1. SSMS 2006 Chalkidiki, Greece 3 rd – 9 th September

2. About Cca 100 applications 78 participants 33 posters (divided into 3 days) 10 lecturers (2 lectures a day) Participants mostly from Europe 3 social events ;)

3. Lecturers Philipp Cimiano, Institute AIFBPhilipp Cimiano –Text Analysis and Ontologies Lynda Hardman, Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)Lynda Hardman –Providing Flexible Interfaces to Annotated Multimedia Repositories Thorsten Hermes, University of Bremen –Multimedia Reasoning Aggelos Katsaggelos, Northwestern UniversityAggelos Katsaggelos –Multimedia Signal Processing Stephane Marchand-Maillet, Viper Group, University of GenevaStephane Marchand-Maillet –Multimedia Retrieval and Management Milind Naphade, Watson Research CenterMilind Naphade –Multimedia Ontologies and Analysis Jan Nesvadba, Philips Research Laboratories EindhovenJan Nesvadba –Semantic Multimedia Analysis Keith van Rijsbergen, University of GlasgowKeith van Rijsbergen –Information Retrieval Alan Smeaton, Dublin City UniversityAlan Smeaton –Multimedia (Image & Video) Retrieval Steffen Staab, University of KoblenzSteffen Staab –Knowledge for Multimedia Applications

4. Monday Aggelos Katsaggelos –Multimedia Signal Processing Image and video restoration and super resolution Segmentation Tracking Wireless devices

5. Monday Jan Nesvadba –Semantic Multimedia Analysis Phillips Labs Passive -> Active consumption Distributed home systems Intro to content analysis Video Segmentation Tool Boundary detection, face recognition, nonlinear browsing, moves based on the audio - left-right, scene, chapter detection

6. Tuesday Steffen Staab –Knowledge for Multimedia Applications Rationale to Semantic Web Multimedia Semantics {content, retrieval, situational, social semantics} Ontologies + Query Languages MM Annotation –Semantic based services – Flickr, M-OntoMat,

7. Tuesday Milind Naphade –MM Ontologies and Analysis: Extraction of MM information and construction of relevant ontologies IBM research Data for TrecVid Logic & Reasoning vs Machine Learning

8. Wednesday Keith van Rijsbergen –Information Retrieval History Intro (DB vs IR, Inference (deduction, P etc)) Practical and theoretical examples (TREC etc) Models (boolean, vector space, probabilistic, logical, language models, divergence from randomness) Query languages

9. Thursday Philipp Cimiano –Text Analysis and Ontologies SmartWeb – data + vision PANKOW system MM IE

10. Friday Lynda Hardman –Providing Flexible Interfaces to Annotated Multimedia Repositories Ontologies for creating a presentational layer Stephane Marchant-Maillet –Multimedia Retrieval and Management Multimedia document management Multimodal video indexing and retrieval

14. Good bye SSMS 06 see you in Glasgow