MAED 2012 Proceedings

Concetto Spampinato, Vasileios Mezaris, Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data, MAED'12 (co-located with ACM Multimedia 2012), November 2, 2012, Nara, Japan. ACM 2012, ISBN 978-1-4503-1588-3.

Table of Contents

Message from the MAED'12 Workshop Chairs
Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania)
Vasileios Mezaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas)
Jacco van Ossenbruggen (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)

MAED 2012 Workshop Organization

MAED 2012 Author Index

Session 1: Environment Monitoring and Habitat Classification
Session Chair: Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania)

Grass, Scrub, Trees and Random Forest (Page 1)
Mercedes Torres (University of Nottingham)
Guoping Qiu (University of Nottingham)

Visibility Cameras: Where and How to Look (Page 7)
Nathan Graves (University of California at Merced)
Shawn Newsam (University of California at Merced)

Environmental Data Extraction from Multimedia Resources (Page 13)
Anastasia Moumtzidou (Information Technologies Institute)
Victor Epitropou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Stefanos Vrochidis (Information Technologies Institute)
Sascha Voth (Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation)
Anastasios Bassoukos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Kostas Karatzas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
J�rgen Mo�graber (Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation)
Ioannis Kompatsiaris (Information Technologies Institute)
Ari Karppinen (Finnish Meteorological Institute)
Jaakko Kukkonen (Finnish Meteorological Institute)

Session 2: Animal Identification and Behavior-based Event Detection
Session Chair: Vasileios Mezaris (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas)

Identification of Great Apes Using Gabor Features and Locality Preserving Projections (Page 19)
Alexander Loos (Fraunhofer IDMT)

Texture Recognition for Frog Identification (Page 25)
Flavio Cannav� (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
Giuseppe Nunnari (Universit� di Catania)
Izzet Kale (University of Westminster)
F. Boray Tek (Isik University)

Event Detection in Underwater Domain by Exploiting Fish Trajectory Clustering (Page 31)
Simone Palazzo (University of Catania)
Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania)
Cigdem Beyan (University of Edinburgh)

Session 3: Short Paper / Poster Session
Session Chair: Concetto Spampinato (University of Catania)

Plant Leaves Morphological Categorization with Shared Nearest Neighbours Clustering (Page 37)
Amel Hamzaoui (INRIA)
Alexis Joly (INRIA)
Herv� Go�au (INRIA)

Multi-Organ Plant Identification (Page 41)
Herv� Go�au (INRIA, Imedia Team)
Pierre Bonnet (INRA, UMR AMAP)
Julien Barbe (INRA, UMR AMAP)
Vera Bakic (INRIA, Imedia Team)
Alexis Joly (INRIA, Zenith Team)
Jean-Fran�ois Molino (IRD, UMR AMAP)
Daniel Barth�l�my (CIRAD BIOS Direction and INRA UMR AMAP F-34398)
Nozha Boujemaa (INRIA)

Semantic Based Retrieval System of Arctic Animal Images (Page 45)
Giusepe Santoro (University of Catania)
Carmelo Pino (University of Catania)
Daniela Giordano (University of Catania)

An Environmental Search Engine Based on Interactive Visual Classification (Page 49)
Stefanos Vrochidis (Information Technologies Institute)
Harald Bosch (Universit�t Stuttgart)
Anastasia Moumtzidou (Information Technologies Institute)
Florian Heimerl (Universit�t Stuttgart)
Thomas Ertl (Universit�t Stuttgart)
Ioannis Kompatsiaris (Information Technologies Institute)

A Visual Sensing Platform for Creating a Smarter Multi-Modal Marine Monitoring Network (Page 53)
Dian Zhang (Dublin City University)
Edel O'Connor (Dublin City University)
Kevin McGuinness (Dublin City University)
Noel E. O'Connor (Dublin City University)
Fiona Regan (Dublin City University)
Alan Smeaton (Dublin City University)

Quantitative Performance Analysis of Object Detection Algorithms on Underwater Video Footage (Page 57)
Isaak Kavasidis (University of Catania)
Simone Palazzo (University of Catania)