MKLab

Our group participates in two new integrated projects of the Networked Media Unit starting October 1st, SocialSensor - "Sensing User Generated Input for Improved Media Discovery and Experience" and LinkedTV - "Television Linked To The Web".

Invited speech on "Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-economic Challenges" given by Yiannis Kompatsiaris at the "Search Computing and Social Media" workshop, organized in conjunction with NEM Summit 2011.

WeKnowIt related invited speech on "Extracting Emergent Semantics from Large-Scale User Generated Content" given by Yiannis Kompatsiaris at the ICT Innovations 2011 conference.

Summary and important dates

Y. Kompatsiaris and S. Nikolopoulos are the editors of the just published white paper on "Search Computing: Bussiness areas, Research and socio-economic challenges" that consolidates the expert's opinion about the future opportunities and trends in the search industry. The effort was coordinated by the CHORUS+ project, with the contribution of the Media Search Cluster network. The paper can accessed through http://www.avmediasearch.eu/white_paper_Search_computing.

CERTH-ITI successfully participated in the Social Event Detection task of the MediaEval 2011 workshop. MediaEval, a workshop focused on focused evaluation tasks with respect to multimedia analysis, took place in Pisa, Italy (1-2 September 2011). CERTH took part in the Social Event Detection (SED) task that involved two challenges: (a) detection of soccer events in two major European cities, (b) detection of events taking place in two specific venues. Both challenges were defined on a large set of about 75000 images from Flickr.

Read our chapter "Multimedia, Broadcasting and eCulture" in the new Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies

  The book Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution - Bridging the Semantic Gap is now available. It covers the state of the art in the fields of ontology evolution and information extraction from multimedia, while  promoting the synergy between these two fields, by presenting a sound theoretical framework as well as concrete examples of applications. The contents stem largely from the research work conducted over a period of three years under the framework of the EU research project BOEMIE (Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction).

VERSION 2.0RC with built-in 3D vessel reconstruction is released. New features:     - Create realistic 3D models from lumen and media-adventitia boundaries     - 3D model reconstruction takes less than a second to be created     - Follow catheter path feature. Just click the button and "take a tour" inside the vessel     - Simulating a virtual camera. See the actual IVUS frame while "inside" the 3D vessel     - Interactive.