Damian Borth

ICSI's 2015 open house is Thursday, February 12 at 12:45 p.m., and to get ready for it , we're previewing some of the 16 demos and posters our researchers will be presenting.

Damian Borth is a postdoc in the Audio and Multimedia Group, visiting us on a DAAD-funded postdoc. In his past work, he's looked at visual sentiment analysis, a useful tool for analyzing social multimedia posts - those that incorporate, say, text and images - since text often doesn't convey the whole meaning of a post. Read more about his work here. At the open house, he'll be presenting his new work on multimedia opinion mining.

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Multimedia Opinion Mining with Visual Sentiment Analysis

The use of images and videos in social media is increasing and gives rise to a new type of content called "social multimedia." Such content conveys much about our thinking, in that it reflects our personal values and ourselves as a society. To make this content accessible, we present SentiBank, a framework for visual sentiment analysis consisting of 1,500 adjective-noun pair (ANP) classifiers trained from Caffe's deep learning features. Further, we would like to show applications around its usage for social good or brand monitoring.