Multimedia September 2015

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An image metadata standard to automate attribution and license info
by Jane Park 17 Feb '16

17 Feb '16

Hi everyone, I lead platform work <https://github.com/creativecommons/platform-initiative> at Creative Commons. As part of that work, we are exploring the potential of a standard field in EXIF that could make attribution and license info more sticky across the web. We are currently in the research phase -- talking to major image hosting platforms (and platforms that read and ingest images) about what kinds of image metadata they read and retain. Zhou and his engineering team at Wikimedia directed me to this list as I am seeking feedback from the Wikimedia community. Ultimately, we want to make it easier for platforms to display provenance and license info -- increase the likelihood that when a user lands on an image, they know who created it and what license to use it under. For example, images from Wikimedia Commons may get tweeted, but the image metadata is not retained in tweets. How can we work with platforms to use the same metadata standard so that info can be retained across them? Since we are just in the research phase now, I welcome your thoughts on Wikimedia Commons' and Wikipedia's own uses of image metadata. Specifically: 1. The most common image metadata standards we know about are EXIF and XMP. Which does Wikimedia primarily read and retain? Are there others that are more widely used? 2. Which standard does Wikimedia prefer? What would be easiest to implement? for Wikimedia, but also for the platforms that Wikimedia interfaces with. Aka, what are the pros and cons of each? Lastly, welcome any general thoughts about the feasibility and need for such a project. Best, Jane Jane Park @janedaily Creative Commons | Los Angeles Make a donation to support CC in 2015: http://bit.ly/supportcc2015

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Alliance for Open Media: everybody but Apple now working on next-gen open codec
by Brion Vibber 30 Sep '15

30 Sep '15

This may be of interest: http://aomedia.org/press-release/alliance-to-deliver-next-generation-open-m… Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Netflix are pooling resources to work on hammering out a standard, royalty-free, next-gen open video codec. Cisco and Mozilla had already started working together, combining ideas from Cisco's Thor codec and the Mozilla-sponsored Xiph's Daala codec, but getting them together with Google's VPx team is a big happy occasion... getting Intel and Microsoft on board means probably hardware support on x86_64 chips and support in Windows and MS Edge, while Amazon and Netflix pump a lot of video volume out both to browsers and devices, so should help push adoption by ARM SoC makers. In other words, AWESOME SAUCE! The only missing major player looks to be Apple... so we'll see if they eventually join on or if they double down on HEVC and we keep having to play JavaScript tricks. :P I'm subscribing to their mailing list for updates; it may be worth looking into if we can partner in or at least follow along and support stuff on our end. -- brion

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Video: updated support for VP9, Opus source media
by Brion Vibber 16 Sep '15

16 Sep '15

Thanks to Giuseppe in ops & a bunch of other folks who have helped out, we've got an updated server configuration for the 'video scalers' that generate media transcodes, supporting VP9 video and Opus audio. Initially we have one server updated and in production, and the rest should follow by tomorrow. (Updated servers are also in place on the beta cluster.) This should make it possible for WebM files using VP9 video and/or Opus audio to work as fully first-class citizens in TimedMediaHandler, generating medium- and low-resolution transcodes in Ogg and WebM VP8. It should also fix Ogg audio files using the Opus codec to work consistently. Support for generating VP9 transcodes as well is in the code and just needs to be switched on -- I'll tweak that configuration once we've got the rest of the servers upgraded and have more capacity for batch runs. (I've got a client-side bot which I'll start once that's ready, to force all the files to generate over time.) -- brion

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Systems used for uploads on Commons
by Sylvain Boissel 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

Hello, Wikimédia France is working on the next Wiki Loves Africa contest, and in this context, we published this graphic : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2014_-_cameras_us… These are the cameras used to take the pictures uploaded for the event last year. A person from the Africa Centre asked us if we have the same kind of information about the devices that are used to import the pictures. Is it possible for the WMF to have the same kind of data for all African countries (or the whole continent)? Best regards, Sylvain. -- *Sylvain Boissel* ADMINISTRATEUR SYSTÈME ET RÉSEAUX *WIKIMÉDIA FRANCE* *Tél +33 1 42 36 97 72* *www.wikimedia.fr <http://www.wikimedia.fr/>* *40 rue de Cléry, **75002 Paris* <http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/691082430#map=19/48.86814/2.34683> *Imaginez un monde où chaque personne sur la planète aurait librement accès à la totalité du savoir humain. C'est notre engagement. Aidez Wikimedia France à en faire une réalité <https://dons.wikimedia.fr>.*

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ICADIWT 2016
by conference＠icdim.org 15 Sep '15

15 Sep '15

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) National Taipei University, Taipei Taiwan (March 29-31, 2016) Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA) The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the following research topics: Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Internet Content Processing Internet of Things Internet of Everything Data Communication Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Navigation and hypermedia Digital signal processing Communication and control systems and networks Hardware and software solutions Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization Computer-Aided Diagnosis Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Human factor Software reliability Computational Intelligence Data mining and Knowledge discovery Education, e-learning Proceedings: The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/?q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed as Journal Article) All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed journals Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Important Dates Submission of papers January 01, 2016 Camera ready February 28, 2016 Registration February 28, 2016 Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016 Honorary Chair Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy General Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland General Co-Chair Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Advisory Chair Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------

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ICADIWT 2016-Macau Satellite Session
by conference＠icdim.org 03 Sep '15

03 Sep '15

The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) Macau Satellite Session April 2-3, 2016 University of Macau, Macau Proceedings will be published in IOS Press series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications) (FAIA) The Seventh International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2016) is a forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments and applications in the areas of Computer Communications, Communication networks, Communication Software Communication Technologies and Applications, and other related themes. This conference (ICADIWT Edition VI) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers address on, but not limited to, the following research topics: Internet Communication Internet Technologies Web Applications Internet Software Data Access and Transmission Digital Communication Software Digital Networks Web Communication Interfaces Internet Content Processing Internet of Things Internet of Everything Data Communication Databases and applications Web Systems Engineering Design Intelligent Agent systems Semantic Web Studies Adaptive Web applications and personalization Navigation and hypermedia Digital signal processing Communication and control systems and networks Hardware and software solutions Innovative eHealth, Applications and Products Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Visualization Computer-Aided Diagnosis Telemedicine, Telehealth and Remote Monitoring Human factor Software reliability Computational Intelligence Data mining and Knowledge discovery Education, e-learning Proceedings: The accepted full papers will be published in the IOS series (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (FAIA))and submitted for inclusion in many indexes. Accepted full papers will be submitted for indexing to multiple abstract and indexing partners. The papers will be indexed in many databases as given at http://www.frontiersinai.com/? q=indexing (papers in EI will be indexed as Journal Article) All the accepted papers will be published in Scopus and or SCI indexed journals Journal of Computer and System Sciences/ (ISI/Scopus) Journal of Digital Information Management (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (Scopus and EI Indexed) Decision Analytics International Journal of Big Data Intelligence International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Management and Decision Making (Scopus/EI) International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems (Scopus/EI) Important Dates Submission of papers January 01, 2016 Camera ready February 28, 2016 Registration February 28, 2016 Conference Dates March 29-31, 2016 Honorary Chair Dalton Lin, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jang-Ping Sheu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Vincenzo Piuri, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy General Chairs Yao-Liang Chung, National Taipei University, Taiwan Jolanta Mizera-Pietraszko, Opole University, Poland General Co-Chair Tong-Ying Juang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Advisory Chair Rong-Lin Shen, National Taipei University, Taiwan Nen-Fu Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Tsern-Huei Lee, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Program Chairs Simon Fong, University of Macau, Macau Jung-Shyr Wu, National Central University, Taiwan Tsung-Nan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Program Co-Chairs Adrian Florea, University "Lucian Blaga" of Sibiu, Romania Chih-Lin Hu, National Central University, Taiwan submissions at http://www.socio.org.uk/icadiwt/paper-submission/ Email: icadiwt(a)socio.org.uk ----------------------------------------------------

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