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LinkedTV #mediaanalysis service @CERTHellas now outputs #MPEG7 #AVDP metadata

Published on July 14, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

Given the increasing business interest in the LinkedTV technologies and the need to conform to industry standards, we are pleased to announce on behalf of the media analysis partner CERTH-ITI that the LinkedTV media analysis service, which has in the project output the results of all individual media analysis algorithms* in an aggregated format known […]

Extended version of aggregated media analysis service – adding scene segmentation for ANY video content

Published on July 10, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

We are pleased to announce an extended version of the LinkedTV tv2avd service (a.k.a. “Aggregated multimodal media analysis service”). This new version integrates software from our partner CERTH for video scene segmentation analysis which is applicable in any type of content, contrary to the developed chapter segmentation techniques which are strictly adapted to the analysis requirements […]

LinkedTV video analysis innovations to be presented by @CERTHellas at @ICMR2015 @ICME2015 @ICIP2015

Published on June 16, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

Don’t miss presentations of the innovations in video analysis achieved by our partner CERTH-ITI during the LinkedTV project! Presenting visual concept detection innovation in the paper “Exploiting multiple web resources towards collecting positive training samples for visual concept learning” at the ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia retrieval (ICMR), June 2015, Shanghai, China CERTH representative Vasileios Mezaris […]

@LinkedTV Multimedia Analysis REST service provides powerful content processing for your TV & video material

Published on February 11, 2015 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

In order that the LinkedTV Platform is able to produce rich metadata descriptions of ingested video, LinkedTV has been working on providing a wide range of multimedia analytics techniques to fragment video, label fragments with concepts and extract textual metadata from audio and image. These techniques have been combined into a single Web service which […]

LinkedTV presented improved results at the 2014 NIST #TRECVID Workshop for Multimedia Event Detection, Multimedia Event Recounting and Semantic Indexing

Published on November 20, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

LinkedTV partner CERTH participated this year to the Semantic Indexing (SIN), Multimedia Event Detection (MED) and Multimedia Event Recounting (MER) tasks of the TRECVID International Benchmarking Activity. Significantly improved results were attained, compared to last year’s participation to the same tasks, verifying the significance of the work carried out in LinkedTV for solving hard video […]

@CERTH releases new version (V1.4) of their video temporal segmentation software for #videoanalysis

Published on November 13, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

LinkedTV partner CERTH (Thessaloniki, Greece) just publicly released version 1.4 of its software for the automatic temporal segmentation of videos into shots and scenes. This release uses exclusively CPU-based processing and the analysis is accelerated by invoking multi-threading / multi-processing operations of the Intel OpenMP runtime library, making the whole video analysis process about 7 […]

#icip2014 #acmmm14 tutorial on Video Hyperlinking slides are online.

Published on November 5, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

LinkedTV presented its tutorial on Video Hyperlinking at the International Conference on Image Processing held in Paris this year (27-30th Oct 2014) as well as ACM Multimedia in Orlando, Florida (USA) (3rd-7th Nov 2014). The 3 hour tutorial  covered the topics of video analysis and hyperlink generation, building on the work carried out in LinkedTV’s work […]

Paper on Video Hyperlinking using Scene Segmentation will be presented @ACMMM2014.

Published on August 13, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

A LinkedTV paper titled “Automatic fine-grained hyperlinking of videos within a closed collection using scene segmentation” was accepted for presentation at the ACM Multimedia 2014 (MM) conference, taking place in November in Orlando, Florida. ACM MM is ACM’s premier conference on multimedia, attracting every year more than 500 top researchers of the Multimedia field. The […]

Tutorial on Video Hyperlinking will be given at @IEEEICIP #ICIP2014 and @ACMMM14

Published on August 8, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

LinkedTV is pleased to announce that a tutorial on “Video Hyperlinking”, elaborating on the state of the art and on LinkedTV’s own media analysis and hyperlinking technologies, will be presented at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing 2014 (ICIP) in October 2014 in Paris, France, and also at the ACM Multimedia 2014 (MM) conference […]

CERTH releases video shot segmentation software

Published on May 13, 2014 By lyndon.nixon@sti2.org

CERTH just publicly released an advanced edition of its software for the automatic temporal segmentation of videos into shots, i.e., the division of the video in sequences of consecutive frames captured without interruption by a single camera. The released software can detect both abrupt and gradual shot transitions with high accuracy, and makes use of […]