MULTIMEDIA RETRIEVAL Competition

ZDNet Asia (Singapore, Oct. 23) ―

For winning the Star Challenge 2008 on Thursday, the team comprising three researchers at the National University of Singapore Lab for Media Search walked away with $100,000 and the honor of having the most efficient multimedia retrieval technology. Apart from the NUS, teams from the United State's University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, China's Peking University, France's Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble and Japan's National Institute of Informatics made it to the final round. The challenge was organized by Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research.

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