Throughout the duration of the action, the consortium focused on:
• Organise co-creation and cross-collaboration activities to advance on technological understanding among practitioners
• Collect end user requirements and elaborate systems architecture
• Develop unified categorisation and classification of the investigative information, i.e. a common GRACE ontology
• Support referrals from relevant NGOs and OSP/s through NCMEC reports
• Develop a variety of audio, video and text analytics modules to extract investigative relevant leads from multimedia sources;
• Develop a higher knowledge actionable intelligence tools to infer investigative value from the available report data, such as cross-matching, relevance classification, geo-localisation and prioritisation;
• Set up the essential prerequisites for the development of a Federated Learning platform, and its final testing covering image/video, audio and text analysis modalities.
• Develop the Collaboration platform front-ends and functionalities;
• Multiple rounds of operational testing through pilot activities, following the evaluation of the GRACE modules at different stages
• Large size annotation campaign on multi-valued image classification task; Preparation of text annotation campaign.
• Extended analysis of the available legislation and national frameworks to drive the GRACE developments and draft ways for cross-border collaboration;
• Elaborate training material and serious games.
• Participate at international fora dedicated to discussions relevant to the use of AI and fighting CSA
• Organise of a GRACE early Demonstration session (June 2023) and Final Conference (November 2023) in order to disseminate the project KERs towards an international CSEA community
GRACE has accomplished a tremendous amount across technology development, standardisation, policy, guidelines and training. This resulted in a set of 55 Key Exploitable results, spread among 8 different areas:
• Scientific Publications
• Research Datasets
• CSEM Taxonomy and Ontology
• GRACE system
• GRACE Technological components - divided into over 50 individual modules
• Ethical and Legal Framework and Guidelines
• Policy Recommendations, and
• Training Materials.
A detailed booklet on the GRACE KERs can be downloaded from the following link
https://grace-fct.eu/sites/default/files/2023-12/GRACE%20Key%20Exploitable%20Results%20%288mb%29.pdf(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)Following the GA, all generated results are available to EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies as well as EU Member States’ national authorities, on a royalty-free basis for non-commercial and non-competitive use, with the purpose of tackling the fight against CSEM.
