Objective BOEMIE will pave the way towards automation of the process of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, by introducing the notion of evolving multimedia ontologies which will be used for the extraction of information from multimedia content in networked sources, both public and proprietary.BOEMIE advocates a synergistic approach that combines multimedia extraction and ontology evolution in a bootstrapping process involving, on the one hand, the continuous extraction of semantic information from multimedia content in order to populate and enrich the ontologies and, on the other hand, the deployment of these ontologies to enhance the robustness of the extraction system. The ambitious scope of the BOEMIE project and the proven specialized competence of the carefully composed project consortium ensure that the project will achieve the significant advancement of the state of the art needed to successfully merge the component technologies.The main measurable objective of the project is to improve significantly the performance of existing single-modality approaches in terms of scalability and precision. Towards that goal, BOEMIE will deliver a new methodology for extraction and evolution, using a rich multimedia semantic model, and realized as an open architecture. The architecture will be coupled with the appropriate set of tools, implementing the advanced methods that will be developed in BOEMIE. Furthermore, BOEMIE aims to initiate a new research activity on the automation of knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, through ontology evolution.The resulting technology has a wide range of applications in commerce, tourism, e-science, etc. During the project, the technology will be evaluated through the development of an automatic content collection and annotation service for public events in a number of major European cities. The extracted semantic information will enrich a digital map, which will provide a friendly interface to the end user. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesknowledge engineeringontologysocial sciencessociologyindustrial relationsautomationsocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommerce 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-2004-2.4.7 - Semantic-based Knowledge and Content Systems Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator NATIONAL CENTRE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS" EU contribution No data Address PATRIARCHOU GREGORIOU STREET 15310 AGHIA PARASKEVI ATTIKIS Greece See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS Greece EU contribution No data Address 6th km Charilaou-Thermi Road THERMI-THESSALONIKI See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data FRAUNHOFER IAF Germany EU contribution No data Address Tullastr. 72 79108 MÜNCHEN See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET HAMBURG-HARBURG Germany EU contribution No data Address SCHWARZENBERGSTRASSE 95 HAMBURG See on map Total cost No data TELE ATLAS N.V. Netherlands EU contribution No data Address REITSCHEWEG 7 F 5232 BX 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO Italy EU contribution No data Address Via Festa Del Perdono 7 MILANO See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data