Workshop Program Format

Below shows the intended 1-day workshop program of WSM'09.

WSM'09 Workshop PROGRAM (23 OCT, 2009)

 Time

WSM'09 Program - 23 Oct, 2009 (Meeting Room 1026 @ Beijing Hotel)

8:45 9:00am

Opening Remark ( PPT | PDF )

9:00-10:00am

Keynote Talk: Influence of Multimedia in Emerging Social Web Systems  (Slides)
Prof. Ramesh Jain (
Professor, University of California, Irvine)
Session Chair:
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

10:00-10:30am

Coffee Break

10:30-12:30am

Oral Session 1: Social Media Annotation and Anlaysis
Session Chair: Jiebo Luo  (Kodak Research Labs, USA)

  Tweet the Debates: Understanding Community Annotation of Uncollected Sources
David A. Shamma; Lyndon S Kennedy; Elizabeth Churchill

Motivating Contributors in Social Media Networks  (Best Paper Award)
Vivek K. Singh; Ramesh Jain; Mohan Kankanhalli

Image Tag Clarity: In Search of Visual-Representative Tags for Social Images
Aixin Sun; Sourav Bhowmick

Large-Scale Analysis of Personal Photo Books

Philipp Sandhaus; Susanne Boll

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch

2:00-3:00pm

Oral Session 2: Event-driven Applications on Social Media
Session Chairs:Dong Xu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

  Effective Semantic Classification of Consumer Events for Automatic Content Management
Wei Jiang; Alexander Loui

Event Driven Summarization for Web Videos
Richang Hong; Jinhui Tang; Hung-Khoon Tan; Shuicheng Yan; Chong-Wah Ngo; Tat-Seng Chua

3:00-4:30pm

Poster and Demo Session (including coffee break 15:30-16:00)
Session Chair: Steven C.H. Hoi (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

  Accelerating YouTube with Video Correlation
Xu Cheng; Jiangchuan Liu; Haiyang Wang

Multimodal Video Copy Detection Applied to Social Media
Nuria Oliver; Xavier Anguera; Pere Obrador

The Role of Tags and Image Aesthetics in Social Image Search
Pere Obrador

Social Reader: Following Social Networks in the Wilds of the Blogosphere
Brett Adams; Dinh Q. Phung; Svetha Venkatesh

Implicit Emotional Tagging of Multimedia Using EEG Signals and Brain Computer Interface
Ashkan Yazdani; Jong-Seok Lee; Touradj Ebrahimi

VisuaPedia: A Social Media Based Visual Encyclopedia
Neha Tripathi; Seah Hock Soon; Steven Zuiker; Margaret Tan; Heather June Kvill; Yuen Ka Ho; Desiree Ke Xin Chang; Lu Yixiang; Yuefeng Li

4:30-5:30pm

Panel Session: Emerging Challenges in Social Media Research
Session Moderators:Jiebo Luo (Kodak Research Labs, USA) & Steven C.H. Hoi (NTU, Singapore)

  Panelists:
Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Mor Naaman (Rutgers University, USA)
Ramesh Jain (
University of California, Irvine, USA)

5:30-5:45pm

Closing Remark

Presentation format from 8:45 to 17:45 with short breaks and lunch

  • Authors of each oral paper have 30 minutes (including 5 minutes discussion) for their presentation.
  • Authors of each accepted poster paper would be given a poster board.
  • Each oral/poster paper may request to demo their system (if any) during the poster and demo session.

Participation and Selection Process

The workshop participants are the researchers who register both the conference and the workshop. Each submitted paper will be evaluated by at least three reviewers from the aspects of novelty, significance, technique sound, experiments, and presentations. The reviewers will be program committee members or researchers recommended by the members. The evaluation scores from the three reviewers will be averaged and finally the papers with higher average scores will be accepted. At the conclusion of the workshop, we will announce the best paper award. The best paper selection criteria will include both technical reviews and quality of oral presentation.

Workshop Proceedings

All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the workshop. The proceedings will be printed and made available at the workshop. The organizers also plan to edit a journal special issue or an edited book volume by inviting the authors of the high-quality papers to submit extended versions.