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2011 was marked by another highlight. The
EURECOM team organized an assessment cam-
paign to find a large number of photos among
100,000 which illustrated specific events. Seven
teams from around the world contributed to the
success of the competitionwhose aimwas to com-
pare the performance of their tools on the same
basis. The calendar is already marked for 2012
but this time with 10 million photos and videos.
“In addition to reliving a past event, EventMedia
will propose upcoming events to a user based on
his past social activity”, says Raphaël Troncy. This
means the application could recommend activi-
ties based on past choices. But many challenges
remain: we need to develop tools that canmanage
an even greater quantity of data, and improve
the integration of diverse media and the automa-
tion of knowledge extraction. But the ambition of
EURECOM researchers doesn’t stop here!
They are studying the possibility to detect an
abnormally highmedia flow on one given subject
to deduct an upcoming event! Imagine anticipat-
ing an earthquake or a popular uprising. This is
certainly a tool full of promises.
Raphael
Troncy
Contact
Raphael.Troncy@eurecom.fr
WEB
eventmedia.eurecom.fr
NATIONALITy
French
Main interface of EventMedia offering a slideshow of photos taken during the Dissonanze festival in 2008 and shared on the web
Assistant Professor
at theMultimedia
Communications Dept.
Publications
[1] André Fialho, Raphaël Troncy, Lynda Hardman,
Carsten Saathoff & Ansgar Scherp.
What’s on this evening? Designing User
Support for Event-based Annotation
and Exploration of Media.
1
st
International Workshop «EVENTS 2010 - Reco-
gnising and tracking events on the Web and in real
life»at SETN 2010, Athens, Greece, May 2010.
[2] Ryan Shaw, Raphaël Troncy & Lynda Hardman.
LODE: Linking Open Descriptions of
Events.
in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing,
4
th
Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC’2009).
Shanghai, China, December 2009.
http://eventmedia.eurecom.fr/
Seealso
LinkedData-a-thon
During the ISWC2011 held in Bonn
onOctober 23-27,
EURECOM
team(HoudaKhrouf, Ghislain
Atemezing, GiuseppeRizzo,
Raphaël Troncy&Thomas
Steiner)
received an award in the
“Linked Data-a-Thon” challenge
for the “Best Concept” for their
“Conformaton” web application.
multimedia communications
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