MKLab

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

Book chapter on Collective Intelligence

Nov 23, 2010

A book chapter on Collective Intelligence titled "Emerging, Collective Intelligence for personal, organisational and social use" has been accepted for publication in Nik Bessis and Fatos Xhafa (eds.) Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence, “Studies in Computational Intelligence” book series, Springer (2011). The chapter was written by Sotiris Diplaris, Andreas Sonnenbichler, Tomasz Kaczanowski, Phivos Mylonas, Ansgar Scherp, Maciej Janik, Symeon Papadopoulos, Michael Ovelgönne, and Yiannis Kompatsiaris. It is a joint dissemination result of the WeKnowIt project, presenting Collective Intelligence research work, applications and results from the WeKnowIt perspective.

PatMedia presentation for EPO Director

Nov 11, 2010

PatMedia was presented and demonstrated to the Director of the sector of the European patent office on Image Processing and Computer Games, Mr Benno Penzkofer. "This tool could speed up the searches of my patent examinors", were the words of Mr. Penzkofer after the presentation. More detailed information, on line demonstration and more testimonials related to PatMedia are available here..

ClustTour feedback from the OpenFund

Oct 11, 2010

The ClustTour idea was submitted to the OpenFund -a Greek venture capital aiming at financing and supporting promising high-tech start ups- and received positive feedback with respect to its technical aspects. In addition, it received valuable feedback regarding the potential for exploiting the underlying technologies. Reviewers pointed the utility of the service for travellers, as well as the technical soundness of the idea and the development team. In addition, they recommended the redefinition of the business model such that the prospective business can be sustainable from well-specified (and plausible) revenues.

Paper on cluster-based landmark/event detection was accepted for publication in the IEEE MultiMedia magazine

Oct 11, 2010

Our paper "Cluster-based Landmark and Event Detection on Tagged Photo Collections" was accepted for publication in the IEEE MultiMedia magazine. The paper describes the technologies underlying the ClustTour web application that was developed in the context of the WeKnowIt project. Citation: S. Papadopoulos, C. Zigkolis, Y. Kompatsiaris, and A. Vakali. "Cluster-based Landmark and Event Detection on Tagged Photo Collections". In IEEE Multimedia Magazine (accepted for publication, October 2010)

CBMI 2011 Call for Special Session Proposals

Oct 06, 2010

CBMI 2011 is seeking original, high quality proposals for Special Sessions, to be included in the technical program along with the regular track. The call is available on line.

WeKnowIt presentation in events related session in ICT 2010

Sep 28, 2010

WeKnowIt was presented in the ICT event 2010 networking session on Web of Events on October 27th, 2010, in Brussels. Yiannis Kompatsiaris gave a presentation entitled WeKnowIt: Event Detection Processing and Representation.

CERTH is the best in detecting whether you are sitting down or walking!

Sep 27, 2010

CERTH participated to the Semantic Indexing (SIN) Task of TRECVID 2010 with its video concept detectors. CERTH’s concept detectors produced the best results, among the submissions made by all institutions participating to TRECVID (101 runs from 30 different institutions), for two of the concepts evaluated this year ("walking", "sitting down"). The latest technical details on the approach that was developed and used for building these detectors are reported in the following publication: V.

CfP: AAI Special Issue on EVENTS 2010

Sep 06, 2010

EVENTS 2010, a workshop co-organised by WeKnowIt and Pronto projects is organising a special issue on events recognition at the Applied Artificial Intelligence journal. The call for papers is available online.

Presentations at SSMS 2010

Sep 03, 2010

Two presentations were given at the 5th edition of the Summer School for Multimedia Semantics, sponsored by WeKnowIt. Knowledge Based Semantic Indexing and Information Extraction from Social Sites.