Calling all interested multimedia practitioners, especially MSc/PhD students with a research topic covering Multimedia Applications or Multimedia Processing, we are pleased to announce that our Winter School is now open for registration!

Attendees will hear about and get hands on experience with semantic multimedia technologies including media fragments, analysis, annotation and digital rights, from MediaMixer partner experts.  Invited speakers (EU project coordinators!) will give insights in current & future use of the technology in their domains (broadcasting, digital preservation, e-learning…)

Even better, while stand alone registration for this event is already amazingly low (€150 !), thanks to our cooperation with the MMM 2014 conference, conference registrees need only pay €50 more on their registration fee to attend the school!

For more about the school, see http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu

For registration, go to http://mmm2014.org/registration/

One MediaMixer use case focuses on the need of newsroom editors to easily and quickly find and re-use news video fragments relating to a news item within the news programme production process. MediaMixer partner CONDAT, developer of software solutions for European broadcasters, is working in the project on a use case and demonstrator for the Re-use of Video Materials in the Broadcast Newsroom.

Now there are two opportunities to learn more about this innovative solution to news production:

• The Semantic Media Web Innovationsforum organizes events for a scientific and commercial audience, which is focused on semantic technology for the TV and media sector. The next forum will take place on 26.-27. September concerning: “Semantic Technologies – Exploitation and Convergence of Meta Data”. Rolf Fricke of CONDAT will speak on the first day on Wiederverwendung von Medien Fragmenten für den Newsroom im EU-FP7 Projekt MediaMixer (re-use of media fragments for the newsroom)
• Prior to the IFA 2013, the Media 3.0 event is a semi-public meet-up of stakeholders in the TV and Media Sector (anyone can request an invitation but space is limited). Under the topic “Convergence@Work”, the 5 September 2013 afternoon session will include a talk by CONDAT on “OpenMedia SmartSearch – Semantik von Media Fragments in modernen Newsroom-Systemen”

MediaMixer is pleased to be a sponsor of the Createsphere DAM Conference in New York, 7-8 October 2013. Our goal is to show semantic technologies for media fragments and copyright management to the Digital Assets Management industry in the USA, through one of the main conferences about this topic.

The MediaMixer project and community promote the use of semantic technologies for media mixing through real use cases and demos that showcase them. A typical MediaMixer demo will involve fragmenting media assets, annotating them using semantic descriptions and exposing these descriptions to customers, for fragment level search and selection. Fragments will be also linked to rights information based on a copyright ontology, which integrates licenses, policies and rights expressions based on existing standards like DDEX, ODRL or MPEG-21. At the conference MediaMixer will present the demo built so far for the “Rights Intelligence and Integration” use cases where semantic technologies solve real problems related with digital asset management, in this case media rights expression and negotiation.

Our partner Josef Stefan Institute has uploaded a technical update on its use case with the e-learning video platform VideoLectures.net. Now the technical work will start to create a working demonstrator of VideoLecturesMashup – media fragment playout for learning about topics shared across different learning video materials! See http://community.mediamixer.eu/usecases/ucvideolectures for the slides.

This has been complemented by a presentation on “advanced methods and tools for Web-based education” covering various project approaches including MediaMixer, see http://de.slideshare.net/MediaMixerCommunity/intelligent-toolsmitjajermol2013bali7-may2013-22424692.

MediaMixer is pleased to organise a workshop on Media Fragment Creation and Remixing during the International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME) 2013 in San Jose (CA, USA) on July 19, 2013.

We are very pleased to confirm Prof. Noburu Babaguchi as a keynote speaker, a renowned expert in the multimedia research area, who will talk about “Example-based Remixing of Multimedia Contents”.

The workshop will continue with 6 oral presentations of accepted submissions which focus on topics related to media fragment creation and remixing:

• STILL VISUALIZATION OF OBJECT MOTION IN COMPRESSED VIDEO
• VIDEO CONCEPT DETECTION BY LEARNING FROM WEB IMAGES: A CASE STUDY ON CROSS DOMAIN LEARNING
• ANALYSIS OF VISUAL SIMILARITY IN NEWS VIDEOS WITH ROBUST AND MEMORY-EFFICIENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL
• FAST OBJECT RE-DETECTION AND LOCALIZATION IN VIDEO FOR SPATIO-TEMPORAL FRAGMENT CREATION
• TELL ME WHY! AIN’T NOTHIN’ BUT A MISTAKE? DESCRIBING MEDIA ITEM DIFFERENCES WITH MEDIA FRAGMENTS URI AND SPEECH SYNTHESIS
• A FEATURE-ANALYSIS BASED FRAGMENT REMIX INSTRUMENT

MediaMixer, who will be represented at ICME 2013 by our colleague Vasileios Mezaris (of the Greek research centre CERTH), looks forward to seeing ICME attendees at our workshop!