1. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/ssms07/ Presented by Marek Nekvasil at KEG seminar, September 26 nekvasim@vse.cz

2. SSMS 2007 Factual infos  SSMS ’07 was the second in the series  It was organised by the IR group at GU and supported by K-Space project  79 participants from 16 countries  12 speakers  12 lectures  Panel session

3. Lectures  Audio processing - Gaël Richard  Semantic Web - Steffen Staab  Human language technology for multimedia analysis - Thierry Declerck  Speech processing - Steve Renals  Image and Video Processing - Noel O'Connor  Cross-modal analysis - Alex Hauptmann  Concept-based video indexing & retrieval - Cees Snoek  IR foundations - Keith van Rijsbergen  Multimedia IR evaluation initiatives - Alan Smeaton  Character retrieval and annotation in multimedia - or "How to find Buffy" - Andrew Zisserman  Music information retrieval - Stephen Downie  Multimedia interaction - Lynda Hardman

4. Best poster awards (supported by Yahoo!)  1st Prize  Daragh Byrne Dublin City University, Ireland  "Making Sense of SenseCam: Exploring Extremely Large Event Oriented Lifelog Image Sets"  Highly commended  Krystian Samp, Digital Enterprise Research Institute Galway, Ireland "Atom Interface - an interactive exploration of tree structures based on the metaphor of electrons, atoms and molecules"  Tobias Bürger, Digital Entreprise Research Institute (DERI), Austria "Towards Self-Producing Media"  Peyman Heydarian, Queen Mary University of London, UK "Analysis and Classification of the Persian Musical Modes"

5. Social events  Sunday (15th of July) - welcome event with whiskey tasting session  Tuesday (17th of July) – dinner at the House for an Art Lover  Wednesday (18th of July) – Loch Lomond cruise