Media technology expert and open media specialist
Sydney Area, Australia
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- Invited Expert at W3C
- CoFounder and CEO at Vquence
- Member at Xiph.Org
- Past
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- Vice President at SLUG
- Video Recording Team Lead at linux.conf.au 2008
- Co-Founder & CTO at Vquence
- Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO
- Post-Doctoral Fellow at CSIRO
- PhD at University of Mannheim
- Education
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- Universität Mannheim
- Universität Mannheim
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Silvia Pfeiffer’s Summary
Co-found and business leader for a online video metrics company. Technical involvment in design and development of metrics product. Taking company to profitability. Writes a frequent video metrics blog.
Former research scientist with experience in developing new applications for digital networked media since 1996. Invented the Annodex (http://www.annodex.net) technology, which extends the World Wide Web to digital media by reducing the complexity of binary media data to the text level, which allows searching, hyperlinking, and composition as though they were html pages. Researched into compressed domain audio analysis (MPEG Maaate). Contributed to MPEG-7. Was part of the MoCA movie content analysis project at Mannheim University, Germany.
Silvia Pfeiffer’s Specialties:
Annodex, automated audio-visual content analysis, R&D into new applications for new media
Silvia Pfeiffer’s Experience
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Invited Expert
W3C
(Research industry)
2008 — Present (1 year )
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CoFounder and CEO
Vquence
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Vquence is now in the business of online video intelligence - we crawl social video hosting sites and aggregate them. This allows us to provide metrics on their usage and audience. We also source videos from social video sites and deliver them in an easily siftable means. In October I stepped up from the CTO role to take on the CEO role an managage this new focus on B2B activity. Companies use us to manage their reputational risk, to track their own content, or to source video to their sites that relate to their business.
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Member
Xiph.Org
(Research industry)
2000 — Present (9 years )
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Vice President
SLUG
(Research industry)
2007 — 2008 (1 year )
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Video Recording Team Lead
linux.conf.au 2008
(Research industry)
2007 — 2007 (less than a year)
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Co-Founder & CTO
Vquence
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 4 months)
We have created this start-up in the online video search space with a focus on providing better accessibility to large collections of video through search and through playlist functionality. I am the technical specialist in Vquence and am leading a team of operational and programming experts to further develop the Vquence video socialisation service.
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Senior Research Scientist
CSIRO
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
January 2001 — June 2006 (5 years 6 months)
2001-2006: Team Lead Annodex research group, research, business and software development, infrastructure for Webs of video and audio, standards development, collaboration with Xiph.Org, www.annodex.net
2004-2006: Convenor Digital Media Industry Focus Group, CeNTIE (Centre of Networking Technologies for the Information Economie) project, several technical projects in the post-production company
2005-2006: Science Leader Multimedia Science Area, CSIRO ICT Centre -
Post-Doctoral Fellow
CSIRO
(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)
May 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 9 months)
1999-2001: Post-Doc Position, Digital Media Information Systems group, research and software development, automated captioning software, MPEG audio analysis toolkit
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PhD
University of Mannheim
(Research industry)
1994 — 1999 (5 years )
Silvia Pfeiffer’s Education
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Universität Mannheim
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) , Computer Science , 1994 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- organisation of international student exchange program for computing students
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Universität Mannheim
Masters/MBA , Business Management & Computer Science , 1987 — 1994
- Activities and Societies:
- elected student representative
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Silvia Pfeiffer’s Interests:
digital media technologies, choir singing, skiing, swimming
Silvia Pfeiffer’s Groups:
ACM, IEEE, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computing Society, German Computer Society (GI), W3C, IETF, MPEG, Sydney Linux User Group (SLUG), Linux Australia, Annodex Association, Xiph Foundation, Webjam
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Web Analytics Demystified -
On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs -
Online Marketing, Web Analytics, and E-commerce Group -- WebAnalysts.Info -
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The Internet Marketing Conference (IMC) Group -
Australian New Media -
adtech Sydney -
LinuxChix -
Web Analytics Professionals (+5000 web analytics members) Join now! -
linux.conf.au -
Omniture Enthusiasts -
FOSS Professionals -
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Media & Entertainment Professionals -
Girl Geek Dinners Sydney -
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Linux Australia -
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Aussie IT Jobs
Silvia Pfeiffer’s Honors:
2002: CSIRO MIS Chief Innovation Award
2004: Finalist Eureka Awards
2005: Highly Commended, Pearcey Award
2006 & 2007: Vice-President Sydney Linux Users Group
2006: Secretary & Public Officer of Annodex Association
Jan 2007: Organised Video Recordings of Linux.Conf.Au (http://lca2007.linux.org.au/)
Janu 2007: Organised Workshop on Foundations of Open Media Software, Sydney (http://www.annodex.org/events/foms2007/)
2007: President Annodex Association
2007: Member of Pearcey Awards Committee
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