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MISTRAL Questionnaire Online

The survey, found here will help us to determin the impact of the MISTRAL business case. Please help us in order to get feedback on the tools provided. Before filling out the questionnaire please take a look on the MISTRAL Folder to get an impression what Mistral is all about (The Folder can be downloaded here:

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4th MPEG-7/MPEG-21 Workshop in Berlin

The 4th MPEG-7/MPEG-21 Workshop was held on 2.-3 March in Berlin.


Mistral at Semantics 2005 in Vienna

First results on and the general architecture of MISTRAL will be presented at the Semantics 2005 in the 2nd Austrian Symposium Digital Content Engineering. Details can be found at the semantics homepage.


Publications & Talks

  1. Victor Manuel García-Barrios, Christian Gütl: "Semantic Applications on MPEG-7 Descriptions of Multi-modal Meeting Corpora: First Results" To appear in JUKM (Journal of Universal Knowledge Management), Special Issue "Multimedia Metadata Community Workshop Results 2005 Dissemination", 2006, URL http://www.jukm.org
  2. Victor Manuel García-Barrios: "Personalised and Context-based Access to Corporate Knowledge: a Multi-modal and Multi-model Solution Approach for Learning Activities", to appear in Proceedings of I-KNOW 2006 (Special Track: Integrating Working and Learning in Business, IWL'06), Graz, Austria, 2006
  3. M. Grabner and H. Grabner and H. Bischof, Real-Time Tracking via On-line Boosting,Proc. British Machine Vision Conference 2006,September
  4. M. Grabner and H. Grabner and H. Bischof, Real-Time Tracking with On-line Feature Selection, Video Proc. in conjunction with IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition,2006
  5. Grabner, H., and Bischof, H., On-line Boosting and Vision, In Proceedings Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006
  6. Grabner, M., Grabner, H., Bischof, H.: Fast Approximated SIFT; In Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision, 2006.
  7. Grabner, M, Bischof, H (2005): Extracting Object Representations from Local Feature Trajectories. Joint Hungarian-Austrian Conference on Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. Oesterreichische Computer Gesellschaft OCG, 192 (5), 255-272.
    2005-04_Extracting_Object_Representations_grabner.pdf 1.05 MB
  8. Grabner, M., Grabner H., Bischof, H.: Fast Visual Object Identification and Categorization; In Proceedings Neural Information Processing Systems Workshop on Interclass Transfer (to appear), 2005.
  9. Granitzer M., Auer P. (2005): Experiments with Hierarchical Text Classification, Proceedings of 9th IASTED International Conference on Artifical Intelligence, ACTA Press, Benidorm, Spain, 2005
    2005_09_Hierarchical_Text_Class_mgranitzer.pdf 157.25 kB
  10. Granitzer, M., Neidhart T., and Lux M., Learning Term Spaces based on Visual Feedback, TAKMA Workshop Procceedings of 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 06), IEEE Computer Society, Krakaw, Polen
  11. Granitzer, M.; Konzeption und Entwicklung eines generischen Wissenserschliessungsframeworks, PhD Thesis, University of Technology Graz, 2006 , URL: http://www.know-center.tugraz.at/forschung/wissenserschliessung/dissertationen_diplomarbeiten
  12. Gütl, C., García-Barrios, V.M.: Semantic Meeting Information Application: A Contribution for Enhanced Knowledge Transfer and Learning in Companies; In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2005), Villach, Austria, 2005.
    2005-09_Semantic_Meeting_Information_Application_cguetl.pdf 112.78 kB
  13. Gütl, C., García-Barrios, V.M.: The Application of Concepts for Learning and Teaching; In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL 2005), Villach, Austria, 2005.
    2005-09_Application_of_Concepts_for_Learning_and_Teaching_cguetl.pdf 56.05 kB
  14. Gütl, C.: Information Retrieval and Visualization of MPEG-7-based Meeting Information applying the Open Source Tool xFIND, invidet talk for 3rd MPEG-7 Workshop, Aachen, Germany, November 2005
  15. Gütl, Ch., Garcia-Barrios, V.M.: "MPEG-7 Requirements and Application for a Multi-Modal Meeting Information System: Insights and Prospects within the MISTRAL Research Project"; Invited Talk at MPEG and Multimedia Metadata Community - 2nd Workshop, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management I-KNOW'05, Graz, Austria, 2005
    2005-06_MPEG-7_Requirements_and_Application_cguetl.pdf 355.11 kB
  16. Gütl, C.; García-Barrios, V.M.: Smart Multimedia Meeting Information Retrieval for Teaching and Learning Activities, accepted for SITE 2006, Orlando, USA.
    SITE2006_MISTRAL_guetl_garcia_final_v_1_0 236.83 kB
  17. Gütl, Ch., Safran, Ch.: "Personalized Access to Meeting Recordings for Knowledge Transfer and Learning Purposes in Companies"; In Proceedigns of m-ICTE 2006.
  18. Képesi, M, Weruaga, L, Schofield, E: Detailed Multidimensional Analysis of our Acoustical Environment. Accepted for Forum Acusticum. September 2005, Budapest.
    2005-09_Detailed_Multidimensional_Analysis_Acoustical_Environment_kepesi.pdf 428.00 kB
  19. Képesi, M, Weruaga: High-Resolution Noise-Robust Spectral-based Pitch Estimation. Accepted for Eurospeech 2005, 4-8 September 2005, Lisboa.
    2005-09_High-Resolution_Noise_Robust_Pitch_Estimation_kepesi.pdf 179.20 kB
  20. Képesi M. and Weruaga L., “Adaptive Chirp-based time-frequency speech analysis,” Speech Communication, to appear in May 2006
  21. Marián Képesi, Tuan V. Pham, Gernot Kubin, Luis Weruaga, Andreas Juffinger, Michael Grabner: Noise Cancellation Frontends for Automatic Meeting Transcription, Proc. Euronoise'06, Tampere, Finland, 30 May - 1 Jun, 2006
  22. Marián Képesi, Michael Neffe, Tuan Van Pham, Michael Grabner, Helmut Grabner, Andreas Juffinger: Audio-Visual Feature Extraction for Semi-Automatic Annotation of Meetings, to appear in MMSP'06, Victoria, BC, Canada, 3-6 Oct. 2006
  23. Werner Klieber, Michael Granitzer, Vedran Sabol, Wolfgang Kienreich, Roman Kern, KnowMiner: Ein Service orientiertes Knowledge Discovery Framework, In Proceedings der Berliner XML-Tage, Berlin, Germany 2006
  24. Lux Mathias, Testdata: The MISTRAL Roadmap, invidet talk for 3rd MPEG-7 Workshop, Aachen, Germany, November 2006
  25. Pfeiffer M., and Saffari A. R., and Juffinger A., "Predicting Text Relevance from Sequential Reading Behavior", NIPS Workshop on Machine Learning, 2005
    2005-12_predicting_relevance_from_reading_behavior 49.44 kB
  26. P. M. Roth and H. Bischof, On-line Learning a Person Model from Video Data, Video Proc. in conjunction with IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2006
  27. Sabol, V., Granitzer, M., Tochtermann, K., Sarka W.: MISTRAL – Measurable, Intelligent and Reliable Semantic Extraction and Retrieval of Multimedia Data. 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, London, UK, 2005
    2005_Mistral_vsabol 115.28 kB
  28. Tuan V. Pham, Marián Képesi, Luis Weruaga, Gernot Kubin: Time-Frequency Analysis for Voice Activity Detection, IASTED Intl. Conf. Signal Processing, Pattern Recogn. and Appl. 2006, Innsbruck, 15-17 Feb. 2006
  29. Weruaga L. and Képesi M., “Self-organizing chirp-sensitive artificial auditory cortical model,” Interspeech 2005, pp. 705-708, Lisboa (P), Sep. 2005.
  30. Weruaga L. and Képesi M., “The continuous Fan-Chirp transform,” under revision in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.
  31. Wohlmayr M., "ICA methods for speaker separation", Technical report, SPSC, TUGraz, September,
  32. F. Wotawa B.Angerer, Retaining Consistency in Temporal Knowledge Bases, In the 19th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE'06), Annecy, France, 2006