und noch ein Ortswechsel ...

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Location Change: Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:02:58 +0200 From: Carsten Griwodz griff@IFI.UIO.NO Reply-To: Carsten Griwodz griff@IFI.UIO.NO To: SIGMM-MEMBERS@ACM.ORG

From: Yong Rui yongrui@microsoft.com

LOCATION CHANGE

2003 International Workshop on Multimedia Technologies in E-Learning and Collaboration (WOMTEC)

October 19-20, 2003 Nice, France In association with ICCV 2003 http://research.microsoft.com/workshops/womtec/

As computing is becoming ubiquitous and network bandwidth grows, the way how people teach, learn, and collaborate is rapidly changing. People are increasingly using computer technologies to make learning and collaboration easier, more convenient, and more effective. There are still many open technical problems that need to be addressed to make e-learning and collaboration a better experience. We need to address the problem of how to better capture and present a lecture or a group meeting. We need to better understand the meeting context such as the gesture, facial expressions, who is speaking, who wants to speak so that we can generate good indexing schemes to allow for nonlinear browsing and provide a better summarization of the meeting. How to make note-taking easier is another interesting problem. For a group meeting or a class with remote participants, we need to address the problem of how to present the meeting room to the remote participants and vice versa so that the remote participants are not left out. One clear advantage of a face-to-face meeting vs. current video conferencing is that many visual cues, such as eye contacts and who is paying attention to what, are lost in video conferencing. Most of these problems involve techniques from computer vision, graphics, and multimedia. The goal of this workshop is to bring together the researchers who are interested in this area to exchange their work and ideas.

The topics include but not limited to: * Camera and microphone arrays for AV capturing of lectures and group meetings. * Calibration of camera arrays for meeting/lecture capturing * Gesture recognition * Facial expression recognition * Eye gaze correction * Speaker detection and tracking from video and audio * Automated lecture capturing * Automated lecture analysis and indexing * Automatic assessment of student behavior * Lecture presentation and browsing * Whiteboard capturing and analysis * Classroom note taking * Novel use of TabletPC and other small devices for teaching and learning * E-learning systems * Digital ink compression, classification, and recognition * Video and document data compression * Distance learning standards such as SCORM

The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by IEEE Computer Society (pending approval). The best papers will be published in the International Journal of Distance Education Technologies. Because the ICCV paper decisions are made later than the submission deadline, we accept dual submissions from ICCV. The papers which are accepted by ICCV will be withdrawn from the workshop. At least one author per paper must register at a "non-student" rate before July 20, 2003. Otherwise the paper will not be included in the program. If all the authors on a paper are certified as students, then a student rate registration will be accepted.

Paper submission: To submit a paper, please go to our online submission system. Papers should be submitted electronically in pdf (preferred) or postscript with no more than 8 pages including all figures, references and appendices using the ICCV 2003 submission format.

Important Dates: Paper submission deadline: May 22, 2003 Notification of acceptance: July 1, 2003 Camera-ready due: July 20, 2003 Conference: 10/19/2003 - 10/20/2003

Workshop Co-Chairs Zicheng Liu Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

Zhengyou Zhang Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

Yong Rui Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

Local Arrangement Chair Yang-Fan Fang Yi-Chang High Tech District, China

Program Committee

Gregory Abowd George Tech, USA

Richard Anderson University of Washington, USA

Sumit Basu Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA

Herng-Yow Chen National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan

Xilin Chen CMU, USA

Michael Cohen Microsoft Research, USA

Ross Cutler Microsoft Research, USA

Michael Gleicher University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA

Ken Goldberg UC Berkeley, USA

Jianjun Hou Beijing University, China

Thomas S. Huang UIUC, USA

Ting Chuen Pong HKUST, Hong Kong

Kinshuk Massey University, New Zealand

Igor V. Kozintsev Intel Research, USA

JungHwan Oh UT Arlington, USA

Daniela Raicu DePaul University, USA

Timothy K. Shih Tamkang University, Taiwan

Jie Yang CMU, USA

Qinghua Zheng Xi'an Jiao-Tong University, China

Yueting Zhuang Zhejiang University, China

Contact: zliu@microsoft.com