Monthly Archive: November 2017

Meet InVID at the NEM Summit 2017

Meet InVID at the NEM Summit 2017

On 29-30 November, the NEM Initiative holds its annual summit in Madrid, Spain at the Museo Reina Sofía. InVID will be represented by Jochen Spangenberg of Deutsche Welle. Jochen will deliver a keynote on day one of the conference, entitled “What the F _ _ _!?”: Handling and verifying social media content.

The aim of the NEM Initiative

NEM stands for New European Media. The primary aim of the NEM Initiative is to provide a platform that fosters “the convergence among Media, Content, Creative industries, Social Media, Broadcasting and Telecom sectors, as well as Consumer electronics to develop a common innovation environment for the new European media landscape.”

Every year, the NEM Initiative hosts its annual NEM Summit. This year, it will take place in Madrid, Spain, on 29 and 30 November 2017.

A versatile programme

The NEM Summit programme consists of various strands. Wednesday morning will focus on EU policies and strategies, upcoming calls for projects and future strategic orientations of the NEM Initiative. The afternoon then sees three keynote presentations and a plenary session on new programme formats.

The second day of the summit, Thursday 30 November, has two parallel tracks throughout the day. Topical areas include:

  • Cultural Heritage and Digital Tourism,
  • The Future of Digital Media,
  • Toward the Future of Social Media,
  • Building the FMI Ecosystem through Experimentation,
  • Personalisation and Accessibility,
  • Cluster Excellence for Digital Creative Industries.

In the course of both days, attendees can also attend the exhibition that runs throughout the two days of the summit.

Meeting up

If you are interested in meeting up with Jochen to talk about InVID and what we get up to, drop him a line. You can contact him via Twitter (@jospang). Of course, you are also most welcome to attend his keynote speech in which he will also refer to some of the work we have carried out so far in InVID. Hasta la vista en Madrid!

Second issue of the InVID Newsletter

Second issue of the InVID Newsletter

We are pleased to announce the release of the second issue of the InVID newsletter! The aim of this issue is to inform the community, our readers and supporters, about the developed tools and applications for media collection and verification.

Within the pages of this issue, the reader can find information about:

  • the adopted software development methodology and the progress made so far in the project;
  • our latest advances over a set of individual technologies for media collection, analysis, retrieval and rights management;
  • the developed InVID prototypes, namely, the Visual Analytics Dashboard, the Verification Plugin, the Verification Application and the Mobile Application;
  • our recent dissemination activities, and the impact that these activities and the InVID prototypes have on the media and the news verification community.

The issue ends with details about the InVID consortium and how to get in contact with us.

Please find the newsletter at: http://www.invid-project.eu/newsletters

The InVID-organized workshop MuVer at ACMMM 2017 was successfully concluded

InVID organizes the 1st International Workshop on Multimedia Verification

The InVID-organized workshop MuVer at ACMMM 2017 was successfully concluded on October 27th in Mountain View, California, USA.

Two keynote talks and three oral paper presentations, two of which reported some of the latest developments in InVID, were delivered at the workshop and sparked very interesting discussions on multimedia verification goals and societal needs, necessary technologies, and associated privacy issues and concerns.

In the workshop’s website, the slides of the keynotes and oral paper presentations delivered at the workshop are gradually being posted; the complete set of presentations will be publicly available soon in the above link.

The workshop’s proceedings have also been made available by the ACM, and can be accessed at https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3132384.