Visual Explorer: Visual Search Exploration Coming This Week
Stay tuned for a major step forward in making television news searchable as we unveil an incredible first look at…
Experiments With Whisper ASR: Model Parameters & Non-Determinism: temperature_increment_on_fallback
Across our experiments with OpenAI's Whisper ASR this week, its unprecedented fluency has been challenged by its high non-determinism, with…
A Deep Dive Exploration Applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR To A French-Language Télé Congo TV News Broadcast
Thus far this week we have conducted deep dives applying OpenAI's Whisper ASR to Russian and English-language television news broadcasts….
OpenAI's Whisper ASR: How The "NATO Threat To Putin" Becomes "Putin's Threats [To NATO]": The Challenges Of Machine Translation
Earlier this week we explored how OpenAI's Whisper ASR translated a Russian-language television news broadcast into English. Towards the middle…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…