This is an example implementation of Golden Retriever - an open source Image Retrieval Engine, located at grire.net
You may use this source for building a command line based image search engine.
Example command line arguments.
Adding an imagefolder
java -jar ajmg6.jar create ImagePoolName /home/username/YourGrireDb/db /home/username/YourImageFilesFolder 1f multi
Searching for an Image
java -jar ajmg6.jar search ImagePoolName /home/username/YourGrireDb/db /home/username/YourSourceFile.jpg
Carlier A, Salvador A, Giró-i-Nieto X, Marques O, Charvillat V. Click’n’Cut: Crowdsourced Interactive Segmentation with Object Candidates. In: 3rd International ACM Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Multimedia (CrowdMM). In Press
This paper introduces Click’n’Cut, a novel web tool for in- teractive object segmentation addressed to crowdsourcing tasks. Click’n’Cut combines bounding boxes and clicks gen- erated by workers to obtain accurate object segmentations. These segmentations are created by combining precomputed object candidates in a light computational fashion that al- lows an immediate response from the interface. Click’n’Cut has been tested with a crowdsourcing campaign to anno- tate a subset of the Berkeley Segmentation Dataset (BSDS). Results show competitive results with state of the art, es- pecially in time to converge to a high quality segmentation. The data collection campaign included golden standard tests to detect cheaters.
The University of Girona and the spin-off Social Currencies Management, SL are looking for a PhD candidate to investigate and develop algorithms on computer vision and social currencies, looking for new ways to monetize the visual content available on the social web.
We offer a three years PhD position with full time salary. This is a good opportunity to explore both, research at academic and industry level at the city of Girona (100km north from Barcelona).
The candidate should have a master degree on computer vision or similar and English proficiency. Experience on basic programming languages (matlab, C, C++, visual C etc.. ) and knowledge on artificial intelligence is also desired.
We are searching for a motivated PhD candidate with a background in machine learning to work on the areas of computer vision and multi-media (recognition, person dentification, attribute learning, weakly supervised learning), sentiment analysis, and internet/web data analytics.
Deadline: 17 July 2014
Start Date: October 2014
For further information please contact Anna Bosch (anna.easyinnova@gmail.com)
Project Description:
To date, the internet has been monetized primarily by text-based ads. In fact, an entire industry has developed around keyword optimization for ad buyers. Words drive SEO. Words drive Google and Facebook ads. Words drive economy of the web. However, it appears that Facebook will now be more show than tell. The shift to a personal newspaper-style format with larger and more prominent photo displays is a response to photo driven behaviour that has rapidly changed the social media landscape. In fact, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that 50% of all posts are now pictures, double the amount from just a year ago. As we move toward a visual-centric content universe, the Machines that monetize the internet need to keep up with the times.
We wish to investigate on image intelligence; a way to systematically scan and detect the presence of brand logos, packaging, and products lurking inside the billions of consumer photos streaming into the internet each week; and a way to detect which are the most interesting images for the social users and that can be further used for branding. (According to Facebook, this social network alone gets more than 300 million photo uploads daily). A smart computer vision system applied to those photos could extract the relevant meta-data and essentially turn your friends’ pictures into buyable ad units. You click on the photo and are presented with targeted sales offers.
Over the past 18 months, Project Tango has been collaborating with robotics laboratories from around the world to concentrate the past decade of research and computer vision into a new class of mobile device.
New Accepted Article:
A. Amanatiadis and S. A. Chatzichristofis, “HOW SMART ARE THE SMARTPHONES? BRIDGING THE MARKETING AND IT GAP”, «IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine», IEEE, Accepted for Publication, 2014.
The term ``smart'' has become widespread in consumer electronics in recent years reflecting the need of consumers for devices that assist them in their daily activities. The term has a long history of usage in the marketing science as one of the most appealing ways of promoting or advertising a product, brand or service. However, even today, there is much controversy in the definition of this term and even more ambiguities for the right use in consumer electronic devices. Furthermore, it is not possible to carry out any quantitative or qualitative analysis of how smart a device is, without having some adequate conception of what a smart or intelligent application means. This article can be viewed as an attempt to explore the smart and intelligent capabilities of the current and next generation consumer devices by investigating certain propositions and arguments along with the current trends and future directions in information technology.
(I’ll add some more details about the article in few days)
Dec. 1-4, 2014, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
The Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM) is the major annual international conference in Asia organized as a forum for the dissemination of state-of-the-art technological advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and applied multimedia analysis and processing. The conference calls for research papers reporting original investigation results and industrial-track papers reporting real-world multimedia applications and system development experiences. The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on enabling multimedia technologies, and calls for dedicated special session proposals focusing on emerging challenges in the multimedia arena.
AN UNFORGETTABLE EXPERIENCE
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PCM 2014 will be held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Sarawak, also known as the "Land of the Hornbills", offers an unforgettable mix of culture- and nature-based travel experiences. Tourists can indulge themselves in a wide range of attractions including enjoying the charms of historic Kuching, a beautiful waterfront city; exploring the massive cave systems of Mulu National Park; jungle trekking and wildlife watching at Bako National Park; traveling upriver to visit the Iban and experience longhouse life.
TOPICS OF INTERESTS
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PCM 2014 is seeking high quality submissions in the broad field of multimedia.
The topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Multimedia analysis, indexing, and retrieval
- Multimedia security and rights management
- Multimedia coding, compression, and processing
- Multimedia communication and networking
- Multimedia systems, tools, services, and applications
We welcome submissions on the above topics in the following context:
- Social networks and social media
- Cloud computing
- Big data analytics
- Crowdsourcing
- Mobile and wearable computing
- Multimedia sensing
- 3D and multi-view computing
CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
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PCM Workshop Co-Chairs are seeking for organizers of workshops at PCM 2014 and invite active members of the community to submit proposals. The selected workshops should address specialized topics which are relevant for researchers and practitioners working in the field of multimedia. Emerging research themes that attract interest of the community are preferred.
Workshop proposals that include ideas to initiate lively discussions and interactions are also welcome.
Submissions should be mailed to the Workshop Co-Chairs, including the
following details:
- Title
- Abstract
- Relevance and significance of this workshop to the main conference
- Length - Full day or half day
- A draft workshop call for papers
- The names, affiliations, email addresses and short bio of the
workshop organizers
- A list of potential Program Committee members and their affiliations
(submission should not exceed 4 pages, including CFP)
Workshop proposals will be reviewed by PCM 2014 Workshop Co-Chairs based on these criteria: a) the likely interest of the workshop to PCM attendees, b) originality, breadth and depth of the topic, c) the expertise and credential of the organizer(s)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Proposal Submission Deadline: 31 May 2014
Proposal Acceptance: 20 June 2014
Workshop Paper Submission Deadline: to be announced
Workshop Camera Ready: to be announced
Workshop Day: 1st of December 2014
Workshop Co-chairs:
Liang-Tien Chia, Clement (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), E-Mail: asltchia <AT> ntu.edu.sg
Ralph Ewerth (Jena University of Applied Sciences, Germany), E-Mail: Ralph.Ewerth <AT> fh-jena.de
CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS
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Special sessions supplement the regular program for PCM 2014. They are intended to cover new and emerging topics in the fields of multimedia. Each special session should provide an overview of the state of the arts and highlight important research directions in a field of special interest to PCM participants. It should be a focused effort rather than defined broadly.
Each special session should consist of at least 5 oral papers. It is encouraged that the session begins with an overview paper on the topic being addressed and that the remaining papers follow up with technical contributions on the topic.
The following information should be included in the proposal:
- Title of the proposed special session
- Names and affiliations of the organizers (including bios and contact info)
- Session abstract
- List of authors committed to submit paper (including a tentative title
and a 300-word abstract for each paper)
The session abstract should answer the following three questions:
- Motivation: why is this topic important for organizing a special session
in PCM14?
- Objective: who will be interested to submit papers?
- Target audience and key message: what can the attendees learn from this
special session?
This is a competitive call. Proposals will be evaluated based on the timeliness of the topic and relevance to PCM, as well as the qualification of the organizers and quality of papers in the proposed session.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Special Session Proposal Due: 31 May 2014
Notification of Proposal Acceptance: 10 June 2014
Special Session Paper Submission: 10 July 2014
Notification of Paper Acceptance: 10 August 2014
Camera-Ready Paper Due: 31 August 2014
Please email proposal to Lexing Xie (lexing.xie{at}anu.edu.au) and Jianfei Cai (asjfcai{at}ntu.edu.sg)
CALL FOR TUTORIALS
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The conference also solicits proposals for tutorials on enabling multimedia technologies including the topics of the conference (details on the website):
- Multimedia Content Analysis
- Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications
- Multimedia Applications and Services
- Emerging Topics
SUBMISSION:
Please directly submit your tutorial proposal to:
Winston Hsu (whsu [AT] ntu.edu.tw)
Roger Zimmermann (rogerz [AT] comp.nus.edu.sg)
IMPORTANT DATES:
Tutorial Proposal Submission: 31 May 2014
Acceptance notification: 20 June 2014
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS
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PCM 2014 accepts both full, short and demo papers. Full papers will be presented in the format of either oral or poster, while short papers will be presented in the format of poster. There will be awards for full, short and demo papers. We will not accept any paper which, at the time of submission, is under review or has already been published or accepted for publication in a journal or another conference. Papers should be formatted according to the Lecture Notes in Computer Science template available at the PCM2014 website. A full paper should be 9-10 pages in length; short papers should be exactly 6 pages, and demo paper should be exactly 4 pages. The Proceedings of PCM2014 will be published in a book series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF via EasyChair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pcm2014
31 May 2014: Regular paper submission
15 June 2014: Demo paper submission
10 Aug 2014: Notification of acceptance
31 Aug 2014: Camera ready submission
MORE INFORMATION
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http://conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/pcm2014/