Author: Kalev Leetaru
Visual Explorer: Major Automatic Transcription Announcement Coming Tomorrow
Stay tuned for a major announcement tomorrow about Visual Explorer's forthcoming automatic transcription of Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television news!
Visual Explorer: A Pipeline For Near-Realtime Visual Analysis Of Russian Television News
Yesterday we demonstrated running facial detection and similarity matching software across a week and a half of Russian television news…
Experiments With Cataloging Russian Television News: Face Similarity Scoring Across Complex Contexts
Over the last two days we have demonstrated applying face detection and similarity matching to Russian television news in the…
Cataloging A Week And A Half Of Tucker Carlson On Russian TV News Using Face Detection & Similarity Matching
Yesterday we demonstrated how off-the-shelf face detection and similarity matching could be used to catalog all of the excerpted Tucker…
Using Face Detection And Similarity Matching To Catalog Tucker Carlson Appearances In A Russian TV News Broadcast
Russian television news loves Tucker Carlson, excerpting his show regularly. This makes understanding which clips from his show are aired…
Running Face Segmentation Over A Russian Television News Broadcast Using "FaceDetect"
One of the most basic questions in visual storytelling is the degree to which narratives are told through people speaking…
Terrorism, Media Coverage, And Education: Evidence From Al-Shabaab Attacks In Kenya
We relate terrorist attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya to examine how terrorism alters the demand for…
Behind The Scenes: The Power Of Stream Processing In GCE
Yesterday we looked at a few minutes in the life of a streaming ingest VM running on GCE. Ingest nodes…
Visual Explorer: Experiments With Machine Vision & Face Detection
Stay tuned for some exciting demonstrations this week on applying machine vision approaches to the Visual Explorer, including a demonstration…
Behind The Scenes: A Few Minutes In The Life Of A Streaming Ingest VM
GDELT combines extreme globalized scale, a geographically distributed footprint across all of GCP's datacenters worldwide, a combination of all-regions hyperscale…
Russian Television News Continues To Illustrate Its Invasion With Maps Showing Its Losses
One of the more curious aspects of Russian television news coverage of its invasion of Ukraine is the fact that…
WashPost: Crime Is surging (In Fox News Coverage)
The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines Fox News' coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.
Today: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Opening Keynote & Panel
Kalev will be giving the opening keynote of the Deep Learning In Business Forum hosted at MIT and curated by…
The Parallel Universe Of Russian Television News: Russia Under Attack
Russian television news presents a parallel narrative universe around the invasion. In this clip, Russia Today presents footage from "Donetsk…
This Week: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Panel
Kalev will be speaking on the "Saving Lives on Social: The Case for and State of Deep Learning Powered Content…
This Week: Deep Learning In Business Forum At MIT Opening Keynote
Kalev will be giving the opening keynote of the Deep Learning In Business Forum hosted at MIT and curated by…
Russian Media Really Loves Fox News: 26 Minutes Of Fox News Aired Across 5 Channels In A Single Day Last Week
Yesterday we demonstrated using Google's Cloud Vision API to scan the complete airtime of 1TV, NTV, Russia 1, Russia 24…
Tracking Logos On Russian Television News: Volkswagen
Earlier today we demonstrated applying Google's Cloud Vision API to an entire day of Russian television news broadcasts across five…
Cataloging All Of The Logos That Appeared On A Day Of Russian TV News Using The Visual Explorer & Google's Cloud Vision API
Last month we demonstrated how Google's Cloud Vision API could be used to rapidly and non-consumptively annotate a Russian television news broadcast using the…
Russian Media Uses Fox News To Sow Doubt On Nord Stream Sabotage
Russian state media routinely relies on excerpts from Western media outlets to bolster its domestic narrative about its invasion of…
Russian Media Continues To Blame US & NATO For Battlefield Losses
Russian domestic media continues to blame US and NATO assistance to Ukraine as leading to its battlefield losses, rather than…
Russian Media Continues To Claim It is "Denazifying" Ukraine
Russian media has continued its claims over the past seven months that it is "denazifying" Ukraine, with a clip earlier…
Russian Media Continues To Attack Credibility Of American Media
In addition to repurposing stories from American media that advance its narratives, Russian media also regularly attacks the credibility of…
Russian Media Continues To Repurpose American Media To Advance Its Narratives: Bloomberg Article On RT
Russian media continues to repurpose American and European media coverage to raise questions about the ability of Ukraine and its…