system presents a novel and interesting solution.

The submissions (max 4 pages) should be formatted according to ACM Multimedia formatting guidelines.

Multimedia Grand Challenge reviewing is Double-blind so authors shouldn’t reveal their identity in the paper. The

finalists will be selected by a committee consisting of academia and industry representatives, based on novelty,

presentation, scientific interest of the approach and performance against the task.

Finalist submissions will be published in the conference proceedings, and will be presented in a special event

during the ACM Multimedia 2013 conference in Barcelona, Spain. At the conference, finalists will be requested to

introduce their solutions, give a quick demo, and take questions from the judges and the audience. Winners will be

selected for Multimedia Grand Challenge awards based on their presentation. An additional prize (sponsored by

Technicolor) will be awarded to the most innovative multimodal solution, and a special MediaMixer prize will be

awarded to the best solution presented for the MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET Challenge.

Important dates:

Challenge Dataset: Already available!

Paper Submission Deadline: July 1, 2013

Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2013

Camera-Ready Submission Deadline: August 12, 2013

Contacts (including info on getting the MediaMixer/VideoLectures.NET Challenge dataset):

Tanja Zdolsek, [email protected]

Vasileios Mezaris, [email protected]

Documents

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