We explore applications for enriching experiences around live visual media events by
leveraging conversational activity on short messaging services. We investigate the …

The widespread availability of broadband connections has led to an increase in the use of
Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed numerous …

This paper presents a high-level overview of Yahoo Research Berkeley's approach to
multimedia research and the ideas motivating it. This approach is characterized primarily by …

Video chat programs for home and personal use (eg, Skype) are becoming increasingly
popular for doing more than simply conversing with a remote friend or family member. This …

One challenge in facilitating skimming or browsing through archives of on-line recordings of
webcast lectures is the lack of text transcripts of the recorded lecture. Ideally, transcripts …

The increased availability of broadband connections has recently led to an increase in the
use of Internet broadcasting (webcasting). Most webcasts are archived and accessed …

We present a user‐based method that detects regions of interest within a video in order to
provide video skims and video summaries. Previous research in video retrieval has focused …

Increasingly, information systems (IS) development is done internationally. International IS
development is very complex. Some of the factors that lead to this high complexity include …

Statler is a tool to examine short messages from Twitter that relate to a broadcast media
event. Using twitter messages sent at the time of widely televised events, Statler shows …

Abstract ePresence is an educational multimedia system for producing interactive webcasts
that are accessible in real-time by remote viewers and retrospectively by archive viewers …