The proliferation of user-generated content in the Web 2.0 era and the convergence of media delivery channels (Web, TV, mobile) shape the current multimedia area posing new challenges to the research community. Today’s devices are equipped with advanced functionalities and capabilities providing users unlimited access to a wealth of shared content. This content incorporates a rich set of media combinations encompassing text, graphics, animation, sound, sketches, speech, image and video. Multimedia collections need to be organized and analyzed in a structured manner in order to be valuable assets to enterprises, governmental services, community-based services and personal archives. Special concern should be given to representational issues of modeling and multimedia analysis and indexing processes.
Multimedia technology today allows the user to manipulate or interact with content in ways not possible in the past. The combination of PCs, mobile devices and networks allows the individual to create, edit, transmit, share, aggregate, personalize and interact with multimedia content in increasingly flexible ways across different platforms.
The group focuses on the development of methods and tools for content-based analysis and organization of multimedia collections. In particular, the research team currently focuses on the following topics:
Two topics in the area of that are of particular interest to the group and in which it needs to expand its current competencies are:
«25 χρόνια Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας στις Τεχνολογίες Γλώσσας, Πολιτισμού και Περιεχομένου» είναι ο τίτλος της Ανοικτής Εκδήλωσης που διοργανώνει το Ινστιτούτο Επεξεργασίας του Λόγου (ΙΕΛ) -ένα από τα Ινστιτούτα του Ερευνητικού Κέντρου «Αθηνά»- στην Ξάνθη, την Δευτέρα 25 Μαΐου 2015 (18.00 – 21.00), στο ξενοδοχείο Elisso. Το ακαδημαϊκό/επιστημονικό, επιχειρηματικό, εκπαιδευτικό και ευρύτερο κοινό της Ξάνθης [...]
Syed Saqib Bukhari, senior researcher at the Multimedia Analysis and Data Mining (MADM) competence center of DFKI visited Athena ILSP in 11-12 May 2015. He gave a presentation with the title “Ocropus ++”, an advanced version of Ocropus, a world class text line recognition engine which is based on LTSM model. The presentation highlighted some of [...]
On 7-8 May 2015, Martin Gasser and jan Schulter, researchers at OFAI, visited ILSP/Athena RIC. Martin Gasser gave a presentation with the title “Applications of Score Performance Matching Technology”. The presentation focussed on the aligment of audio data to the score which is a central problem when studying different performances of classical music pieces. He [...]
Το Ερευνητικό Κέντρο “Αθηνά” έχει τη χαρά να συμμετάσχει στο Athens Science Festival 2015 από τις 17 έως τις 22 Μαρτίου στην Τεχνόπολη του Δήμου Αθηναίων. Το Athens Science Festival έχει στόχο να καταστήσει τις επιστήμες πιο φιλικές στο ευρύ κοινό και να παρέχει ερεθίσματα και κίνητρα σε άτομα κάθε ηλικίας να ανακαλύψουν την επιστήμη [...]
The aim this 3 month visit was the knowhow transfer from OFAI to ILSP in the field of Music Information Retrieval as well as establishing a closer research collaboration between Institutes. More specifically, visiting researcher (Aggelos Gkiokas) will collaborate with OFAI’s research team for rhythm analysis tasks by investigating new techniques, which can be listed [...]