Publications/accepted papers related to VITALAS project.

Efficient Subword Lattice Retrieval for German Spoken Term Detection. Timo Mertens and Daniel Schneider. Accepted for IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2009, Taipeh, Taiwan, 2009.

Audio Data Retrieval and Recognition Using Model Selection Criterion. Konstantin Biatov, Wolfgang Hesseler, Joachim Koehler. In: Wysocki, Beata J. (Ed.) et al.: 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems,
ICSPCS 2008, DSPCS 2008, WITSP 2008, 15-17 December 2008, Gold Coast, Australia. New York, NY [u.a.]: IEEE, 2008.

An adaptive Method to Associate Pictures with Indexing Terms. Marco Palomino, Michael Oakes and Yan Xu.  2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval, London, Oct. 2008

Similarity Matrices for a Multi-Media Search Engine , Y. Xu, M. Oakes and J. Thièvre. In Proceedings of  the 5th IET Visual Information Engineering 2008 Conference (VIE 2008)

A Posteriori Multi-Probe Locality Sensitive Hashing , A. Joly, O. Buisson, to appear in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Vancouver 2008

Towards Large Scale Vocabulary Independent Spoken Term Detection: Advances in the Fraunhofer IAIS Audiomining System, Schneider Daniel, Schon Jochen, Eickeler Stefan. In Proceedings of the SIGIR Workshop on Searching Spontaneous Conversational Speech, Singapore, 2008

A comparison between SVM Light, a search engine-based approach and the MediaMill baselines for assigning concepts to video shot annotations , G Ke, M Oakes, M Palomino, Y Xu, In Proceedings of the 2008 International Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008), pp. 381-387, June 2008, London, UK

A Probabilistic Ranking Framework using Unobservable Binary Events for Video Search, R Aly, D Hiemstra, A.P. de Vries, F.M.G. de Jong, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2008), July 2008, Canada

Interactive components for Visuals exploration of Multimedia Archives , M-L Viaud, J Thièvre, H Goeau, A Saulnier and O Buisson, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2008), July 2008, Canada

Multimedia Retrieval at INEX 2007 , Theodora Tsikrika and Thijs Westerveld. In SIGIR Forum, 42(1), pp. 16-21June, 2008.

The INEX 2007 Multimedia Track, Theodora Tsikrika and Thijs Westerveld. In Focused access to XML documents, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), Revised and Selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4862, pp. 440-453, Springer, 2008.

Structured Document Retrieval, Multimedia Retrieval, and Entity Ranking Using PF/Tijah . Theodora Tsikrika, Pavel Serdyukov, Henning Rode, Thijs Westerveld, Robin Aly, Djoerd Hiemstra and Arjen P. de Vries. In Focused access to XML documents, Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop of the Initiative for the Evaluation of XML Retrieval (INEX 2007), Revised and Selected papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4862, pp. 306-320, Springer, 2008.

Work at Sunderland on the VITALAS project, M Oakes, V Lin, Poster presentation at the "Future Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management" workshop at the Knowledge Media Institute of the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, February 2008

Interpretability Based Interest Points Detection , A. Rebai, A. Joly and N. Boujemaa, in Proc. of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval, 2007 

A Knowledge-Light Approach to Query Translation in Cross Language Information Retrieval , J. Vilares, M.P.Oakes & M. Vilares - Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP), pp. 624-630, Sept. 27-29, 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria. 

Multimedia Search without Visual Analysis: The Value of Linguistic and Contextual Information , Franciska M.G. de Jong, Thijs Westerveld and Arjen P. de Vries. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 17(3):365–371, March 2007. Special Issue on the convergence of knowledge engineering, semantics and signal processing in audiovisual information retrieval 

Generative Probabilistic Models, Thijs Westerveld, Arjen de Vries, and Franciska de Jong. In Multimedia Retrieval, Springer Verlag, 2007.

Interactive visualization tool with graphic table of video contents, H Goeau, J.Thièvre, M-L Viaud and D. Pellerin, accepted as a poster in ICME 2007 (2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July 2-5 2007, Beijing, China)

Image annotation: which approach for realistic databases , N Hervé, N Boujemaa, CIVR'07 July 9-11 2007, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

New local descriptors based on dissociated dipoles . A Joly, 2007. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM international Conference on Image and Video Retrieval/ (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 09 - 11, 2007)