Symposium 1 June 2011; Easy access to multimedia and multilingual data

On June 1st, 2011 we will show you the way inside data! On this day we present the most important breakthroughs from the AMASS++ project.

Symposium 1 June 2011

We will demonstrate computer programs that learn automatically from video and text which face belongs to which name. Or programs that break up broadcast video into coherent stories, and find related stories in newspaper articles.

We show algorithms that automatically create multi-document summaries of articles in different languages and detect locations, times and actions. And we show you how all this automatic inferred information is elegantly combined in a table-top touch screen interface.

Easy access to multimedia and multilingual data

Come for the morning program and discover the details behind the mathematical models used or join us in the afternoon to see the programs in action and experiment with the systems yourself on real-live data.

Participation is free (lunch and reception included) but registration is required is required before May 15th.

Register here

Morning program

10.00-11.30: Academic presentations

• Opening statement - M.-F. Moens
• Multilingual text techniques for archived data - S. Martens
• Linking names & faces - T. Tuytelaars
• Semantic analysis of text - K. Deschacht & I. Schuurman

11.30-12.00: Coffee break
12.00-13.00: Academic presentations

• Multilingual and multimodal LDA - W. De Smet en J.H. Becker
• Multimodal story segmentation of broadcast video - G.-J. Poulisse
• Any video, anywhere, any time - J. Meskens

Lunch: 13.00-14.00

Afternoon program

14.00-15.15: User interface demonstration

• The story behind the users - M. Haesen
• Multitouch visualisation & exploration of a vast archive - J. Meskens
• Multimodal story segmentation demo - G.-J. Poulisse

15.15-16.00: Coffee break & Hands-on experience

16.00-16.50: Automatic video analysis demonstrator

• People, locations & actions in action series - P.T. Pham
• Interactive browsing of news events - J.H. Becker & G.-J. Poulisse

16.50-17.00: A view of the future- M.-F. Moens

17.00-17.30: Reception

Location

Lecture hall 200A 00.225
Department of computer science
Celestijnenlaan 200A
3001 Leuven (Heverlee)