News of the MMSPG

Ultra-Eye: UHD and HD images eye tracking dataset is available for public download here;

More details here.

The COST Action IC1003 Qualinet, coordinated by EPFL has kicked off its activities on November 8th, 2010.

The duration of this Action will be 4 years.

More information available at http://www.qualinet.eu

http://www.youtube.com/MMSPgroup

In the framework of the Brain Week (Semaine du Cerveau), at the Swiss Radio (in French).

Listen to the program at the following url:

http://www.rsr.ch/la-1ere/impatience/selectedDate/17/03/2010#mercredi

The MultiMedia Signal Processing Group at EPFL has hosted a meeting of the Board of Directors of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC - http://www.imtc.org/). The meeting was held at EPFL on March 3 and 4, 2010.

IMTC is a global consortium of companies dedicated to the advancement of open standards and multimedia communications through Activity Group initiatives and annual events that include interoperability forums and workshops. During the meeting, IMTC honored the leadership and lifetime achievements of two eminent multimedia pioneers and their contributions to the IP Video Telephony industry. IMTC presented its Leadership Award to Pierre-André Probst, former Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 16, and an IMTC Fellowship award to Jim Polizotto, former IMTC Secretary and Vice President of Global Inventures.

MMSPG is organizing COST IC0604 MC and WG meeting in Lausanne, at EPFL, on Dec 3-4, 2009.

More information available at: http://www.conganat.org/eurotelepath/

On behalf of the 1st Spring School on Social Media Retrieval (S3MR) organizing committee, we are delighted to invite you to this interesting event. S3MR will be held during  February 22-25, 2010 in beautiful city of Interlaken, Switzerland.

DEADLINE: November 17, 2009.

Multimedia content has become ubiquitous on the web, creating new challenges for indexing, access, search and retrieval. At the same time, much of this content is made available on content sharing websites like YouTube or Flickr, or shared on social networks like Facebook. In such environments, the content is usually accompanied with metadata, tags, ratings, comments, information about the uploader and their social network, etc.

Analysis of these "social media" shows a great potential in improving the performance of traditional multimedia information analysis/retrieval approaches by bridging the semantic gap between the "objective" multimedia content analysis and "subjective" users' needs and impressions. The integration of these aspects however is non-trivial and has created a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of research.

The Spring School on Social Media Retrieval aims at bringing together young researchers from neighboring disciplines, offering

(1) lectures delivered by experts from academy and industry providing a clear and in-depth summary of state-of-the-art research in social media retrieval,

(2) collaborative projects in small groups providing hands-on experience on integrative work on selected problems from the field.

Scope

   * Content distribution over social/peer-to-peer networks
   * Multimedia content analysis
   * Automatic multimedia annotation/tagging
   * Multimedia indexing/search/retrieval
   * Implicit media tagging
   * Social data analysis
   * Collaborative tagging


Confirmed lecturers:
-Susanne Boll    http://medien.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/personen/susanne_boll/
-Roelof van Zwol  http://research.yahoo.com/Roelof_van_Zwol
-Ciro Cattuto   http://isiosf.isi.it/~cattuto/

for more information and also for subscription please visit our webpage:
http://www.petamedia.eu/s3mr/
 

Dr. Lutz Goldmann has joined MMSPG since March 1st, 2009. He is a Ph.D. graduate from TU Berlin.

Two PhD students from the NoE PetaMedia (Tomas Piatrik from QMUL and Francesca De Simone from EPFL) have been selected as representatives of the European network at the ICT 2008 conference held in Lyon from 25^th -27^th November.

More information at the following URL: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm