MMKM Workshop on Future Directions in Multimedia Knowledge Management

14 February 2008
Knowledge Media Institute of The Open University
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

The purpose of this workshop is to explore possible future directions of Multimedia Knowledge Management from the perspectives of different areas: Information Retrieval, Databases, Semantic Web, Industrial Applications, Human-Computer-Interaction and the Arts. Experts in these respective areas will give a short talk and discuss in a panel session with the audience at the future and synergies that these research area might hold.

We invite poster submission with current research in these areas. Posters should be submitted to to Dawei Song by 17 Jan 2008. Registration is online and is free.

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First International Workshop on Adaptive Information Retrieval

The MMKM network are supporting the first international workshop on adaptive information retrieval. The workshop will be revolved around the following themes:

• Adaptive retrieval and result presentation
• Interactive multimedia retrieval
• Test collection building for the evaluation of adaptive systems

The workshop takes place on 14th October 2006 in Glasgow, UK. More...

PhD Studentships (Multimedia Analysis and Search) Knowledge Media institute & Centre for Research in Computing The Open University

We are offering PhD studentships in the area of Multimedia Analysis and Search for highly motivated researchers interested in pursuing a full-time 3-year doctorate. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) multimedia search engines, new-media digital libraries, geographic media search and browsing, visual and aural search interfaces, automated image annotation, multimedia indexing. The PhD projects will be supervised by Stefan Rueger (website), who is going to join the Knowledge Media institute (KMi) in September. One of the studentships will be co-supervised by Dawei Song (website). Applicants should have a strong background in Computer Science or Information Systems, and must have equivalent qualifications of First or upper second class honours degree. Research experience in computer vision, human-computer-interaction or information retrieval would be a plus.

How to apply.