ICASSP 2011 is temporarily unavailable

Recordings from ICASSP 2011 are temporarily unavailable due to end of our agreement with IEEE. We are negotiating renewal of the agreement.

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 Dozens of presentations could not be published because their presenters didn't allow us to do so in the consent form.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.