The day started with John R. Smith's very rich invited talk on "Unleashing video search". John presented an excellent talk, broad, deep, and current, supported by excellent graphics and demos. I liked (a lot!) when he said that all this incessant talk about bridging the semantic gap may lead to the trap of "building a bridge to nowhere". Maybe we should ask, said John (and I paraphrase): "What, exactly, is the destination?"
On a personal level, it was great to finally meet him in person (among other things, John contributed a chapter on "Video Indexing and Retrieval using MPEG-7" for the Handbook of Video Databases).
The next session (Oral Session II: Analysis II) had two papers on SenseCam-related work by the The Centre for Digital Video Processing (Dublin City University, Ireland), briefly commented in an earlier post.
The next session (Oral Session II: Analysis II) had two papers on SenseCam-related work by the The Centre for Digital Video Processing (Dublin City University, Ireland), briefly commented in an earlier post.
After the lunch break, I attended the first and second parts of the Special Session on Multimedia Metadata Management and Retrieval (M3R).
Between the two, I took a close look at the poster session for the day and was impressed by the work presented by Prof. Kai Uwe Barthel (FHTW-Berlin), whose demo is available online. It builds up on previous work (ImageSorter, available for download) and shows a lot of promise in terms of narrowing the infamous semantic gap.
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