CORDIS Archive

Start date : 13 May 1998
Duration : 5 Years
End date : 12 May 2003
No. Participating Countries : 10

Objectives

The main objective of the proposed Action is to improve the efficiency of redundancy reduction techniques and to develop content analysis for video signals to assist future multimedia applications. Furthermore, it is the objective to strongly influence the standardisation activity in this field. It will, in particular, focus on content-oriented processing for emerging interactive multimedia services, such as the ongoing ISO MPEG-4 standardisation phase as well as the new ISO MPEG-7 initiative. The aim is to define and develop a set of tools assisting these new services in the analysis, characterisation and processing of their video and audio signals.

Interactive multimedia services will strongly influence and even dominate the future of communications and telecommunications. Both the flexibility and efficiency of the coding systems used, as well as the ability to efficiently search for particular content of interest on distributed data-bases are essential for the success of these emerging services. A major outcome of this Action will be a valuable contribution towards new and economic solutions for interactive multimedia services. Therefore, a strong European position in this field and an active participation in the standardisation process will be of great benefit for all European actors.

More information on all of the above can be found at http://www.iva.cs.tut.fi/COST211/index.html

or by contacting :

Dr. Geoffrey Morrison
BTexact Technologies
pp2 Ross Building
BT Adastral Park
Martlesham Heath
IP5-3RE Ipswich, Suffolk
UK
Tel : +44 1 473 6322266
Fax: +44 1 473 644244
E-mail: geoff.morrison@bt.com

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