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Welcome to the LIACS Media Lab |
31 Dec 2020 |
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The goal of the LIACS Media Lab (LML) at Leiden University is to unify education and research in the areas of multimedia analysis/understanding, artificial intelligence, human computer interaction and internet technologies. |
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Deep Learning Starting Points |
6 Jun 2018 |
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This article has some tips on where to start for reading up on deep learning using convolutional neural networks. |
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NWO grant in digital humanities awarded |
12 Mar 2016 |
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NWO research grant: Making sense of illustrated handwritten archives" (2 PhDs and a postdoc) was awarded - This project addresses the gaps in the knowledge about our cultural and scientific heritage, caused by the difficulty of retrieving information from (digitized) handwritten and drawn resources, for both humans and computers. |
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Nvidia grant on Deep Visual Understanding Awarded |
25 Jan 2016 |
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NVIDIA research grant: Deep Visual Understanding of Paintings and Pictures" (hardware with ~5000 processors) was awarded - In this project we will be developing new deep learning architectures for machine understanding of visual media based on the pictorial content. |
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ACM Multimedia Grand Challenges |
17 May 2015 |
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The Multimedia Grand Challenge was first presented as part of ACM Multimedia 2009 and has established itself as a prestigious competition in the multimedia community. ACM Multimedia 2015 will continue the tradition by repeating previous challenges and by introducing a new challenge. Industry leaders organize challenges which are meant to engage the Multimedia research community in solving relevant, interesting and challenging questions about the industry’s 3-5 year vision for important multimedia problems. The challenges provide a direct answer to the question of “What multimedia problems are important to society and industry?” |
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Turn off Windows XP Auto-Run |
27 Apr 2014 |
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One of the most important things to switch off for better security is the windows XP auto-run feature. This article explains how to do it. |
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CFP: International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval |
14 Feb 2014 |
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Taking place between Tuesday 1st – Friday 4th, April 2014 in Glasgow (UK), the annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. |
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CFP IJMIR: Special Issue on Cross-Media Analysis |
1 Jul 2013 |
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Cross-media analysis is a new, emerging, and important research area in current multimedia research. Cross-media analysis exploits the data available on diverse sources of rich multimedia content simultaneously and synergistically. It is beneficial for many applications in data mining, causal inference, machine learning, multimedia, and public security. |
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CFP: ACM Multimedia 2013 |
14 Mar 2013 |
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Since the founding of ACM SIGMM in 1993, ACM Multimedia has been the worldwide premier conference and a key world event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products in the multimedia field. |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval |
7 Jan 2012 |
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Effectively and efficiently retrieving information based on user needs is one of the most exciting areas in multimedia research. The Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR) offers a great opportunity for exchanging leading-edge multimedia retrieval ideas among researchers, practitioners and other potential users of multimedia retrieval systems. This conference, puts together the long-lasting experience of former ACM CIVR and ACM MIR series, is set up to illuminate the state of the arts in multimedia (text, image, video and audio) retrieval. |
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International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia Systems |
4 Jun 2011 |
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This workshop brings together researchers in the field of interactive multimedia systems. It is meant to provide a forum for sharing new ideas and discoveries. A strong focus of this meeting is in interdisciplinary work from diverse fields such as interactive artificial intelligence, social media computing, digital art systems, human computer interaction, media retrieval, psychology, multiplayer games, and digital libraries. Contributions are in the form of novel peer reviewed papers which are published in the workshop proceedings. |
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Skype in High Resolution |
8 Dec 2010 |
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This article describes how to get high resolution video from Skype assuming your webcam supports high res capture. |
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Improving Apache Download Speeds |
29 Apr 2010 |
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Download speeds on Windows XP using Apache can be slow. The rate is actually limited by XP and can be improved using regedit. |
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Are Macs safe? |
25 Jan 2010 |
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This article gives an overview of the reality of computer security on a Mac. |
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Text2Image |
10 Dec 2008 |
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This article describes how to convert a text file into an image. |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval |
17 Jul 2008 |
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ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval is a premier scientific meeting for discussing the latest advances in the area of multimedia retrieval. All papers in the main track must be high quality original papers which address important issues in multimedia exploration, summarization and retrieval. |
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ACM Multimedia 2007 |
23 Sep 2007 |
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ACM Multimedia 2007 invites you to participate in the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices. |
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IEEE Multimedia 2007 |
2 Jul 2007 |
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IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo is a major annual international conference with the objective of bringing together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry working in all areas of multimedia. |
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IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction HCI2007 |
12 Jan 2007 |
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The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2007) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide in the scientific study of Human Computer Interaction. Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. including artificial intelligence, computer vision, face recognition, motion tracking, etc. In order for HCI systems to interact seamlessly with people, they will need to understand their environment through vision and sound. |
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PeerExplorer - Trustworthy P2P |
3 Jul 2006 |
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Current Peer-2-Peer systems have significant limitations regarding security, interaction, browsing, and searching. The PeerExplorer project seeks to address all of these issues towards a next generation P2P application |
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MagicVideoBrowser |
1 Sep 2005 |
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Built specifically for movie enthusiasts, MagicVideoBrowser offers a highly intuitive interface that allows its users an easy and effective way of navigating one's computer to browse or search for video files. In this application, video files are represented in a truly visual way as opposed to text. This program brings next generation video browsing and playing capabilities to video enthusiasts and professionals. |
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IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction |
5 Jul 2005 |
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Human computer interaction (HCI) lies at the crossroads of many scientific areas. These areas include affective computing, smart interfaces, human motion and gesture recognition, perceptual user interfaces, and learning in HCI. The goal of this workshop (IEEE HCI'2005) is to share new ideas and paradigms with other researchers worldwide. |
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ACM SIGMM Multimedia Information Retrieval Workshop 2004 |
10 Nov 2004 |
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Extending beyond all borders of culture, art, and science, the search for digital information is one of the major challenges of our time. Digital libraries, bio-medical science, the Internet, streaming video, databases, cultural heritage collections and peer-2-peer networks have created a worldwide need for new paradigms and techiques on how to browse, search, and summarize multimedia collections. MIR2004 is a peer-reviewed meeting for scientific researchers and users to discuss important challenges in multimedia retrieval. |
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PCI Express: What is it? |
25 Sep 2004 |
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PCI Express is the next generation PCI bus. We introduce what PCI Express is and explain the architecture. |
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International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction 2004 |
25 Mar 2004 |
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers from the field of computer vision whose work is related to human computer interaction. We are soliciting original contributions that address a wide range of theoretical and application issues in human computer interaction. Developments in mobile, wearable and pervasive communications and computing technologies provide exciting challenges and opportunities for HCI |
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Virtual Education - Online School |
7 Feb 2004 |
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This is a 3D online school where you can walk around, see and talk to other students and teachers. You can also listen to music and view video for your studies. |
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Speech Street Fighter |
25 Jan 2004 |
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This is a fighting game like "Street Fighter" played by speech. You can control your 3D fighter in real time using voice commands. |
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Fractal Worlds |
19 Jan 2004 |
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Our main goal: Is to create an artificial world according to a set of random parameters(seed) at the begin of the program. So every time you run the program, you will get an entire new world that can be viewed in 3d. More general, every mountain, every ocean, and every tree will be placed differently in each run. |
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Digital Immortality - Memory Cabinet |
14 Jan 2004 |
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We want to build a cabinet which holds 'memories'. The cabinet stands in a public space like the main entrance of a library or city hall. Every visitor can show an object with emotional value or memory to the digital camera/webcam. |
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Virtual Aquarium |
7 Dec 2003 |
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Imagine a television that shows an aquarium with fishes which respond to movement and sound from the surrounding area. |
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Voice Search |
20 Nov 2003 |
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Voicesearch is about as the name suggests, using your voice for doing the search on a webpage. Before it was all textual, now its possible to make it more dynamic,interactive and appealing to the users. |
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Why Do We Need A Mouse? |
15 Oct 2003 |
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Our project goal is to use your hand as a pointing device (like the mouse). Hand motions can be much more expressive and convey more information than using the mouse. Also, you always bring your hands with you. |
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International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval |
5 Jul 2003 |
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The International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) series of conferences was originally set up to illuminate the state of the art in image and video retrieval between researchers and practitioners throughout the world. |
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3D Visual Sign Language Translator |
10 Feb 2003 |
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We wanted to create a device which could work as a visual sign-language translator. On the fingertips of a glove we placed 4 different color leds. These leds can be recognized by an OpenGL code. |
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3D Photo Album |
9 Jan 2003 |
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We designed a virtual 3D photo album which could give a more natural way of viewing digital images. |
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Virtual Window |
12 Dec 2002 |
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The intention of the project was to generate a window on a computer that was realistic and believable. A tromp l'oeil. |
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Dynamic Disks |
31 Oct 2002 |
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Dynamic disks allow you to span disk drives and utilize RAID striping and mirroring within Windows 2000 and XP. We discuss the strengths and caveats of this technology. |
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Xmpeg |
11 Sep 2002 |
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Xmpeg is a tool for converting mpeg video from one format to another. We explain what the tool does and give recommendations for using it. |
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Virtual 3D Display |
30 Jul 2002 |
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This project is about designing a 3D display which can be viewed without shutter glasses or a head mounted display |
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Augmented Reality |
18 Jul 2002 |
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In many situations, it would be nice to have additional information about one's surroundings. This project does that by augmenting reality. |
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Video Players |
15 Jul 2002 |
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We give an overview of the DivX Player and Microsoft Media Player. |
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Interactive Movie Theatre |
8 Jul 2002 |
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In this project we create a special movie theater which changes the video on the screen based on user interaction via the chairs |
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VirtualDub |
28 Jun 2002 |
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VirtualDub is a free, open-source program for basic video editing of mpeg and avi video and audio files. We explain when to use VirtualDub and how to overcome some common limitations. |
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Dynamic Art |
25 Jun 2002 |
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Using live video capture and wall sized projections, we created a dynamic art exhnibit. |
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DivX 5.0 |
22 Mar 2002 |
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DivX has released a new version of their codec. We discuss the effectiveness of DivX for video archiving. |
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Pentium IV vs. Athlon |
14 Dec 2001 |
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In this article we summarize the debate over CPU performance between the PIV and the Athlon |
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Graphics Card Roundup |
1 Oct 2001 |
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In this article, we summarize the latest developments in graphics cards. |
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Storage Blues |
30 Aug 2001 |
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We have tested a wide variety of storage options and give the results of our tests. |
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Reflective Notebook Displays |
5 Jul 2001 |
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On a notebook computer, the main power drain is typically the display. New technology called reflective displays promise significant power savings. |
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WWW Text Search Engines |
1 May 2001 |
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This article briefly summarizes the different text based WWW search user interfaces. |
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Search Engine Myths |
1 Feb 2001 |
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Web search engines are shrouded in hyperbole and unsubstantiated claims. This article attempts to distinguish between search engine reality and myth |
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