Adam Rae became the 9th KMi student in the last year to successfully defended their PhD thesis on Friday 4th November. His thesis is entitled “Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems” and experimental work undertaken during his studies has produced systems that help users in systems like Flickr to add more…
Congratulations to Adam Rae who successfully completed his viva. Adam’s thesis is titled “Exploiting Social Networks for Recommendation in Online Image Sharing Systems”.
In June 2010 the PHAROS project was awarded the Italian Prize for “ICMT Innovation” in the category “Best practises in IT-driven convergence”. KMi was a key part of the EU-funded project that finished at the end of 2009. Members of the MMiS group provided image/video analysis, annotation and content-based search facilities for the audiovisual search…
The final project review for PHAROS took place in Lannion, France on March 18. Three years of hard work and detailed review preparation was very evident and the initial comments from the reviewers were highly positive. The PHAROS (Platform for searcHing of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces) project developed an integrated audiovisual search platform incorporating…
The iTunesU collection contains a video with a few familiar places and faces. Stefan Rueger and Suzanne Little recently filmed a short video at KMi describing research from the Multimedia Information Systems group and, in particular, the PHAROS project. The video, which can be found in iTunesU or viewed through iTunes from the link below,…
The annual CRC PhD Student conference was held at KMi on Thursday June 18th and Friday June 19th. 28 students from the Centre for Computing and KMi, both full time and part time and at various stages in their research gave short presentations describing their progress to supervisors and interested members of staff. The talks…
The EU FP6 project PHAROS has received the top rating at its recent annual review. After the review meeting held in Oslo at the beginning of March, reviewers gave a rating of "Good to Excellent" and stated "During the second year, the PHAROS project has achieved outstanding results in developing an open platform for audio-visual…
The Open University and KMi are to host the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in March 2010. This annual conference has previously been held in London (2006), Rome (2007), Glasgow (2008) and Toulouse (2009) and is considered the main European forum for presenting research in the field of Information Retrieval. As such, approximately…
