PERSONALIZED TELEVISION NEWS http://ptvn.dvmm.org A Magic Grant Project of the BROWN INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA INNOVATION Wed, 02 Oct 2013 03:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Brown Institute "All Hands" Meeting @ Columbia University http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/09/20/brown-institute-all-hands-meeting-columbia-university/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/09/20/brown-institute-all-hands-meeting-columbia-university/#comments Sat, 21 Sep 2013 03:00:23 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=158 Both halves of the Brown Institute met at Columbia University for its quarterly "All Hands" meeting. It was a day of presentations and discussions. A full house, with grants and fellows form both 2012-13 and 2013-14.

http://brown.columbia.edu/blog/brown_institute_all_hands_meeting_columbia_university

]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/09/20/brown-institute-all-hands-meeting-columbia-university/feed/ 0 PTVN Team at ACM Multimedia http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/26/ptvn-team-at-acm-multimedia/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/26/ptvn-team-at-acm-multimedia/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2013 14:10:16 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=149 Continue reading →]]> Two papers from the Columbia Team working on the News Rover view of Personalized Television News (PTVN) will be presenting at ACM Conference on Multimedia (MM) this year in Barcelona, Spain on October 24-25:

  • "Structured Exploration of Who, What, When, and Where in Heterogeneous Multimedia News Sources" [Paper] as Grand Challenge Solution
  • "News Rover: Exploring Topical Structures and Serendipity in Heterogeneous Multimedia News" [Paper] as Technical Demo

One paper from the Stanford Team working on the Eigen News view will also be presenting a work at ACM MM:

  • "EigenNews: A Personalized News Video Delivery Platform" [Paper] as Technical Demo
]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/26/ptvn-team-at-acm-multimedia/feed/ 0 Stanford Team at MMIX and BRUREC 2013 http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/19/stanford-team-at-mmix-and-brurec-2013/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/19/stanford-team-at-mmix-and-brurec-2013/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 20:00:27 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=152 Continue reading →]]> The Stanford Team working on the Eigen News view of Personalized Television News (PTVN) presented their work at IEEE Workshops on Media Fragment Creation and Remixing (MMIX) and Broadcast and User-Generated Content Recognition and Analysis (BRUREC) 2013:

  • "Analysis of Visual Similarity in News Videos with Robust and Memory-efficient Image Retrieval" (MMIX) [Slides]
  • "EigenNews: Generating and Delivering Personalized News Videos" (BRUREC)
]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/07/19/stanford-team-at-mmix-and-brurec-2013/feed/ 0 Columbia Team wins Best Demo Award at GNYMV 2013 http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/06/14/columbia-team-wins-best-demo-at-gnymv-2013/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/06/14/columbia-team-wins-best-demo-at-gnymv-2013/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:30:37 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=168 Continue reading →]]> The Columbia Team working on the News Rover view of Personalized Television News (PTVN) attend and presented a poster/demo at the 3rd Greater New York Area Multimedia and Vision (GNYMV) workshop/meeting. And they won the Best Demo Award for their work:

"News Rover: Exploring Topical Structures and Serendipity in Heterogeneous Multimedia News"

]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/06/14/columbia-team-wins-best-demo-at-gnymv-2013/feed/ 0 PTVN Team at "Research, Three Ways" http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/25/ptvn-team-at-research-three-ways/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/25/ptvn-team-at-research-three-ways/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:00:16 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=163 The PTVN Team was at brainstorming session "Research, Three Ways" hosted at Hearst Corporation in Columbus Circle, NYC. Incredible opportunity to interface with journalists and technologists!

]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/25/ptvn-team-at-research-three-ways/feed/ 0 Stanford Team at Computation+Journalism Symposium 2013 http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/01/stanford-team-at-computationjournalism-symposium-2013/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/01/stanford-team-at-computationjournalism-symposium-2013/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:30:51 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=166 The Stanford Team working on the Eigen News view of Personalized Television News (PTVN) presented a poster at the Computation+Journalism Symposium 2013. More news from the Brown Institute on side of this: here.

]]> http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2013/02/01/stanford-team-at-computationjournalism-symposium-2013/feed/ 0 Magic Grant http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2012/06/21/magic-grant/ http://ptvn.dvmm.org/2012/06/21/magic-grant/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:00:21 +0000 bjou http://ptvn.dvmm.org/?p=66 This project has been awarded the Brown Institute of Media Innovation's competitive Magic Grant for the 2012-2013 Academic Year! Please see their announcement here.

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