1. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 Dr Nozha Boujemaa INRIA Imedia, Paris MUSCLE NoE

2. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 MUSCLE is a European network of excellence designed to foster close collaboration and integration between research groups in multimedia datamining and machine learning in order drive breakthrough progress towards:  Harnessing the full potential of machine learning and cross-modal interaction  Applying machine learning to effectively assist users in the exploration of multimedia content.  Improving interoperability and exchangeability of heterogeneous and distributed (meta)data  Ensure durable integration and collaboration through the creation of a virtual teams  Contribute to the distribution and uptake of the technology through dissemination, liaison and training Network Activities Joint Programme of Activities designed around a joint scientific agenda shared by the MUSCLE community E-teams, acting as virtual labs designed to focus on intermediate scientific challenges Education and training: internal fellowship programme and summer school Integration of European research community Joint publications Conference and event sponsoring Project Overview

3. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 The main dissemination targets are the European and International scientific communities in image processing, image retrieval and machine learning. Future MUSCLE dissemination activities will aslo target - General public to democratise scientific activities - Industrial stakeholders in the field (showcasing) to promote technology uptake Dissemination Scheme  Website: www.muscle-noe.org  Web links pointing towards the MUSCLE web site  Posters, flyers, leaflets and give away “MUSCLE NoE business cards”  Press releases, Interviews: ERCIM news (10 00 copies worldwide), Technology television Channel invited to Istanbul meeting (http://www.teknolojitelevizyonu.com).  Online showcases: To stimulate interest from industry and the public at large,  Muscle Scientific Meetings (largely aimed at the NoE consortium but open to outside participants).  Online Publications: Public deliverables, preprint archive, articles Dissemination targets Dissemination vectors

4. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 Dissemination Activities  Events (to increase visibility in the research community) Muscle is (co-)organizing and sponsoring a number of high-profile scientific events: 2nd Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, in conjuction with ECCV06, Graz, Austria (May 2006); 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjuction with ACM Multimedia 2006, Santa Barbara CA, USA, Oct. 2006; 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2006, July 14-15, 2006, Leipzig Germany (Pending)  Summer schools: Joint Delos-Muscle Summer school: Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine learning and cross-modal technologies for access and retrieval, 12-17 June, San Vincenzo, Tuscany, Italy. This summer school is aimed at graduate students and will be open to external participants. Second Muscle summer school June 2007 : location and title to be determined.  Book Projects Summer school lectures will be collected to produce a tutorial book for graduate students. Machine Learning applications in multimedia access and retrieval (Springer LNCS, early 2007?) Cross-modal interaction (Springer LNCS, May 2007).  Benchmarking workshops (to increase awareness of both the challenges and possible solution strategies (including standards) in the research community) Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, in cooperation with ImageCLEF (DELOS-funded). It will be held at the ECDL 2006 in Alicante in September. Coin Recognition Competition (huge ground-truthed database of pre-Euro coins). Open to student teams and a prize will be to the victorious team. DAGM conference in Berlin in September. Planned Benchmarking Initiative on “Closing the Numerical Gap”  Exploring collaboration with Southeast Asia (: - Promotion of the Muscle activities in the ENGAGE meeting in Manilla, Philippines on the 39,30 and 31 March 2006, in the De La Salle University.

5. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 Dissemination Activities  Events (to increase visibility in the research community) Muscle is (co-)organizing and sponsoring a number of high-profile scientific events: 2nd Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, in conjuction with ECCV06, Graz, Austria (May 2006); 8th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, in conjuction with ACM Multimedia 2006, Santa Barbara CA, USA, Oct. 2006; 6th Industrial Conference on Data Mining ICDM 2006, July 14-15, 2006, Leipzig Germany Several Special sessions IEEE-ACM conferences (CBMI’05,MIR’05, PCM’04, ACIVS’04,…)  Summer schools: Joint Delos-Muscle Summer school: Multimedia Digital Libraries: Machine learning and cross- modal technologies for access and retrieval, 12-17 June, San Vincenzo, Tuscany, Italy. This summer school is aimed at graduate students and will be open to external participants. Second Muscle summer school June 2007 : location and title to be determined.  Book Projects Summer school lectures will be collected to produce a tutorial book for graduate students (LNCS end 2006) Machine Learning applications in multimedia access and retrieval (Springer LNCS, early 2007?) Cross-modal interaction (Springer LNCS, May 2007).

6. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 Dissemination Activities  Benchmarking workshops (to increase awareness of both the challenges and possible solution strategies (including standards) in the research community) Image and Video Retrieval Evaluation, in cooperation with ImageCLEF (DELOS-funded). It will be held at the ECDL 2006 in Alicante in September. Coin Recognition Competition (huge ground-truthed database of pre-Euro coins). Open to student teams and a prize will be to the victorious team. DAGM conference in Berlin in September. Planned Benchmarking Initiative on “Closing the Numerical Gap”  Exploring collaboration with non- European : Southeast Asia - Promotion of the Muscle activities in the ENGAGE meeting in Manilla, Philippines on the 39,30 and 31 March 2006, in the De La Salle University - Chinese Academy of Science (CASIA), NII (Japan) USA (NSF)

7. Network of Excellence “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” meeting, Luxembourg 15-16 February 2006 *Merci Thank you*