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FAETHON IST-1999-20502
Unified Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Audiovisual Content
- Project Abstract
- The overall objective of FAETHON project is to develop an integrated information system offering enhanced search and retrieval capabilities to users of audiovisual (a/v) archives. This novel system will exploit the advances in handling a/v content and metadata, as introduced by MPEG-4 and MPEG-7, to provide access characterized by semantic phrasing of the request (query), unified handling and personalized response. This will be achieved by developing algorithms and software for
- (i) extracting high level semantic out of syntactic and low level semantic information contained in the a/v archives,
- (ii) filtering the responses of the latter on the basis of continuously updated profiles of individual users. To this end, state of the art technologies will be used and new algorithms in the fields of fuzzy and hybrid systems will be developed. Novel database schemes for multidimensional indexing will be employed.
- Objectives
- It becomes clear among the research community dealing with content-based a/v data retrieval and emerging related standards, such as the MPEG-7, that the results to be obtained will be ineffective, unless major focus is given to the semantic information level, defining what most users desire to retrieve. Mapping, however, low level, subsymbolic descriptors of a/v archives to high level symbolic ones is in general difficult, even impossible with the current state of technology. It can, however, be tackled when dealing with specific application domains. The project is targeting the extraction of semantic information from a/v and text related data taking into account:
- a) the nature of useful queries that users may issue and
- b) the context determined by user profile.
- Contact point
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Evgenia CHRISTOPOULOU
SYSWARE S.A. - SYSWARE INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS
4 FRAGOKKLISSIAS STR, MAROUSSI
151 25 ATHENS, GREECE - Tel: 1-610.97.46
- Fax: 1-610.97.48
- e-mail: CHRE@DATAMED.GR
- List of Participants
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Participant Name Country SYSWARE S.A. - SYSWARE INTEGRATED SOLUTIONS GR INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS OF THE NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS GR JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH A ORACLE GMBH A STARLAB NV/SA B FILMARCHIV AUSTRIA A HELLENIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION GR LAMBRAKIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION GR - Start date
- 01-Apr-2001
- Duration
- 30 months