Our Pinkpop video search engine is generating some media attention, including coverage in national news papers and television. It is likely that more concert footage will be added in the coming weeks, so stay tuned at: http://www.hollandsglorieoppinkpop.nl/.
I am quite excited that the technology is finally finding its way to a broad audience on very interesting [...]
A video says more than 25,000 words per second, check it out at: http://www.hollandsglorieoppinkpop.nl/
Last Friday I was given the opportunity to speak at the Society of the Query Conference, organized by the Amsterdam-based Institute of Network Cultures. The conference critically reflected on the information society and the dominant role of the (Google) search engine in our culture. Most speakers and audience had a background in media studies, as [...]
The draft notebook paper for TRECVID 2009 by the MediaMill team, containing members of the University of Amsterdam, INESC-ID and the University of Surrey, is now available. In the paper we describe our TRECVID 2009 video retrieval experiments. The MediaMill team participated in three tasks: concept detection, automatic search, and interactive search. Starting point for [...]
An interesting ‘Viewpoint’ appeared in this month’s issue of Communications of the ACM. In Time for computer science to grow up, Lance Fornow argues that because the field of computer science at large is maturing, we need to switch our attention from publishing deadline-driven conference papers, often conforming to the “least-publishable unit”, to well worked [...]
Cees Snoek | research on video retrieval