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.
MeMAD project will have presence in IBC2018, the world’s most influential media conference by consortium members INA, Limecraft and Yle. Remember to look us up to find out more about the MeMAD project!
Lingsoft will present MeMAD project at the exhibition of Digitality and logic of Internet on May 21st in Turku, Finland. The event gathers together research around digitality and digital huamities. Especially logic of Internet will be discussed in many of the presentations.
MeMAD project was introduced at Audiovisual translation – New trends in translation technology on May 17th in Tallinn, Estonia. Dr. Tiina Lindh-Knuutila from Lingsoft was invited to present how language technologies can enhance audiovisual translation process. Read more about the presentation here.
WELCOME TO THE MEMAD KICK-OFF SEMINAR – METHODS FOR MANAGING AUDIOVISUAL DATA: COMBINING AUTOMATIC EFFICIENCY WITH HUMAN ACCURACY The materials for the seminar can be found here.
The seminar presents MeMAD (Methods for managing audiovisual data: combining automatic efficiency with human accuracy), a new three year research and innovation project to develop efficient and accurate automatic language-based methods for managing, accessing and publishing video content. These methods will benefit in particular the creative industries, such as television, cinema and on-demand services, as they tackle with the increasing audiovisual big data.