Publications associées à Index-Driven Digitization and Indexation of Historical Archives

Redefining Access to Large Audiovisual Archives through Embodied Experiences in Immersive Environments: Creativity & Cognition 2022 - Graduate Student Symposium

Audiovisual archives are the mnemonic archives of the 21st century, with important cultural institutions increasingly digitizing their video collections. However, these remain mostly inaccessible, due to the sheer amount of content combined with the lack o ...

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)2022

Dynamic Personalized Ranking

Jérémie Rappaz

Personalized ranking methods are at the core of many systems that learn to produce recommendations from user feedbacks. Their primary objective is to identify relevant items from very large vocabularies and to assist users in discovering new content. These ...

EPFL2022

Spherical Clustering of Users Navigating 360° Content

Pascal Frossard, Francesca De Simone, Laura Toni

In Virtual Reality (VR) applications, understanding how users explore the omnidirectional content is important to optimize content creation, to develop user-centric services, or even to detect disorders in medical applications. Clustering users based on th ...

IEEE2019

Extracting And Aligning Artist Names in Digitized Art Historical Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin, Isabella Di Lenardo

The largest collections of art historical images are not found online but are safeguarded by museums and other cultural institutions in photographic libraries. These collections can encompass millions of reproductions of paintings, drawings, engravings and ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018

A View on Venetian Apprenticeship through the Garzoni Database

Giovanni Colavizza

A sample of contracts of apprenticeship from three periods in the history of early modern Venice is analysed, as recorded in the archive of the Giustizia Vecchia, a venetian magistracy. The periods are the end of the 16th century, the 1620s and the 1650s. ...

Universitas Studiorum2017

From Documents to Structured Data: First Milestones of the Garzoni Project

Frédéric Kaplan, Orlin Biserov Topalov, Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

Led by an interdisciplinary consortium, the Garzoni project undertakes the study of apprenticeship, work and society in early modern Venice by focusing on a specific archival source, namely the Accordi dei Garzoni from the Venetian State Archives. The proj ...

2016

Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery

Denis Gillet, Andrii Vozniuk, Adrian Christian Holzer, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana

Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

2016

A Method for Record Linkage with Sparse Historical Data

Yannick Rochat, Giovanni Colavizza, Maud Ehrmann

Massive digitization of archival material, coupled with automatic document processing techniques and data visualisation tools offers great opportunities for reconstructing and exploring the past. Unprecedented wealth of historical data (e.g. names of perso ...

2016

Analysis and Synthesis of Structured Variations in 3D Geometries

Ngoc Minh Dang

In recent years, the use of 3D digital content becomes widespread in various industrial and scientific domains. However, content creation still remains a costly task as extensive manual work is often required. As such, one of the core research topics in co ...

EPFL2016

Venice Time Machine : Recreating the density of the past

Frédéric Kaplan, Isabella Di Lenardo

This article discusses the methodology used in the Venice Time Machine project (http://vtm.epfl.ch) to reconstruct a historical geographical information system covering the social and urban evolution of Venice over a period of 1,000 years. Given the time s ...

2015

Combining Content with User Preferences for Non-Fiction Multimedia Recommendation: A Study on TED Lectures

Andrei Popescu-Belis, Nikolaos Pappas

This paper introduces a new dataset and compares several methods for the recommendation of non-fiction audio visual material, namely lectures from the TED website. The TED dataset contains 1,149 talks and 69,023 profiles of users, who have made more than 1 ...

Springer2015

MEM0R1ES: Memory-based Information Systems

Michele Catasta

The advent of the Web reshaped the way in which humans memorize information, arguably unlike any other technological advance of the last decades. Rather than remembering the information itself, people are primed to find the needed information through Web s ...

EPFL2015

Social-Aware Replication in Geo-Diverse Online Systems

Kévin Clément Huguenin

Distributing long-tail content is a difficult task due to the low amortization of bandwidth transfer costs as such content has limited number of views. Two recent trends are making this problem harder. First, the increasing popularity of user-generated con ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Displaying Teacher's Gaze in a MOOC: Effects on Students' Video Navigation Patterns

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann, Kshitij Sharma

We present an eye-tracking study where we augment a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) video with the gaze information of the teacher. We tracked the gaze of a teacher while he was recording the content for a MOOC lecture. Our working hypothesis is that dis ...

2015

A Scalable Approach to Harvest Modern Weblogs

Olivier Eric Paul Blanvillain

Blogs are one of the most prominent means of communication on the web. Their content, interconnections and influence constitute a unique socio-technical artefact of our times which needs to be preserved. The BlogForever project has established best practic ...

World Scientific Publ Co Pte Ltd2015

Studying Web Content Credibility by Social Simulation

Karl Aberer

The Internet has become an important source of information that significantly affects social, economical and political life. The content available in the Web is the basis for the operation of the digital economy. Moreover, Web content has become essential ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014

Modeling and Understanding Communities in Online Social Media using Probabilistic Methods

Radu Andrei Negoescu

The amount of multimedia content is on a constant increase, and people interact with each other and with content on a daily basis through social media systems. The goal of this thesis was to model and understand emerging online communities that revolve aro ...

EPFL2011

Omnidirectional object duplicate detection

Touradj Ebrahimi, Ivan Ivanov, Péter Vajda, Lutz Goldmann

With the technological evolution of digital acquisition and content analysis, millions of images and video sequences are captured every day and used in a large variety of applications. As keyword-based indexing is very time consuming and inefficient due to ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2011

Leveraging User-Generated Content for Information Discovery on the Web

Adriana Budura

The large-scale adoption of the Web 2.0 paradigm has revolutionized the way we interact with the Web today. End-users, so far mainly passive consumers of information are now becoming active information producers, creating, uploading, and commenting on all ...

EPFL2010

A Publish/Subscribe Approach to Processing Continuous Queries over Sensor Streams

Oana Anca Jurca

With technological advances, the sources of available information have become more and more diverse. Recently, a new source of information has gained growing importance: sensor data. Sensors are devices sensing their environment in various ways and reporti ...

EPFL2010