Conferences

Date	Conference
28-30 March 2012	Voice activity detection from gaze in video mediated communication Michal Hradis, Roman Bednarik, Sharam Eivazi ETRA 2012 - Eye Tracking Research & Applications, Santa Barbara, California, USA
24-26 February 2012	Semantic Class Detectors in Video Genre Recognition Michal Hradis, Ivo Reznicek, Kamil Behun VISAPP 2012, Rome, Italy
4-6 January 2012	MMM2012, Klagenfurt, Austria Multimodal Cue Detection Engine for Orchestrated Entertainment Danil Korchagin Interactive and Immersive Entertainment and Communication Rene Kaiser, Pablo Cesar
5-7 December 2011	Semantic indexing Michal Hradis, Ivo Reznicek, Lubomir Otrusina, Vitezslav Beran TRECVid 2011, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
28 Nov - 1 Dec 2011	Creating Personalized Memories from Social Events: Community-Based Support for Multi-Camera Recordings of School Concerts Guimarães, R. L., Cesar, P., Bulterman, D. C. A., Zsombori, V. and Kegel, I. ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM 2011, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
27-29 September 2011	Understanding Social TV: A survey Pablo Cesar, David Geerts NEM Summit 2011, Torino, Italy
23-27 September 2011	On-line Human Action Detection using Space-time Interest Points Ivo Reznicek, Pavel Sernicik ITAT 2011, Vratna Dolina, SK
1-2 September 2011	Brno University of Technology at MediaEval 2011 Genre Tagging Task Michal Hradis, Ivo Reznicek, Kamil Behun MediaEval 2011 Workshop, Pisa, Italy
29 Aug - 2 Sep 2011	Impact of Excitation Frequency on Short-Term Recording Synchronisation and Confidence Estimation Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute European Signal Processing Conference 2011, Barcelona, Spain
29 Aug - 2 Sep 2011	Joint Adaptive Colour Modelling and Skin, Hair and Clothing Segmentation Using Coherent Probabilistic Index Maps Carl Scheffler BMVC 2011, Dundee, UK
11-15 July 2011	Social Focus of Attention as a Time Function Derived from Multimodal Signals Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute Just-in-Time Multimodal Association and Fusion from Home Entertainment Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute Reasoning for Video-mediated Group Communication Manolis Falelakis, GOLD ICME 2011 - IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Barcelona, Spain
11-13 July 2011	The use of linguistic coherence indicators across media and languages Martin Groen, GOLD Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse, Poitiers, France
28-30 June 2011	Choose your partner carefully: early value network definition for technology developers David Langley, Arno Maris, TNO The R&D Management Conference 2011, Norrköping, Sweden
14-17 June 2011	Social Practices around Personal Videos using the Web Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci 2011), Koblenz, Germany
6-9 June 2011	Automatic Generation of Video Narratives from Shared UGC Vilmos Zsombori, GOLD, CWI, BT ACM Hypertext 2011, 22nd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia Eindhoven, The Netherlands
30 May - 1 June 2011	Audio Spatio-Temporal Fingerprints for Cloudless Real-Time Hands-Free Diarization on Mobile Devices Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute HSCMA 2011 - Hands-Free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays, Edinburgh, UK
29-31 May 2011	Upon opening the black box of participatory design and finding it filled with ethics Marc Steen, TNO Nordes 2011 (Nordic Design Research Conference), Helsinki, Finland
7-12 May 2011	Are we in Sync? Synchronization Requirements for Watching Online Video Together (Conference paper) Pablo Cesar, CWI Designing Social TV and Social Communications for the Home (Tutorial) Pablo Cesar, CWI Social Game Studies at CHI 2011 (Workshop) Staffan Björk, II Social Game Studies at CHI 2011, Staffan Björk, II CHI2011, Vancouver, Canada
21-25 March 2011	Exploiting Long-Term Observations for Track Creation and Deletion in Online Multi-Face Tracking Stefan Duffner, Idiap Research Insitute IEEE Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition - FG 2011, Santa Barbara, USA
19-23 March 2011	Video Pal: An Asynchronous Video Based Communication System to Connect Children from US and Greece Honglu Du, II ACM CSCW 2011 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), Hangzhou, China
26-28 February 2011	The TA2 Database: A Multi-Modal Database from Home Entertainment Stefan Duffner, Idiap Research Institute Automatic Time Skew Detection and Correction Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute ICSAP 2011 - International Conference on Signal Acquisition and Processing Singapore
14-18 February 2011	Enhancing Social Communication for the Home Pablo Cesar, CWI Summer Workshop, Sao Carlos, Brazil
9-12 January 2011	Past, Present and Future of Social TV: A Categorization Pablo Cesar, CWI CCNC 2011 - Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, USA
5-7 January 2011	The Interaction Ontology Model: Supporting the virtual director orchestrating real-time group interaction Rene Kaiser, JRS MMM - International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Taipei, Taiwan
16-17 December 2010	Various contributions of TA2 partner Interactive Institute at the Future Internet Assembly (Beyond Copyright, Community online and offline) FIA, Ghent, Belgium
1-3 December 2010	Video Analysis Tools for Annotating User-Generated Content from Social Events Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI 5th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT2010, Saarbrücken, Germany
11 November 2010	Shared activities as a means to nurture relationships within distribured families and friends (in Swedish) Peter Ljungstrand, II World Usability Day 2010 event at Calmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden
25-29 October 2010	Automatic and Manual Processes in End-User Multimedia Authoring Tools: Where is the Balance? Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI ACM Multimedia 2010 Doctoral Symposium, Florence, Italy The Interaction Ontology: Low-level Cue Processing in Real-Time Group Conversations Rene Kaiser, JRS, GOLD 2nd ACM International Workshop on Events in Multimedia held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2010, Florence, Italy
11-14 October 2010	Enhancing Social Communication between Groups Tim Stevens, BT ICIN2010, Berlin, Germany
6-8 October 2010	Exploring Aesthetical Gameplay Design Patterns - Camaraderie in Four Games Karl Bergström, TII The Implicit Rules of Board Games - on the particulars of the lusory agreement Karl Bergström, TII Mindtrek 2010, Tampere, Finland
6-8 October 2010	Efficient Parameter Transcoding Scheme for Interactive Spatial Audio Communication Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer ITG Fachtagung Speech Communication 2010, Bochum, Germany
27-29 September 2010	TA2 presentation of two living rooms communicating and playing games ICT Event 2010, Brussels, Belgium
26-30 September 2010	English Spoken Term Detection in Multilingual Recordings Petr Motlicek, Idiap Research Institute Hands Free Audio Analysis from Home Entertainment Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute Tracter: A Lightweight Dataflow Framework Philip N. Garner, Idiap Research Institute Interspeech 2010, Makuhari, Japan
26 September 2010	Understanding social experiences through social space and embodied interaction Joke Kort, TNO ICT Supporting real-time, mediated group activities using orchestration Rene Kaiser, JRS, II SISSI 2010 (workshop at UBICOMP2010), Copenhagen, Denmark
21-24 September 2010	Creating and Sharing Personalized Time-Based Annotations of Videos on the Web Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI A Model for Editing Operations on Active Temporal Multimedia Documents Jack Jansen, CWI DocEng2010, Manchester, UK
15-18 September 2010	Poster presentation and discussing/writing UX white paper Joke Kort, TNO ICT "Demarcating user experience" seminar, Dagstuhl, Germany
30 Aug - 3 Sept 2010	Analyzing the Effect of Tagging by Combining Automatic and Manual Annotation Processes Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI SSM'10: Summer School on Multimedia Semantics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
17 August 2010	Sharing TV Content, Sharing Experience Pablo Cesar, CWI University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
16-17 August 2010	Undercurrents - A Computer-Based Gameplay Tool to Support Tabletop Roleplaying Karl Bergström, TII Nordic Digra 2010, Stockholm, Sweden
12 August 2010	Towards New Multimedia Shared Experionces Pablo Cesar, CWI Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil
9-11 June 2010	ESCape - Directions for Next Wave of Interactive Television Research Pablo Cesar, CWI EuroITV2010, Tampere, Finland
23-25 May 2010	In Situ Microphone Array Calibration for Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding Oliver Thiergart, Fraunhofer AES Convention 128, London, UK
26-27 April 2010	Web-Mediated Communication: in Search of Togetherness Pablo Cesar, CWI, BT Web Science Conference, Raleigh, USA
14-19 March 2010	Automatic Temporal Alignment of AV Data with Confidence Estimation Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA http://www.icassp2010.com/
14-19 March 2010	Application of Out-of-Language Detection to Spoken Term Detection Petr Motliced, Idiap Research Institute IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Dallas, USA http://www.icassp2010.com/
1-5 March 2010	CeBit 2010, Hannover, Germany Manfred Lutzky, Fraunhofer http://www.cebit.de/homepage_e
9-11 December 2009	Memories of Togetherness from Audio Logs Daniel Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute 1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media - Workshop on NSA Domesticity, Venice, Italy http://www.usercentricmedia.org/ UCMedia2009/
9-11 December 2009	From Photos to Memories: A User-Centric Authoring Tool for Telling Stories with your Photos Fons Kuijk, CWI 1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media, Venice, Italy http://www.usercentricmedia.org/ UCMedia2009/
9-11 December 2009	Workshop: Experience Design and Evaluation of Social UCM applications (ExpDes) Peter Ljungstrand, II 1st International ICST Conference on User Centric Media Venice, Italy http://www.usercentricmedia.org/ UCMedia2009/
23-24 November 2009	Keynote Speech Peter Ljungstrand, II Future Internet Assembly - FIA 2009, Stockholm, Sweden http://fi-stockholm.eu/
19-21 November 2009	Out-of-Scene AV Data Detection Danil Korchagin, Idiap Research Institute IADIS International Conference on Applied Computing 2009, Rome, Italy http://www.computing-conf.org/2009/
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/
18-21 October 2009	Nested Microphone Array Processing for Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer IEEE Workshop of Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics New Paltz, USA
9-12 October 2009	Localization of Sound Sources in Reverberant Environments Based on Directional Audio Coding Parameters Oliver Thiergart, Fraunhofer AES Convention 127, New York, USA
9-12 October 2009	Optimized Parameter Estimation in Directional Audio Coding Using Nested Microphone Arrays Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer AES Convention 127, New York, USA
5-7 October 2009	Keynote Speech Dick Bulterman, CWI WebMedia 2009, Fortaleza, Brazil
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/
4-9 September 2009	Demo on low delay spatial audio applications by Fraunhofer ISS IFA 2009, Berlin, Germany
3-5 June 2009	The Next Generation of Multimedia Authoring Tools: Telling Stories and Commenting on Media Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães, CWI EuroITV2009 http://www.euroitv2009.org/docs/ adjunct_proceedings/doctoral/LAIOLA, RODRIGO - doctoral consortium.pdf
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 Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer Efficient Methods for High Quality Merging of Spatial Audio Streams in Directional Audio Coding Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer AES Convention, Munich http://www.aes.org/events/126/
21 April 2009	Interactive Television and the Web Pablo Cesar, CWI World Wide Web Conference 2009 http://www2009.org/ tutorials/T8-A.html
19-24 April 2009	Spatial Filtering using Directional Audio Coding Parameters Markus Kallinger, Fraunhofer ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan http://www.icassp09.com/
19-24 April 2009	Efficient merging of multiple audio streams for spatial sound reproduction in directional audio coding Giovanni Del Galdo, Fraunhofer ICASSP 2009, Taipei/Taiwan 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 P. Cesar ACM Multimedia Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 11-20 http://portal.acm.org/ citation.cfm?doid=1459359.1459362 - Best paper award -
22-24 October 2008	Introduction to User Experience Design for Interactive TV P. Cesar UXTV08 Conference , Silicon Valley, California, USA http://uxtv2008.org/ program/intro-to-itv.html
18-19 October 2008	DIY Pervasive Games Workshop P. Ljungstrand Fun and Games 2008, Eindhoven, Netherlands 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
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 In proceedings (ACM DocEng 2008), pp. 18-27 http://portal.acm.org/ toc.cfm?id=1410140&idx=SERIES10668 J. Jansen, D.C.A. Bulterman - Best Paper Award - A Visual Approach for Modeling Spatiotemporal Relations In proceedings ACM DocEng 2008 Rodeigo Laiola Guimaraes ACM symposium on Document engineering 2008, Sao Paulo, Brazil
10-12 September 2008	Conferencing with Spatial Audio P. Hughes ITU-T workshop on "From Speech to Audio: bandwidth extension, binaural perception", Lannion, France 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 P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen EurolTV 2008 Conference, Salzburg, Austria, pp.168-177 http://www.springerlink.com/content/ p30658353hgj2046/ - Best paper award -
14 June 2008	Paper on how we see technology integrating with real life D. Williams 2nd CHALLENGERS Workshop on Research Challenges and Visions Barcelona, Spain
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 D.C.A. Bulterman, A.J. Jansen, and P. Cesar Taiwanese-French Conference on Information Technology (TFIT2008), Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 256- 266 http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tfit08/