The Conference is sponsored by:

European Image Information Mining Coordination Group (IIMCG), funded by:     ASI, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - Italian Space Agency     CNES, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales - French Space Agency     CNR, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche - Italian National Research Council     DLR, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - German Aerospace Center     EC, European Commission     ESA-ESRIN, European Space Agency - European Space Research Institute     ETHZ, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich     EUSC, European Union Satellite Centre

	Motivation
	Objectives
	Organisation
	Program
	Participants

Motivation

Emerging needs from big applications (e.g.: change detection, global monitoring, disaster management support, etc.) and the continuous increase in archives' size and EO sensors' variety, require new methodologies and tools for information mining and management, supported by shared knowledge. The manual process performed by experts to mine information from images is currently too complex and expensive to be applied systematically on even a small subset of the acquired scenes. This limits the full exploitation of the petabytes of archived or new data. The issue might become even more challenging in future since more missions - including constellations - are being planned, with broader sensor variety, higher data rates and increasing complexity. As an example, ENVISAT alone accumulates 400 terabytes of data every year. The problematic is common also to other domains, like medicine, multimedia, and to a broad spectrum of other sensors' data.

Results from current R&D activity might ease the access to the imagery (today mostly retrieved using spatio-temporal and a few more attributes) also through their information content. The need to access information also in large volumes of image data has stimulated the research in the field of content-based image retrieval during last decade. Many new concepts have been developed and prototyped. However the dramatic increase in volume, details, diversity and complexity, and the user demand for simultaneous access to multi-domain data urgently require new approaches for image information mining, multi-domain information management, and knowledge management and sharing (in support to information mining and training).

The event is the thrid in the series jointly organised by ESA and EUSC:

  ESA-EUSC 2002 held on December 5-6 2002, at ESA/ESRIN
  ESA-EUSC 2004 held on March 17-18, 2004, at EUSC

Objectives

Review the state of the art and identify R&D requirements on Image Information Mining topics mainly for the Earth Observation domain:

  Information extraction from large / complex image data sets
  Image syntax, semantics and annotations
  Multidimensional indexing and retrieval of heterogeneous information
  Information mining and knowledge discovery
  Knowledge sharing and ontology
  Adaptive, mediating interfaces
  Advanced non-conventional methods and technologies
  Evaluation methods, experiments and results
  Applications and use - experience and feedback

Organisation

Participation
Free of charge up to available seats

Conference Date
October 5 - 7, 2005

Conference Place
ESRIN
Via G. Galilei
00044 Frascati (Roma)
Italy
Tel. +39 06 941801

M. Datcu, DLR

		S. Cheli, ESA
		L. Colaiacomo, EUSC
		S. Coulson, ESA
		S. D'Elia, ESA
		Y.L. Desnos, ESA
		A. Giros, CNES
		G. Rum, ASI

		P. Blonda, CNR - Italy
		S. Coulson, ESA / ESRIN - Italy
		S. D'Elia, ESA / ESRIN - Italy
		Y.L. Desnos, ESA / ESRIN - Italy
		M. Datcu, DLR - Germany
		R.L. King, Mississippi State University - USA
		O. Loffeld, Universität-GH-Siegen - Germany
		H. Maitre, ENST - France
		K. Seidel, ETHZ - Switzerland
		P. Smits, EC/JRC - Italy
		J.C. Tilton, NASA - USA
		L. Van Gool, ETHZ - Switzerland
		O.R. Zaďane, University of Alberta - Canada

Program

October 5, 2005, Conference Day 1, Opening Session
"International perspectives" - Chair: S. D'Elia

October 6, 2005, Conference Day 2, Morning Session
"Theory" - Chair: A. Giros

October 6, 2005, Conference Day 2, Afternoon Session
"Theory" - Chair: M. Datcu

October 7, 2005, Conference Day 3, Morning Session
"Applications" - Chair: L. Colaiacomo

October 7, 2005, Conference Day 3, Afternoon Session
"Applications" - Chair: K. Seidel

Participants