Project description Search Engines Show the project objective Hide the project objective Professional repositories and Intranets, like the Internet as a whole, present the problem of how to find precise segments of audiovisual files among a sea of largely un-indexed, heterogeneous data. SEMEDIA aims to create new methods, environments and widely usable tools for media labelling, searching and retrieval from very large collections of heterogeneous data, building on and extending research in media technologies, web semantics, AI, Content Based IR and interface design. SEMEDIA will enable the rapid, semi-automatic annotation of large data populations at greatly reduced cost, and the production of professional and consumer tools for near instantaneous data search and retrieval from very large, distributed stores of mainly un-indexed audiovisual media. SEMEDIA will develop techniques to extract metadata from 'essence' in ways that allow the automatic inference of high-level structural information from new, partly annotated media content. It will create tools for:- navigating intelligently and searching efficiently; - summarising and clustering visually similar content; searching for 'scenes similar to...'; - finding scenes with a given character and all the associated files, geometry, shading, colour model, speech characteristics, motion data etc; - data architectures that support secure content tracking and multiple user access; - user interfaces that allow fast browsing with user defined criteria and adaptive feedback that recognises context and intent, and contributes to the annotation.The research will be guided by user scenarios developed with professionals in the postproduction and broadcast industries, and on-line communities. The results will adopt an open systems approach, which can be combined with existing media and web environments, to provide search tools that meet the needs of producers and consumers of audiovisual media in the digital postproduction, broadcast, advertising and on-line sectors. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetengineering and technologymaterials engineeringcolorsnatural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometry 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 FUNDACIO BARCELONA MEDIA UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA EU contribution € 526 369,25 Address Ocata 1 08003 Barcelona Spain See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (9) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH Austria EU contribution € 390 542,25 Address STEYRERGASSE 17 8010 GRAZ See on map Activity type Research Organisations Total cost No data DVS DIGITAL VIDEO SYSTEMS AG Germany EU contribution € 366 400,00 Address KREPENSTRASSE 8 30165 HANNOVER See on map Total cost No data CCRTV SERVEIS GENERALS CCRTV SG Participation ended Spain EU contribution € 280 344,00 Address GASPAR FABREGAS, 81, 2ND FLOOR 08950 ESPLUGUES DE LLOBREGAT See on map Total cost No data UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA Spain EU contribution € 109 229,00 Address JORDI GIRONA 31 08034 BARCELONA See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data CORPORACIO CATALANA DE MITJANS AUDIOVISUALS ORGANISMO AUTONOMO Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address GANDUXER 117 08022 BARCELONA See on map Total cost No data YAHOO IBERIA SL Spain EU contribution € 113 171,12 Address CALLE MARIA DE MOLINA 40 QUINTA PLANTA 28006 MADRID See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW United Kingdom EU contribution € 360 310,00 Address UNIVERSITY AVENUE G12 8QQ GLASGOW See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Total cost No data BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION United Kingdom EU contribution € 241 800,00 Address BROADCASTING HOUSE W1A 1AA LONDON See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data SMOKE AND MIRRORS PRODUCTIONS LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 341 834,00 Address BEAK STREET 57-59 W1F 9SJ LONDON See on map Activity type Other Total cost No data
