News

2012

• 23.05.-25.05.2012: Bernhard Quehl "A Skeleton Based Binarization Approach for Video Text Recognition" at 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS2012), Dublin.
• 10.05.2012: Harald Sack "Medienanalyse", at the Mediaglobe concluding event, Berlin
• 10.05.2012: Jörg Waitelonis "Semantische Suche" at the Mediaglobe concluding event, Berlin
• 07.05.2012: "Neues Sucherlebnis beim Stöbern in Videoarchiven", HPI press release, Potsdam
• 10.05.2012: Meet us at the Mediaglobe concluding event in Berlin.
• 08.05.2012: Meet us at the Infomare satelite event "Lange Nacht der Suchmaschinen" in Berlin.
• 12.04.2012: Bernhard Quehl "Text Detection in Video Images Using Adaptive Edge Detection and Stroke Width Verification" at 19th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP2012).
• 06.03.-10.03.2012: Meet us at the CeBIT Hannover, Hall 26 (H12).
• 10.01.2012: Harald Sack Bildersuche im Netz, Interview on DRadio Wissen.
• Invited Talk - 18. Jan 2012: Harald Sack, "Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Exploration", 63. Theorietag - Workshop über Algorithmen und Komplexität, Fachhochschule Brandenburg.

2011

• Invited talk: 19.11.2011: Harald Sack, "Vom Suchen und Finden im Internet", for "Flüchtige Worte - Leben im digitalen Zeitalter" Tagung des Forum OST-WEST e.V. Potsdam, Seddiner See, Potsdam.
• Invited talk: 30.09.2011: Harald Sack, "Enabling Exploratory Video Search by Semantic Video Analysis" at Learning, Knowledge, Adaptation (LWA) 2011, Magdeburg.
• 19.09.2011: Harald Sack, "Suchen ist nicht immer gleich Suchen" at Corporate Semantic Web (CSW) Workshop, Xinnovations, Berlin.
• Invited talk: 01.09.2011: Jörg Waitelonis, "Inhaltsbasierte Erschließung und Suche in multimedialen Objekten" at  35. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Klassifikation, Frankfurt.
• 31.08.2011: Nadine Ludwig, "Named Entity Recognition for User-Generated Tags" at Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR) Workshop at DEXA 2011, Toulouse.
• Invited talk: 20.06.2011: Harald Sack, "Semantic Search for audiovisual media" at THESEUS Thementag, Effiziente Erschließung digitaler Medien, Berlin.
• 09.06.2011: Harald Sack / Jörg Waitelonis, "Projekt Mediaglobe im Theseus Forschungsprogram / Yovisto Akademische Videosuche", Workshop Inhaltsbasierte Erschließung und Suche in multimedialen Objekten, 100. Bibliothekartag 2011, Berlin.
• Invited talk: 25.05.2011: Harald Sack, "Wie Sie schon immer finden wollten, was Sie noch nie gesucht haben", Leibniz Kolleg Potsdam, Potsdamer Naturwissenschaftliche Vorträge, Universitätscampus Golm, Potsdam.
• Invited talk: 05.05.2011: Harald Sack, "Semantic Media Explorer - Neue Wege der Suche in Medienarchiven", Leipziger Semantic Web Tag 2011, Leipziger Mediencampus, 5. Mai 2011, Leipzig.
• Invited talk: 22.03.2011: Johannes Hercher, "Semantische Suche im audiovisuellen Kulturerbe – Das Projekt mediaglobe", 2. I-Science Tage, March 22th, 2011, University of Applied Sciences, Potsdam.
• 01.-05. Mar. 2011: We present our research at CEBIT Hannover, Hall 9 (C15).
• VISSW 2011, Visual Interfaces to the Social and Semantic Web, in conjunction with the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2011), Palo Alto, CA, USA, 13 Feb 2011.
• Invited talk: 7. Feb. 2011: Harald Sack, "Semantik - Die nächste Herausforderungen für Anwendungen in der IT", HPI Academy, Feburary 7th, 2011, Hasso Plattner-Institute for IT Systems Engineering, Potsdam.
• Invited talk: 7. Feb. 2011: Harald Sack, "Semantische Multimediasuche - CONTENTUS, MEDIAGLOBE und yovisto", Berlin Semantic Meetup, Feburary 6th, 2011, Konrad Zuse Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin.

2010

• Invited talk: 2. Dec. 2010: Harald Sack, "Explorative und semantische Suche mit Mediaglobe", IRT-Symposium "Vom Suchen zum Finden - in multimedialen Archiven der nächsten Generation", December 1-2, 2010, Institut für Rundfunktechnik, München.
• Invited talk: 13. Oct. 2010: Harald Sack, "Archivierung, Analyse, Interaktion und Remix von wissenschaftlichen Online-Vorträgen", Wissenschaft auf neuer Bühne, 2. Meilensteintagung des Forschungsverbundes "Interactive Science - Interaktive Wissenschaftskommunikation über digitale Medien, Schloss Rauischgolzhausen, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.
• Invited Talk: 15.09.2010: Harald Sack, "Semantic Search Technologies for Video Archives", Sino-German Forum on 'Digital University and Higher Education', in conjunction with 5th tele-TASK Symposium, Sept. 15-17, 2010, Bejing, China.
• 10.09.2010: Johannes Hercher: Indexing German Audiovisual Heritage -- Skosification Made Easy at 9th European Workshop on Networked Knowledge Organization Systems and Services (NKOS 2010), Sep 9-10, 2010, at 14th European Conference on Digital Libraries 2010 (ECDL 2010), Glasgow, Scottland.
• Invited Talk: 26. Feb. 2010:Harald Sack: "Der Weg ist das Ziel - Explorative Videosuche jenseits des gängigen Suchparadigmas", 4. tele-TASK Symposium, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik, Potsdam.

Publications

2012

• Haojin Yang, Bernhard Quehl, Harald Sack:
  A Skeleton Based Binarization Approach for Video Text Recognition, 13th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS2012), Dublin, Ireland, May 23-25, 2012 [copy PDF] [poster] [citation BibTex].
• Christian Hentschel, Johannes Hercher, Magnus Knuth, Johannes Osterhoff, Bernhard Quehl, Harald Sack, Nadine Steinmetz, Jörg Waitelonis, Haojin Yang:
  Open Up Cultural Heritage in Video Archives with Mediaglobe, Proceeding of the 12th International Conference on Innovative Internet Community Systems (I2CS 2012), June 13-15, Lecture Notes in Informatics, Vol. 204, Springer, 2012, pp. (to appear). (ISBN 978-3-88579-298-7) [ PDF | BibTex ]
• Haojin Yang, Bernhard Quehl, Harald Sack:
  Text detection in video images using adaptive edge detection and stroke width verification, 19th Int. Conf. on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP), IEEE Press, Vienna, Austria, April 11-13, 2012   [copy PDF] [citation BibTex].

2011

• Johannes P. Osterhoff, Jörg Waitelonis, Joscha Jäger, Harald Sack: 
  Sneak Preview? Instantly Know What To Expect In Faceted Browsing. In Proc. of Interaktion und Visualisierung im Daten-Web (IVDW 2011) Workshop at INFORMATIK 2011, Okt. 06,  2011, Berlin, Germany. [ PDF | BibTex ]
• Johannes Hercher, A. Mitzscherlich, Harald Sack: 
  Bestandsanalyse, Metadaten und Systematisierung. Vogel, A. & Effenberg, P. (Eds.) Digitalisierungsfibel, Leitfaden für audiovisuelle Archive, Potsdam, Germany, transfermedia,  2011, pp. 82-101. [ PDF | BibTex ]
• Nadine Ludwig, Harald Sack: 
  Named Entity Recognition for User-Generated Tags. In Proc. of the 8th Int. Workshop on Text-based Information Retrieval (TIR), 29.08.-02.09, IEEE CS Press,  2011. [ PDF | BibTex ]
• Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack: 
  Towards exploratory video search using linked data. In Multimedia Tools and Applications 53(2011), pp. 1-28, Springer Netherlands,  2011. (ISSN 1380-7501) [ PDF | BibTex ]

2010

• Jörg Waitelonis, Magnus Knuth, Lina Wolf, Johannes Hercher, Harald Sack:
  The Path is the Destination - Enabling a New Search Paradigm with Linked Data. In Proc. of the Workshop on Linked Data in the Future Internet at the Future Internet Assembly, December 16-17, 2010, Ghent, Belgium, CEUR Workshop Proceedings Vol. 700, 2010. (ISSN 1613-0073) [ PDF | BibTex]
• Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack:
  Indexing German Audiovisual Heritage — SKOSification Made Easy, In 9th European NKOS Workshop at the 14th ECDL Conference, 9-10 September 2010, Glasgow, Scotland, 2010. [ PDF | BibTex ] 
• Jörg Waitelonis, Harald Sack, Zalan Kramer, Johannes Hercher:
  Semantically Enabled Exploratory Video Search. In Proc. of the 3rd Int. (WWW), 26-30 April 2010, Raleigh, NC, USA, Semantic Search Workshop at the 19th Int. World Wide Web Conf., ACM, 2010, pp. 1-8. (ISBN 978-1-4503-0130-5) [ PDF | BibTex ]