Objective
The social media, as a major platform for communication and information exchange, provides a rich repository of the opinions and sentiments of 2.3 billion users about a vast spectrum of topics. Such knowledge is playing an important role to understand and predict human decision making, while becoming essential for digital marketing, brand monitoring, and customer understanding, among others. Although social marketing budget is doubling each year, reaching 9 billion dollars in 2015 in US alone, the analysis of trends, topics and brands in social networks is based solely on textual posts. Despite the fact that 65% of users are visual learners, the knowledge embedded in the 1.8 billion photos uploaded daily in public profiles is ignored.
Based on this gap in coverage, we propose a platform which applies the most modern machine learning techniques, based on Deep Learning, to understand near 1 million images publicly shared per day, for the inference of relevant insights from social profiles. In essence, this visual knowledge is extracted using our current know-how on image understanding, in the form of a working, validated prototype which generates a description of (i) soft-biometric characteristics of people appearing in shared pictures; (ii) their type of clothes, logos, objects and scenes; and, (iii) when available, its geolocalisation and accompanying texts. Working during this project in a proper combination of these sources of knowledge will enable the final product to estimate more accurately the social user's demands and cultural-driven interests, eventually reaching some degree of personality trait description.
Discovering the hidden customers of a given brand, based on the pictures shared in their public profiles, will revolutionize the next generation of analytical tools for social networks monitoring, making the process of images understanding an essential source of information in future marketing, anthropology, sociology, and political studies
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence computer vision image recognition
- social sciences sociology anthropology
- social sciences psychology
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence machine learning deep learning
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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08193 BARCELONA
Spain
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.