The European Commission supports next generation digital technologies for multimedia content management and interactive broadcasting at IBC 2003
12 September 2003 - 16 September 2003
The European Commission will exhibit R&D projects in two adjacent stands, Adopt.IT and IST Village in Hall 3 on a total area of more than 170 square meters. The EU Commission will show visitors and journalists real time demonstrations and provide in-depth information on its most successful applications of digital technologies for next generation broadcasting and multimedia content management solutions.
The Adopt.IT booth (Hall 3, Stand N.348) will show ongoing live demos of the best achievements in media access networks, multimedia content management technologies and interactive TV.
The Adopt.IT booth will host five projects:
· WEDELMUSIC (WEb DELivering of MUSIC) is a highly innovative support that allows to prepare performances, to study and analyze music, and distribute music in an interactive way. This system supports audio, symbolic and image formats in an integrated way. The integration will be obtained by defining a new unified coding scheme for audio, images and symbols.
· EDiCT (Enhanced Development of Interactive Content for Television) brings together partners whose products represent the entire enhanced TV (e-TV) workflow, along with application authors and major cable network as end-users. The key technical tasks, required in EDiCT, are to complete, integrate and conform the partners' existing e-TV workflow components to standards in order to prototype a standard-based unified e-TV workflow.
· C.IM.WO.S. (COMBINED IMAGE and WORD SPOTTING), this project aims to facilitate common procedures of archiving and retrieval of audio-visual material.
· CULTOS (Cultural Units of Learning Tools and Services) develops concepts, systems and tools for knowledge publishing, concerning arts and culture. It includes a knowledge model of intertextual studies, a standardised hypermedia document model and a prototyped multimedia authoring tool for the publishing life-cycle.
· BUSMAN (Bringing User Satisfaction To Media Access Networks) designs, implements, validates and evaluates an efficient and secure system for the delivery and querying of video from large databases. The system will enable seamless and secure provider-to-customer delivery of video components across heterogeneous channels, and it will ensure user-friendly ease of retrieval of video content when fast access in a protected environment is demanded.
The IST Village (Information Society Technologies Village) booth (Hall 3. Stand 141) presents a joint demonstration of seven projects in the IST clusters Interfaces and Enhanced Services and Signal Processing and Mixed Reality. The projects ASSET, ICE-CREAM, MOSES, MUFFINS, SPATION, Share it!, and FUTUREHOME) demonstrate new concepts for interactive entertainment, multimedia frames for interoperability, and digital content sharing on broadband networks. The projects focus on the connected home in which users can enjoy content on many devices, sharing content among domestic users and access their content from outside the home. These projects represent over 50 European R&D organisations.
EDITORIAL INFORMATION,About DG INFSO,The DG INFSO of the European Commission is charged with ensuring that Europe's citizens, governments and businesses continue to play a leading role in shaping and participating in the global information society. The Directorate-General is driven by the European Commission's eEurope action plan and has specific responsibility for increasing the understanding, development and uptake of information and communication technologies and their applications within the European Union.
It does this by stimulating research into the development and deployment of new information and communication technologies; establishing and maintaining a framework of regulation and standards designed to generate competition; and stimulating the development of applications and content while supporting initiatives that encourage and enable all European citizens to benefit from, and participate in, the information society.
,About ADOPT-IT,ADOPT-IT is a 2-year European dissemination project aimed at promoting good practices identified among the European Research projects funded under KAIII of the IST Programme of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, 1998-2002.
Together with the European Commission, ADOPT-IT has selected 20 good practices among the RTD projects funded under KAIII "Multimedia content and tools", and will carry out a series of activities aimed at promoting awareness of these European Research Projects.
For each selected project, a promotional and informative video is available. For more information about ADOPT-IT and the projects, please visit http://www.adopt-it.info(opens in new window) or contact us either by phone or E-mail at (please do not publish these contact addresses):
AID Marketing & Communication,Ms Andrea Nikolic,Account Manager,Tel: (+32) - 2 534 74 13 ,Fax: (+32) - 2 534 45 32 ,E-mail: andy@aidnetwork.com
European Commission DG INFSO/E2,Mr Pascal JACQUES,Head of Sector ,Tel: +352 4301 38034,Fax: +352 4301 38069,E-mail: pascal.jacques@cec.eu.int
Mr Leon van Noorden,Head of Sector,Tel: +32 2 29 63517,Fax: +32 2 29 61786,E-mail: leo.van-noorden@cec.eu.int
The Adopt.IT booth (Hall 3, Stand N.348) will show ongoing live demos of the best achievements in media access networks, multimedia content management technologies and interactive TV.
The Adopt.IT booth will host five projects:
· WEDELMUSIC (WEb DELivering of MUSIC) is a highly innovative support that allows to prepare performances, to study and analyze music, and distribute music in an interactive way. This system supports audio, symbolic and image formats in an integrated way. The integration will be obtained by defining a new unified coding scheme for audio, images and symbols.
· EDiCT (Enhanced Development of Interactive Content for Television) brings together partners whose products represent the entire enhanced TV (e-TV) workflow, along with application authors and major cable network as end-users. The key technical tasks, required in EDiCT, are to complete, integrate and conform the partners' existing e-TV workflow components to standards in order to prototype a standard-based unified e-TV workflow.
· C.IM.WO.S. (COMBINED IMAGE and WORD SPOTTING), this project aims to facilitate common procedures of archiving and retrieval of audio-visual material.
· CULTOS (Cultural Units of Learning Tools and Services) develops concepts, systems and tools for knowledge publishing, concerning arts and culture. It includes a knowledge model of intertextual studies, a standardised hypermedia document model and a prototyped multimedia authoring tool for the publishing life-cycle.
· BUSMAN (Bringing User Satisfaction To Media Access Networks) designs, implements, validates and evaluates an efficient and secure system for the delivery and querying of video from large databases. The system will enable seamless and secure provider-to-customer delivery of video components across heterogeneous channels, and it will ensure user-friendly ease of retrieval of video content when fast access in a protected environment is demanded.
The IST Village (Information Society Technologies Village) booth (Hall 3. Stand 141) presents a joint demonstration of seven projects in the IST clusters Interfaces and Enhanced Services and Signal Processing and Mixed Reality. The projects ASSET, ICE-CREAM, MOSES, MUFFINS, SPATION, Share it!, and FUTUREHOME) demonstrate new concepts for interactive entertainment, multimedia frames for interoperability, and digital content sharing on broadband networks. The projects focus on the connected home in which users can enjoy content on many devices, sharing content among domestic users and access their content from outside the home. These projects represent over 50 European R&D organisations.
EDITORIAL INFORMATION,About DG INFSO,The DG INFSO of the European Commission is charged with ensuring that Europe's citizens, governments and businesses continue to play a leading role in shaping and participating in the global information society. The Directorate-General is driven by the European Commission's eEurope action plan and has specific responsibility for increasing the understanding, development and uptake of information and communication technologies and their applications within the European Union.
It does this by stimulating research into the development and deployment of new information and communication technologies; establishing and maintaining a framework of regulation and standards designed to generate competition; and stimulating the development of applications and content while supporting initiatives that encourage and enable all European citizens to benefit from, and participate in, the information society.
,About ADOPT-IT,ADOPT-IT is a 2-year European dissemination project aimed at promoting good practices identified among the European Research projects funded under KAIII of the IST Programme of the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, 1998-2002.
Together with the European Commission, ADOPT-IT has selected 20 good practices among the RTD projects funded under KAIII "Multimedia content and tools", and will carry out a series of activities aimed at promoting awareness of these European Research Projects.
For each selected project, a promotional and informative video is available. For more information about ADOPT-IT and the projects, please visit http://www.adopt-it.info(opens in new window) or contact us either by phone or E-mail at (please do not publish these contact addresses):
AID Marketing & Communication,Ms Andrea Nikolic,Account Manager,Tel: (+32) - 2 534 74 13 ,Fax: (+32) - 2 534 45 32 ,E-mail: andy@aidnetwork.com
European Commission DG INFSO/E2,Mr Pascal JACQUES,Head of Sector ,Tel: +352 4301 38034,Fax: +352 4301 38069,E-mail: pascal.jacques@cec.eu.int
Mr Leon van Noorden,Head of Sector,Tel: +32 2 29 63517,Fax: +32 2 29 61786,E-mail: leo.van-noorden@cec.eu.int