Author: China first victory
In an International Conference, award-winning hard, in an area of top-level meeting winning more difficult, in a top-level international meetings for two awards are rarely precedent.
However, Microsoft Research Asia. At the end of September this year in Germany next to the city of Munich, Augsburg, ACM multimedia Conference (ACMMultimedia2007), we also won the best paper award and best demo award.
(Part one)
Best presentation – unexpected harvest
The entire conference presentation plate total included 23 shows, apart from Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Yahoo, and other companies and research institutions have also demonstrated their latest research results.
Demo showing two Session, covering video image tagging, video browsing, video image retrieval, video ads, mobile devices multimedia applications, and so on. Institute of total wins out of three presentations, which our group "video collage" for "best presentation award". And best paper Awards come prepared, this award is a surprise, although we also carefully prepared a demo.
"Video collage" is a compact description of video, it uses an automatic synthesis of images to a summary description of the main content of the video.
For any video, a video collage algorithm to select the best content representation and high visual quality of a video frame, and to take the frame image in the important area, and then apply these regional seamlessly stitching in a specified on the artboard. Relative to the existing video browsing method, the video collage offers a new, more compact, visually more attractive way to browse. Video collage can be easily integrated into existing video management system, video-sharing sites and video search engine to provide more efficient and more pleasant video experience. In particular, the video collage as a video search engine search results summary description, users browse the search results of map, you can quickly understand the contents of the search results to quickly determine whether the user wants to find the video. "Video collage" presentation of specific content see: http://research.microsoft.com/~xshua/.
Video collage examples
Network multimedia-current research
Both the mainstream papers from the Conference, or research project during the General Assembly and peer exchanges discussion, we can see the network media.
Specific research topics related to media search, video transmission, media recommended, media creation, media, advertising and media rendering, media, interactive design, mobile media services. The rapid development of the network, potentially affecting the community's economic and social life and affect and change the way people access to multimedia data, sharing, storage and use. How the Internet wave and explore innovative network media service mode, how to better mining network media bring possible vision for today's multimedia areas of research and development of the HotSpot.
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