With the growing volume, diversity and temporal dynamics of multimedia content on the Web, in social sharing platforms and in personal and institutional archives, there is a clear need for new approaches for efficiently organizing multimedia content and making it easily discoverable and accessible; and, preserving it discoverable, accessible and understandable in the near as well as distant future. This necessitates, among many other things, keeping the multimedia information in sync with the time-evolving context information that is needed for its interpretation at different times. The above are by no means easy tasks for computing machines.
Humans are very effective in remembering and organizing information by abstraction, pattern exploitation, or contextualization; and, significant progress has been made in recent years towards endowing computing machines with the algorithmic tools that are needed for performing similar functions on large volumes of multimedia in an automated or semi-automated fashion (e.g., progress in machine learning for multimedia). Besides these functions, though, humans are also capable of forgetting irrelevant details; an important function of the human brain that helps us to focus on relevant things instead of drowning in details by trying to remember everything.
The research question that the HMMP’15 workshop aims to address is: can we be inspired from the human remembering and forgetting processes for developing more advanced algorithms for multimedia organization (incl. search, retrieval, annotation, summarization) and preservation (incl. contextualization)? In particular, we are interested to know how human remembering and forgetting can play a role in multimedia organization and retrieval, in applications such as search in personal and organizational information spaces, as well as in the social multimedia Web; and how the effects of time in human remembering and forgetting can help us to maintain multimedia content discoverable, accessible and understandable (contextualized) in the near and distant future, thus supporting its long-term preservation.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the different fields that contribute to the development of technologies and applications for multimedia organization (search, retrieval, annotation, summarization) and preservation (contextualization); and, get them in touch with researchers from a different scientific field that investigates how humans organize, remember and forget information.
Human memory-inspired approaches to multimedia search and retrieval
Topics of interest to the workshop include but are not limited to:
The Call for Papers is also available in pdf format here.
11:30-11:35 Opening and welcome
11:35-13:00 Oral session 1: Contextualized Remembering
A COMPLEX NETWORK MODEL OF SEMANTIC MEMORY IMPAIRMENTS
Walter Allasia (EURIX)
Enrico Palumbo (Physics University of Torino)
HUMAN-INSPIRED SHAPE-BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL USING WEIGHTED CITY-BLOCK DISTANCE AND FOURIER DESCRIPTORS
Emir Sokic (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo)
Delila Halac (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo)
Samim Konjicija (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Sarajevo)
DIARY GENERATION FROM PERSONAL INFORMATION MODELS TO SUPPORT CONTEXTUAL REMEMBERING AND REMINISCENCE
Christian Jilek (DFKI GmbH)
Heiko Maus (DFKI GmbH)
Sven Schwarz (DFKI GmbH)
Andreas Dengel (DFKI GmbH)
PHOTO COLLECTION CONTEXTUALIZATION
Konstantinos Apostolidis (CERTH)
Vassilis Solachidis (ITI/CERTH)
Olga Papadopoulou (ITI/CERTH)
Vasileios Mezaris (ITI/CERTH)
13:00-15:00 Lunch break
15:00-16:10 Keynote talk
PRESERVING AND FORGETTING IN HUMAN AND DIGITAL MEMORY, Prof. Robert Logie, University of Edinburgh
16:10-16:30 Oral session 2: Digital Preservation and Forgetting
LEARNING PERSONALIZED EXPECTATION-ORIENTED PHOTO SELECTION MODELS FOR PERSONAL PHOTO COLLECTIONS
Mingxin Fu (L3S Research Center)
Andrea Ceroni (L3S Research Center)
Vassilis Solachidis (ITI/CERTH)
Claudia Niederée (L3S Research Center)
Olga Papadopoulou (ITI/CERTH)
Nattiya Kanhabua (L3S Research Center)
Vasileios Mezaris (ITI/CERTH)
16:30-16:45 Coffee break
16:45-18:15 Oral session 2: Digital Preservation and Forgetting (continued)
A MULTI-AGENT APPROACH FOR AUTONOMOUS DIGITAL PRESERVATION
Jacopo Pellegrino (University of Turin)
Walter Allasia (EURIX)
Marco Maggiora (University of Turin)
THE BIG DATA BETWEEN YOUR EARS: HUMAN INSPIRED HEURISTICS FOR FORGETTING IN DATABASES
Gisela Bahr (Florida Institute Technology)
Stephen Wood (Florida Institute of Technology)
INVESTIGATING HUMAN BEHAVIORS IN SELECTING PERSONAL PHOTOS TO PRESERVE MEMORIES
Andrea Ceroni (L3S Research Center)
Vassilis Solachidis (ITI/CERTH)
Mingxin Fu (L3S Research Center)
Nattiya Kanhabua (L3S Research Center)
Olga Papadopoulou (ITI/CERTH)
Claudia Niederée (L3S Research Center)
Vasileios Mezaris (ITI/CERTH)
AN EXPLORATORY STUDY TO IDENTIFY RELEVANT CUES FOR THE DELETION OF FACES FOR MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL
Marc Ritter (Techn. Universitaet Chemnitz)
Gisela Bahr (Florida Institute Technology)
18:15 Closing of the workshop
Robert Logie obtained his PhD in Psychology from University College London in 1981. He was appointed to a tenured Lectureship at the Univ. of Aberdeen, UK, became a full professor of Psychology in 1995, and served as the Head of the Psychology Department (1997-2002). He moved to a full professor position at the Univ. of Edinburgh in 2004. His research approach is multidisciplinary, encompassing experimental psychology, neurology, neuropsychology, and computing science. He develops cognitive theories driven by experimental evidence from studies of human adult memory, and undertakes applied research using theories of human cognition in the design of, for example, human-computer interfaces for medical monitoring systems. He has over 250 scientific publications and an 'h index' of 57. He is regularly approached by the print and broadcast media in the UK and internationally as an expert consultant on human memory. He was editor-in-chief of the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology (2002-2005), and is currently on the editorial board for the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and of the British Psychological Society, and is currently chair of the Governing Board of the US-based Psychonomic Society.
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