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===== Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management =====

The Viper group deals with the **processing and management of multimedia**. In particular, we focus on **multimedia information retrieval and mining**. Our current research interests include:

    * [[research|Multimedia information Retrieval]]: Image and video (including audio) 
    * [[research|Multimedia information mining]] with our novative concept of Collection Guiding and also our efforts for large multimedia collection management
    * [[research|Content-based video indexing]]
    * [[research|Content-based image indexing]]
    * [[research|Automated multimedia description]]
    * [[research|Multimedia processing]] as a need to design efficient features

You may read this [[http://viper.unige.ch/documents/informer.pdf|article]] of the [[http://irsg.bcs.org/display_informers.php|Informer (Winter 2009)]], presenting the group.
See our [[research:publications|publication list]] for more complete reports.

We are part of [[research:projects|national and international projects]], including:
   * The Swiss NCCR [[http://www.im2.ch|(IM)2]]: Interactive Multimedia Information Management
   * The European STREP (FP6) [[http://www.multimatch.eu|MultiMatch]]: Multimedia/Multilingual Access to Cultural Heritage
   * The European Network of Excellence [[http://www.petamedia.eu|PeTaMedia]]: Peer-to-Peer Tagged Media

We are part of or are associated with a number of joint initiatives:

    * TRECVid: Video evluation at NIST
    * ImageCLEF: Multimedia Track
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**News :**
    * [[http://www.sigir2010.org|ACM SIGIR 2010]] will be organised in Geneva, co-chaired by Viper and Uni Lugano ([[news#acm_sigir_2010|read more...]])
    * We co-organise the [[http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/Events/IR2010.html|Seminar of the CUSO third cycle "Information Retrieval: New Challenges, new Perspectives"]] (March 2010)
    * Viper was part of the organisation of [[http://www.civr2009.org|CIVR 2009]] ([[news#acm_civr_2009|read more...]])
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**Academic profile:**

The Viper group is one of the research groups of the [[http://www.unige.ch/sciences/DI|Computer Science Department]] of the [[http://www.unige.ch|University of Geneva]]. 

The Viper group is thus a research group of the Computer Science Center ([[http://cui.unige.ch|CUI]]) of the [[http://www.unige.ch|University of Geneva]].