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A Deep Dive Exploration Applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR To A PBS NewsHour Broadcast

Yesterday we explored applying OpenAI's open source Whisper ASR to transcribe and translate a Russian television news broadcast, finding that…

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A Deep Dive Exploration Applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR To A Russian Television News Broadcast

Last month OpenAI released an open source ASR system called Whisper, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data. Earlier this week…

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HiSMatch: Historical Structure Matching Based Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

A Temporal Knowledge Graph (TKG) is a sequence of KGs with respective timestamps, which adopts quadruples in the form of…

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OpenAI Whisper ASR + Russian TV News Deep Dive Coming Tomorrow

Tomorrow we will be unveiling a massive deep dive exploring OpenAI's new Whisper ASR system on a complete Russian television…

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DA-Net: Distributed Attention Network For Temporal Knowledge Graph Reasoning

Predicting future events in dynamic knowledge graphs has attracted significant attention. Existing work models the historical information in a holistic…

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Visual Explorer: 3.5 Million Broadcasts Totaling 7.7 Billion Seconds Of Airtime =1.9 Billion Analyzable Images Spanning 50 Countries

The TV News Visual Explorer now encompasses selections from 108 channels spanning 50 countries and territories in 35 languages and dialects…

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Experiments Applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR To Russian Television News

Last month OpenAI released an open source ASR system called Whisper, trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual data. How does…

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CRNet: Modeling Concurrent Events Over Temporal Knowledge Graph

Temporal knowledge graph (TKG) reasoning, which aims to extrapolate missing facts in TKGs, is vital for many significant applications, such…

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Visual Explorer: Continuous Automatic Transcription Of Belarusian, Russian And Ukrainian TV News

This past June we released a compilation of automatically generated transcripts for the Visual Explorer's Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian television…

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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!

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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WashPost: Crime Is surging (In Fox News Coverage)

The Washington Post's Philip Bump examines Fox News' coverage of crime. Read The Full Article.

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Re-Democratize The Web

The Supreme Court announced this week that it will hear a pair of landmark cases that will determine the future…

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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…

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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…