ICASSP 2011 back on-line

Hi, recordings from ICASSP 2011 are again on-line (forever). Many thanks to IEEE.

Igor

4 reasons why you should record your event

Probably you are asking yourself: "Should I record the event?" My answer to this question is: "Yes, you should." But it depends on your audience and type of the event, of course. Here are four reasons which can help you decide:

• The participants. Especially if there are many interesting speakers with a lot of information to tell. I do not know how good your memory is, but I appreciate the possibility of recalling important information several months later. Does your event have sessions running in parallel? Do not hesitate and record the event. Deciding which session to visit is stressful for participants. They are much more relaxed and enjoy your event bearing in mind that they do not miss anything important. They can also do much more networking "during" the talks. And networking is the core of your event.

5 steps to make your event videos Super

1. You organize an event (well, we cannot help you with that :)

2. Hire a cameraman and record the event (we help you hire the person and record it right)

3. You provide us with the data (send it by post or upload it to our FTP)

 4. We process the data

5. We publish the videos after your validation of the final product on SuperLectures.com

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!

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.

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