Seminars [270]

Forthcoming Events [0]

Past Events [270]
 

News

 
KMi Seminars
e-PhDs:
This event took place on Friday 11 February 2005 at 14:00

 
Prof. Wendy Stainton Rogers

Event Homepage

Welcome to the launch page for attending this hybrid physical/virtual event online.

As a 'virtual participant' you will be using some of the e-PhD tools developed at the Open University's Knowledge Media Institute, which we will be discussing on the day.

These will enable you to:
  1. receive the live webcast of the event with audio, video, slides and live demos of e-PhD tools
  2. have a visual presence at the event with a lo-fi video image of yourself displayed to other virtual participants, and in the venue for co-located participants to see
  3. post comments and questions to the event during discussion feedback sessions
What you will see when you are set up
Check your setup

Venue
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, (Level 4, Berrill Building), Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK [Maps]

Programme
  • 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 - 17:00 Workshop


 
KMi Seminars
 

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.

Visit the MMIS website