CATCH meeting at MuNCH project
27 June 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 will start at 12:00 hour with a lunch in the main hall of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The program will contain two international speakers, one of which is Dr. Noel O'Connor from Dublin City University about ‘Future research directions in retrieval of audio-visual documents’. In addition, a number of innovative projects will be presented that together represent the future of Sound and Vision.
At the end of the day, there will be an informal, interactive session. Details will follow. From 17:00 until 18:00 hour drinks will be served.
There is no registration fee, so REGISTER online now!
Location
The meeting will take place at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The institute is located at 5 minutes walking distance from the train station Hilversum Noord.
Address
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
Media Park, Sumatralaan 45
Postbus 1060
1200 BB Hilversum
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
Website: www.nwo.nl/catch