Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Presumably last WIAMIS'08 blog entry...

Some pictures from WIAMIS'08 have been posted on [1] and there you will find a link to some more pictures ... enjoy!

Note that at some point in time www.wiamis2008.org will disappear but the content will be kept on [2].

Thanks again for attending WIAMIS'09 and see you next year in London for WIAMIS'09 [3].
(on behalf of the organization committee)

[1] http://www.wiamis2008.org/pics.html
[2] http://wiamis2008.itec.uni-klu.ac.at
[3] http://wiamis2009.qmul.net/

PDFs of WIAMIS'08 keynotes

The PDFs of the three keynotes have been made available through the Web site. They are accessible via http://www.wiamis2008.org/invitedTalks.html.

Friday, May 9, 2008

Thank you for attending WIAMIS 2008!!!

Group picture at Magdalensberg during the social event

Impressions from the Industry Session

(from left to right) John R. Smith (moderator), Paulo Villegas, Visvanathan Ramesh, Bernhard Feiten, Mark Pfeiffer, and Touradj Ebrahimi




Poster Session, M3R, and ADVISE Special Sessions

Here are some further pictures from WIAMIS 2008 ...

Poster Session ...

Poster Session cont'd

Special Session: M3R

Special Session: ADVISE

Thursday, May 8, 2008

John R. Smith: Unleashing Video Search

Some pictures taken during John R. Smith's talk entitled "Unleashing Video Search":

John R. Smith: Unleashing Video Search

The audience is listening carefully...

John in action ;-)

WIAMIS 2008 Welcome Reception

Some impressions from yesterday's welcome reception can be found here. Thanks to Oge Marques for making them available.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

WIAMIS 2008 just started ...

Here are some first impressions from WIAMIS 2008 opening:

Me, opening the workshop ...


Workshop attendees...


Keynote given by Horst Bischof

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Weather Forecast for WIAMIS 2008

The overall weather forecast for WIAMIS 2008 is a mixture of sun and clouds with temperatures up to 23°C. The detailed weather forecast is currently as follows:

  • Wednesday: warm and sunny with a few scattered clouds, highs up to 20°C.
  • Thursday: warm and even more sunny but some clouds expected in the afternoon, highs up to 21°C.
  • Friday: sunny with highs up to 23°C but with an increasing chance (30%) of thunderstorms in the afternoon.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Industry Session

Title: Multimedia Content Analysis and Semantic Adaptation

When: Friday, May 9, 2008, 10:30 - 12:30
Where: HS B

Panel discussion with the following panelists

  • John R. Smith, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA (Moderator)
  • Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain
  • Bernhard Feiten, T-Systems, Germany
  • Visvanathan Ramesh, Siemens Princeton, USA
  • Mark Pfeiffer, SAIL LABS Technology
  • Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL & EMITALL Surveillance