⛔️ STOP scrolling!
Our Strategic Research
#Agenda
is now available! 🥳
📺
#AI
advancements are already benefitting the
#media
& entertainment industry.🎶🗞️
There are many opportunities & challenges for the use of AI in the media sector & we address them!
Find out here 👇
Revisiting the 7th
#AI4Media
Plenary Meeting at
@UNI_FIRENZE
. 🔙
Ioannis Pitas, from
@Auth_University
, enlightened us with his presentation on "Public opinion monitoring through collective semantic analysis of tweets". 🗣️
Ready to hit play? 👉
🗺️ Junior Fellows Exchange Program 👨🎓
Quentin Guimard, a PhD from
@Univ_CotedAzur
🇫🇷, spent one month in
@UNI_FIRENZE
🇮🇹, as part of a hybrid exchange.
Yes, he works with 360⁰ video streaming, but you have to read his testimonial to know ➕, no spoilers!
👇👇
Here's the first
#paperoftheweek
of December! ✨
Simply put: 📚This paper presents a big collection of diverse
#data
for studying and predicting how players stay interested in commercial-standard games. 🕹️
But isn't it the hard way funnier? 🤭 Read the rest here 👇
A new
#deliverable
is here for you!
Explore
#AI4Media
's research advances on topics like
#image
&
#video
synthetic upscaling, synthetic enhancing detection, video quality assessment & much more! 🚀
Discover advancements, publications & future plans.
➕👇
Ready for the last
#episode
of the
#AI
Applications 4 the
#Media
Industry Series? 😍
In collaboration with
@mobius_europe
, an EU-funded project that empowers prosumers in publishing. 🤝
Have you guessed the theme yet? 🤔
Yes, it's about
#AI
for publishing!
🎥👇
#AI
Applications 4 the
#Media
Industry 📹 Series:
In this video, learn how
#Robot
#Journalism
systems allow for more efficient decisions, letting journalists focus on in-depth research & quality content that will help build audience loyalty & credibility.
Watch now 👇
Flashback to the 7th
#AI4Media
Plenary Meeting at
@UNI_FIRENZE
! 🕰️
Today's share discusses
#SRAUnet
for super-resolution and restoration of analogue videos. 📼
📹 Check it out- Lorenzo Berlincioni, from
@UNI_FIRENZE
, has something exciting for you! 👇
Our
#OpenCall
2️⃣ projects!🏆
Meet the
@vireoproject
that aims to develop an integrated digital solution that uses
#AI
techniques to analyze an article's content (
#text
) and recommend a collection of
#images
that would best accompany it in close-to-real-time!
Know more ⬇️
At the 7th AI4Media Meeting
@UNI_FIRENZE
🇮🇹, Danae Tsabouraki showcased a demonstration version of Truly Media, an AI-driven support for journalists & fact-checkers in content verification💡
@atc_gr
@dw_innovation
Have you checked our
#UseCases
page lately?😁
Our UCs are inspired by market needs, emerging opportunities & industry challenges. They also highlight how
#AI
applies in the media & content value chain.
🧐Take a look at the updated content:
@CORDIS_EU
AI4media started a year ago involving researchers & media practitioners from 30 organisations, focusing on delivering ethical next-gen
#AI
to serve the Media. A year later, so much has been already accomplished! Check out our TOP 8 achievements!
➡️
🗺️ Junior Fellows Exchange Program 👨🎓
PhD student Moreno D'Incà from
@UniTrento
joined
@QMUL
's Multimedia and Vision Research Group in London, to conduct research on vision-language driven image augmentation under Prof. Ioannis Patras’ supervision. 🇬🇧 💡
#Testimonial
here 👇
🤔Did you know that
#AI
can help redefine & radically improve the democratic role of media by enabling new ways of getting informed, deliberation, political participation and decision making?
➡️Know how AI4Media aims to contribute for this at:
@CORDIS_EU
We're excited to share another highlight from Lucia Vadicamo's presentation at the AQuA "All Questions Answered" session focused on
#WomeninAI
!🎤
Powerful words. 💬
#paperofthemonth
!📖
Nowadays, we understand better the danger of exchanging users’ data for free access to social media services.📱
@CEA_Officiel
unveiled the effects of data sharing in impactful real-life situations. Read more here 👉
@EUPublications
"Final white paper on the social, economic, and political impact of media AI technologies."- a
#deliverable
you can't miss. 🤖 Why? Find out for yourself! 👇
Did you know❓
@ai4mediaproject
is offering a
#JuniorFellowsExchangeProgram
to foster mobility among Ph.D., MSc students, and early career postdoc researchers! 🧑🎓
Follow the 3️⃣-step procedure for a joint (host/sender institution) application 👉
Have you heard of AIDA - AI Doctoral Academy? 🎓
It offers access to knowledge and expertise and attracts
#PhD
talents in
#Europe
.
It contributes to the competitiveness of the
#AI
made in Europe! 🤖
Find all about it here 👇
@AIDAdocAcademy
Quick
#reminder
, there's an amazing event coming up! 🌟
On Dec 11, we'll host the 2nd edition of "Junior Fellow Day 2023" to celebrate the achievements of Junior Fellows in our Exchange Program, showcasing their contributions to
#AI
in the
#MediaIndustry
. 🚀
➕ details here 👇
Curious about
#AI
's impact on
#media
? Then the European AI Media Observatory is the right match for you!🤖
It allows you to access relevant research, expert perspectives & allows stakeholders to easily get in touch with relevant experts in the field.
👉
🗺️ Junior Fellows Exchange Program 👨🎓
Pablo González, an assistant teacher and researcher at
@uniovi_info
, went to Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹, to work with the research group led by Fabrizio Sebastiani at
@IstiCnr
, in the field of
#quantification
.
#Testimonial
here 👇
Did you know
@ai4mediaproject
is building a network for
#AI
&
#Media
organisations to foster the market uptake of technologies and opportunities for research/business collaborations?
Meet our associate members & learn how to become one! 👇
@CORDIS_EU
The recording of the 1st info webinar about AI4Media's
#OpenCall
is now available!
ℹ️ You can get a detailed review of this open call, including who can participate, rules, etc.
Deadline: December 1st 2021!
👀(Re)Watch the webinar:
@CORDIS_EU
Time to explore the future of video summarization! 😍
This
#paperoftheweek
revisits the issue of model depth and proposes DATS. What's that, you ask? 🤔
Find all about it here! 👇
@Auth_University
Another month, another
#deliverable
! 📑
The theme?
#TrustworthyAI
! 🤖
Our latest work explores 4 key dimensions: AI Robustness, Explainable AI, AI Privacy, & AI Fairness.
Discover each partner’s contribution,
#methodologies
, results, publications, and available
#software
. 🤝
➕👇
We have one more
#episode
of the
#AI
Applications 4 the
#Media
Industry Series for you 📹🤩
This time, we'll look into two different scenarios: AI tools for movie soundtrack composition & AI for music arrangements and sound mixing in live performances!
...3, 2, 1, go! 🎬👇
🤔 How can the next generation of
#socialmedia
take advantage of
#AI
tools for media production? 📰
This episode of our AI Applications for the
#Media
Industry Series answers that question.
Today's
#PaperOfTheWeek
analyses the
#robustness
of Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (N-ODE) image classifiers when faced against a strong adversarial attack &how their effectiveness changes when varying such a tunable trade-off
Read more:
@CORDIS_EU
🤓 This may seem «just another
#ChatGPT
post»…
But how can
#AI4MEDIA
not be talking about this
#AI
tool?! 🤷♀️🤷
We have a fun fact to share with you:
Despite all the fuss,
#ChatGPT
is not that recent. June 2020 was the date of its creation!👼
Save the date!🗓️ The Conference of the Association for Media Information and Media Documentation will happen from 2️⃣5️⃣ to 2️⃣7️⃣ April 2022📍Dortmund,Germany.
@AI4mediaproject
will address the topic of Media Information Between Documentary &
#AI
.▶️
@AI4EU
Ready for the 📖
#PaperOfTheWeek
?
It introduces a methodology to quantitatively evaluate common visualisation approaches for histopathology images, namely Class Activation Mapping and Local-Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations.
Discover more:
Didn't get the chance to attend AI4Media's 1st info webinar about our Open Call?
Fear not: edition
#2
is coming!😁
The webinar will provide an overview of AI4Media project & practical information about applying to the open call
Registration coming soon
@CORDIS_EU
Today's 📖
#PaperOfTheWeek
proposes an end-to-end Convolutional Neural Network-based Unsupervised Domain Adaptation algorithm for traffic density estimation and counting, based on adversarial learning in the output space.
Read more:
@CORDIS_EU
🚀 Stay up-to-date on the latest developments in
#AI
and
#Media
!
Our 5th newsletter is packed with the latest news, research, datasets, and events you need to know about 🤩
👉 Check it out:
The next
#AICafe
🗓️ 5Dec2022 tackles an interesting topic for all of us 🔥 "AI & the future of work"
It'll provide an overview of the debate surrounding AI-driven automation & the future of work
Delivered by
@AnastasiaSiap
from
@CiTiP_KULeuven
Register 👉
Subscribing to our
#MailingList
is a must if you work in the media & entertainment sector or are part of the
#AI
research community!
📰 Get the latest news, events & publications, for free, in your inbox. 👇
📢Our coordinator
@kompats
, gave an interview to
@euronews
about "Disinformation & big platforms" 💡
He says that although the code of practice is essential in the fight against "misinformation, education is also needed to foster critical digital media literacy".
🆕
#AI4Media
has developed a series of 7
#WhitePapers
to steer the European
#AI
research toward directions that align with the needs of the
#Media
industry and the particular strengths of the EU’s AI ecosystem
Visit our webpage to find out more:
👉
#PaperOfTheWeek
📄Class-incremental learning without memory tackled by adapting prediction bias correction, a method that makes predictions of past & new classes more comparable👉
@CEA_List
AI4Media together with
#VISION
,
@ai_elise
,
@eu_tailor
and
@humaneainet
founded a joint instrument to support world-level
#AI
education & research:
@AIDAdocAcademy
! 🎓
An International AI Doctoral Academy which offers access to knowledge & expertise & attracts PhD talents in 🇪🇺.
🗺️Junior Fellows Exchange Program👨🎓
Gabriele Lagani, a PhD student from
@Unipisa
&
@IstiCnr
, flew to 🇦🇹 to be hosted by
@JOAN_RESEARCH
.
The program allowed him to develop a faster & more scalable solution for a
#biological
neural network plasticity model.
#Testimonial
here 👇
Our
#Observatory
is full of relevant content regarding
#AI
and
#Media
!
You haven’t checked it out yet? 😮😉
In the section Let’s talk AI and Media, you can explore several
#video
interviews with
#experts
. 🎙️
📖
#PaperofTheWeek
@CNRsocial_
introduces the Transformer Encoder Reasoning Network: it allows to create compact, rich visual & textual features for the subsequent indexing step, capable of state-of-the-art marks in the image retrieval. Read ⤵️
@CORDIS_EU
#PaperOfTheWeek
! 📖 Unveil
@CEA_List
&
@upb1818
research on face verification and detection of challenging imposters by mitigating the limitation of diverse facial characteristics in the world, enabling fine-grained outputs ➡️
@CORDIS_EU
Book your agenda for AI4Media’s upcoming workshop on Content-centered
#AI
🗓️September 1st, 2021 from 9h to 18h CEST!!
The workshop will look into innovative AI-based methods & tools for content production and usage and much more.
More info:
@CORDIS_EU
AI4Media gathered and analysed 1️⃣5️⃣0️⃣ responses from
#AI
researchers and
#media
professionals from 2️⃣6️⃣ countries in Europe and beyond, as part of our 1st survey on AI
#technologies
and applications in media!
Discover the main findings:
We have a NEW
#factsheet
for you! 🌟
We wanted to share insights from an internal workshop conducted during the 9th
#AI4Media
consortium meeting in Pisa, organised by
@UvA_Amsterdam
and
@KU_Leuven
! 🤖 📺
The focus? Policies for a better future for
#AI
and
#media
!
➕ 👇
Our
#Roadmap
on
#AI
tech & applications for the
#Media
is now available on our website
➡️It provides a detailed overview of the complex landscape of AI for the media industry
⚡️Current status
⚡️Future opportunities
⚡️Useful examples
⚡️Challenges & risks
👉
Aimed at PhD, MS students or postdocs, AI4Media's Junior Fellows Exchange Program embraces mobility between prestigious European institutions for researchers in the field of
#AI
applied to media.
Want to SEND, HOST or...you're even the student?
JOIN US ⤵️
👀The
#AICafe
series by
#AI4Media
returns on 11th October with Sergio Gusmeroli from
@polimi
.🗓️🎉
Discover how to create Circular Manufacturing Data Spaces compatible with smart Digital Twins, Digital Product Passports &
@AIonDemand
services.
Grab your ☕️ and join us! 👇
Our 1st Open Call for
#AI
&
#media
research & solutions received 60 submissions. Thanks🙏to all participants.
Proposals are now under evaluation
1️⃣0️⃣proposals will be selected & receive funding of up to 50K€➕other benefits
Good luck to all candidates
@CORDIS_EU
@AI4EU
🗺️ Junior Fellows Exchange Program 👨🎓
Mara Graziani, a postdoc researcher in
#AI
who specializes on the interpretability and safety of AI models, was hosted by the
@univ_paris_cite
, furthering her
#research
.
#Testimonial
here👇
📝The lack of policy recommendations for the use of
#AI
applications in the
#media
sector is an issue that creates important challenges.
AI4Media explored how to address this challenge toward achieving the EU's vision of trustworthy AI
Read ➕⤵️
@CORDIS_EU
See an example of how
@AI4mediaproject
can help the media sector 📰 through the automated organisation of large media collections and content moderation.
Discover more in our use case 7 ⬇️
@CORDIS_EU
@AI4EU
🤳Content creators need new tools to assist them in their creative process
This AI4Media Use Case targets
#content
co-creation based on
#AI
. We'll collaborate with authors to understand their requirements to build the best tools🔧
+ at:
@CORDIS_EU
🗺️Junior Fellows Exchange Program👨🎓
Diogo Rato is a PhD Student and a junior researcher at
@istecnico
🇵🇹, who went to
@UMmalta
🇲🇹 for 3️ months to visit, study, and
#research
at the Institute of Digital Games. 🕹️
#Testimonial
here:
This 📖
#PaperOfTheWeek
addresses regular polytope networks, the model for classification and its learnable transformation.
It argues that the approach enhances and widens the notion of a fixed classifier to a larger class of fixed models.
More at 📝
🔢 Although
#Quantification
has received increased attention in recent years, research has focused on developing algorithms for binary & multiclass problems where the classes are not ordered
⚖️ To balance that, this
#Paperoftheweek
studied the ordinal case ⬇️
@isticnr
@CNRsocial_
📖☀️ We have a
#SummerReading
suggestion for you!
👀 Check out our brand-new article on the AI Alliance blog about our research agenda on
#AI
for the
#Media
Industry.
Curious to know what we are up to?
The ever-increasing content & the need to publish news as fast as possible, while keeping it trustworthy & relevant, is a challenge for
#journalists
💪AI4media will develop an
#AI
enabled Smart News Assistant to support them in their work
@CORDIS_EU
🤳Content creators need new tools to assist them in their creative process
This AI4Media Use Case targets
#content
co-creation based on
#AI
. We'll collaborate with authors to understand their requirements to build the best tools🔧
+ at:
@CORDIS_EU
#AI
can disrupt the media industry through:
⚡️new ways of getting the audience informed, political participation & decision making.
⚡️reshaping the relationship between media & the audience, making it + reflective of the citizens’ needs.
and +!
@CORDIS_EU
🚀 Be the first to discover the latest findings and results on
#explainability
,
#robustness
and
#privacy
in
#AI
in our 🗞️ Newsletter
#3
, available at
🔗
🖱️The meeting point of sharing, experience & knowledge is just a click away.
Interested in researching
#AI
?🎓Find a host or sender institution among the academic profiles available for mobility, either physical, virtual or hybrid. See all exchange interests, available dates and contact information.
Check ▶️
@CORDIS_EU
@AI4EU
Building a career in
#AI
research? 🧠 AI4Media's Junior Fellows Exchange Program will boost your path towards a brilliant future in this field. ✨
Learn how you can participate and benefit from our programme:
@CORDIS_EU
Ready to start the year with a new
#paperoftheweek
? 🎉
This paper presents a unique approach to
#AudioPhylogeny
, using a deep neural network to enhance efficiency and adaptability. 🎵
Enjoy your reading! 👇
👏And the applause goes to
@JotInternet
with InPreVI, one of the selected projects in our 1st
#OpenCall
!
A system capable of identifying inauthentic/authentic web traffic for
#VideoMarketingCampaigns
, reaching the right audience at the right time.
📑Learn➕
AI4Media will develop a networking infrastructure to bring together the fragmented European
#AI
landscape in the field of Media.📺
It will also foster deeper and long-running interactions between academia and industry 🤝
More news coming 🔜
@CORDIS_EU
@EU_H2020
#PaperOfTheWeek
: 📖 Dive into the various deep learning methods that can be used for procedural game content generation & learn about their limitations and potential future directions
👉
@CORDIS_EU
🥇Today, we invite you to meet
#edgeAI4UAV
, one of the projects supported in our 1st
#OpenCall
!
💡In this project, a reactive Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
#UAV
detects & follows people & moving objects to extract evidence data, in real-time.
🔎Discover
Would u like clarifications about AI4Media's 1st
#OpenCall
?
Join our info-webinar on Sept 30 @ 14h cest:
➡️who can participate
➡️rules for participation
➡️challenges to address
➡️what to consider in your proposal
+ Q&A!🤓
Register:
@CORDIS_EU
@AI4EU
Thanks to advances in
#AI
and other tools, it is possible to analyse
#socialmedia
data & identify mental health trends in individuals at high risk. 🆒
👀 Read more at
@sciam
article:
📢AI4Media's Open
#Datasets
!
Learn about
#NDISPark
#Dataset
by
@CNRsocial_
👇
A collection of images taken during the day & at night for🚗vehicle detection, segmentation & counting in
#ParkingAreas
, under various weather conditions & viewing angles
Check it
💡The AI4Media's Junior Fellows Exchange Program promotes the mobility of postgraduate students & researchers in the field of
#AI
.
We're excited about the SENDER & HOST institutions that have joined us so far - and yours can be on the list too!
Join us 👉
Did you know that...⤵️
#AI
technologies can help reshape the relationship between the media and its audiences & make it more responsive, so it can better reflect the needs of citizens in a datafied society?
This is part of our mission at AI4Media!📻
@CORDIS_EU
@EU_H2020
👩💻Be aware of all the
#software
developed by the
@ai4mediaproject
, grouped into 4 categories that represent AI4Media’s main research activities👇
⚡️Machine learning tools
⚡️Trust Enhancing AI
⚡️AI for multimedia content
⚡️AI for society
🖲 More at
On September 18, the 3rd International Workshop on Learning to Quantify was held in Torino! 🎓
In this
#paperoftheweek
, you can access five of the seven contributed papers that were accepted for presentation at the workshop. 📄
@CNRsocial_
@uniovi_info
There you go 👇
Did you know that our
#Roadmap
on
#AI
tech & applications for the
#Media
has been divided into different parts to ease the reading?
➡️Check the introduction section & get to know why we focus on AI for the media industry, what methodology we adopted...
+
⚠️The deadline for submitting applications to AI4Media’s 1st
#OpenCall
is approaching fast!
But there is still time to prepare & submit your application
We look for research or applications in
#AI
for media
ℹ️ Everything u need to know at
@CORDIS_EU
@AI4EU
📝AI4Media is collecting opinions from AI & media community regarding trends, benefits & challenges of
#AI
applied to
#media
The results will help us build a
#roadmap
, useful for future AI developments🔮
JOIN US in this mission! Fill in the survey⤵️
Some of AI4Media projected outcomes include👇
📺A joint research agenda in the fields of media-related
#AI
research
📺A toolbox of novel content-centered AI algorithms and applications
and many others!😄
Discover them all here:
@CORDIS_EU
Help us increase the competitiveness of
#AImadeinEurope
!
... How?🤔
⚡️SEND your PhD students or researchers in the field of
#AI
for media to our
#JuniorFellowsProgram
!
You will enable them to add an international perspective to their education & much+!
👉
🧠
#NeuralCultures
plasticity can be induced by Multi-Electrode Arrays
#MEAs
stimulation. But is it possible to train cultures on
#MEAs
to recognize simple patterns? This
#Paperoftheweek
demonstrates that possibility by developing a simulator of
#NeuralCultures