Researchers from Samsung Electronics’ Visual Display (VD) Business have been declared winners of a Best Paper Award on the IEEE’s (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE 2021) for his or her technical paper entitled “Analyzing Images for Music Recommendation.”
ICCE is the flagship convention of the IEEE Consumer Technology Society (previously the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society), held yearly together with the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA. A complete of 190 analysis papers had been accepted this 12 months, with 5 finalists nominated for the digital convention’s Best Paper Award. The competitors consisted of video-recorded paper shows and a reside Q&A session, and simply three papers had been chosen as winners.
“The work portrayed in this paper connects domains such as AI, UX and affective computing with the goal of providing an emotionally enriching user experience by bridging artworks and music in an unconventional manner,” stated Anant Baijal, a Samsung Staff Engineer (Advanced R&D Group) and the lead creator of the paper. “We propose a method that considers both an artwork’s style (classical, baroque, impressionist etc.) and the emotion it conveys (calm, joyful, mellow, etc.) to automatically curate music that is well-suited to accompany the image.”
The analysis highlighted within the paper is beneath assessment for doable commercialization in Samsung’s flagship merchandise, together with the not too long ago introduced Neo QLED TVs, together with way of life merchandise corresponding to The Frame. Currently, via Ambient Mode on QLED and Art Mode on The Frame, customers can show footage of their alternative when they aren’t watching TV. The analysis workforce desires to take the person expertise to the following stage by giving customers the choice to play music that’s curated based mostly on automated evaluation of the picture displayed on the display screen. The outcomes obtained from preliminary checks performed in the course of the analysis assist the efficacy of the proposed strategy.
“When a user uploads a picture, such as artwork or a photograph, our proprietary AI algorithms evaluate the image to recommend music through a user-subscribed music streaming provider,” added Baijal. “Future work on this technology would include integrating other parameters into the algorithm, such as the weather, time, geolocation and user activity, in addition to the image being displayed. We are designing the algorithm to be capable of adapting to individual users’ preferences.”
“At Samsung’s Advanced R&D Group, we’re continually striving to provide a more dynamic screen experience by developing innovative technologies that complement consumers’ ever-changing lifestyles,” stated Dr. Danny Hyun, Corporate Vice President and Head of Advanced R&D Group at Samsung Electronics and a co-author of the paper.
The Advanced R&D Group’s analysis spans multidisciplinary areas corresponding to AI, Big Data and connectivity, and the Group can be accountable for creating futuristic ideas and product prototypes. Multiple worldwide patent purposes overlaying the expertise’s idea, elements and person situations have been filed by Samsung Electronics.
Check out Samsung’s First Look 2021 occasion (highlights accessible right here) for extra particulars on the corporate’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for screens, together with its newest show improvements and 2021 product lineup.
