KMi Seminars
The FlashMeeting Project: an Update
This event took place on Wednesday 01 April 2009 at 11:30

 
Dr. Kevin Quick KMi, The Open University

Flashmeeting is a desktop video conferencing tool developed entirely within KMi and which is now unbelievably nearly 5 years old! During this time it has proved an invaluable tool for many people e.g. for project meetings and particularly EU project meetings, within schools, presentations and collaborative learning/team working activities etc. In addition to the success with clients, the vast quantity of data generated from these meetings has provided a rich source of material for our academic research. Flashmeeting is a continuously developing tool, and many new and powerful features have been added in recent times. The seminar will aim to introduce Flashmeeting to those who may not yet have discovered it, and to further describe and demonstrate some of the newer features that existing users may not be aware of. The seminar will also touch on some of the tool's commercial and research directions.

http://www.flashmeeting.com

 
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Multimedia and Information Systems is...


Multimedia and Information Systems
Our research is centred around the theme of Multimedia Information Retrieval, ie, Video Search Engines, Image Databases, Spoken Document Retrieval, Music Retrieval, Query Languages and Query Mediation.

We focus on content-based information retrieval over a wide range of data spanning form unstructured text and unlabelled images over spoken documents and music to videos. This encompasses the modelling of human perception of relevance and similarity, the learning from user actions and the up-to-date presentation of information. Currently we are building a research version of an integrated multimedia information retrieval system MIR to be used as a research prototype. We aim for a system that understands the user's information need and successfully links it to the appropriate information sources, be it a report or a TV news clip. This work is guided by the vision that an automated knowledge extraction system ultimately empowers people making efficient use of information sources without the burden of filing data into specialised databases.

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