Month: September 2021

AI4Media’s workshop on “European AI Vision & Policy – The Future of European AI regulation” took place on September 14^th, 2021 via webex.

The objective of the workshop was to present the recent research advances achieved in the AI4Media project on this domain, allowing a better understanding of the legal, political and societal challenges faced by the media sector. Ultimately, the goal was to contribute to the ongoing debate on the policy recommendations in the field of media and AI regulation.

The workshop addressed the following topics:

• the latest European developments in the field of AI regulation, e.g. the European Commission’s Proposal for a Regulation on Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act);
• the relevance of the AI Act for media and journalism;
• the use of AI in the media sector: lessons learned and recommendations from Austrian and French case studies;
• the role of data for academic research;
• responsible and ethical use of AI in the media sector.

In addition, two invited speakers addressed these complementary topics:

• Muriël Serrurier Schepper from Media Perspectives gave a guest talk on “Reaching consensus in the Dutch media industry on a Declaration of Intent for responsible use of Artificial Intelligence in the media: background and current state” where she will present the insights from the Dutch case study on the use of AI in the Media sector
• Matthias Spielkamp from AlgorithmWatch gave a guest talk on “Gatecrashing the platforms’ party: Data access between self-defence and red herring” where he will address the key topic of accessibility of online platforms’ data for academic research.

Last but not least, the workshop ended with the keynote by Prof. Paul Keller and Dr. Alek Tarkowski from the OpenFuture Institute, who gave a presentation on “Regulating AI and the cultural commons” tackling the issue of the use of openly licensed photos and datasets for AI training.

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The objective of the workshop on “Content-centered AI”, organised by AI4Media on September 1st, 2021, was to present the contributions from AI4Media partners in fundamental machine learning research, and innovative Artificial Intelligence-based methods and tools for content production and usage.

The workshop addressed limitations of Deep Learning related to training with data scarcity, extending the potential applicability of AI to a wider set of media. It also presented innovative solutions for (semi-) automated multimedia content production, analysis of content provenance, visual data and audio retrieval, annotation, and summarization.

The workshop had two invited talks from worldwide renowned scientists:

• Prof. Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, will give a keynote talk on “Privacy-aware Analytics for Human Attributes from Images”, where he will address the key topic of how analyzing human emotions, gender and age in images and videos under privacy-preserving conditions.
• Prof. Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University,  will give a keynote on “Multimedia analysis and multimedia retrieval: Is there a mismatch?”, where he will explore the relationship between visual information and human memory and raise questions on the real effectiveness of the current search and analysis tools that we use.

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