Call for Participation First International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining MDM/KDD2000 to be held in conjunction with Sixth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts in analysis of digital media content, state-of-art data mining and knowledge discovery in multimedia database systems, knowledge engineers and domain experts from different applied disciplines with potential in multimedia data mining. Participation in the workshop is by invitation only. If interested, please contact the workshop co-chairs: Simeon J. Simoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or Osmar R. Zaiane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Registration is included in the ACM SIGKDD'2000 technical registration fee. All workshop participants must register for the SIGKDD'2000 technical program. Workshop web site: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~zaiane/mdm_kdd2000/ There were 27 submitted papers from 12 different countries. All papers were extensively reviewed by three referees. Based on their reviews, 14 papers have been selected for presentation. Program for MDM/KDD2000 Workshop Sunday, August 20, 2000, Boston, MA, USA 8:45 - 9:00 Opening and Welcome 9:00 - 10:00 Session 1 (Mining Spatial Multimedia Data) * 09:00- 09:20 Geo-Spatial Clustering with User-Specified Constraints Anthony K.H. Tong, Raymond T. Ng, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, Jiawei Han * 09:20- 09:40 Multi-level Indexing and GIS Enhanced Learning for Satellite Imageries Krzysztof Koperski and Giovanni B. Marchisio * 09:40-10:00 Predicting Locations Using Map Similarity(PLUMS): A Framework for Spatial Data Mining. Sanjay Chawla, Shashi Shekhar, Weili Wu and Uygar Ozesmi 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break 10:30 - 12:00 Session 2 (Mining Audio Data & Multimedia Support) * 10:30-10:50 Learning Prosodic Patterns for Mandarin Speech Synthesis Yiqiang Chen, Wen Gao, Tingshao Zhu * 10:50-11:10 Unsupervised Classification of Sound for Multimedia Indexing Bruce Matichuk, Osmar R. Zaiane * 11:10-11:30 Effective Retrieval of Audio Information from Annotated Text Using Ontologies Latifur Khan and Dennis McLeod * 11:30-11:50 Incorporating Domain Knowledge with Video and Voice Data Analysis in News Broadcasts. Kim Shearer, Chitra Dorai, Svetha Venkatesh * 11:50-12:10 Multimedia Support for Complex Multidimensional Data Mining Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 - 15:00 Session 3 (Mining Image and Video Data) * 13:00-13:20 A Self Organizing Map (SOM) Extended Model for Information Discovery in a Digital Library Context. Jean-Charles Lamirel, Jacques Ducloy, Hager Kammoun * 13:20-13:40 Learning Feature Weights from User Behavior in Content-Based Image Retrieval Henning Mueller, Wolfgang Mueller, David McG Squire * 13:40-14:00 When image indexing meets knowledge discovery Chabane Djeraba * 14:00-14:20 Semantic indexing and temporal rule discovery for time-series sattelite images Rie Honda, Osamu Konoshi * 14:20-14:40 Data Mining from Functional Brain Images Mitsuru Kakimoto, Chie Morita, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Hiroshi Tsukimoto * 14:40-15:00 Mining Cinematic Knowledge Work in Progress- An Extended Abstract Duminda Wijesekera and Daniel Barbara 15:00-16:00 Session 4 (Discussion) * 15:00-15:15 Variations on Multimedia Data Mining Simeon J. Simoff * 15:15-16:00 Discussion: What does Multimedia Mining encompass and what are the open issues 16:00-16:30 Coffee break 16:30 - 19:00 SIGKDD'2000 Conference Opening and awards
