The Multimedia Commons Project: Launch Reception

Wednesday, September 2, 2015
4:00 - 6:00 p.m., ICSI Lecture Hall

The Multimedia Commons Project is an ICSI-initiated project in collaboration with a team of researchers and engineers from Yahoo, Amazon, Lawrence Livermore Labs, and UC Berkeley to create the largest and at the same time most accessible corpus for multimedia retrieval research. Based on Yahoo's release of the YFCC100M corpus of 100 million images and 1 million videos, ICSI teamed up with Lawrence Livermore labs to extract features and to create annotations [1], which are hosted by Amazon and made available as open data set to everybody using an instance template that was created in a collaboration between UC Berkeley and ICSI. It contains an environment that allows even an individual student to perform retrieval research on the full dataset using parallel implementations of standard machine learning tools.  

This informal reception celebrates the public launch of the project.

Program:

  • Welcome speech with project summary 
  • Introductions
  • Refreshments

The project is the result of an NSF Bigdata grant, Award #1251258. Some portions of this work were performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.

1  B. Thomee, D. A. Shamma, B. Elizalde, G. Friedland, K. Ni, D. Poland, D. Borth, and L. Li. YFCC100M: The New Data in Multimedia Research. To appear in the Communications of the ACM, 2015