TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications

Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is a senior researcher (Researcher B') with the Informatics and Telematics Institute in Greece. His research interests include semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, Web 2.0 content analysis, knowledge structures, reasoning, and personalization for multimedia applications. He received his PhD in 3-D-model-based image sequence coding from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2001. He is the coauthor of 55 papers in refereed journals, 30 book chapters, 7 patents, and more than 170 papers in international conferences. He is also the coeditor of the book Semantic Multimedia and Ontologies: Theory and Applications, the guest editor of six special issues, and has served as a program committee member and regular reviewer for a number of international journals and conferences. Kompatsiaris has been the co-organizer of various conferences and workshops, such as the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), and Summer School on Multimedia Semantics (SSMS). He is also the coordinator of the SocialSensor-Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience, European Integrated Project. He has been appointed as chair of the Technical Committee 14 of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR-TC14, "Signal Analysis for Machine Intelligence"). Kompatsiaris is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Bernard Merialdo is a professor in the Multimedia Department of EURECOM, France, and head of the department. A former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, he received his PhD from Paris University and a "Habilitationiriger des Recherches" from Paris 7 University. For more than 10 years, he was a research staff, then project manager at the IBM France Scientific Center, worki