We are happy to announce that our partner Rasa Bočytė from the  Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, will give a ReTV supported presentation titled "Trending archives: Reusing large-scale audiovisual collections on social media". She will present at the Informal audiovisual Summit Agenda by the Library of Congress. About the event The Library of Congress convened an informal virtual summit to share ongoing work at the Library to improve access to held sound and moving image material, and to learn from the wider community of A/V practitioners and users. The summit will feature four thematic sessions: LC Share Out, Accessibility for All, A/V Makerspace, and Notes from the Field.   Join us! You can find the full agenda here and sign up for the summit here. Registration is free!      

DataTV2020 is a free online webinar bringing together experts in the field of (meta)data and television from academia and industry to share the latest state of the art and innovations in this field. The event follows the success of the DataTV workshop organised during the ACM TVX 2019 conference.   The event programme will include talks from invited speakers on the following topics: Automatic extraction of (meta)data from TV media assets (visual, audial and/or textual features) and data interoperability with low-level feature data (e.g. MPEG-7) and high-level semantics (e.g. Knowledge Graphs) Use of extracted metadata (and its interoperability with external data) in automatic summarization, remixing or repurposing of TV media assets Use of extracted metadata (and its interoperability with external data) in in-stream personalisation of TV content (both spatial and temporal modification of text, audio, video) Use of extracted metadata (and its interoperability with external data) in the recommendation and scheduling of TV content on different channels and targeting different audiences Opportunities for participants to contribute will be given by an open call for lightning talks and an open discussion at the end of the event. More details will be announced shortly. We hope to build up the community of […]

This workshop follows the very successful first edition of AI4TV that took place at ACM Multimedia 2019 in Nice (France). It aims to bring together experts from academia and industry in order to discuss the latest research progresses on topics related to multimodal information analysis, and in particular, semantic analysis of video, audio, and textual information for intelligent digital TV content production, compliance, access and delivery. The workshop is organized in conjunction with the 28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM). This year, due to COVID-19 and potential travel restrictions, AI4TV 2020 will take place as a virtual workshop. Find out more about the event here