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Goals
Registration
Attendees
Program
Location
Rules for
demos and posters
Organizers
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Symposium Goals
Within
just a few hours driving distance, the midwest has an incredible
collection
of database researchers and students. The goal of the
Midwest Database Research Symposium
is
to strengthen the ties between these individuals and encourage future
discussions, interactions and collaborations,
through
a day of interaction and networking once a year.
To foster on-to-one interaction, this year's Symposium will focus on poster sessions and demos.
We will have three poster sessions, with sufficient room for every attendee to have a poster.
There will also be room for attendees to present demos along with their posters.
Registration
Attendees will register on site to receive a name tag. No preregistration is needed, other than a headcount of attendees from each school's coordinator.
Each school's coordinator should also send a headcount of demo presenters, as there is limited demo space.
Information will be available at the registration desk on the day of
the symposium about where to set
up demos and posters, how to get wireless access, and where to go for lunch.
Attendees
We expect attendees this year from the following institutions.
School
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Students |
Professor |
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| IIT |
6 |
1 |
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| Indiana |
4 |
3 |
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| Michigan |
11 |
0 |
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| Northwestern |
3 |
0 |
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| Ohio State |
7 |
1 |
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| Purdue |
20 |
| UIC |
3 |
0 |
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| UIUC |
40 |
7 |
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| Wisconsin |
6 |
2 |
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| TOTAL |
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Preliminary Program
9:00
AM Registration and continental breakfast
9:40 AM Opening Remarks
9:45 AM Keynote Presentation
T. S. Huang
Beckman Institute of Science and Technology, UIUC
Ten Challenging Problems in Video Content Retrieval
10:40 AM -- 11:00 AM Break
11:00-12:00 AM Demo and Poster Session I
Michigan, IIT and Ohio State
12:00 PM -- 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 PM -- 2:30 PM Poster and Demo Session II
Wisconsin, Indiana, and Purdue
2:30 PM -- 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM -- 4:00 PM Poster and Demo Session III
UIUC, Northwestern, and UIC
4:00 PM -- 4:15 PM Planning next year's event (faculty only)
No
proceedings will be published.
Keynote Event
T. S. Huang is
the
William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor
in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UIUC.
He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received
many other national and international awards for his research.
His professional interests lie in computer vision, image compression and enhancement, pattern recognition, and multimodal signal processing.
He has collaborated with database researchers in the area of
content-based image retrieval.
Abstract:
Until recently and even today most information
retrieval is based on keywords. However, the
increasing abundance of multimedia data
especially audio, images, and video, provides new
opportunities and new challenges. Among the
opportunities is the possibility of searching
based on low-level audio-visual features
(such as pitch, energy; color, texture, shape,
layout, motion field) and mid-level features
(such as prosady; trajectories) in addition to
keywords. The challenges are many. Here is
my top 10 list.
- Bridging the Semantic Gap: How to recognize
high-level semantic concepts such as indoor
or outdoor, face, vehicle, walking or running.
This is needed for automatic annotation.
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Audio scene analysis: Although much work has
been done on visual scene analysis, audio
scene analysis is still in its infancy.
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Data integraty: How do we know whether
the audio or visual data has been tampered
with?
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Multimedia data mining: How do we search
for correlation, anomalous patterns, etc. in
audio, images and video, text, etc. say
on the Web?
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Machine Learning issues: Use of unlabeled
training data in Relevance Feedback; active
learning, incremental learning; building
profile of a user over time; collective
learning.
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Human-computer interfaces: How to best
place a human in the loop?
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Close collaboration of researchers in
computer vision and audio understanding,
with researchers in traditional IR and DB
(computer science).
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Performance evaluation: What are good metrics
to evaluate and compare retrieval algorithms?
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What are the killer applications?
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Privacy, rights.
In this talk, we shall comment briefly on these
10 challenges and then discuss one of them
(HCI) in some detail. In particular, a video
indexing/retrieval system based on generative
models will be described.
All sessions of
the Symposium will be held at the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the
UIUC campus, at the corner of W. Main Street and N. Goodwin Ave.
The Siebel Center address is 201 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana IL 61801.
Driving directions: Head toward Champaign-Urbana from your home city. When you reach
Champaign-Urbana, get onto interstate 74.
(If you are coming from Chicago, you will exit from I57 onto I74 east.)
Take the exit marked "Lincoln Avenue" and proceed south on Lincoln Avenue for a mile or two. Turn right at the traffic light
for University Avenue, and then
turn left at the next light onto Goodwin Avenue.
Turn into the first building on your right.
It is a parking structure with free parking above the first floor on Saturdays.
Be sure not to park at a spot with a meter, as those spots are not free on Saturdays.
Once you have parked your car, continue walking south. The second building after the parking structure is the Siebel Center.
You can find the symposium location
marked as the "Siebel Center for Computer Science Building"
on the printable
campus map,
which also shows parking locations. You can also examine a
MapQuest or Google map .
- Demos
- Each person presenting a demo should bring a laptop that
can run
the demo.
- Wireless internet access will be available
for demos. Power may not be available in the demo area, so precharge
laptop batteries.
- Everyone who wants to
do a demo can do one, subject to space limitations. Each school should choose their own demos and send a headcount
of demo presenters to winslett@cs.uiuc.edu, to ensure that there is sufficient table space for all demo presenters.
- Posters
- Print out your poster, attach it to a stiff backing of foam board or cardboard, and bring it to
the Symposium with you. We will set up easels to hold your posters
in
the hallways of the Siebel Center.
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The easels have an A-frame shape and will accept a poster on
stiff poster board. If your poster is floppy, then bring some small
clips with you so that you can clip it to the back of someone else's
(stiff) poster
to keep it from falling off the easel.
- The exact size and form of the poster is up to the
presenter.
Symposium
Organization
Organizing
committee co-chairs
Chris Clifton, Purdue University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Local arrangements chair
Marianne Winslett, UIUC
Organizing committee
Chris
Clifton, Purdue University
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Ohio State University
Jignesh Patel, University of Michigan
Melanie Wu, Indiana University
Raghu Ramakrishan, University of Wisconsin
Peter Revesz, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Peter Scheuermann, Northwestern University
Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
Ouri Wolfson, University of Illinois at Chicago
Wai Gen Yee, Illinois Institute of Technology
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