AFP Fact Check: Fabricated CNN Election Broadcast Spreads Online, Sparking False Cheating Claims
The AFP's Fact Check relies on the Internet Archive's TV News Archive to debunk a falsified purported screen grab from…
Two Weeks: Web Summit 2024 In Lisbon
Join Kalev at Web Summit 2024 in Lisbon in two weeks, which is drawing more than 70,000 attendees from over…
This Week Coverage Of The US Elections Has Turned Dark
A fascinating analysis by Richard Addy and Luba Kassova and their AKAS US Election Media Tracker examining the shift in…
"Climate Change" Mentions On US 24/7 TV News Have Halved In The 2024 US Election Campaign Compared To 2020
A new analysis by the AKAS US Election Media Tracker examines coverage of climate change compared with the previous presidential…
September 11th Fades On Television News & Web Searches
As the timeline below shows, mentions of 9/11 across television news from 2009 to present declined sharply from 2014 and…
Mentions Of "Felon" On TV News Peaked In May And Never Rebounded
As the timeline below shows, mentions of "felon" peaked this past May, but the term has never rebounded, even in…
OCR'ing Television News: Experiments With EasyOCR
Two months ago we evaluated the OCR performance of several models applied to television news frames, including dedicated SOTA OCR…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based Video OCR Speed & Costs: Part 8 – Cost Comparisons
Looking back at the lessons we've learned over the past week optimizing the speed and cost of video OCR, why…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 7 – What Have We Learned So Far?
What have we learned so far from our six-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5,…
Fortune: How The Democrat-Leaning News Media Is Unwittingly Aiding Trump
Luba Kassova and Richard Addy examine television media coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign. Read The Full Article.
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 6 – Further Grid Layout Experiments
Yesterday's experiments on how montage layouts impact OCR accuracy suggested that there were few differences between vertical, horizontal and grid-based…
Independent: No, Young Black Men Aren't To Blame If Trump Wins The Election
A fascinating analysis of the 2024 US presidential election by Richard Addy and Luba Kassova. Read The Full Article.
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 5 – The Impact Of Grid Layout
Continuing our OCR experiments, how much of an impact does the layout of the montage grid have on OCR performance?…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 4
Continuing our experiments with optimizing video OCR costs, what impact does image resolution have on OCR accuracy? Assuming we are…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 3
Continuing our experiments in using montages to optimize OCR speed and cost for the TV News Archive, what might it…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 2
Continuing yesterday's experiments, what if we boost the resolution of the surrogate thumbnail images from 200×200 pixels to 500×500 pixels…
Lessons From The Trenches: How OCR Text Search Beat Out Visual Search For Television News
Just over six and a half years ago, in collaboration with the Internet Archive's TV News Archive, we launched the…
Using Thumbnail Montages To Optimize AI-Based OCR Speed & Costs: Part 1
One of the most fascinating lessons we've learned from working with journalists and scholars using the Internet Archive's TV News…
Replacing The Current Single-Frame Broadcast Thumbnails With Algorithmically-Selected Montage Thumbnails: Part 2
How might replacing our current single-frame television news broadcast thumbnails with montage thumbnails of algorithmically-selected representative frames from throughout a…
Replacing The Current Single-Frame Broadcast Thumbnails With Algorithmically-Selected Montage Thumbnails
Instead of displaying a single isolated frame as the thumbnail for each television news broadcast in the Visual Explorer, what…
Using Algorithmic Thumbnail Selection To Create Montage Preview Thumbnails For Television News
Continuing our series on algorithmic thumbnail selection for visual summarization of television news broadcasts, perhaps the most important question is…
La Silla Vacia: Aidiosyncrasy And Memocracy
A fascinating comparison of media tone and approval ratings in Columbia. Read The Full Article.
HUMVI: A Multilingual Dataset for Detecting Violent Incidents Impacting Humanitarian Aid
A paper by researchers at Dataminr, Insecurity Insight and Northwestern University uses GDELT as a global media index. Read The…
More Experiments In Algorithmic Thumbnail Generation For Television News: Evening News Broadcasts
Continuing our series on algorithmic thumbnail generation for television news, what about a few examples drawn from evening news broadcasts,…