We are excited to announce that ReTV will be present in the upcoming NEM Summit 2020. This year the event will be held as a virtual event. Project Coordinator, Lyndon Nixon, will give a presentation on "Optimising the Future Publication of Media Content through AI". The NEM Summit 2020 program has been created under the umbrella title "B’Smart – European Media Science and Technology Meets Arts". You can find the program  here About NEM The New European Media initiative is a leading European Network for Media and Creative Industries. The NEM Initiative mission is to foster the impact of interactive technologies on the future of new media. and the goal of the initiative is to develop a common innovation environment for the new European media landscape.        

We are happy to announce that ReTV partners will present a paper on “Online News Monitoring for Enhanced Reuse of Audiovisual Archives” in the upcoming 24th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2020 will be held online on August 25 to 27. Participants to the workshops, doctoral consortium and/or conferences not presenting a talk will be able to register for free. About the Conference The European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL) has been the leading European scientific forum on digital libraries for 14 years. From the 15th edition on 2011 the conference has a new name: International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. The conference continues to bring together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. Find out more about the event here

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

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 […]