CLARITY hosts International Workshop on Multimedia

This week CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies at DCU hosted the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2012) (http://wiamis.dcu.ie). This workshop is one of the main international events for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances in interactive multimedia services. The objective of the workshop is to bring together researchers, developers and end users from academia and industry working in the areas of image, video and audio applications, with a special focus on analysis. WIAMIS is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society and the event in DCU marks the 13th time that this event has been run since 1997.

The two days prior to the workshop were devoted to the MediaSense EU PhD Summer School (http://mediasense.dcu.ie) where PhD student from across Europe working in multimedia analysis arrived in Ireland for an intensive series of lectures delivered by some of Europe's best researchers in this field.

The workshop itself featured a packed 3 day programme including technical oral presentations, posters and demo sessions. Key highlights included four invited keynote presentations from Prof. Mubarak Shah, Agere Chair Professor of Computer Science of the University of Central Florida, Prof. Tat-Seng Chua, ITHCT Chair Professor at the School of Computing, National University of Singapore and Dr Aljoscha Smolic, a Senior Research Scientist at Disney Research Zurich. Of particular note was an industry panel session on the future of 3D media research featuring panelist from France Telecom R&D Orange Labs as well as local Irish industry.

WIAMIS was held in cooperation with the 3DLife EU FP7 Network of Excellence (http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/), with support from Science Foundation Ireland, the EMC2: Excellence in Media Computing and Communication EU FP7 Coordinated Support Action, Failte Ireland and Dublin City City University.