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Ever wanted to know how Semantics can improve and analyze Multimedia?

Dr. Gerald Friedland will discuss his work on "Advances in Semantic Analysis of Multimedia" with the International Computer Science Institute, which is associated with UC Berkeley.

We are being hosted by our good friends at Franz and I look forward to seeing you all there. Space is limited so sign up early!

More information about the talk is below.

Summary:

With bandwidth constantly increasing and video cameras being integrated in almost any handheld device currently on the market, the web consists more and more of multimedia data. Both "homegrown" as well as TV broadcast images and videos are a growing part of the Internet that is already taking up more space than conventional text-based media. Unfortunately, the current standard of semantic video annotation is on the level of meta data that describes the entire video in about a paragraph of text along with rudimentary meta tags (cf. YouTube or the Comcast program guide). For search and navigation in videos and for discovering content inside multimedia a more fine-granular semantic annotation is, of course, highly desired. However, the information density of perceptually encoded data makes manual semantic modeling even more difficult. Along examples of our work, this talk describes research progress and advances in automatic extraction of semantic annotation from multimedia data and how these might change the everyday Internet experience of everybody. Among other applications, I will present an online service that semi-automatically selects objects in images, a portal that automatically extracts information from Seinfeld episodes to allow browsing punchline by punchline, and a meeting recorder and browser that automatically produces a transcription of the event. While the presentation will contain some technical parts, the main focus will be to point out applicability and to discuss future directions for research and development.

Bio:

Dr. Gerald Friedland is a research scientist at the International Computer Science Institute, a lab affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to being the site manager for the EU-funded project AMIDA and the Swiss-funded IM2 project, both of which explore multimedia meeting analysis, Dr. Friedland is helping start-up Appscio.com, a Silicon Valley-based company that develops an open-source multimedia content analysis framework as a principal scientist and member of the Technical Advisory Board. He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing and is a proud founder and program director of the IEEE International Summer School on Semantic Computing at UC Berkeley. He is program co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia 2009. He is also a program committee member of ACM Multimedia 2009 and IARIA MMedia 2009. Dr. Friedland has published more than 80 articles in conferences, journals, and books and is currently authoring a new textbook on multimedia computing. He regularly reviews for IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Language Processing, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, IEEE Multimedia, Springer’s Machine Vision and Application, and other journals. He is the recipient of several research and industry recognitions, among them the European Academic Software Award and the Multimedia Entrepreneur Award by the German Federal Department of Economics. Dr. Friedland received his doctorate (summa cum laude) and master’s degree in computer science from Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, in 2002 and 2006, respectively.

In conjunction with SemTech and in response to a break-out group from the Semantic Code Camp, we are putting on another Meetup.

It is in the EMPIRE Room on Floor B

This meeting will cover different ways of visualizing RDF.

Speakers:

Jans Aasman - Franz, Inc.

Keith Sutton - Silicon Valley Flex User Group and (SilvaFUG) Manager www.silvafug.org

Alexander Kouznetsov - founder of diagramic.com

Lieven Janssen - Adobe Flex/AIR, Semantic Web Enthusiast

This will be a great session. If you are at the conference, great! Your badge in the only pass you need. If you came to the Semantic Code Camp, your badge will work as well. If you do not have a badge or lost one, you'll need to meet with me at registration on Floor B of the Fairmont and check in. THe badge is only good for the session, but will be well worth it.

Due to popular demand, PAWS is having a Basics of Semantic Technology Meetup. The Meetup will cover the basic technologies and software that are commonly referred to as Semantic Technologies. This includes, but not limited to: text mining, semantic database technologies, ontologies, W3C standards, data formats and a little basic theory to round things out.

The speakers will be:

Jeff Pollock - Mr. Pollock is the author of Semantic Web for Dummies and is a Senior Director with Oracle’s Fusion Middleware group, responsible for management of Oracle’s data integration product portfolio. Mr. Pollock was formerly an independent systems architect for the Defense Department, Vice President of Technology at Cerebra and Chief Technology Officer of Modulant, developing semantic middleware platforms and inference-driven SOA platforms from 2001 to 2006.

Walter Pezzini - Mr. Pezzini is VP of Pre-Sales and Professional Services at Expert System USA. He has great expertise in Natural Language Processing, Business Intelligence, Sentiment Analysis and Semantic Search. Expert System is the leading provider of semantic software, which discovers, classifies and interprets text information.

Jans Aasman Ph.D.- Dr. Jans Aasman is President and CEO of the database company Franz. His previous experience and educational background include: KPN Research, the research lab of the major Dutch telecommunication company. Tenured Professor in Industrial Design at the Technical University of Delft. Title of the chair: Informational Ergonomics of Telematics and Intelligent Products. Carnegie Mellon University. Visiting Scientist at the Computer Science Department of Prof. Dr. Alan Newell. Researcher at the Traffic Research Center of the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Experimental and cognitive psychology at the University of Groningen, specialization: Psychophysiology, Cognitive Psychology.

I look forward to seeing you there.

All,

How do semantic technologies improve internet advertising? What are the new tends for advertising and technology in 2009? Join us on Tuesday, February 17th at 6:00 p.m. to find out.

Our first Meetup of 2009 will focus on Trends for Semantic Technology and Advertising. The meeting will be in San Francisco and generously hosted at Dow Jones, Inc.

To share their views and lead the discussion, we will have two great speakers Luigi LoPresti - Digital Strategy Executive and James Kim - Founder and CEO of Opinmind.

Luigi LoPresti has spent the better part of the last 15 years advising a wide range of companies from Automotive OEM's to Luxury Service Providers, QSRs, and Financial Service companies. http://www.linkedin.com/profile?goback=.con&viewProfile=&key=9595976&jsstate=.conbro_0_*51_false_*2_5066

James Kim is the founder Opinmind an internet advertising company that uses semantic technology. http://opinmind.com/

Please join us for the discussion. If you have any question, please feel free to contact me directly - Peter.

Open Calais has opened their doors to PAWS!

They will have people to talk about Open Calais use cases and technology. (ex. http://www.matthewbuckland.com/?p=484>) Specifically, they will take deep dive and focus on the technology road map and how the web service is evolving and give us a sneak peek at Calais 3.0!

IMPORTANT! ALL ATTENDEES MUST HAVE THEIR FULL NAMES IN THEIR PROFILES OR YOU CANNOT GET ON THE SECURITY LIST!!!

ADDRESS:
425 Market Street, 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
The cross street is Fremont, which runs one-way – north.
See the building site here: http://www.425marketst.com/
Check in at the front desk; you must be on the list to get on the elevator.

PARKING:
Folks can park at 50 Fremont, the building's lot, or there is also another lot on the same block (Fremont, between Mission and Market).

PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
BART is pretty close by on Market Street, as are numerous MUNI trains and buses.
The Caltrain station is a bit more of a walk. http://www.caltrain.com/caltrain_stations.html

Food and Drink
Open Calais will have pizza and sodas, waters, etc.