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