Released on: 31, December 1969
, Author: A*STAR Industry: Internet & Online Press Release Summary: Five teams have made it past the Quali
, Audience: Internet related
a Release: For Immediate Release Total: 4 pages including this pageFive teams from five countries set to meet in A*STAR s Star Challenge 2008 GrandFinals at Fusionopolis, SingaporeDetails of the challenge at www.thestarchallenge.sg Singapore, 22 September 2008 Five teams have made it past the Qualifying Race ofThe Star Challenge 2008 and will now test their skills at the Grand Finals, theSingapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) announced today. Theyare now just one step away from the top prize of US$100,000. The Star Challenge2008 is a global competition intended to spur the development of next-generationmultimedia search technologies.The five finalists (in alphabetical order) are: LIG from Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France LMS CTS from National University of Singapore NII-KAORI from National Institute of Informatics, Japan SHRC from China (includes members from Peking University) UIUC-YX from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC)The teams will be flown into Singapore for the Grand Finals, held on 23rd October2008 at Fusionopolis, during the week-long FusionFest celebrations, where they willtest their wits and abilities to devise the fastest, most accurate algorithms forsearching audio and video content. All in an attempt to bring multimedia search astep closer to being usable in our daily lives. We are very excited to be among the Finalists , said Professor Thomas Huang fromthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advisor to the UIUC-YX team, We enter competitions/evaluations aiming not to win but to learn. We have learned agreat deal from the three Rounds of evaluation which led to the Final; and we areproud to have done well in these three Rounds. He added that competitions such asA*STAR s Star Challenge will help narrow the gap between lab algorithms andreal-world tasks. The LIG team from France expressed similar sentiments, claiming that this challengewas an opportunity to go beyond what we were already doing . Team NII-KAORI fromJapan added: The search by IPA task has been very challenging but we stronglybelieve it is the task for the future . IPA stands for International PhoneticAlphabet and is a phonetic standard for defining the sounds of spoken language.SHRC team from Peking University, China said, We are sure that multimedia searchwill be an upcoming trend in the near future. The Star Challenge 2008 competitionwill illustrate to the public the importance of the new search technology, and alsohelp the research agency to make quicker progress in such an inspiring area. LMS Team (NUS) from Singapore commented: End users are currently faced with anoverwhelming amount of multimedia data from many sources, for example, newspapers,radio, and the Internet. Effective multimedia search will make users moreproductive and efficient in handling multimedia data in their day-to-day life. Thisdemand for multimedia search will only increase as time passes. The first-of-its-kind competition stretching over ten months, the Star Challengecreates the space for 56 teams from 17 countries to compete with one another usingtheir respective technologies. During the Qualifying Race, held on 1 3 Sept,seven teams had to perform voice and video search tasks on a multilingual databaseover a 36-hour period. The tasks included finding segments of speech and identifyingvideo scenes. These search tasks were structured similarly to everyday problems thatwe would like to find solutions to.The tasks in the Grand Finals promise to be both thrilling for the audience andhighly challenging for the teams. The teams will battle it out on a Second Lifeisland, specially designed by Nanyang Polytechnic for this event. They will have tosolve puzzles and navigate obstacles within Second Life to obtain search tasks,which they must then solve on-stage in real-time, in all of two hours.About FusionopolisFusionopolis is Singapore s science and technology hub that brings togetherscientists, research engineers and technology experts from a variety of science andengineering disciplines, to find innovative solutions for technological andlifestyle problems facing society and jumpstart future industries.Fusionopolis will have more than 1500 researchers from the public labs under theAgency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), with a broad spectrum ofcapabilities ranging from high performance computing to infocomm research, datastorage, materials research and engineering, microelectronics, and manufacturingtechnology. The public labs work alongside corporate labs like those of Vestas,Thales Technology and Seiko Instruments to accelerate the development oftechnologies and new products, and bring them to market.Fusionopolis is located in close proximity to A*STAR s biomedical sciences researchinstitutes at Biopolis, which will open up opportunities for the fusion ofcapabilities across diverse scientific domains, thus paving the way formulti-disciplinary research.A whole-of-Singapore approach has been taken at Fusionopolis to enable it tojumpstart future industries. Fusionopolis will also be home to Singapore s variousindustry-development public agencies such as the Media Development Authority, theEconomic Development Board and SPRING Singapore.For more information on Fusionopolis, please visit www.fusionopolis.a-star.edu.sg About the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)A*STAR is Singapore's lead agency for fostering world-class scientific research andtalent for a vibrant knowledge-based Singapore. A*STAR actively nurtures publicsector research and development in Biomedical Sciences, Physical Sciences andEngineering, with a particular focus on fields essential to Singapore'smanufacturing industry and new growth industries. It oversees 19 research institutesand consortia and supports extramural research with the universities, hospitalresearch centres and other local and international partners. At the heart of thisknowledge intensive work is human capital. Top local and international scientifictalent drive knowledge creation at A*STAR research institutes. The Agency also sendsscholars for undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral training in the bestuniversities, a reflection of the high priority A*STAR places on nurturing the nextgeneration of scientific talent.A*STAR s science and engineering research institutes will be headquartered atFusionopolis.For more information about A*STAR, please visit www.a-star.edu.sg
Source: Express-Press-Release.com
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