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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, [...]

Video search today relies mostly on textual metadata that is associated with the video in terms of title, tags or surrounding page-text. This approach falls severely short by ignoring the richness of information within the video medium; an engine should ideally use this information to help a user search and navigate content. As video content [...]

There are over 100 billion images on the internet today and continues to grow every day. Image search engines often only surface a portion of those images and often rely on text surrounding an image on a webpage, or image file name. With the growing number of images on the Internet it is important to [...]