Network of Excellence in Content Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval

Coordinating Partner:

Centre for Research and Technology HellasCentre for Research and Technology Hellas

Informatics and Telematics InstituteInformatics and Telematics Institute

IST-2001-32795

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SCHEMA - Overview • Duration: 36 months• Total Cost: 900.000 €• 13 Partners

• Key Action Lines Relevant to the Thematic Area :III. Multimedia Content and Tools

III.1.1 Publishing Digital ContentIII.1.3 Next Generation Digital CollectionsIII.4.1 Semantic Web TechnologiesIII.5.1 x-Content futures

IV.6.2 Interfaces and buffers for seamless end to end services

IV.4.2 Mixed realities and new imaging frontiers

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Consortium

Informatics and Telematics Institute Tampere University of TechnologyBTexact TechnologiesUniversité Catholique de LouvainLaboratoire d’Informatique, Signaux et Systèmes de Sophia - Antipolis Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universite de Nice – Sophia Antipolis

Dublin City UniversityCentre for Digital Video ProcessingFratelli AlinariMunich University of TechnologyQueen Mary, University of LondonUniversitat Politecnica de CatalunyaFondazione Ugo Bordoni University of Brescia Macedonian Press Agency

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Research TopicsAccess to the information using query structures that come naturally to human beingsRetrieval processes which understand the nature of the information in the databaseContent-based multimedia analysisCopyright issues of multimediaNew methods for multimedia access and deliverySemantic web technologiesMPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standardsComputer vision for augmented reality and new visual interfacesUser interfaces and human factors

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Description of Work

Organise short visits between partnersOrganise scientific meetings on a regular basisInvite experts outside the consortiumOrganise 2 international workshopsDesign a reference system for content-based semantic scene analysis, interpretation and understandingDisseminate the results of the partnership through common publications, presentations, participation in exhibitions, web pages, workshops and conferences

Network of Excellence in Content Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval

Coordinating Partner:

Centre for Research and Technology HellasCentre for Research and Technology Hellas

Informatics and Telematics InstituteInformatics and Telematics Institute

IST-2001-32795