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Me and my data
This event took place on Friday 06 November 2009 at 12:00

 
Steinn Sigurdarson Open Universiteit Nederland

Alternative ways to look at interoperability and feed infrastructures, and how we can automatically detect different types of data, even without adding more metadata to existing feed standards... and how this can facilitate rather effortless aggregations and data-mashups. It is about how to solve 'the interoperability problem' from an individual's perspective, not the institutional.

 
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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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