Project description Search Engines Show the project objective Hide the project objective Video is vital to society and economy, playing a key role in news, cultural heritage documentaries, and surveillance and is becoming the natural form of communication for the Internet and mobile phones. Consumers and professionals alike need advanced storage and search technology for the management of large-scale video assets. This project takes on the challenge of creating a substantially enhanced semantic access to video, implemented in a search engine.Video search engines result from the progress in many technologies: visual analysis; audio processing; machine learning; visualization, and interaction technology. A good measure of the overall progress is the TRECVID competition, posing increasingly hard and realistic problems with the obligation to discuss methods openly. In 2005, the best interactive video search came from the coordinating partner of this project.This project will boost the performance of video search by basing it on a 10-fold enhancement of the thesaurus characterizing audio, visual or mixed-media content. In the US, a similar grand challenge has been posed. This project's approach is to let the system learn many, possibly weaker, detectors instead of modelling a few of them carefully. The combination of many detectors describing different aspects of the video content will render a much richer basis for the semantics. The Consortium presents excellent expertise and resources: the machine learning is lead by Univ. of Surrey; video stream processing is lead by CERTH, Greece. The component audio event detection, is lead by INESC-ID, Portugal; visual image processing is lead by Univ. of Amsterdam; The Univ. of Florence leads the efforts in interaction, and CVC, Spain leads software consolidation. Finally, Beeld & Geluid, the Netherlands, and FRD, Italy, as application stakeholders, provide data and perform evaluation and dissemination. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternethumanitiesartsmodern and contemporary artcinematographyengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsmobile phonesnatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencemachine learning Programme(s) FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006). Topic(s) IST-2005-2.6.3 - Advanced search technologies for digital audio-visual content Call for proposal FP6-2005-IST-6 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM EU contribution € 1 075 328,00 Address Kruislaan 403 1098 SJ Amsterdam Netherlands See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRO DE VISION POR COMPUTADOR Spain EU contribution € 225 594,00 Address EDIFICIO CAMPUS UAB 08193 BELLATERRA (CERDANYOLA DEL VALLES) See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece EU contribution € 186 500,00 Address 6TH KM CHARILAOU-THERMI ROAD 57001 THERMI-THESSALONIKI See on map Total cost No data FONDAZIONE RINASCIMENTO DIGITALE-NUOVE TECNOLOGIE PER I BENI CULTURALI Italy EU contribution € 95 720,00 Address VIA MAURIZIO BUFALINI 6 50122 FIRENZE See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE Italy EU contribution € 463 764,00 Address PIAZZA SAN MARCO 4 50121 FIRENZE See on map Total cost No data STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BEELD EN GELUID Netherlands EU contribution € 90 500,00 Address SUMATRALAAN 45 1217GP HILVERSUM See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA Portugal EU contribution € 203 052,00 Address RUA ALVES REDOL 1000029 LISBOA See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SURREY United Kingdom EU contribution € 449 542,00 Address GU2 7XH GUILDFORD See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data