Welcome to the Multimedia Scientific Research group, within Telefonica Research (TID), Barcelona. The group, which was created at the end of 2007, focuses on long term research problems relating to Multimedia, Mobility and HCI. Current research areas include multimedia data analysis, search and retrieval, innovative applications and services in mobile phones, ubiquitous computing, context awareness, multimodal user interfaces, activity recognition, emotion recognition, enhanced tele-presence and user modeling. We follow an open research model in collaboration with universities and other research institutions and favor the dissemination of our work both through publications and technology transfer.

The group is led by Nuria Oliver and has a highly multidisciplinary background with a mixture of machine learning, signal processing, HCI, multimodal data analysis, search and mobile computing skills.

Research Areas

			Multimedia Data Analysis, Search and Retrieval.
			Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing. Context Awareness. Wearable Physiological Monitoring.
			Multimodal User Interfaces. Activity Recognition. Gesture and Emotion Recognition.
			Recommender Systems, Social Networks, User Modeling.

News

			Program co-chairs for MIR 2010.
			Best paper award nomination for MobileHCI 2009.
			We are organizing Recsys 2010 in Barcelona.

Present Interns

			Ludwig Schmidt-Hackenberg –TU Ilmenau, Image organization, similarity & aesthetics

Recent Visitors

			Joseph Konstan (Univ. of Minnesota)
			Robin Burke (De Paul Univ.)
			Nicolas Georganas (Univ. of Ottawa)
			Mary Czerwinski (Microsoft Research, USA)
			Oscar Murillo (Microsoft Research, USA)
			Prof. Gerri Sinclair (GNWC)
			Prof. J. Konstan(Univ. Minnesota)
			Dr. F. de la Torre (CMU)
			Prof. A. Hertzmann (Univ. Toronto)
			Dr. C. Hernandez (Toyota Research)
			Dr. R. Navarro (Barcelona Media)
			Dr. D. Donato(Yahoo! Research)
			Prof. N. Georganas(Univ. Ottawa)
			Dr. D. Quercia (UCL)
			T. Horanont(Univ. Tokyo)
			Dr. M. Gonzalez (Northeastern University & MIT)
			Prof. S. Brewster(Univ. Glasglow)
			Dr. N. Diakopoulus (Georgia Tech)
			Dr. F. Estrada (Univ. Toronto)
			L. Barrington (Univ. California San Diego)
			J. Lester (Univ. Washington)
			Dr. J. San Pedro (Sheffield Univ.)
			Prof. R. Burke (Univ. de Paul)
			Dr. N. Eagle(Santa Fe Institute & MIT)
			Dr. A. Karatzoglou(INSA)
			J. Iria (Univ. Sheffield)
			Prof. L. Barabasi(Northeastern Univ.)
			O. Celma(BMAT)
			Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research)

Former Interns/Collaborators

			Jon Froehlich, Univ. of Washington, Urban Computing
			Neal Lathia (UCL)
			Haewoon Kwak (KAIST)
			Fernando Ramos (Cambridge Univ.)
			AnushMoorty–Univ. Texas, Video quality & aesthetics
			Rob McCrae –Queen Mary, MuViSync
			Eve Hoggan-U. of Glasgow, MobiMood
			Alejandro Gutierrez, U. Illinois, Multimedia organization, social networks
			MengxiaoZhu –Northwestern Univ., Complex network analysis, urban computing
			Jason Chang –GNWC (Vancouver), The TimeBomb
			Jun Wang –Beijing Academy of Science, FastMatch
			Jae-wook Ahn –U. Pittsburgh, Personalization, Recsys
			Linas Baltrunas –U. Bolzano, Recommender Systems

Careers & Collaboration Opportunities

We have several openings for research scientists, post-docs, interns, and visiting professors. We are looking for highly creative and dynamic individuals with a b technical background and a human-centered vision on technology. If you are enthusiastic about the topics above, have international experience, a b publication record, and a desire to carry out high-quality research in an open environment with the aim of having a lasting impact, please contact us (mailto:careers.research@tid.es and please place DMUM in the subject field).