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Multimodal Information Group

Welcome

The Multimodal Information Group (774.01) researches and develops measurement and evaluation methods to advance and promote the use of technologies that:

  • provide more effective access to multimedia and multi-lingual information and
  • improve human-computer interface modalities

These technologies include recognizing and/or transforming information in speech, text, video, and other modalities through speech recognition, speaker recognition, language recognition, machine translation, and visual recognition.

Programs/Projects

Machine Translation Program—The Multimodal Information Group's machine translation (MT) program includes several activities contributing to machine translation technology and metrology advancements, …

TRECVid Surveillance Event Detection Evaluation Track—The Surveillance Event Detection (SED) evaluation track is part of the TRECVid Evaluation and is intended to help promote technology development for event detection in video surveillance. The goal …

TRECVid Multimedia Event Recounting Evaluation Track—The Multimedia Event Recounting (MER) evaluation track is part of the TRECVid Evaluation.The goal of MER is to build upon the technologies being developed under the NIST TRECVid Multimedia Event …

TRECVid Multimedia Event Detection Evaluation Track—The Multimedia Event Detection (MED) evaluation track is part of the TRECVid Evaluation. The goal of MED is to assemble core detection technologies into a system that can search multimedia …

Speaker and Language Recognition Projects—The Multimodal Information Group's speaker and language recognition program includes several activities contributing to speaker and language recognition technology and …

Video Surveillance Technologies for Retail Security—NIST has brought together major stakeholders from the retail and security industries, computer vision technologists/developers, the research community, law enforcement, and government agencies in a …

Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance—The Second Multiple Camera Single Person Tracking Challenge Evaluation (MCSPT) will be held in conjunction with the 7th Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS) IEEE …

Rich Transcription Evaluation—The Rich Transcription evaluation series promotes and gauges advances in the state-of-the-art in several automatic speech recognition technologies. The goal of the evaluation series is to create …

 
Contact

General Information:
301-975-2944 Telephone
301-670-0939 Facsimile

100 Bureau Drive, M/S 8940
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940