It's been more than a month since this year's Thessaloniki International Film Festival has ended and here is a timeline with collective stories from the event and aggregated social data connected to the festival. SocialSensor supported also this year the Thessaloniki International Film Festival offering updated apps for iOS and Android with enhanced functionality, social media walls to engage the audience and drive it from online socializing to real socializing and timelines that capture the event and social media highlights to make the festival a year-long discussion. 

Check out the festival timeline here and find out more about our applications here.

SocialSensor is pleased to announce its support on the 1st International Workshop on Social Multimedia and Storytelling co-located with the ACM International Conference on Information Retrieval, Glasgow UK, April 1 - 4, 2014. The research and innovations encouraged by the workshop are expected to help drive the next wave of multimedia capturing and consumption technologies.

Are you a researcher specializing in social news and the web? Do you have an innovative idea, framework or methodology to extract useful information from big social streams of data? This is your opportunity to showcase your work and win 1000$ plus an iPad air as first prize.

SocialSensor is organizing a data challenge at SNOW, WWW 2014 workshop in Seoul, Korea. Our objective with this task is to explore novel and effective solutions. Your task is to mine the Twitter stream to automatically extract topics corresponding to known events (e.g., politics, sports, entertainment).

For a second consecutive year SocialSensor has supported the 2013 Social Event Detection Task, part of the MediaEval Benchmark Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation. This task requires participants to discover social events and organize the related media items in event-specific clusters, within a collection of Web multimedia. The task is of interest to researchers in the areas of information retrieval, multimedia content analysis, social media analysis, event detection and event-based multimedia indexing.

The MediaEval benchmarking season culminates with a workshop that brings together researchers who participated in benchmark tasks to report on their findings, discuss their approaches and learn from each other. The MediaEval 2013 Workshop included posters presentations by MediaEval participants and invited talks. The workshop took place in Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, on Friday-Saturday 18-19 October 2013.

This year also, SocialSensor has achieved great results at the MediaEval 2013 "Retrieving Diverse Social Images" task. We submitted the best visual-only run which is also ranked 3rd overall. Furthermore, we received an idea-originality award for our run that uses Exif data and weather information to diversify results.

To learn more about the MediaEval benchmark click here.

SocialSensor is happy to announce its participation in the Mobile World Congress 2014 as part of the Greek Pavillion. 

Once again taking place at Fira Gran Via – the world-class venue in the heart of the Mobile World Capital. With more than 72,000 attendees and 1,700 exhibitors from 220 countries MWC is the largest mobile technology focused event in the world. 

SocialSensor has achieved great results at the MediaEval 2013 "Retrieving Diverse Social Images" task. We submitted the best visual-only run which is also ranked 3rd overall!

Furthermore, we received an idea-originality award for our run that uses Exif data and weather information to diversify results. You can find more information about our approach in the relevant poster.