HCSNet Update Newsletter Volume 3 Number 49

Tuesday, 11th December 2007
HCSNet Update
Tuesday 11 December 2007

Participant Spotlight

Dian Tjondronegoro, Queensland University of Technology

Research area: Information Retrieval

I am currently leading the visual information analysis and retrieval research theme at QUT, while (co)supervising 6 PhD and 2 Master students who work in the area of user-centred Image Web search, multimedia tagging on Web 2.0, video surveillance, automatic characters animation, collaborative multimedia-rich on mobile devices, semantic image retrieval, and mobile multimedia wiki. I have published 26 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, including ACM TOMCCAP, Information Processing and Management, IEEE Multimedia, and World Wide Web Journal. My papers have been cited by researchers in journal and conferences such as Multimedia Tools and Applications and Multimedia Modelling conference. I have served as a regular reviewer for prestigious journals such as IEEE transaction in Multimedia and PATREC. I am the founder and PC chair of the International workshop on Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval (MoMIR). My current research projects are: • Cross-media Delivery of Adaptive and Pervasive Services • Dynamic Collaborative Framework for Multi-Modal Devices • Image/Video Indexing, Summarization and Retrieval for Web and Mobile Devices 2 most recent publications are: Tjondronegoro, D; Spink, A.H (2007): “Web Search Engine Multimedia Functionality”. (In press) Journal of Information Processing and Management (IPM). Elsevier. Tjondronegoro, D ; Chen, Y-P, P.; Joly, A. (2007): “A Scalable and Extensible Segment-Event-Object based Sports Video Retrieval System”. (In Press) ACM Transaction in Multimedia Computing and Applications (TOMCCAP). ACM Press.

Contact:
Dian Tjondronegoro
Queensland University of Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
email: dian@qut.edu.au     www: sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~tjondron

News

HCSNet SummerFest '07

SummerFest '07 is over, and all the feedback we've received indicates that it was an overwhelming success. More than 220 people attended the five-day event at the University of New South Wales, taking in the 12 Summer School courses, the Student Poster Evening, the HCSNet Speed Papers Session, the International Conference on Music Communication Science (ICoMCS), the HCSNet-HxI Workshop on Collaboration and Communicative Tools for Distributed Communities and the Forensic Speaker Recognition Workshop, as well as a series of performance sessions and social events. Our thanks to the convenors, presenters, performers and session chairs for their contribution to SummerFest and to all delegates for their participation. And a massive thanks to Kym Buckley for coordinating the entire event, to the wonderful student volunteers for their technical support, and to HCSNet and MARCS admin staff for their assistance over the week. Photos will be available next week!

HCSNet Workshop on Cognitive Science and Text

This workshop, to be held on 13 and 14 December 2007 at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, will focus on the processing of text from a variety of perspectives, with presentations covering research in areas such as visual word recognition, reading and spelling, literacy development, lexical analyses of text, brain imaging and computational modelling. An important aim is to report new data while showcasing the wide variety of state-of-the-art methodologies currently being used in studies of text. Please click here to download the Program, Information and Abstracts Booklet including speaker biographies.

Upcoming Submission Deadlines

We list here upcoming submission deadlines that fall in the next month. A more complete list of submission deadlines can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

Brain Talk. Discourse with and in the Brain

Lund, Sweden
Due date: 15 Dec 2007
URL: http://conference.sol.lu.se/BrainTalk/

SALT Semantics and Linguistic Theory 18

Amherst, United States
Due date: 15 Dec 2007
URL: http://umass.edu/linguist/events/salt18/

ICMPC10 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition

Sapporo, Japan
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

Exploring Crash-Proof Grammars

Jefferson City, TN, United States
Due date: 20 Dec 2007
URL:

Speech Prosody in Atypical Populations

University of Reading, United Kingdom
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/epu/cls_event.htm

ICCS'08 Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Visualization and Reasoning

Toulouse, France
Due date: 31 Dec 2007
URL: http://www.iccs.info

18 CGG 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar

Lisbon, Portugal
Due date: 2 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.fl.ul.pt/18CGG

CCCT 2008 The 6th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies

Orlando, United States
Due date: 9 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.infocybereng.org/ccct2008g

ACL 2008 Student Research Workshop

Columbus Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: www.isca-students.org/acl_08_hlt_student_research_workshop

CLDC-2 The 2nd Conference on Language, Discourse & Cognition

Taipei, Taiwan
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~gilntu/

ACL 46th Meeting of Association for Computational Linguistics

Ohio, United States
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=362

AISB 2008 Convention Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine

Scotland, United Kingdom
Due date: 10 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~cmellish/aisb08/

Upcoming Conferences

We list here upcoming conferences and workshops that fall in the next month. A more complete list of events can be found here. Please note that any enquiries regarding these events should be directed to the event organisers, typically identified on the event's website which you can reach from the link below.

XPRAG 2007 Experimental Pragmatics 2007

Berlin, Germany
Date: 13 Dec 2007
to 16 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/xprag

ELU2007 Extended Lexical Units

Leiden, Netherlands
Date: 14 Dec 2007
to 15 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.lucl.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=2&c=549

AC2007 Sixteenth Amsterdam Colloquium

Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date: 17 Dec 2007
to 19 Dec 2007 URL: http://www.illc.uva.nl/AC2007/

Persistent Conversation Minitrack - HICSS 41

Hawaii, United States
Date: 7 Jan 2008
to 10 Jan 2008 URL: http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS_PC.html

IJCNLP-08 The Third International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing

Hyderabad, India
Date: 7 Jan 2008
to 12 Jan 2008 URL: http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/acl2007/styles/

Behavioural research in chamber music: psychological approaches to preparation and performances

Manchester, United Kingdom
Date: 8 Jan 2008
URL: http://www.rncm.ac.uk/media/pdfs/Behavioural_research_conference.pdf

Automated Syntactic Annotations for Interoperable Language Resources

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date: 8 Jan 2008
URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on GLOBAL INTEROPERABILITY FOR LANGUAGE RESOURCES

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Date: 9 Jan 2008
to 11 Jan 2008 URL: http://icgl.ctl.cityu.edu.hk/
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