The Lab has extensive experience and expertise in semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, social media and big data analytics, knowledge structures, reasoning and personalization for multimedia applications, eHealth and environmental applications
Aug 28, 2012
The paper entitled "Plaques with increased lipid core and thin fibrous cap occur in coronary artery regions with low endothelial shear stress: A 3D Optical coherence tomography pilot study in human", which was presented in the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2012 (ESC 2012), received the "Best Moderated Poster" award. Read more here.
Aug 16, 2012
CERTH participated in ImageCLEF Photo Annotation and Retrieval 2012, and more specifically in the first subtask, namely Visual and Concept detection, annotation using Flickr photos. The objective of taking part in the competition was to evaluate two multimedia indexing approaches developed within SocialSensor and to compare the performance of methods using different sets of image features. The first of the tested approaches constructs a similarity graph that includes both train and test images and trains concepts detectors using the graph Laplacian Eigenmaps (LE) as features.
Aug 01, 2012
Seminar at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, "Social media mining and multimedia analysis research and applications". The presentation slides of the seminar are available here.
Jul 19, 2012
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - DEADLINE EXTENSION
SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 7-September-2012
Web 2.0 applications and social media have transformed the Web into an interactive sharing platform where users upload data and media, comment on and share this content within their social circles. Each content item is associated with an abundance of metadata and related information such as location, tags, comments, favourites, access patterns and logs etc. At the same time all this information is implicitly or explicitly interconnected based on various properties such as social links between users, groups, communities, etc.
Jul 09, 2012
An event organized by the Networked Media EC Unit and Media Search Cluster that will offer a unique opportunity for the discussion of the key research, business and socio-economic issues in search computing. It will also enable concrete networking occasion towards upcoming Call 10. Visit the Web page at: http://avmediasearch.eu/searchcomputing
Jun 29, 2012
The Multimedia Group participates in the nationally funded project PANACEA, which aims to build an intelligent recommendation system to effectively propose drug therapies that will support and facilitate health professionals, ensuring faster and safer administration of drugs. For this purpose, PANACEA will make use of Semantic Web technologies for the formal representation of the involved knowledge and to provide automated inference.
Read more at http://mklab.iti.gr/content/panacea
Jun 11, 2012
ClustTour, a city browsing and photo tagging mobile app, won the demo award at this year's International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2012) in Hong Kong. The app, which is available for free on the app store, supports efficient browsing and tagging of landmark and event photos. The application employs a hierarchical mode of exploration enabling zooming from the level of a city, through the level of an area/neighbourhood, down to the level of a specific spot.
Jun 07, 2012
In MOBIB2012 a two day conference that is gradually becoming a meeting point between SMEs, professional experts, corporate partners and venture capital investors interested in knowledge-sharing on strategic information, market opportunities and new business trends in the Mobile Value-Added Services industry, the ITI team had the opportunity to present the mobile-related technologies envisaged by the recently started EU-project Live+Gov (Reality Sensing, Mining and Augmentation for Mobile Citizen-eGovernment Dialogue).
Jun 03, 2012
The first MUMIA training Summer school on "Building Next Generation Search Systems" is taking place at Olympiada, Chalkidiki, Greece on September 24-28, 2012. The aim of Training School is to give participants grounding in the core topics that constitute the interdisciplinary area of Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access. The school is a week-long event consisting of lecturers from MUMIA and invited speakers. Among them, Stefanos Vrochidis of ITI-CERTH will be giving a lecture on "Interactive Multimedia Search Systems".
