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POLYMNIA
Personalised Leisure and Entertainment over Cross Media Intelligent Platforms
POLYMNIA project concentrated its efforts to develop an intelligent cross-media platform for personalized leisure and entertainment in thematic parks or venues, which was meant to provide a high quality customized digital souvenir, where the visitor appear as the real protagonist in the venue.
Impact
POLYMNIA system is able to identify, isolate, track and record the visitors of the theme park using multiple cameras, placed at various locations within the venue, in order to provide a high quality customized souvenir, where the visitor appears as the real protagonist in the venue.
POLYMNIA promoted the participation of European citizens in virtual communities related to specific leisure, cultural or entertainment interests and provided the necessary infrastructure and motivation to share this interest and experience with anyone, anywhere.
POLYMNIA's innovations
POLYMNIA provided important contributions in a number of technological and scientific domains:
- Human detection, localization and tracking in a variety of environmental condition changes (illumination variations, complicated background etc).
- Content identification technologies applied in real time.
- Digital content extraction, representation and description for enabling reliable manipulation of data in order to maximize customisation capabilities of the final product.
- Further technological advances in the field of media access, retrieval and searching at different media platforms.
POLYMNIA's results
A first system prototype is already available for an indoor environment. A camera network is able to locate visitors and to identify them based on images acquired during a registration step. The identified visitors can be tracked along predefined routes. The produced content is stored into the multimedia repository and then is enhanced with metadata produced according to the MPEG-7 standards allowing information-rich spatiotemporal representation and non-linear content organization. The content acquired from the cameras can be streamed to client terminals. The system transactions are orchestrated by a real time controller and the user interaction proceeds through intuitive user interfaces.
During the requirements and design development phases, state of the art methodologies have been employed, targeting a high impact on the entertainment industry through the offered innovative services.
The first POLYMNIA prototype has been in the last stage of deployment in an indoor environment. It included:
- Modules for visual processing in real time (human detection, identification and tracking), which process input from network cameras.
- Adaptive streaming to various client devices over various networks.
- Offline processing modules for spatiotemporal content representation and non-linear organization providing input to e-production module.
- A multimedia repository storing all related content.
More details
- In POLYMNIA Public Website
- In a presentation for the project and its objectives and goals, technological advances and expected results. (PDF, 38KB)
- A Public Presentation (PDF, 220KB)
- Initial Report on Users' Needs and Definition of POLYMNIA Applications, Products and Services. (PDF, 648KB)
- Annual Project Report for the first Year of the project. (PDF, 1.372KB)
- Annual Public Report 2006 for the first Year of the project. (PDF, 1.598KB)
Administrative details
POLYMNIA (004357) is a Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) of the European Union's 6th Framework Programme Thematic Priority 2 (Information Society Technologies). It was submitted to the second call of the programme and addresses the strategic objective “Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment”.
POLYMNIA started on 1 October 2004 and finished on 31 March 2007. The overall budget was of 2,94 million Euros and the project's consortium comprised 9 partners from 5 European countries, involved in different and complementary roles in the project.
List of participants
- Co-Ordinator
- ICCS/NTUA (Greece)
- Contractors
- IT Innovation (UK)
- Telefonica I+D (Spain)
- Hewlett Packard (Italy)
- Joanneum Research Institute (Austria)
- Giunti Interactive Labs S.r.l. (Italy)
- Cinegram S.A. (Greece)
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy)
- ALLOU Fun Park (Greece)
Contact persons
- POLYMNIA co-ordination team
- ICCS/NTUA
- Dr. Costis Christogiannis
- POLYMNIA Technical co-ordinator
- ICCS/NTUA
- Dr. Dimitrios Kosmopoulos
Events in connection with POLYMNIA
- POLYMNIA project was presented during the first INCCOM Clustering Workshop on Cross-Media European Projects, Valladolid (Spain), 11-12 May 2005. (PDF, 825KB)
- POLYMNIA project was presented during the first European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT 2004), Royal Statistical Society, London, UK, 25 and 26 November 2004.