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Singapore, 25 June 2008 -- Eight teams from powerhouse institutions around the globe will move on to “knock-out round 2” of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis, the first-of-its-kind competition to foster the development of the world’s next-generation multimedia search technology that is organised by the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Held as part of the grand opening of Singapore’s science and technology hub, Fusionopolis, on 17 October 2008, the contest offers a prize money of US$100,000 to the winning team with the fastest and most accurate search algorithms that can search audio and video files without text-based tagging. The teams that will move to “knock-out round 2” of the contest are (in alphabetical order based on country): COMET from Tsinghua University, China SHRC from China (includes members from Peking University) LIG from Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France IAIS-NetMedia from Fraunhofer Institute of Germany NII-KAORI from National Institute of Informatics , Japan adMIRer from National University of Singapore LMS CTS from National University of Singapore UIUC-YX from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) The eight teams survived the first round that began on 15 June, and which required them to test their search algorithms on 20 hours of audio content for specific spoken phrases and keywords. “The submissions from the eight teams were of a high standard, turning in search returns that were very accurate,” says Professor Chong Tow Chong, Executive Director of A*STAR Science and Engineering Council. “Competition in round 2 will be very keen given the standing of the teams.” “Knock-out round 2” of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis will begin on 15 July 2008, when the eight teams will be tasked to search 30 hours of video content for specific images or video clips.The task will be challenging, as the search will need to happen based on an actual video image or clip, without any specific text description. More than 56 teams from 17 countries signed up to take part in this niche competition when it was launched in January. The grand finals of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis will take place on 23 October 2008 at Fusionopolis, Singapore. About A*STAR, I2R: About The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis is the first-of-its-kind global competition to foster the development of the world’s next-generation multimedia search technology by Singapore’s A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research). For more information about The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis, please visit http://www.thestarchallenge.sg About Fusionopolis Fusionopolis is Singapore’s science and technology hub that brings together scientists, research engineers and technology experts from a variety of science and engineering disciplines, to find innovative solutions for technological and lifestyle problems facing society and jumpstart future industries. Fusionopolis will have more than 1500 researchers from the public labs under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), with a broad spectrum of capabilities ranging from high performance computing to infocomm research, data storage, materials research and engineering, microelectronics, and manufacturing technology. The public labs work alongside corporate labs like those of Vestas, Thales Technology and Seiko Instruments to accelerate the development of technologies and new products, and bring them to market. Fusionopolis is located in close proximity to A*STAR’s biomedical sciences research institutes at Biopolis, which will open up opportunities for the fusion of capabilities across diverse scientific domains, thus paving the way for multi-disciplinary research. A whole-of-Singapore approach has been taken at Fusionopolis to enable it to jumpstart future industries. Fusionopolis will also be home to Singapore’s various industry-development public agencies such as the Media Development Authority, the Economic Development Board and SPRING Singapore. About the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) A*STAR is Singapore's lead agency for fostering world-class scientific research and talent for a vibrant knowledge-based Singapore. A*STAR actively nurtures public sector research and development in Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, with a particular focus on fields essential to Singapore's manufacturing industry and new growth industries. It oversees 19 research institutes and consortia and supports extramural research with the universities, hospital research centres and other local and international partners. At the heart of this knowledge intensive work is human capital. Top local and international scientific talent drive knowledge creation at A*STAR research institutes. The Agency also sends scholars for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral training in the best universities, a reflection of the high priority A*STAR places on nurturing the next generation of scientific talent. For more information about A*STAR, please visit http://www.a-star.edu.sg. Media Contacts: For media enquiries, please contact:- In Singapore: Mr Andrew Yap Acting Manager, Corporate Communications A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) DID: (65) 6874 8003 Fax: (65) 6776 8109 Email: // Submitted by AY, Institute for Infocomm Research on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 5:08 PM Category: Science & Research |
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