Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval for Multimodal Interaction (MARMI2016) held within ICMR2016, in New York, USA. The goal of MARMI workshop is threefold. First, the workshop aims at presenting the most recent methods for analysis, retrieval and semantic interpretation of multimedia and multilingual data in multimodal interaction scenarios and agent-based applications. Second, it aims at bringing together practitioners and researchers, both from multimedia retrieval and multimodal interaction domains, to share ideas and experiences in designing and implementing novel multimedia analysis and retrieval techniques and tools for interactive agent-based applications. Third, the workshop aims at evaluating the maturity and efficiency of the multimedia retrieval and analysis techniques for real world multimodal interactive agent-based applications. In total the Program Committee of MARMI 2016 accepted 6 (over 7 submitted) papers covering the following topics: a) speech analysis and audio retrieval, b) affective behaviour analysis and human activity recognition, c) dialogue systems and knowledge-based agents. In addition, Dr. Benoit Huet from EURECOM delivers the keynote for MARMI 2016 workshop entitled: "Event-based Multimedia Search and Retrieval for Question Answering".