Timo Ojala
Dr.Tech.
Coordinates
CURRENT POSITION
Professor, University of Oulu,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Director, MediaTeam Oulu research group
TOPICAL
Call for students: 3rd International UBI Summer School 2012 in Oulu, Finland, on May 28 - June 2, 2012. Application deadline is Feb 29, 2012.
4th International Open Ubiquitous City Seminar 2012 in Oulu, Finland, on May 28, 2012.
521261A Computer Networks I (spring 2012): opening lecture on Mon 13.2.2012 at 14:15 in TS101.
521266S Distributed Systems (spring 2012): opening lecture on Tue 14.2.2012 at 12:15 in TS126.
1st International UBI Challenge: FunSquare from the University of Lugano, Switzerland, is the winner!
Call for proposals to host MUM 2012: MUM 2012 will be held in Essen, Germany, on Dec 10-12, 2012. General chair is Professor Enrico Rukzio from the University of Duisburg-Essen.
Have you used the UBI-hotspots or the panOULU network?
RESEARCH
Publications since 1997 with online copies
Current projects
UBI (UrBan Interactions) research program comprising of multiple projects (UbiCity, UbiLife, RealUbi, Urban Flows and Networks, UBI Metrics, NIMO)
panOULU
Past projects and research activities
Rotuaari (Context-aware mobile multimedia services)
CBIR (Content-based information retrieval)
Countess (Using semantic information in content-based retrieval) and CMRS
demo
Duchess (Wireless media telephony services in the office
environment)
MFO
Showroom
Texture analysis research in the Machine Vision Group
Outex - New framework for empirical
evaluation of texture analysis algorithms
TEACHING
Undergraduate teaching
521261A Computer Networks I (spring 2012)
521262S Computer Networks II (fall 2011)
521266S Distributed Systems (spring 2012)
521489S Information Processing Research Work (course description in Finnish)
521476S Computer Networks (fall 2006)
521490S Interactive Systems Technical Design (spring 2005)
Postgraduate teaching
Postgraduate book exams
3rd International UBI Summer School 2012
2nd International UBI Summer School 2011
1st International UBI Summer School 2010
Advanced Internet Services (2010)
Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2007
Internet Multimedia (2002)
Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia 2002
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Chair, Steering Committee of International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM).
Chair, Digital Cities 7 workshop at C&T 2011, Melbourne, Australia, 30 June, 2011.
Co-Chair, UBI Challenge Workshop 2010 at Ubicomp 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 September, 2010.
General Chair, MUM 2007 (6th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), in Oulu, Finland, 12-14 December, 2007.
Scientific Chair, Wireless Cities 2006 Conference in Oulu, Finland, 5-8 June, 2006.
Chair, City WLAN 2005 in Oulu, Finland, 29-30 August, 2005.
Founding Co-Chair, MUM 2002 (1st International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), in Oulu, Finland, 11-13 December, 2002.
Chair of Program Committee, IR 2001 (International Workshop on Information Retrieval), in Oulu, Finland, 19-21 September, 2001.
Chair of Organizing Committee, Texture'99 (Infotech Oulu Workshop on Texture Analysis in Machine Vision), in Oulu, Finland, 14-16 June, 1999.
Program committee memberships
MUM 2012 (11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Essen, Germany, Dec 2012;
ISPD 2012 (International Symposium on Pervasive Displays), Porto, Portugal, June 2012;
WinMee 2012 (8th International Workshop on Wireless Network Measurements)
Paderborn, Germany, May 2012;
MUM 2011 (10th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Beijing, China, Dec 2011;
C&T 2011 (5th International Conference on Communities & Technologies), Brisbane, Australia, Jun-Jul 2011;
FutureTech 2011 (6th International Conference on Future Information Technology / Ubiquitous Networks and Wireless Communications Track), Crete, Greece, June 2011;
WiNMee 2011 (7th International workshop on Wireless Network Measurements), Princeton, NJ, USA, May 2011;
MUM 2010 (9th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Limassol, Cyprus, Dec 2010;
AFRICOMM 2010 (2nd International ICST Conference on e-Infrastructure and e-Services for Developing Countries), Cape Town, South Africa, Nov 2010;
AccessNets 2010 (5th International Conference on Access Networks), Budapest, Hungary, Nov 2010;
SeMuDaTe2009 (2009 Workshop on Semantic Multimedia Database Technologies), Graz, Austria, Dec 2009;
RTCSA 2009 (15th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications), Beijing, China, Aug 2009;
SCCM 2009 (2009 International Workshop on Service-oriented Community Coordinated Multimedia), Los Angeles, CA, USA, Jul 2009;
CMM 2009 (2009 International Workshop on Community Driven Multimedia), New York, NY, USA, Jul 2009;
WMM 2009 (9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata), Toulouse, France, Mar 2009;
MUM 2008 (7th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Umeå, Sweden, Dec 2008;
WPMC 2008 (11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Mobile Multimedia Communications), Lapland, Finland, Sep 2008;
ICME 2006 (2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo / Multimedia Computing and Software Track), Toronto, Canada, Jul 2006;
MUM 2006 (5th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Stanford, CA, USA, Dec 2006;
PIMRC 2006 (17th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications), Helsinki, Finland, Sep 2006;
MUM 2005 (4th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Christchurch, New Zealand, Dec 2005;
MUM 2004 (3rd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), College Park, MD, Nov 2004;
MUM 2003 (2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia), Norrköping, Sweden, Dec 2003;
CIKM 2002 (11th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), McLean, VA, USA, Nov 2002;
ICPR 2002 (16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition / Biomedical and Multimedia Applications Track), Quebec, Canada, Aug 2002;
CIKM 2001 (10th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management), Atlanta, GA, Nov 2001.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
SmartSander: Member of the Advisory Board
panOULU consortium: University of Oulu's representative in the board
PERSONAL