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SUMMARY:Understanding Audio and Video at Google - Dr. Thomas C. Walters\, 
 Google
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DTEND:20131031T150000Z
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CONTACT:Prof. Ramji Venkataramanan
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: Google’s mission is to organise the world’s in
 formation and make it universally accessible and useful. An enormous chunk
  of the world’s information is in the form of video and audio\, so syste
 ms that can efficiently index\, search and understand these forms of conte
 nt are crucial. In this talk\, I’ll discuss research on video and audio 
 understanding\, including technologies for landmark detection\, object rec
 ognition\, cover-song detection and sound-effects search. I’ll also pres
 ent some recent work done at Google on distributed training of deep neural
  networks\, and its application to video analysis tasks.\n\n*Bio*: Tom is 
 a Research Scientist at Google. He currently works in Zurich on improving 
 YouTube’s ContentID system. Previously he was part of the Machine Percep
 tion group in Google Research in Mountain View\, CA\, where he worked on c
 ontent-based audio analysis for tasks like auditory scene understanding an
 d music recommendation. Tom received a BA and MSci in Natural Sciences (sp
 ecialising in Experimental and Theoretical Physics) from the University of
  Cambridge\, and did a PhD on Computational Auditory Modes at the Centre f
 or the Neural Basis of Hearing in the Department of Physiology\, Developme
 nt and Neuroscience in Cambridge.\n
LOCATION:LR6\, Engineering\, Department of
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