Improving automated segmentation of radio shows with audio embeddings published @ IEEE ICASSP2020
February 12, 2020
Oberon Berlage’s MSc. thesis: “Improving automated segmentation of radio shows with audio embeddings” which he wrote under my supervision during his internship at FD Mediagroep was awarded a 9/10, under condition that the work was publishable. Turns out it was, as it was recently accepted at IEEE ICASSP2020 (the 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, […]
“Improving automated segmentation of radio shows with audio embeddings”
July 5, 2019
Update (28/1/2020): Oberon’s thesis was accepted and will be published at the IEEE 45th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), to be held May 4-8 in Barcelona, Spain! The submission is co-authored with Klaus Lux and myself. Oberon Berlage recently successfully defended his MSc. thesis (title above!) for the Data Science […]
Dutch Interactive Awards (2x) for BNR SMART Radio!
June 28, 2019
Yesterday BNR SMART Radio won two Dutch Interactive Awards (DIA 2019) Awards! We were nominated together with Elastique, the folks who designed the UX/interface of our BNR SMART Radio app which you can download here (or in your app stores, both Android/iOS)! 🥇 Content We won Gold in the category “Content”. Why, you may ask? […]
Featured on the European Science-Media Hub
June 5, 2019
In the context of the upcoming workshop “AI and Journalism” Bennie Mols interviewed me for the website of the European Science-Media Hub, on how we apply AI in journalism for Het FD and BNR. Read the piece here: AI could boost journalism with smart tools Or read the more in-depth background interview here: A scientist’s […]
We won the AMMA Media-innovation award for our News Personalization projects at FD Mediagroep!
May 17, 2019
After winning the Marconi award for radio innovation, yesterday we picked up the AMMA Award for Media Innovation for our news personalization efforts at FD Mediagroep (both SMART Journalism for Het FD and SMART Radio for BNR Nieuwsradio)! It’s really great to see that our current investment into AI and innovation seems to resonate with […]
BNR SMART Radio wins the Marconi Online Award!
February 1, 2019
Really happy and proud of our amazing AI team for winning the (first) Marconi Online Award at the Gouden RadioRing Gala, for BNR SMART Radio! SMART Radio is the first product that comes out of our FD Mediagroup AI team! SMART Radio is released in beta for iOS (anytime) and Android, give it a try […]
Featured in BNR’s “Artificial Intelligence Podcast” on AI in Media Part I: Tech
November 27, 2018
In the latest AI Podcast, I am featured, talking with Li’ao Wang on our SMART Radio and SMART Journalism projects. Stream the episode below! “Media is smart, but needs to get smarter. That’s what we’re working on here at the FD Mediagroep. Come and see what we do with AI to make our creators and […]
Demo Paper: “SMART Radio: Personalized News Radio”
November 21, 2018
We’re demo’ing SMART Radio at The 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2018). We wrote a short paper titled “SMART Radio: Personalized News Radio” to accompany the demo, read it by clicking below!