Today, the ViSTA-TV team assembles at Zurich to plan the coming months. From Wednesday on, the development team will finalize the recommendations engine and prepare the user evaluations, which are scheduled for spring 2014. Source: ViSTA-TV

TV 2.0 Summit in Zurich On November 28 ViSTA-TV was presented at the TV2.0 Summit in Zurich, Switzerland. It was an opportunity to connect with a number of people from the local TV industry. The echo of the attendees was…

ViSTA-TV will be connect with the EU FP7 project LDBC at the Third TUC Meeting, November 19 2013. This event is co-located with GraphConnect at London. Prof Abraham Bernstein (UZH) will talk about “Streams and Advanced Processing” whereas Thomas Scharrenbach…

ViSTA-TV will be present at the EBU DevCon2013. Thomas Scharrenbach from UZH will give a talk about the technical components of the ViSTA-TV engine. “[The] EBU Developer Conference provide an opportunity to learn about best practices in software engineering and…

The ViSTA-TV Coding Camp at the BBC Media House, London, UK has been successfully accomplished. We finalized much of the work needed for continously giving recommendations. In particular for the BBC‘s Apps which they are going to evaluate in early…

The ViSTA-TV project team will assemble at London to prepare the upcoming milestone. Besides the decisions what work will be done for the remainder of the project, the ViSATA-TV developers will have another Coding Camp at the BBC’s research facilities.…

Earlier this week, ViSTA-TV presented a demonstration paper at RecSys 2013,  the world-leading conference on Recommender Systems. The paper, titled “Design and Evaluation of a Client-side Recommender System”, concerns the BBC’s client-side recommender engine and two applications that use it.…

ViSTA-TV is processing a vast amount of different data formats at various time scales: EPG data that comes mostly in a rich relational data format as well as annotations represented as triples, simple key value pairs that need to be…

IBC is over and it was a great success for ViSTA-TV. Also at the last day we had many interesting conversations with people from industry and research. We established many contacts and we look forward to future collaborations in the…

The new week started with lots of interesting contacts. Interestingly, today many start-up and quite a few research institutions came to visit our stand and learn how ViSTA-TV fits their needs. Today and tomorrow, we have a representative from Rapid-I…