<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Multimedia Commons Initiative]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://multimediacommons.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[bjernd]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://multimediacommons.wordpress.com/author/bjernd/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Who We Are]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>The Multimedia Commons initiative is a collaborative effort among researchers at several institutions. <a name="instigators"></a><br />
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<h2 style="margin-top:0;">Instigators</h2>
<p><strong><strong><strong>Julia Bernd</strong> </strong></strong><a href="http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">International Computer Science Institute</a>, USA<strong><strong><br />
Damian Borth</strong> </strong> <a href="http://www.dfki.de/web?set_language=en&amp;cl=en" target="_blank">German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)</a>, Germany<strong><br />
<strong>Carmen Carrano </strong></strong><a href="https://www.llnl.gov/" target="_blank">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>, USA<strong><br />
</strong><strong>Jaeyoung Choi</strong> ICSI &amp; <a href="http://www.tudelft.nl/en/" target="_blank">Delft University of Technology</a>, Netherlands<br />
<strong><strong>Benjamin Elizalde</strong> </strong><a href="http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/" target="_blank">Carnegie Mellon University</a>, USA, &amp; ICSI<br />
<strong>Gerald Friedland</strong> International Computer Science Institute<br />
<strong>Ariel Gold</strong> <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/" target="_blank">Amazon Web Services</a>, USA<br />
<strong>Luke Gottlieb</strong> Synopsis, Inc., USA, &amp; ICSI<br />
<strong>Adam Janin</strong> International Computer Science Institute<br />
<strong>Martha Larson</strong> TU Delft &amp; <a href="http://www.multimediaeval.org/" target="_blank">MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative</a><br />
<strong>Karl Ni</strong> In-Q-Tel, USA, &amp; LLNL<br />
<strong>Roger Pearce</strong> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<br />
<strong>Doug Poland </strong> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<br />
<strong>David A. Shamma</strong> <a href="https://www.cwi.nl/" target="_blank">Centrum Wiskunde &amp; Informatica</a>, The Netherlands<br />
<strong>KD Singh</strong> Amazon Web Services<br />
<strong>Bart Thomee</strong> YouTube<a name="strands"></a><br />
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<h2 style="margin-top:0;">Strands</h2>
<p><strong>YLI Feature Computation:</strong> Damian Borth, Carmen Carrano, Jaeyoung Choi, Benjamin Elizalde, Luke Gottlieb, Karl Ni, Roger Pearce</p>
<p><strong>YLI Distribution and Demos:</strong> Khalid Ashraf, Julia Bernd, Damian Borth, Jaeyoung Choi, Benjamin Elizalde, Gerald Friedland, Ariel Gold, Karina Goot, Luke Gottlieb, Matt Jamieson, Adam Janin, Eungchan Kim, Bryan Morgan, Karl Ni, KD Singh, Jed Sundwall, Xiao-Yong Wei</p>
<p><strong>YLI-GEO Subcorpus:</strong> Damian Borth, Liangliang Cao, Carmen Carrano, Jaeyoung Choi, Benjamin Elizalde, Gerald Friedland, Claudia Huff, Martha Larson, Bart Thomee, Olivier Van Laere</p>
<p><strong>YLI-MED Subcorpus:</strong> Julia Bernd, Damian Borth, Carmen Carrano, Jaeyoung Choi, Benjamin Elizalde, Gerald Friedland, Heather Gallagher, Luke Gottlieb, Adam Janin, Sara Karabashlieva, Florin Langer, Karl Ni, Jocelyn Takahashi, Jennifer Won</p>
<p><strong>Analysis Tools:</strong> Khalid Ashraf, Damian Borth, Andreas Dengel, Benjamin Elizalde, Ekaterina Gonina, Forrest Iandola, Adam Janin, Sebastian Kalkowski, Kurt Keutzer, Christian Schulze, Jia Yangqing</p>
<p><strong>MMCommons Workshop:</strong> Julia Bernd, Damian Borth, Jaeyoung Choi, Benjamin Elizalde, Gerald Friedland, Adam Janin, Martha Larson, Chong-Wah Ngo, Karl Ni, Doug Poland, David Ayman Shamma, Bart Thomee<a name="source"></a><br />
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<h2 style="margin-top:0;">The Source</h2>
<p>The Multimedia Commons initiative was made possible by the researchers at <a href="https://labs.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo Labs</a> who produced the <a href="http://webscope.sandbox.yahoo.com/catalog.php?datatype=i&amp;did=67" target="_blank">Yahoo Flickr Creative Commons 100 Million (YFCC100M) dataset</a>, including Bart Thomee, Li-Jia Li, Nikhil Rasiwasia, and David A. Shamma, along with the Yahoo Webscope and Legal teams.<a name="funders"></a><br />
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<h2 style="margin-top:0;">Principal Funders</h2>
<p>Distribution of the Multimedia Commons dataset via AWS is enabled by <strong>Amazon&#8217;s <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/public-data-sets/" target="_blank">Public Data Sets</a> program</strong>.</p>
<p>Work on the YLI feature corpus, annotated subcorpora, and tools is funded by:</p>
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<li>A collaborative Laboratory Directed Research and Development project led by <a href="https://www.llnl.gov/" target="_blank">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory</a>, under the auspices of the U.S. Dept. of Energy (contract DE-AC52-07NA27344)</li>
<li>A grant from Cisco Systems, Inc. for Event Detection for Improved Speaker Diarization and Meeting Analysis</li>
<li>A National Science Foundation grant for the <a href="http://multimedia.icsi.berkeley.edu/scalable-big-data-analysis/smash/" target="_blank">SMASH</a> project: Scalable Multimedia content AnalysiS in a High-level language (grant <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1251276" target="_blank">IIS-1251276</a>)</li>
<li>A FITweltweit postdoctoral fellowship grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)</li>
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<p><i>Any opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed on this website are those of the individual researchers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders. </i></p>
<h2 style="margin-top:0;">Contact</h2>
<p>Questions about the Multimedia Commons dataset or tools? Contact us at <a href="mailto:multimedia-commons@icsi.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">multimedia-commons@icsi.berkeley.edu</a>.</p>
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