CATCH meeting at MuNCH project

27 juni 2008 12.00-18.00 hour

The future of Multimedia Retrieval

June 27 CATCH is welcomed by one of it's project locations: the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. At this location research is carried out within the MUNCH project. The theme of the day is 'The future of Multimedia Retrieval'.

Programme

The programme includes talks from Annemieke de Jong (Beeld en Geluid), Arnold Smeulders (UvA) and Sjoerd Siebinga (Europeana). After the presentations there were guided tours to the Mediapark.

MuNCH

MuNCH is a project of the University of Amsterdam, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the association Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland.
 
MuNCH focuses on knowledge enrichment by means of automated analyses of digital images and video. With the advent of digital communication, we live in the exciting times of broad and narrow casting through the Internet, of passive and active viewers, of direct or delayed broadcast, and of digital pictures being delivered in the museum or at home. At the same time, the picture and television archives turn digital. In these demanding times, the archives are likely to be swamped with information requests unless they swiftly adapt to partially automatic annotation and digital retrieval. The aim of this project is to provide faster and more complete access to pictures in cultural archives through a combination of image analysis, semantic technologies and language technologies. The focus of the CATCH meeting will be on future directions in retrieval of audio-visual documents.

More information: MuNCH website

Contact

NWO - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research - Physical Sciences Council
E-mail: catch@nwo.nl