Organizing Committee

• General Co-Chairs

  • Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo
  • Noboru Babaguchi, Osaka University

• Program Co-Chairs

  • Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics
  • Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • Minoru Etoh, NTT DoCoMo Research Laboratories

• Organizing Co-Chairs

  • Yuichi Nakamura, Kyoto University
  • Ichiro Ide, Nagoya University

• Finance Chair

  • Shigeyuki Sakazawa, KDDI R&D Laboratories

• Publication Co-Chairs

  • Toshihiko Yamasaki, University of Tokyo
  • Hiroshi Mo, National Institute of Informatics

• Publicity & Sponsorship Chair

  • Naoko Nitta, Osaka University

• Liaisons

  • Asian Liaisons

    • Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia
    • Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
    • Yo-Sung Ho, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
    • Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, China

  • USA Liaison

    • Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University, U.S.A.

  • European Liaison

    • Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Steering Committee

• Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Deakin University, Australia
• Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Tosiyasu L. Kunii, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
• Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China
• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Patrick Senac, ENSICA, France

Program Committee

As of June 19, 2007

• Brett Adams, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Laurent Amsaleg, IRISA-CNRS, France
• Elisabeth Andre, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Yasuo Ariki, Kobe University, Japan
• Lora Aroyo, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University, USA
• Brian Bailey, University of Illinois, USA
• Selim Balcisoy, Sabanci University, Turkey
• Claus Bauer, Dolby Laboratories, USA
• Stefano Bocconi, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
• Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Kevin Brooks, Motorola, USA
• Lekha Chaisorn, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Tat-Jen Cham, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Edward Chang, University of California, USA
• Lap-Pui Chau, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Yi-Shin Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
• Gene Cheung, HP Labs, Japan
• Liang-Tien Chia, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Tat-Seng Chua, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jean-Pierre Courtiat, Gmail, USA
• Michel Crucianu, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
• Alberto Del Bimbo, University of Firenze, Italy
• Zoran Dimitrijevic, Google, USA
• Ajay Divakaran, MERL, USA
• Chabane Djeraba, University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France
• Chitra Dorai, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
• Jean-Luc Dugelay, Institut Eurecom, France
• Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
• Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina, USA
• Marin Ferecatu, INRIA, France
• Pascal Frossard, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - EPFL, Switzerland
• Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA
• Joost Geurts, INRIA, France
• Forouzan Golshani, Wright State University, USA
• Yihong Gong, NEC Labs America, USA
• Andrew Gordon, University of Southern California, USA
• Valerie Gouet, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, France
• Patrick Gros, INRIA, France
• William Grosky, University of Michigan, USA
• Zhenghui Gu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Mario Gutiérrez, ITESM Campus Toluca, Mexico
• Huang Haibin, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Seiichiro Hangai, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
• Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Madoka Hasegawa, Utsunomiya Univeristy, Japan
• Miki Haseyama, Hokkaido University, Japan
• Alexander Hauptmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Laura Hollink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Youn-Sik Hong, University of Incheon, Korea
• Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Weimin Huang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Benoit Huet, Institut Eurecom, France
• Jane Hunter, University of Queensland, Australia
• Alejandro Jaimes, IDIAP, Switzerland
• Alexis Joly, INRIA, France
• Björn Jónsson, Reykjavik University, Iceland
• James Joshi, University of Pittsburgh, USA
• Yoshinari Kameda, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Jiro Katto, Waseda University, Japan
• Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M Interface Ecology Lab, USA
• Seon Kim, University of Denver, USA
• Asanobu Kitamoto, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Kazuya Kodama, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Duy-Dinh Le, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Clement Leung, University of Victoria, Australia
• Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Mingjing Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Qing Li, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Te Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Zhengguo Li, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Rainer Lienhart, University of Augsberg, Germany
• Joo-Hwee Lim, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Chia-Wen Lin, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan
• Weisi Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Craig Lindley, HGO Visby, Sweden
• Zhu Liu, AT&T Laboratories, USA
• Guojun Lu, Monash University, Australia
• Zhongkang Lu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Miralab, Switzerland
• Jean Martinet, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Bernard Merialdo, Institut Eurecom, France
• Hisashi Miyamori, NICT, Japan
• Masayuki Mukunoki, Hiroshima City University, Japan
• Yasuyuki Nakajima, KDDI Labs, Japan
• P. Narayanan, International Institute of Information Technology, India
• Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• Laurence Noel, Mondeca, France
• Wei Tsang Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Vincent Oria, NJIT, USA
• Kazuhiro Otsuka, NTT, Japan
• Yannick Prié, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
• Matthias Rauterberg, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• Lloyd Rutledge, CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Andrew Salway, Burton Bradstock Research Labs, United Kingdom
• Patrick Schmitz, Ludicrum Enterprises, USA
• Claudia Schremmer, CSIRO Australia, Australia
• Nicu Sebe, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ishwar Sethi, Oakland University, USA
• Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan
• Koichi Shinoda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Ronggong Song, National Research Council Canada, Canada
• Ola Stockfelt, Guteborg University, Sweden
• Qibin Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Hari Sundaram, Arizona State Univeristy, USA
• Audrey Tam, RMIT University, Australia
• Wai-tian Tan, Hewlett-Packard, USA
• Kiyoshi Tanaka, Shinshu University, Japan
• Taro Tezuka, Kyoto University, Japan
• Daniel Thalmann, EPFL, Switzerland
• Jo-Yew Tham, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• George Tzanetakis, University of Victoria, Canada
• Shingo Uchihashi, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Japan
• Mihaela van der Schaar, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
• Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
• Benjamin Wah, University of Illinois, USA
• Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Feng Wu, Microsoft Research Asia, China
• Jiankang Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Shiqian Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Changsheng Xu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Nobuyuki Yagi, NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories, Japan
• Keiji Yanai, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
• Xiaokang Yang, Shanghai Jaoton University, China
• Susu Yao, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Yoshiyuki Yashima, NTT Corporation, Japan
• Rongshan Yu, Dolby Laboratories, USA
• Avideh Zakhor, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• Zhongfei Zhang, State University of New York at Binghamton, USA
• Haifeng Zheng, Fuzhou University, China
• Bin Zhu, Microsoft Research China, China
• Yongwei Zhu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
• Roger Zimmermann, University of Southern California, USA

Local Arrangement Committee

• Takuya Funatomi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Masaaki Iiyama, Kyoto University, Japan
• Takahiro Koizumi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Motoyuki Ozeki, Kyoto University, Japan

Other Contributors

• Web Site Design

  • Lina, Nagoya University, Japan

• Program Booklet Design

  • Tomokazu Takahashi, JSPS / Nagoya University, Japan

• Official Travel Agent

  • JTB Western Japan Corp., Kyoto Branch

• Local Staffs

  • PostDocs and Graduate School Students from Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya Universities