DynAikonTrap: Build your own artificial intelligence camera trap

Cos4Cloud - EU project launched

Since November 2019, we are an active member of the C4C consortium working at the crossings of biodiversity monitoring and citizen science. Our team is focused on biodiversity monitoring using camera traps. Initially, our goal is to provide ready to use software to filter out unnecessary data (false positives) and prepare for identification, when processing snapshots or series of frames triggered by events (like movement detection). In a second phase we plan to provide similar tools for video stream processing.

Best presentation at Search Solutions 2016

Frederic presented in late November, some of our on-going work on shape-based information retrieval in large image and video databases at the annual British Computer Society’s Search for Solutions Conference .

Keynote at IEEE ICSC 2016

Stefan gave a keynote at the IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing 2016 in Laguna Hills, California on Visual mining.

Like text mining, visual media mining tries to make sense of the world through algorithms - albeit by analysing pixels instead of words. This talk highlighted recent important technical advances in automated media understanding, which has applications ranging from machines emulating the human aesthetic judgment of photographs to typical visual mining tasks such as analysing food images. Highlighted techniques include near-duplicate detection, multimedia indexing and the role of machine learning. While the first two enable visual search engines so that, eg, a snapshot of a smart-phone alone links the real world to databases with information about it, machine learning ultimately is the key to endowing machines with human capabilities of recognition and interpretation. At the talk Stefan looked into the crystal ball exploring what machines might learn from automatically analysing tens of thousands of hours of TV footage.

MOCO '16 Keynote

Prof Frederic Fol Leymarie, Founder and Director of DynAikon, is keynote speaker at MOCO 2016, the Movement and Computing Symposium and Workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece. The title of his talk: “Drawing, Gestures, Robots” moco16.movementcomputing.org .