Events
October 30-31, 2014 - Designing for Multimedia Archives - Training Event
OVERVIEW
The inEvent project offered a two-day tutorial on interfaces for multimedia lecture navigation at EPFL on October 30-31, 2014.
All the material related to the training event is available on a separate page, which is password protected. If you wish to access this material, please contact Andrei Popescu-Belis.
Objectives
The main goal was to disseminate and encourage the use of the inEvent system, focusing especially on the inEvent portal, i.e. the hyper-event search and browsing interface, and on the media archiving framework which provides access to the data. In exchange, another goal was also to obtain first-hand feedback on our software (in the form that is offered for download after the end of inEvent) and on our user interfaces, and collect suggestions and software snippets for improving these interfaces.
The event gathered seven participants and three organizers, for two days. The program and outcomes in terms of projects proposed by the participants are given in the tutorial report available from the restricted page. The participants came from four different countries (the Czech Republic, Greece, Switzerland, the United Kingdom), and had a variety of profiles and academic degrees (researchers, designers, undergraduates, PhD students, postdocs).
Organizers
Sandy Ingram, PhD, Lead R&D Engineer, Klewel SA, Martigny
Jean Carletta, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Andrei Popescu-Belis, PhD, Senior researcher, Idiap Research Institute and Lecturer, EPFL
(contact email: andrei dot popescu-belis at idiap dot ch)
inEvent workshop "Audiovisual communications to empower your organization" - September 12, 2014
Audiovisual communications to empower your organization: From the telegraph to email and instant messaging, every radical new means of communication has caused huge shifts in business communication practices. Video is now used widely: Skype, video-conferencing, training videos for staff-partners-customers, meeting repositories. It serves different purposes from HR training to digital marketing. Recording devices are now so accessible and getting smarter that it's somehow their time. They can help an organization accommodate flexible working conditions, remember decisions, and communicate clearly and efficiently. But if deployed badly, they can be a time sink that alienates staff and deliver counterproductive results. This afternoon of peer discussion is an opportunity to compare business communication practices and think through what this technological near future means for you and your business.
View hereafter the inEvent Workshop Report
View hereafter the photos gallery
Who is this workshop addressed to?
Middle-to-top management in large organizations, with experience in running meetings, small events, internationally.
Program
| Introduction - What are our communication needs? |
| Dealing with Distance - Globalized Communication without the 24/7 |
| Avoiding Communication Overload - making the right choices |
| Developing a better corporate memory |
| Coffee time |
The event will be held exclusively in English.
Facilitated by: 
Jean Ducommun and Monique Divanach from https://km-consulting.ch/ .
TEDx Martigny & ICC
On September 12, the TEDx Martigny event will take place at 5 pm at the hotel Vatel (same building as Idiap). For those interested to participate in this event after this workshop, please find the registration link here .
The workshop will take place during the International Create Challenge 2014 (ICC'2014), a start-up accelerator program organized by Idiap. Please find more information: https://www.createchallenge.org/.
inEvent, SILVER partner for the FRESH conference in Copenhagen, 26-28 January 2014
FRESH is a two-day conference that refreshes conferences, meetings and events and increases their effectiveness. By introducing and demonstrating the latest tools and knowledge we provide meeting planners, meeting designers, meeting producers and meeting owners with applicable improvement. All presentations, room layouts, the venue, the staging, the processes, the food… everything is new or innovative or at least interesting enough to investigate.
Why you want to be there
FRESH has a unique and 100% focus on the content side of meetings:
- What participants learn from speakers and each other.
- Who, and to what extent, participants meet new professional contacts.
- How engaged and energized they leave ready to take action.
Everything that generates value in meetings and makes them more effective, that is what the FRESH Crowd is interested in.
Oct 30, 2013 - Easier Access to Recorded Video Events
The webcast of the webinar is now available
Webinar webcast: Unlocking Multimedia Content
Imagine going back and watching the moment you and your team came up with an innovative idea, or revisit the meeting to check the details of an important task that was assigned to you. Imagine watching again a question that was raised during a professional congress, or a lecture you missed. Imagine that while trying to learn a new topic, you could easily fetch related lectures and meetings as well as emails, documents and web links.
inEvent is a research project that aims to allow you to search recorded video like lectures or meetings as easy as searching emails and documents. With inEvent you can easily search and jump to:
A specific keyword mentioned in a lecture
The moment a specific participant started to talk
A slide in a presentation during the lecture or meeting
inEvent personalizes the experience with recommendation lists and targeted search results.
inEvent unlocks the potential of your stored video lectures and meetings with new innovative technologies so your organization can fully leverage this data.
Blog post
Imagine that you could go back and watch a specific moment...
Program
Easier Access to Recorded Video Events (70 minutes)
Unlocking Multimedia
Hervé Bourlard
10 minutes
inEvent: Interacting with Multimedia Content
Sandy Ingram
10 minutes + 5 minutes of Q&A
From Search to Recommendation for Navigation
Andrei Popescu-Belis
10 minutes + 5 minutes of Q&A
Potential of Automatic Audio-Video Analysis
Oliver Schreer
15 minutes + 5 minutes of Q&A
Perspectives
Steve Renals
10 minutes
Short Biographies
Hervé Bourlard is the Director of the Idiap Research Institute, a Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne (EPFL), and the founding Director of National Center of Competence in Research on "Interactive Multimodal Information Management". He is the Coordinator of the inEvent EU project developing the core technologies presented at this webinar. He has over 300 publications, has initiated and coordinated numerous international research projects, and is the recipient of several scientific and entrepreneurship awards.
Sandy Ingram received her PhD. degree in Computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Lausanne. While at EPFL, Sandy has strongly contributed to several European and national projects in the field of technology-enhanced lifelong learning and online collaborative work. Sandy is currently responsible for R&D projects at Klewel.
Andrei Popescu-Belis is a Senior Researcher at the Idiap Research Institute (Martigny, Switzerland), a lecturer at EPFL, and the head of Idiap's Natural Language Processing group. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1995. He holds an MSc in AI from the University of Paris VI (1996) and a PhD in computer science from LIMSI-CNRS, University of Paris XI (1999). Before joining Idiap, he has been a researcher at UCSD and the University of Geneva. He has over 100 publications in human language technology, information retrieval, and multimodal interactive systems.
Oliver Schreer is Associate Professor at Technical University Berlin and scientific project manager of the “Immersive Media & 3D Video”-Group in the Image Processing Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications HHI. He received his Dr.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Berlin in 1999. Since August 1998, he is with the IP department, where he is engaged in research for 3D video analysis, vision-based HCI, real-time 3D video conferencing systems and immersive media applications. In June 2006, Oliver Schreer received his habilitation degree in the field of "Computer Vision/Videocommunication" at the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin. Since autumn 2006, he has the position of an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University Berlin. He published more than 90 papers in conferences and journals and he is editor of a book on "3D Videocommunication" published in 2005 at Wiley & Sons, UK.
Steve Renals is Professor of Speech Technology at the University of Edinburgh. He has research interests in speech and language technology, with over 200 publications in the area, with recent work on neural network acoustic models, cross-lingual speech recognition, and meeting recognition. He is co-editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing and senior area editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
