The ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) has announced that research scientist Bart Thomée has been presented their 2016 Rising Star Award for his "significant contributions in the areas of geo-multimedia computing, media evaluation, and open research datasets."
Various websites offer easy-to-use tools to manually generate GIFs from portions of a video. In collaboration with ETH Zürich, we’ve gone one step further by developing a system that automatically generates animated GIFs from the most “GIFable” video segments.