8:30 - 10:00am – Keynote Talk: Dr. Alberto del Bimbo
Session Chair: William I. Grosky

• Learning Ontology Rules for Semantic Video Annotation
  Marco Bertini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Giuseppe Serra

10:00 - 10:30am – Coffee Break

10:30am- 12:00 – Session 1: Annotation: Ad-Hoc and Standards-Based
Session Chair: Farshad Fotouhi

• Chants and Orcas: Semi-Automatic Tools for Audio Annotation and Analysis in Niche Domains
  Steven Ness, Matthew Wright, Luis Gustavo Martins, George Tzanetakis

• The Semantics of MPEG-21 Digital Items Revisited
  Christian Timmerer, Maria Teresa Andrade, Pedro Carvalho, Davide Roagi, Giovanni Cordara

• Multimedia Knowledge Management Using Ontologies
  Antonio Penta, Antonio Picariello, Letizia Tanca
  

12:00 - 1:30pm – Lunch

1:30 - 3:00pm – Session 2: User-Based and Event Semantics
Session Chair: Giuseppe Amato

• Affective Ranking of Movie Scenes Using Physiological Signals and Content Analysis
  Mohammad Soleymani, Guillaume Chanel, Joep Kierkels, Thierry Pun

• An Exploratory Study on Joint Analysis of Visual Classification in Narrow Domains and the Discriminative Power of Tags
  Oge Marques, Mathias Lux

• Spatio-Temporal Query for Multimedia Database
  Sujal Wattamwar, Hiranmay Ghosh

3:00 - 3:30pm – Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:30pm – Session 3: Short Papers and Demos
Session Chair: Peter Stanchev

• Employing a Photo’s Life Cycle for Multimedia Retrieval
  Philipp Sandhaus, Susanne Boll

• Use of Weighted Visual Terms for Machine Learning Techniques for Image Content Recognition Relying on MPEG-7 Visual Descriptors
  Giuseppe Amato, Pasquale Savino