Conferences

Date	Conference
7-11 November 2009	"Learning Large Margin Likelihoods For Realtime Head Pose Tracking" Elisa Ricci, Idiap Research Institute Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2009, Cairo, Egypt http://www.icip2009.org/
5-7 October 2009	Keynote Speech Dick Bulterman, CWI WebMedia 2009, Fortaleza, Brazil http://www.sbc.org.br/webmedia/webmedia2009/index.php.79.html#keynote3
28-30 September 2009	"RTCP based Bit-Rate Adaption for AAC Audio Communication Jochen Issing, Fraunhofer IIS 2009 NEM Summit, Saint-Malo, France http://www.nem-summit.eu/
15-18 September 2009	"Adding Dynamic Visual Manipulations to Declarative Multimedia Documents" Fons Kuijk, CWI ACM Document Engineering 2009, Munich, Germany http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1600193.1600227
7-10 September 2009	"Dynamic Partitioned Sampling For Tracking With Discriminative Features" Stefan Duffner, Idiap Research Institute British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2009, London http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/vis/bmvc2009/
6-10 September 2009	"Automatic Out-of-Language Detection based on Confidence Measures derived from LVCSR Word and Phone Lattices" Petr Motlicek, Idiap Research Institute Interspeech 2009, Brighton, England http://www.interspeech2009.org/
3 June 2009	TA2 organised a workshop dedicated to "Enhancing Social Communication and Belonging by Integrating TV Narrativity and Game-Play" collocated with EuroITV2009, Leuven, Belgium This was a successful example of collaborative concertation Further information on the workshop
20 May 2009	Managing ICT projects in FP7 - Best practices from TA2 Training seminar, Heidelberg, Germany
7-10 May 2009	"A Spatial Filtering Approach for Directional Audio Coding" AES Convention, Munich Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer http://www.aes.org/events/126/
7-10 May 2009	"Efficient Methods for High Quality Merging of Spatial Audio Streams in Directional Audio Coding" AES Convention, Munich Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer http://www.aes.org/events/126/
21 April 2009	"Interactive Television and the Web" World Wide Web Conference 2009 Pablo Cesar, CWI http://www2009.org/tutorials/T8-A.html
19-24 April 2009	"Spatial Filtering using Directional Audio Coding Parameters" ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer http://www.icassp09.com/
19-24 April 2009	"Efficient merging of multiple audio streams for spatial sound reproduction in directional audio coding" ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer http://www.icassp09.com/
3-8 March 2009	Stand at Cebit 2009 by TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS: Audio Communication Engine installed in a home telepresence environment. This takes the form of two separate but connected living rooms, and illustrates the ease with which friends and family can take part in games and conversation.
14-20 February 2009	Stand at the Mobile World Congress by TA2 partner Fraunhofer IIS: Two phone boxes connected via Fraunhofer Audio Communication Engine, handsfree communication, on the fly comparison to Skype.
25-27 November 2008	Networking Session on "Managing ICT projects in FP7 – exchange of best practices" ICT 2008, 25-27 November in Lyon. Organised by Eurescom GmbH, chair/speakers: Milon Gupta, Doug Williams, Anastasius Gavras, Peter Stollenmayer http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/cf/item-display.cfm?id=580 Agenda as pdf Presentation slides: Anastasius Gavras, Eurescom: Consortium Building Peter Stollenmayer, Eurescom: Management and Reporting Doug Williams, BT: Dissemination and Exploitation Summary of the TA2 networking session
27 October - 1 November 2008	"Enhancing Social Sharing of Videos: Fragment, Annotate, Enrich, and Share" ACM Multimedia Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 11-20 P. Cesar http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1459359.1459362 - Best paper award -
22-24 October 2008	"Introduction to User Experience Design for Interactive TV" UXTV08 Conference , Silicon Valley, California, USA P. Cesar http://uxtv2008.org/program/intro-to-itv.html
18-19 October 2008	DIY Pervasive Games Workshop Fun and Games 2008, Eindhoven, Netherlands P. Ljungstrand http://www.fng2008.org/
11-15 October 2008	Participation in Panel "Visions and strategies for Future Media Internet" NEM Summit, Saint Malo, France D. Williams http://www.nem-summit.eu/agenda_2008.php
7-9 October 2008	"Supporting Group Relationships in Mediated Domestic Environments" P. Ljungstrand "Games, Gaming and Gamers - Understanding Game Research" S. Björk Presentations at Mindtrek Conference, Tampere, Finland http://www.mindtrek.org/conference
16-19 September 2008	"Enabling adaptive time-based web applications with SMIL state". ACM symposium on Document engineering 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil, pp. 18-27 J. Jansen, D.C.A. Bulterman http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1410140&idx=SERIES10668 - Best Paper Award -
10-12 September 2008	"Conferencing with Spatial Audio" ITU-T workshop on "From Speech to Audio: bandwidth extension, binaural perception", Lannion, France P. Hughes http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/speechaudio/programme.html
2-4 July 2008	"Usages of the Secondary Screen in an Interactive Television Environment: Control, Enrich, Share, and Transfer Television Content" EurolTV 2008 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, pp.168-177 P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen http://www.springerlink.com/content/p30658353hgj2046/ - Best paper award -
14 June 2008	Paper on how we see technology integrating with real life. 2nd CHALLENGERS Workshop on Research Challenges and Visions Barcelona, Spain D. Williams
21 April 2008	Tutorial at the World Wide Web Conference 2008 on "Interactive Television and the Web" P. Cesar, CWI
3-5 March 2008	"Temporal Manipulation and Sharing of Presentation State in Browser-Embedded Multimedia Documents" Taiwanese-French Conference on Information Technology (TFIT2008), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 256- 266 D.C.A. Bulterman, A.J. Jansen, and P. Cesar http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tfit08/