Manfred del Fabro & Laszlo Böszörmenyi received the Best paper award for their presentation “Video Scene Detection Based on Recurring Motion Patterns” at the “Second International Conference on Advances in Multimedia” (MMEDIA 2010).
Pictures from the MMEDIA 2010 are posted at: www.iaria.org/conferences2010/PhotosMMEDIA10.html
On 18th June the Klagenfurt University celebrated its 40th anniversary and SOMA was part of it! The second SOMA case study “UniKlu HiStories” took place. The history of the university and interesting events of this festival have been presented to the visitors using the SOMA technology. Smart cameras, reporters and visitors uploaded images and videos of interesting situations to the SOMA system. In three different places of the university automatically selected content has been presented to the visitors. Due to the positive feedback of many visitors we can state that this case study was another successful stage in the SOMA project.
Further information can be found in the UniKluHistories folder (German).
The 1st ITEC Soccer Cup finals took place on 9th of June, just before the world cup starts and we already know the top favourite. In the ITEC version of the soccer cup the Italian team (M. del Fabro and C. Keim, both working for the SOMA project) could show their convincing abilities with the Playstation controller and took home the title! We are looking forward to challenge this year’s winner!
Detailed results and media are available at http://www.tinyurl.com/itecsoccer
While the bold and sporty soccer players run for the ball, we do electronic sports ITEC proudly presents the 1st ITEC Soccer World Cup 2010. 16 teams will battle for the Cup, just before the actual FIFA World Cup 2010. To enter the Cup just sign up your team (2-3 players) on the Google spreadsheet. Rules and constraints are given here.
For SOMA we will take the chance and take photos, record videos and capture the main audio streams. We hope to get another bunch of test data files out of that.
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The perspectives and roles of the potential users of digital multimedia systems are are subject to research in an accompanying inter- and transdisciplinary project. In this project we aim at supporting the design of the interfaces between technical systems and users / areas of deployment.The perspectives and roles of the potential users of digital multimedia systems are are subject to research in an accompanying inter- and transdisciplinary project. In this project we aim at supporting the design of the interfaces between technical systems and users / areas of deployment.The interdisciplinary project is carried out in cooperation between the department of In-formation Technology and the department of Intervention Research and Cultural Sustai-nability (http://www.uni-klu.ac.at/iff/ikn) and has the following tasks:
SOMA I.T. results from the initiative SO I.T. (Self organization inter- and transdisciplinary). It is designed as a preliminary project for further inter-and transdisciplinary activity in selected areas of application.
Duration: 12 months
Project funding: Kärntner Wirtschaftsförderungs Fonds
Team SOMA I. T.:Martina Ukowitz, Iff-IKN; Harald Goldmann, Iff-IKN; Hajo Greif, Iff-TEWI; Matthias Wies-er, KUWI-MK; Harald Dvorak, Rita Faullant, WIWI-IUG (associated member of the team) Peter Heintel, Iff-IKN (supervision)
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In the course of the SOMA project we invite you on April 22nd, 2010 to the „SOMA World Games“ event.
On four different stages four different games will be played: Rockband, Singstar, Wii Sports Ressort & Tony Hawk Ride. Be there and join our games!
Why? We want to investigate how multimedia content is created in such a social event, and how this content can be used for our self-organizational approach of detecting and presenting “situations of interest” (as, e.g., “crowd formation”).
This means that you will become photographed and filmed. But do not worry, the gathered content is just used for our research purposes and will not be published elsewhere.
When? Thursday, April 22nd, 2010, from 17.00 to 23.00
Where? Lakeside Labs GmbH, Lakeside B04b, 1st floor, 9020 Klagenfurt
Please register for this social event in our doodle poll under http://www.doodle.com/vnw6sy5t7zgkae2i if you like to participate.
There will be also plenty to eat and drink.
We are looking forward to seeing you!
The SOMA Team
In a meeting today the 1st (big) use case of the SOMA project was scheduled. On April 22nd 2010 a “World Games” event will take place in the offices of the Lakeside Labs. In four rooms different computer games will be played and locations all around the world will be assigned to the rooms. The videos and photos taken there will be sent to the actual location (Rio, New York, Tokio & Munich) using the Plantelab network, and the transported content then is presented in a lounge in the main lobby. Participating users are meant to take photos and videos and feed them into the SOMA network and – last but not least – having fun playing Rockband, Wii Sports Resort, Singstar and alike.
Why games? While we are totally aware that especially computer games have a bad reputation in computer science, they are means to an end for the SOMA project to gather a lot of participants for events and a lot of activity and action. Instead of paying participants we try to let them have a good time.
Where does the journey of ITEC go to? Under this slogan the research days 2010 have been held by the Institute of Information Technology. All researchers met for an internal workshop on 3rd and 4th February 2010 at the Hafnersee. Current research topics of the institute and future activities have been presented and discussed.
All ITEC members that work on the SOMA project participated at the research days:
Laszlo Böszörmenyi
The SOMA project and visions of the Distributed Multimedia Systems group.
Mathias Lux
User intentions
Roland Tusch
The SOMA LOOK2 use case
Stefan Wieser
Self-organizing Communication Layer
Anita Sobe, Marian Kogler, Manfred del Fabro
The internal SOMA use case “world game day” and its evaluation.
Photos of this event can be found HERE.
Ralf Klamma, Assistant Professor from Computer Science 5 – Information Systems at RWTH Aachen University, visited ITEC. He held this year’s course “Selected Topics in Distributed Systems: Multimedia Communities on the Web”. His colloquium „Virtual Campfire – A Hero’s Journey into Multimedia Storytelling“ took place on Friday, 29 January. Pictures and slides about the talk are available HERE.
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