Short Talk 1 - Supporting Media Bricoleurs with CemintWhen expository video is made interactive it can be useful above
and beyond non-interactive video because it can be repeated, accessed randomly,
and annotated. FXPAL and many other labs have in the past explored a variety of
such interactive video tools. But we would like to go a step further than
interaction to facilitate what Lévi-Strauss described as a “dialogue with the
materials”. By applying to video the same techniques and metaphors we apply to
other media such as cut-and-paste, drag-and-drop, and spatial editing, we can
support the construction of a new type of multimedia document in which spatial
and temporal layouts have equal weight, can influence one another, and through
which content can flow in any direction.
In our lab we are beginning
to develop a suite of tools to support such seamless inter-media synthesis in
multimedia documents. The suite, called Cemint (for Component Extraction from
Media for Interaction, Navigation, and Transformation), includes mobile- and
web-based tools that allow users to create temporal content from spatial
resources and vice versa. In this talk I will discuss some tools we have
built within this framework as well as opportunities for future work.
Short Talk 2 - Introduction to Large Scale Nearest Neighbor Search Problems and Methods
Junfeng He
Facebook
We are witnessing a big data era, in which billions or
more data with high dimensions can easily be found on the Web multimedia, social networks, enterprise data centers, surveillance
sensor systems, etc. Nearest neighbor (NN) search is fundamental to many
applications dealing with those large scale data sets, including content based retrieval, ranking,
recommendation, graph/social network research, as well as other machine
learning problems.
This talk will give a brief introduction/overview
about large scale nearest neighbor search problem and methods, and show some applications and demos on visual
search engine.
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