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Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services
MESH is an Integrated Project whose main objective was to extract, compare and combine content from multiple multimedia news sources, automatically create advanced personalised multimedia summaries, syndicate summaries and content based on the extracted semantic information, and provide end users with a "multimedia mesh" news navigation system.
Impact
MESH is aimed to:
- Provide a significant contribution to emerging multimedia content markets with innovative semantic technologies and new business models
- Facilitate the discovery and exploitation of multimedia content, with special focus in the area of News, while the main technologies were going to be applicable to many other domains
Main innovation
The project worked on creating a system capable to:
- Deliver content (push model) to users based on (semi-)automatically extracted semantic metadata and users' computed preferences, resolved through client & server-side reasoning.
- Create personalised multimedia summaries, to allow easy digest of huge chunks of information, and offer initial entry links for accessing information in depth.
- Merge content coming from multiple sources into one consistent and non-redundant representation (while keeping a link to their sources) for improved access.
- Provide a dense web of content links which is meant to allow traversing across associated multimedia information, with navigation aids to help against the “lost in multimedia cyberspace” syndrome.
More details
- Flash animation of a MESH envisaged scenario of use.
- Project Presentation (PDF, 551KB)
- Project Brochure (PDF, 627KB)
- Poster for commercial exhibitions (PDF, 321KB) and Poster for scientific conferences (PDF, 627KB)
- Annual Report 2008 (PDF, 2.528KB)
- Annual Report 2007 (PDF, 739KB)
- Annual Report 2006 (PDF, 219KB)
- ICT Results two-part special: Listen, watch, read computers search for meaning (30 October 2009)
- BBC News article: System 'spots multimedia content' (16 November 2006)
- Go to the website for more information.
Administrative Details
- MESH (FP6-027685) is an Integrated Project of the European Union 6th Framework Programme, in the thematic priority of Information Society Technologies.
- MESH was approved under call 4 of the IST priority, in the strategic objective “Semantic-Based Knowledge and Content Systems”.
- MESH started in March 2006, and ran until 28 February 2009.
- The overall project budget was of around 12.6 million euro.
- 12 different organizations from 7 European countries form the MESH consortium.
List of participants
- Telefónica I+D, Spain
- Informatics and Telematics Insitute, Greece
- Athens Technology Center SA, Greece
- Motorola, France
- Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France
- Noterik, Netherlands
- University of Twente, Netherlands
- Deutsche Welle, Germany
- Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Germany
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
- DIAS Publishing House, Cyprus
Contact persons
Project coordinator: Paulo Villegas, Telefónica I+D
Dissemination activities: Wilfried Runde, Deutsche Welle
Events in connection with MESH
- MESH co-organised 'Wag the Long Tail', a 'Research and Business Jam' discussing the 'Tools for Tomorrow's Multimedia Services & Distribution Today'. The event took place in Cologne on 17 August 2007, and attracted more than 300 participants.
- MESH News Industry Day - December 6, 2006 - Athens, Greece