MeMAD project MeMAD project aims at designing cutting-edge audiovisual media indexing methods. This work will meet the need for automatic procedures required for the management of large audiovisual collections, as well as media accessibility for the visually and hearing impaired. INA contributed to the MeMAD platform with a software module dedicated to audio analysis: music…
We’ve reached the mid-way point of the MeMAD project, and during that time we have developed plenty of exciting state-of-the-art and competition-winning stuff to show off: If you haven’t already, we encourage you to check out the MeMAD Github repository! Some of the cool stuff you can find there include: Audio tagging Deep captioning Face…
Typical machine translation is done on the sentence level. This means that sentences are translated in isolation without considering the flow in the surrounding context. From a human perspective, this is less than satisfactory. A natural text needs to be well connected, and the story it tells should be coherent and fluent. Any human translator…
MeMAD project will have a strong presence in the Media for All conference in Stockholm next week. Sabine Braun and Kim Starr from University of Surrey will give a presentation titled “Comparing human and automated approaches to video description” on Wednesday, and Yle will have a large participation including Christoffer Forssell in the Wednesday morning…
During the last week of April, the MeMAD project team was back in Helsinki for the fourth plenary meeting. Before the plenary kicked off, members from Eurecom, Limecraft, Lingsoft, Aalto and INA got together on Wednesday to flesh out the principles for data handling and the use of RDF, based on an EBUCore-compatible model created…
MeMAD work done on datasets and data licensing for research was presented at two conferences during late 2018. The Baltic audiovisual archives community gathered at the annual BAAC conference in Tallinn. Read the best parts in our separate blog post by Lauri Saarikoski. Same topics were discussed also at the Helsinki Digital Humanities Summit in…
MeMAD draft use cases were circulated for comments and feedback at the annual EBU professional workshop for metadata developers network MDN. The first day of 2018 workshop was dedicated for demonstrations and projects on AI and media industry. Read more at https://tech.ebu.ch/mdn2018.
What is audio tagging? If you are a frequent social media user, then you must be familiar with the word ‘tag’. This type of tagging normally happens when you find a funny meme or video that perfectly depicts your friends or matches their need. This process contains analyzing the content and assigning it to relevant…
During the first year of our machine translation efforts in MeMAD, we focused on participating in two shared tasks on multimodal MT: the caption translation task at WMT 2018 and the speech translation task at IWSLT 2018. Starting with the good news, we can note that the MeMAD team won with a convincing victory over…
