Special Session

Semantic-based Multimedia Analysis and Access

organized by: SCHEMA

Chairman: Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece

• BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND MULTIMEDIA
  by Pierre-Paul Sondag, European Commission, Luxembourg

• METOKIS -TOWARDS A SEAMLESS CONTENT AND KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE INFRASTRUCTURE
  by, Wernher Behrendt, Sunil Goyal, Rupert Westenthaler, Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Austria

• VISNET: NOE ON NETWORKED AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
  by A. H. Sadka, University of Surrey, UK

• THE MEDIANET PROJECT,
  by Serge Travert, THOMSON, Research & Innovation, France; Michel Lemonier, L-up, France

• PRESTOSPACE: AN INTEGRATED SOLUTION FOR AUDIO-VISUAL PRESERVATION AND ACCESS
  Daniel Teruggi, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), France

• INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE, SEMANTICS AND CONTENT FOR USER-CENTRED INTELLIGENT MEDIA SERVICES: THE ACEMEDIA PROJECT
  Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Yannis Avrithis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Athens, Greece; Paola Hobson, Motorola Ltd, UK; Michael G. Strintzis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

• DIRECT - INFO MEDIA MONITORING AND MULTIMODAL ANALYSIS OF TIME CRITICAL DECISIONS
  Herwig Rehatschek, Institute of Information Systems & Information Management, Austria

• CHIL - COMPUTERS IN THE HUMAN INTERACTION LOOP
  Alex Waibel, Interactive Systems Labs (ISL), University of Karlsruhe, Germany; Hartwig Steusloff, Fraunhofer Institut für Informations- und Datenverarbeitung (IITB), Germany; Rainer Stiefelhagen, Interactive Systems Labs (ISL), University of Karlsruhe, Germany