DM: MDM/KDD'2000: Call for participation

Call for Participation

First International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining
MDM/KDD2000 to be held in conjunction with

Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on
Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in analysis of
digital media content, state-of-art data mining and knowledge
discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and
domain experts from different applied disciplines with potential in
multimedia data mining.

Participation in the workshop is by invitation only.
If interested, please contact the workshop co-chairs:
Simeon J. Simoff (simeon@arch.usyd.edu.au) or
Osmar R. Zaiane (zaiane@cs.ualberta.ca).

Registration is included in the ACM SIGKDD'2000 technical
registration fee. All workshop participants must register for the
SIGKDD'2000 technical program.

Workshop web site:
http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/mdm_kdd2000/

There were 27 submitted papers from 12 different countries. All papers were
extensively reviewed by three referees. Based on their reviews, 14 papers
have been selected for presentation.

Program for MDM/KDD2000 Workshop
Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA

8:45 - 9:00 Opening and Welcome

9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 (Mining Spatial Multimedia Data)
     * 09:00- 09:20
         Geo-Spatial Clustering with User-Specified Constraints
         Anthony K.H. Tong, Raymond T. Ng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Jiawei Han
     * 09:20- 09:40
         Multi-level Indexing and GIS Enhanced Learning for Satellite
Imageries
         Krzysztof Koperski and Giovanni B. Marchisio
     * 09:40-10:00
         Predicting Locations Using Map Similarity(PLUMS):
         A Framework for Spatial Data Mining.
         Sanjay Chawla, Shashi Shekhar, Weili Wu and Uygar Ozesmi

10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00 Session 2 (Mining Audio Data & Multimedia Support)
     * 10:30-10:50
         Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis
         Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Tingshao Zhu
     * 10:50-11:10
         Unsupervised Classification of Sound for Multimedia Indexing
         Bruce Matichuk, Osmar R. Zaiane
     * 11:10-11:30
         Effective Retrieval of Audio Information from Annotated Text
         Using Ontologies
         Latifur Khan and Dennis McLeod
     * 11:30-11:50
         Incorporating Domain Knowledge with Video and Voice Data Analysis
         in News Broadcasts.
         Kim Shearer, Chitra Dorai, Svetha Venkatesh
     * 11:50-12:10
         Multimedia Support for Complex Multidimensional Data Mining
         Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:00 Session 3 (Mining Image and Video Data)
     * 13:00-13:20
         A Self Organizing Map (SOM) Extended Model for Information
         Discovery in a Digital Library Context.
         Jean-Charles Lamirel, Jacques Ducloy, Hager Kammoun
     * 13:20-13:40
         Learning Feature Weights from User Behavior in Content-Based
         Image Retrieval
         Henning Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, David McG Squire
     * 13:40-14:00
         When image indexing meets knowledge discovery
         Chabane Djeraba
     * 14:00-14:20
         Semantic indexing and temporal rule discovery for time-series
         sattelite images
         Rie Honda, Osamu Konoshi
     * 14:20-14:40
         Data Mining from Functional Brain Images
         Mitsuru Kakimoto, Chie Morita, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Hiroshi Tsukimoto
     * 14:40-15:00
         Mining Cinematic Knowledge Work in Progress- An Extended Abstract
         Duminda Wijesekera and Daniel Barbara

15:00-16:00 Session 4 (Discussion)
     * 15:00-15:15
         Variations on Multimedia Data Mining
         Simeon J. Simoff
     * 15:15-16:00
         Discussion:
         What does Multimedia Mining encompass and what are the open issues

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30 - 19:00 SIGKDD'2000 Conference Opening and awards

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