WHAT:

• Life at YouTube: An Engineering Perspective
• What is Content ID (Tech Talk)
• Career Opportunities
• Q&A

WHO:

• Thomas Walland
• Technical Program Manager
• YouTube/Google

WHEN:

• 11. November 2014, 16:00
• Duration: ca. 2h, then snacks, drinks & chat

WHERE:

• Alpen-Adria Universität,
• Klagenfurt
• Room Z.1.09

WHY: To do cool things that matter!

DETAILS:

• Entrance free of charge but …
• Registration is required: goo.gl/fyNaHl

What is Content ID?

Copyright owners can use a YouTube specific system called Content ID to easily identify and manage their content on YouTube. Videos uploaded to YouTube are scanned against a database of files that have been submitted by content owners. Copyright owners get to decide what happens when content in a video on YouTube matches a work they own. When this happens, the video gets a Content ID claim.

About Thomas (Bio)

• Graduated from HTL Mössingerstrasse in 2001
• Graduated from Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt in 2007
• Product Manager @ Upper Network in Graz, AT
• Product Manager @ Bwin.party digital entertainment in Vienna, AT
• Product Manager @ Scout24 Schweiz AG in Flamatt, CH (close to Bern)
• Technical Program Manager YouTube @ Google Switzerland in Zurich, CH
• For more details, check out my LinkedIn profile or reach out to thomas.walland@gmail.com

Der Rückblick zum TEWI-Kolloquium von Dr. Fabian Beck am 03.09.2014 beinhaltet die Videoaufzeichnung sowie die Folien:

Video

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Slides

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Abstract

Abstract: Software visualization addresses the visual representation of software systems, their dynamic execution, and their development process. In this context, diagrams can help software developers, software architects, or researchers understand and analyze the system, to finally improve the software and development process. Those different roles, however, come along with different perspectives and requirements for visualization tools. In my talk, I will give recent examples from my own work how those diverging perspectives can be addressed: On the one hand, high-level visualizations showing complete software systems and their evolution might be leveraged by architects and researchers. On the other hand, small visualizations embedded in the code could support developers in their daily work extending and optimizing the code. Finally, I want to conclude by giving an outlook on future perspectives on software visualization.

Biography

Fabian Beck is a postdoctoral researcher at VISUS, University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2013, he obtained his Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) degree in computer science from University of Trier. In his dissertation, he investigated multi-dimensional coupling graph structures of software systems. In general, most of his research is focused on methods for visualizing and comparing large and dynamic graphs and hierarchies, often in the context of software systems and their evolution. In recent projects, he also studies the use of word-sized visualizations embedded in source code and text.

Abstract: Software visualization addresses the visual representation of software systems, their dynamic execution, and their development process. In this context, diagrams can help software developers, software architects, or researchers understand and analyze the system, to finally improve the software and development process. Those different roles, however, come along with different perspectives and requirements for visualization tools. In my talk, I will give recent examples from my own work how those diverging perspectives can be addressed: On the one hand, high-level visualizations showing complete software systems and their evolution might be leveraged by architects and researchers. On the other hand, small visualizations embedded in the code could support developers in their daily work extending and optimizing the code. Finally, I want to conclude by giving an outlook on future perspectives on software visualization.

Biography: Fabian Beck is a postdoctoral researcher at VISUS, University of Stuttgart, Germany. In 2013, he obtained his Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) degree in computer science from University of Trier. In his dissertation, he investigated multi-dimensional coupling graph structures of software systems. In general, most of his research is focused on methods for visualizing and comparing large and dynamic graphs and hierarchies, often in the context of software systems and their evolution. In recent projects, he also studies the use of word-sized visualizations embedded in source code and text.

Janusz Konrad | ECE Department, Boston University | July 21 th, 2014, 14:00 CET | Lakeside Labs, Room L4.1.114

Abstract: How many times per day do you need to prove your identity? Perhaps 5, maybe 10 or even 20. Try to access your smartphone and you need a 4-digit PIN at minimum. Need to check email at work and you have to provide username and password. Want to enter a lab and you need to punch in a code, swipe a magnetic card or wave an RFID tag. While cards and tags can be easily lost, codes and passwords are difficult to remember once we have too many of them, and we all do! One answer to this dilemma is to use biometrics such as fingerprints, irises or facial characteristics, but should they be compromised there is no way to replace them. In this talk, I will describe our recent work on using soft biometrics jointly with gestures to authenticate a user. We implicitly use rough proportions of human body shape from skeleton data captured by Kinect camera. Should these soft biometrics become compromised, a user can easily change his/her gesture and prevent the loss of identity. I will describe details of our approach and some experimental results in which we have attained a 1-2% equal error rate on a database of 40 users. We believe this level of performance shows promise for swinging your way to security in a not-too-distant future.

Bio: Janusz Konrad earned the M.Eng. degree from the Technical University of Szczecin, Poland, and the Ph.D. degree from McGill University, Montreal, Canada. From 1989 to 2000 he was with INRS-Telecommunications, Montreal, and since 2000 with Boston University. He has been on Editorial Boards of various IEEE and EURASIP journals related to signal, image and video processing. He was the General Chair of AVSS-2013, a Technical Program Co-Chair of ICIP-2000 and AVSS-2010, and Tutorials Co-Chair of ICASSP-2004. He is a co-recipient of the 2001 Signal Processing Magazine Award, the 2004-05 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award, the AVSS-2010 Best Paper Award and a co-winner of the Semantic Description of Human Activities Contest at ICPR-2010. His research interests include image and video processing, stereoscopic and 3D displays, human-computer interfaces and visual sensor networks.

http://iss.bu.edu/jkonrad

http://vip.bu.edu