The Multimedia Pattern Recognition research group works in one of the six major research areas of Fraunhofer IAIS. We develop advanced algorithms for the segmentation, recognition, and indexing of speech, audio, image, and video data. We also analyze social media and investigate how people interact in a networked world.

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New article about the Loveparade stampede in Computer Vision and Image Understanding.

A short video on the background of the AVATecH project may whet your appetite to learn more about this exiting cooperation between Max Planck and Fraunhofer institutes to support humanities researchers by multimedia analysis algorithms.

I will visit the ASRU Workshop 2011 on Big Island, Hawaii, in a bit more than one week. I am already excited about the scientific exchange during this first class workshop. But I am even more excited, that my colleague Daniel and I have the chance to present two demos at the "Show & Tell" session of the workshop. The demos show two rather different fields of application for automatic speech recognition for video websites: video citation and contextual video advertising.

Last Tuesday the first Targeted Advertising Congress ("Targeted Advertising - Forschung & Praxis") took place in the Kameha Grand Bonn. About 90 representatives from companies and research institutions met to discuss challenges, innovations and research in the area of targeted advertising.