Internet Multimedia Mining

22. November 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Meetings, Science

The program for the first International Workshop on Internet Multimedia Mining is now available. With the explosion of video and image data available on the Internet, online multimedia applications become more and more important. Moreover, mining semantics and other useful information from large-scale Internet multimedia data to facilitate online and local multimedia content analysis, search and other related applications has also gained more and more attention from both academia and industry. The program covers the breadth of internet multimedia mining, with papers focusing on auto-annotation and new retrieval models. We are proud to have a keynote by Zhongfei Zhang, who will deliver a keynote on Multimedia Data Mining Theory and Its Applications. The workshop is co-located with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining in Miami, Florida and will be held on Sunday December 6th.

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IM-Pact meeting Belgium

09. October 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Meetings

Thursday, Stratis and me had the first project meeting of our IM-pact project in Deurne, Belgium. The IM-pact project strives for international collaboration between the Netherlands and Flanders on the topic of Dutch visual, speech- en language culture. On the sub-theme of semi-automatic extraction, storage and retrieval of visual data, we have teamed up with Sebastian Zimmer, Tinne Tuytelaars, and Luc Van Gool from KU Leuven in the BeeldCanon project. The purpose of the meeting was to introduce the different projects, four in total, and to socialize with the different team members. The project has an interesting set of sub-projects, in addition to the BeeldCanon project covering (Dutch) speech analysis, user aspects of retrieval in cultural heritage archives, and legal aspects of intellectual property rights related to multimedia. The meeting was organized by IBBT and ictRegie who took good care of the social aspects, including a wine tasting session and a cooking workshop, see the attached action shot of Stratis. It was a succesful day, looking forward to the next meeting.