CVPR 2012 – List of papers

Full list published here.  Congratulations to all of the researchers!

MapReduce At Affine

The problem At Affine, we are in the business of providing classification data about online video content for advertisers. What this means for our engineering team is that we needed to develop a system that is capable of handling and … Continue reading

MICHAEL MATHIEU JOINS AFFINE AS CEO AND CHAIRMAN; ANDY MILLER ADDED TO COMPANY’S BOARD OF DIRECTORS; COMPANY CLOSES $5M EQUITY FINANCING

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Marketwire, January 11, 2012) Affine, the San Francisco-based leader in contextual online video targeting, announced today that digital media veteran, Michael Mathieu, will be joining as CEO and Chairman adding to Affine’s rapidly growing team. Affine also … Continue reading

Detroit Takes Notice of Revved Up Online Video Buys

Affine’s Breakthrough Contextual Targeting Delivers Unprecedented Control of Online Video to Auto Advertisers via Marketwire SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Jan 3, 2012) – As the 2012 North American Auto Show nears, the auto industry is taking notice of an exciting … Continue reading

Dynamic Automotive Targeting

We’re thrilled to announce our new Automotive targeting package.  The goal was to make targeting automotive content across networks, exchanges and DSPs easier than ever with the same level of transparency and scale as our previous targeting segments.  This is … Continue reading

Object Detection with Discriminatively Trained Part Based Models

Ultimately not what we ended up using for the automotive category but a very cool paper by Pedro F. Felzenszwalb, Ross B. Girshick, David McAllester and Deva Ramanan nonetheless. Check it out here.

Example-Based Object Detection in Images by Components

Check it out here: http://cbcl.mit.edu/publications/ps/mohan-ieee.pdf

Breakthrough: Contextual Advertising for Online Video

(via Beet.TV) Breakthrough: Contextual Advertising for Online Video Has Arrived via Affine Systems with YouTube and Top Video Ad Nets as Customers Affine Systems, a small San Francisco-based, venture-backedstart-up built around machine learning, has created a technology to “rip apart video frame … Continue reading

Brands: Are you targeting safely?

(Via BizReport) Advertisers looking for more from holiday advertising campaigns may turn to targeting to increase ROI, but the wrong type of targeting could land brands in stick situations where consumers are concerned. Although many people have noted they want … Continue reading