SAIL USC

10/12/2020

Reminder that we will be at the Acm Multimedia virtual workshop on Media Analytics for Societal Trends tomorrow 2-5 PM PST. To see our speaker line-up and accepted papers please visit :

05/21/2020

Are you working with studying societal trends in media? Are you developing ML algorithms for human-centered media analytics? Submit your work to our MAST Workshop at ACM Multimedia

01/24/2018

We are pleased to announce that our MICA team is going to organize a workshop on Multimedia Analytics for Societal Trends (MAST) in ICME 2018, San Diego.
A big applause to Naveen Kumar Tanaya Guha Krishna Somandepalli for the effort and hard work.

The creation, storage and organization, distribution, and consumption of multimedia content have evolved rapidly in the past decade. Large media industries, such as film or news industries have witnessed huge changes in every step, starting from how new content is conceived to how it is eventually s...

12/23/2017

The members of the Lucasfilm story group are fulfilling fans’ expectations — and creating meaningful female characters while they’re at it.

12/03/2017

SAILers - past and present..

04/28/2017

Theodora's work featured in media, once again! :)

Several teams of researchers at USC have joined forces for a study aimed at detecting vital signs to help stem conflicts in couples before they occur. Couples..

04/06/2017

Many SAILers were featured in the Annenberg Fellows Research Symposium this week, including PhD candidate Tim Greer and undergraduate Alex Young. Keep up the good work, guys!

03/08/2017

coverage on our MICA groups's work for measuring gender representation in movies aka the Google GDIQ

02/26/2017

Machine learning helps identify gender in movies and reveals new information about gender inequality in highest grossing films and Oscar winning films.

02/17/2017

17 years ago, President Nikias was an EE Professor who recruited Shri Narayanan to USC.

Yesterday, Shri became the inaugural holder of the Niki and C.L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering, receiving the honor from his mentor in a ceremony on campus. Congratulations Shri!

12/16/2016

The director of SAIL USC, Prof. Shri Narayanan, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors - the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

The two researchers are among eight NAI fellows from the university, including President C. L. Max Nikias.

10/18/2016

Shri delivering a talk during Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media Symposium at Google L.A.