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Related Projects

AceMedia
This is an EU FP6-funded project which aims at integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user-centred intelligent media services.
Advisor
The Advanced Digital Video StOrage and Retrieval project is an EC-FP5 funded project for video annotation, indexing and retrieval.
CIMWOS
Combined IMage and WOrd Spotting (IST project) CIMWOS is a multimedia, multimodal and multilingual system supporting content-based indexing, archiving, retrieval, and on-demand delivery of audiovisual content. The system uses a multifaceted approach to locate important segments within multimedia material employing state-of-the-art algorithms for text, speech and image processing.
CONTENT4ALL
This is an FP6 STREP which explores the creation of a peer-to-peer cross-media intelligent content management model with the objective of developing cross-platform tools for community content publishing.
Fishclar
A web-paged digital video system that records TV broadcast programmes according to a user’s preferences, with advanced techniques for SMS/WAP/PDA alerting, searching and summarising of the recorded videos.
The BUSMAN Project
Bringing User Satisfaction to Media Access Networks (BUSMAN). This is and FP5 EU funded project which has now finished. The overall aim of the project was to develop a system for delivery of and access to multimedia content, and for the creation and querying of large and distributed multimedia databases.
The Informedia Project
The Informedia project explores different aspects of machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization in both contemporaneous and archival content collections.
LIVE
This EU-funded IP project "attempts to radically improve on the linear approach to TV broadcasting of live sporting events to deliver digital technologies and content formats that enable viewers to shape their own personal and highly interactive viewing experience as they watch the broadcast. The main idea of LIVE is to provide novel content production methods and new iTV video formats and services to enable interactive digital broadcasters to produce new non-linear multi-stream ‘shows’ to stage live media events such as the 2008 Olympic Games."
MAVIS
This EPSRC-funded project investigated the creation of a multimedia thesaurus and the use of intelligent agent support for content based imade/video retrieval.
M4
The Multimodal Meeting Manager project is an EC-FP5 funded project which aims at developing a system that will enable structuring, browsing and querying of an archive of automatically analysed meetings (audio, video and textual information). Multimodal information extraction, meeting summarization and cross-lingual retrieval are some of the research topics explored in the project.
MUMIS
The MultiMedia Indexing and Searching Environment project was an EC-FP5 funded project which developed technology that, among others, produced and integrated event descriptions (soccer games) from different media sources (documents, radio and television programmes) and in different languages (Dutch, English, German).
MUSCLE
Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and LEarning (MUSCLE) is an EU FP6-funded network of excellence; it fosters research on multimedia data mining and machine learning.
PENG
The PErsonalised News content programminG Project is an EC-FP6 funded project aims at defining a flexible, personalised and context-aware system for the gathering, filtering, retrieval and presentation of multimedia news for news professionals.
PrestoSpace
This is an EC-FP6 funded integrated project on the preservation of digital audio-visual collections. One of the objectives of the project is the development of metadata extraction technologies for accessing and browsing audio-visual collections more effectively.
SCHEMA
A Network of Excellence in Content-based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval.

Metadata Standards

Dublin Core
The Dublin core Metadata Initiative for the development of interoperable online metadata standards.
MPEG-7
Moving Picture Experts Group – Standard for description and search of audio and visual content.
RDF
Resource Description Framework : A lightweight ontology system that supports the exchange of knowledge on the Web using XML as an interchange schema
SMIL
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language that enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations.
SVG
The Scalable Vector Graphics is a modularized language for describing two-dimensional vector and mixed vector/raster graphics in XML.
XTM
XML Topic Maps, an abstract model and XML grammar for representing the structure of information resources used to define topics and the relations between topics.

Related Competitions / Forums

Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF)
Cross language information retrieval. Related track: Image-Clef
Document Understanding Conference (DUC)
Automatic Summarization Campaign
Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference (TREC)
Many tracks including the video retrieval one: TRECVID
Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT)
Many different tracks including story segmentation, topic detection, topic tracking, first story detection, link detection.