A notion of browsing collections is naturally associated with videos. Having videos classified into a pre-existing hierarchy of genres is one way to make the browsing task easier. The goal of this task would be to take user generated videos (along with their sparse and noisy metadata) and automatically classify them into genres. A public [...]
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Google Challenge 2010: Indexing and Fast Interactive Searching in Personal Diaries
The developing interest in recording digital diaries or archives of one’s life needs a good indexing and search capability to be useful or interesting. Diaries can be any combination of audio, video, geographic location, photos, phone logs, and whatever other multimedia data the user generates or accesses. To make the data accessible, it [...]
Winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009
We are very happy to announce the winners of the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2009.
The challenge presentation took place last week in Beijing, during ACM Multimedia 2009. The session was a plenary session (read: no other presentations were going on at the same time), which meant a large crowd that, as far as I can tell, [...]






