SuperLectures gets detailed video stats

After a month of development, we release playback and traffic statistics that SuperLectures.com is continuously collecting. Unlike common video servers (YouTube, Vimeo), SuperLectures.com provides you with detailed video statistics (similarly to Wistia). SuperLectures.com reveals how much users get engaged while watching video recordings.

Before we start describing numbers and charts, we would like to get you acquainted with events we are monitoring. Our aim was to build a system collecting information about every important action that users perform while using SuperLectures.com. These are events like when users start/stop watching the video, seek to a different time, replay a video part, click on a slide/link and many others. Having acquired a substantial amount of data, we have decided to build stats pages showing how users watch any video. To display nice interactive charts, we used very powerful Google Charts Tools.

Our stats pages are available at:

http://www.superlectures.com/EVENT/stats

e.g. http://www.superlectures.com/odyssey2012/stats

To see only basic stats data, you can switch to the information tab in our multimedia player. Below stats information text and graphs, there is a link for more complex data and interactive charts.

How to embed the SuperLectures videoplayer into your website

The new SuperLectures player can easily be embedded into your website. So, if you had an interesting talk or found something worth "sharing", do not hesitate and allow users to directly watch the lecture from your website. Here is a short how-to-do:

1. Open the talk at SuperLectures.com and switch to the share tab. Then copy the <iframe> code.

2. Paste the code into your post (in HTML mode). If needed, modify the size of the player by setting the height and width parameters.

Barcamp Brno 2012: Stats from the first 24 hours

Hi Barcampers,

We have a few interesting numbers from the first 24 hours of the published videos from Barcamp Brno 2012. So, congratulations to all speakers on nice presentations and all visitors who attended Barcamp in person or watched online. We published the video recordings on Monday noon, July 2nd 2012. The information spread within 1 hour through Twitter and we were waiting to David Grudl with his closely 9 thousand followers to tweet that his talk had been published :). David, thanks for a nice traffic peak.

Several more stats during the first 24 hours..

• There were closely 1800 unique visitors (Google Analytics) and 2000 unique IPs.
• There were 2 millions seconds of video replayed (it is 555 hours). Only 28 hours of videos were published by the way.
• Barcampers are everywhere (Google Analytics geolocation statistics).

And finally, here are the top 20 most viewed lectures.

ASRU 2011 recordings online

Good news everyone!

We have finished processing of ASRU 2011 video recordings and posted them on our website. There are 8 one-hour-long talks given by top researchers from Microsoft, Google, IBM and top universities. We are proud that video content from such a highly specialized workshop is hosted on SuperLectures.

ASRU 2011 was held in December 11 - 15, 2011 in Hawaii. The ASRU workshop meets every two years and has a tradition of bringing together researchers from academia and industry in an intimate and collegial setting to discuss problems of common interest in automatic speech recognition and understanding.

I wish everyone nice watching. Any comments or feedback are more than welcome in discussion below.

Igor

PS: Would you like to have your conference video recordings on SuperLectures? Do not hesitate and contact us!

Congratulations to BUT FIT students...

...because they made the same peak traffic on SuperLectures as ICASSP and Barcamp conference attendees - see the analytics graph.
Over 400 students of bachelor ISS (signals and systems) course visited 13 lecture recordings over 1200 times in (and only in) one day (really intensive study :).
To compare, the ICASSP conference had over 2000 attendees and Barcamp had over 300 attendees.

Good work guys.

Barcamp Brno 2011 debriefing

Hi everyone, it is one month since we published videos from Barcamp Brno 2011. So it is time to briefly recapitulate statistics about the usage of the SuperLectures.com website.

• The Barcamp Brno 2011 physically visited more than 350 people.
• We provided users with 28 lecture recordings (more than 20 hours of video)
• SuperLectures.com counted almost 50,000 pageviews.
• SuperLectures.com had about 6000 unique visitors.
• And 2700 of them used our service more than 5 times.
• There were more than 370 search queries and we returned results in more than 1700 documents.

We squeeze value out of your conference

I made a short video about the SuperLectures.com service. And where is the best place to present the video recording of my presentation? Youtube? Vimeo? No. SuperLectures! So enjoy my three minute pitch of our service with live demonstration.

Igi

In case there is something unclear or you would like to ask.. please drop a comment below. Thanks.

Barcamp Brno 2011

Hello everyone,

We have just published indexed recordings of Barcamp Brno 2011. The Barcamp conference was really interesting and was held at our alma mater - the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology. It was also challenging for us to set up our whole SuperLectures.com system to the Czech language. We hope you would like it and the recordings help you watch and learn missed lectures.




Igi

Note: Sorry to non-Czech speaking people - this conference is in Czech.

News: Links to IEEE Xplore

Hi everyone,

According to the announcement from IEEE that ICASSP 2011 was loaded into Xplore library, we added links to the Xplore. So if you find an interesting presentation and want to see/read the paper, just click on the link below the title. You will be redirected to the particular paper in the IEEE Xplore library.

We hope you find this feature helpful. Drop a comment below otherwise.

Igor.

ICASSP 2011 done and ready.

Yesterday, 254 recordings of oral presentations given at ICASSP 2011 were published. These are only the recordings for which we were granted permission to make them publicly available. Dozens of presentations could not be published because their presenters didn't allow us to do so in the consent form. Unfortunately, we also lost several recordings due to hardware or audio failure. More details are available in our previous post.

The indexed ICASSP 2011 is available here. We hope you will enjoy it and find the service helpful.

The SuperLectures.com website offers you:

• to watch videos.
• to search in audio, slides, paper titles, abstracts and author names/institutions.
• to share your comments (if you register).

We would like to kindly ask you to fill in our user survey. Overall, we have three user surveys prepared. Except for the one mentioned above, we are going to ask presenters to give us their opinion on our recording service. The last questionnaire is designed for more experienced users of our portal. So if you start using our service regularly, we would like to ask you for your evaluation of the SuperLectures.com.

Thank you for being with us and enjoy the ICASSP 2011 conference again!

Igi

ICASSP 2011 - Early statistics

Many of us visited ICASSP 2011 three weeks ago. I hope that you enjoyed visiting Prague and got safe back home. You probably noticed our guys with tripods and cameras recording oral talks. The lucky ones could have taken a taste of the Pilsner beer and saw SuperLectures.com demo at our booth.

Now, we and our CPUs are working hard to bring you indexed recordings. I'm going to share some statistics with you before we have everything ready.

Formally, there were 4 Plenary talks, 13 Expert sessions given and 430 oral talks organized in 72 sessions. Six of us were doing recordings in parallel for 4 days. We operated with four FULL HD cameras (1920x1080) and two standard cameras (1024x576).

Practically, we produced 103 hours and 1.2 TB of data. 100 talks were recorded with multiple audio streams (a close talk mic, a camera mic (a distant mic), low-cost voice recorder was placed on the lectern). Frankly, we were not able to record several talks due to problems with our equipment (equipment failure or HUM audio).

Every presenter was asked to fill-in a consent form to grant us rights for later data treatment. We got back 431 filled consent forms from overall 443 forms. The presenters marked "Do not use" in 42 cases, "Research only" in 97 cases and "Public and Research" in 298 cases. The average presenter's age is 32 by the way.
  
We got 376 slide presentations which were converted to PDFs. Actually, we are missing the slide presentation for 61 talks. If your presentation page at SuperLectures.com does not include slides, send it to us by email please. We will attach them.

Is there any audio or video in your slides? Do you want to let people see/listen to them? Send us links and we will also include them in to your presentation at SuperLectures.com.

To conclude, we are going to publish 254 talks.

Do you want to know any more information? Drop a comment below.

Stay tuned,

Igi.

PR: Brno University of Technology, Lingea and Phonexia at ICASSP 2011 Exhibition

Brno University of Technology, Lingea and Phonexia will be present under the label “Brno Speech Cluster” at the ICASSP 2011 Exhibition in Prague, from May 24^th until 26^th 2011. Brno University of Technology Speech@FIT is one of the world’s most successful groups in research and development of advanced speech, speaker and language recognition technologies. Lingea is the leading Czech company developing language tools, electronic dictionaries and other linguistic applications and Phonexia (a BUT spin-off) is active in development of software and solutions for data mining from speech for business and security/defense applications.

The three organizations have teamed up for project “Technologies of speech processing for efficient human-machine communication” that obtained funding from newly established Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in January 2011. The project aims at development of advanced techniques in speech recognition and their deployment in real-world applications: search in electronic dictionaries on mobile devices, dictating translations, in defense and security, in dialogue systems, in client-care systems (CRM, helpdesk etc.) and in effective access to audio-visual teaching materials.

IEEE ICASSP is the world’s largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The Prague event will attract more than 2000 participants from academia, industry and government organizations from around the globe (most of them from the USA). The conference is held in Prague Congress Center. BUT has strong links to ICASSP as Honza Cernocky (Head of BUT Speech@FIT) serves as co-chair of the conference. BUT has also an agreement with the IEEE on the recording, recognition, indexing and hosting all ICASSP oral sessions in SuperLectures.com portal.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Brno Speech Cluster’s booth (No. 21/22) at ICASSP!
More information:
ICASSP http://www.icassp2011.com
BUT Speech@FIT Group http://speech.fit.vutbr.cz
Lingea http://www.lingea.com
Phonexia http://phonexia.com
BUT lecture browsing system http://superlectures.com

News: ICASSP 2011 on SuperLectures.com

Good news:
SuperLectures.com will record and index ICASSP 2011.

ICASSP is one of the most prestigious international conference on acoustic speech and signal processing. Since BUT Speech@FIT is one of the well known research group involved in automatic speech recognition and SuperLectures.com is cool portal for effective share of learning audio-visual material, we offered IEEE Signal Processing Society to record and process all talks given at ICASSP. The offer was accepted by IEEE SPS, so we're going to offer ICASSP participants:

• Video recordings of all oral talks,
• fast search in speech and abstracts,
• synchronized slides,
• personal or shared comments and notes,
• and much more.

If agreed by the presenter and IEEE SPS, talks will be also publicly available. Stay tuned!

Igi

Welcome to blog of SuperLectures!

Hello!

We decided to run our own blog to share with you all interesting things that are happening at SuperLectures.com! We will greatly appreciate your feedback on the SuperLectures.com website! Please let us know in comments or mail us at info@superlectures.com.

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We hope you will enjoy our services as much as we enjoy making them for you and that you will share your comments, suggestions and questions with us! Help us improve SuperLectures.com!

Pepa & Igi