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Generating Summaries and Visualization for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs

Alexander Jaffe, Mor Naaman, Tamir Tassa, Marc Davis. Generating Summaries and Visualization for Large Collections of Geo-Referenced Photographs. In proceedings The 8th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Multimedia information retrieval (MIR ‘06), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2006.

Community Annotation and Remix: a Research Platform and Pilot Deployment

Ryan Shaw, Patrick Schmitz. Community Annotation and Remix: a Research Platform and Pilot Deployment In proceedings The 8th ACM SIGMM international workshop on Human-Centered Multimedia (HCM2006 Workshop), Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2006.

International Remix: Video Editing for the Web

Patrick Schmitz, Peter Shafton, Ryan Shaw, Samantha Tripodi, Brian Williams, Jeannie Yang. International Remix: Video Editing for the Web. The 8th ACM SIGMM international, Santa Barbara, CA, USA 2006. Flash presentation

Beach or Bust

Nobody’s home this week, everyone’s been partying in Santa Barbara. Sunshine, beaches, large fruity drinks with plastic monkeys on the straws…not buying it? Ok, fine. We’re really getting our research on at ACM Multimedia 2006.

For those of you who don’t know what it is, ACM MM is an academic conference traditionally concerned with multimedia content analysis, processing, and applications. We have a slightly different take on multimedia research; we are building multimedia tools and technology that integrate with people and their every day social tasks. The prototypes we create gather data/metadata and integrate into sociotechnical systems (like Flickr) to provide real contexts for reaching large numbers of users and real communities.

Our very own Bradley Horowitz delivered one of the keynote addresses: a bold vision of the future where multimedia and communities together can deliver a richer and more compelling experience. It’s kind of what we do and something you can see all over Yahoo!

Now, I know you wouldn’t believe me if I said we didn’t go to the beach or weren’t having a great time at the conference or even not eating great Mexican food. One reason we like Flickr, you don’t have to take my word for it; check out the photos from Marc, Ryan, and everyone else (search for Acmmultimedia2006 on Flickr).

We presented several cool new dimensions and applications that work with ZoneTag and our International Remixer. Check out our publications page to get an idea of the breadth of what we presented. We’ll post more as the conference comes to a close, so stay tuned!

Hello, world.

A first post to a blog. What should it be?

I can tell you about us, but that’s what the “about” page is… ahem… about.

I can try to convince you to add “yet-another-blog” to your reading list, but it’s not like you don’t have enough on that list already — aren’t you supposed to be working right now? Maybe I’ll go light on the promises then.

Instead, I will just tell you what this Yahoo! Research Berkeley output avenue will be about. If you care about the same things we do, maybe you’ll come back, and if not - we’re not going to read your blog, either.

So here’s a list of tags (keywords, if you haven’t been around for the last two years) that you may see in this blog as it evolves: video, photos, mobile, remix, context, location aware, streaming, tags, social media, social networks, flash, cameraphones, user interaction, user research, data analysis, data visualization, academic papers, conferences, startups, photo collections, Google?, Yahoo!, search, design.

Hopefully this tag list gave you some idea about our interests. If you’re an academic, here’s a list of some academic conferences where you may catch people from our lab this year: ACM MM, UbiComp, WWW, CHI, SIGIR, SIGGRAPH, CSCW, ICWSM – and more.

And finally, here is the list of things we really like: dogs, smart people, smart people with dogs (warning: Boss pimping), interns, Plearn, Ralph, UC Berkeley, Au Coquelet, coffee, remixing, taking photos, cool hacks, pretty pictures, map mashups, and more as this blog grows.

So come back and get our 2 cents for free. Hope to see you here!