The automatic image-based recognition of objects and activities under any conditions is the ultimate goal of computer vision research. Recent advances show that this task is now becoming attainable. This talk will focus on the challenges that computer vision research has overcome and its place in Web 2.0 applications and interactive leisure platforms, i.e. online games and communities.

Prof. Alexandra Psarrou is a well-known scientist in interactive multimedia and intelligent media system studies. Her research interest include tracking and dynamic image understanding; 2D shape and behavior information retrieval and indexing for context based search in image and video databases.