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EU FP7 funded project CUbRIK (2011-2014)
Human-enhanced Time-aware Multimedia Search
- Website: http://www.cubrikproject.eu/
- Start date: 01/10/2011
- End date: 30/09/2014
- Duration: 36 months
- Consortium: 15 partners from both industry and academia
- Total project value: € 8.9 Million
- QMUL funding:
€ 430,000
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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The key technical principle of CUBrIK is to create a white-box version of a multimedia content and query processing system, by unbundling its functionality into a set of search processing pipelines, i.e., orchestrations of open source and third-party components instantiating current algorithms for multimedia content analysis, query processing, and relevance feedback evaluation. Examples will be pipelines for extracting metadata from media collections using the software mix that best fits application requirements, for processing multimodal queries, and for analysing users feedback in novel ways.
CUBrIK aims at constructing an open platform for multimedia search practitioners, researchers and end-users, where different classes of contributors can meet and advance the state-of-the-art by joining forces.
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EU FP7 funded project Reverie (2011-2015)
Real and Virtual Engagement in Realistic Immersive Environments
- Website: http://www.reveriefp7.eu/
- Start date: 01/09/2011
- End date: 31/03/2015
- Duration: 42 months
- Consortium: 13 partners from both industry and academia
- Total project value: € 10.4 Million
- QMUL funding:
€ 1.1 Million
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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Within REVERIE, we believe that the time is ripe to push social networking towards the next logical step in its evolution: to immersive collaborative environments that support realistic inter-personal communication.
REVERIE will introduce a new paradigm for how communication happens in social networks by adding to the realism of immersive 3D virtual worlds. It behoves us to consider the impact of this on end?users. As with any new technology, understanding how users will apply it, the benefits it brings them and other associated sociological considerations (e.g. legal, ethical) will be key to ensuring its success, and thus investigated in detail within the project.
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EU FP7 funded project VideoSense (2011-2015)
Virtual Centre of Excellence for Ethically-guided and Privacy-respecting Video Analytics
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VideoSense will integrate leading European research groups to create a long term open integration of critical mass in the twin areas of Ethically-Guided and Privacy Preserving Video Analytics where the advent of new data intelligence technologies against the background of dynamic societal and citizen’s goals, norms, expectations, safety and security needs and thus surveillance requirements have all contributed to a complex interplay of influences which deserve in-depth study and solution seeking in order for the European society, citizen and industry to strike the optimal balance in resolution of the various challenges in this arena.
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EU FP7 funded project 3DLife (2010-2013)
Bringing the 3D Internet to Life
- Website: http://www.3dlife-noe.eu/
- Start date: 01/01/2010
- End date: 30/06/2013
- Duration: 42 months
- Consortium: 6 academic partners
- Total project value: € 10 Million
- QMUL funding:
€ 1,050,280
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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3DLife aims at stimulating joint research and integrating leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. It will foster the creation of sustainable and long-term relationships between existing national research groups and lay the foundations for a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) in media Internet.
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EU FP7 funded project SARACEN (2010-2012)
Socially Aware, collaboRative, scAlable Coding mEdia distribution
- Website: http://www.saracen-p2p.eu/
- Start date: 01/01/2010
- End date: 31/12/2012
- Duration: 36 months
- Consortium: 5 academic and 3 industrial partners
- Total project value: € 2,795,980
- QMUL funding:
€ 380,188
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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The main aim of the project is to build a platform that will support the delivery of real time streamed content over heterogeneous IP networks in order to offer the users Quality of Experience and personalised access to media content.
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EU FP7 funded project EthernalS (2010- 2012)
- Website: https://www.eternals.eu/
- Start date: 01/01/2010
- End date: 31/12/2012
- Duration: 36 months
- Consortium: 6 academic partners
- Total project value: € 549,950
- QMUL funding:
€ 56,603
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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EternalS aims to create environment for mutual awareness and cross- fertilization among the 4 ICT-Forever Yours - FET projects LivingKnowledge, HATS, Connect and SecureChange.
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EPSRC grant on Recognition and Localisation of Human Actions in Image Sequences (2009-2012)
- Start date: 01/04/2009
- End date: 31/03/2012
- Duration: 36 months
- Project partners: ?cole Centrale Paris, Noldus BV
- QMUL funding:
? 345,858
- Principal investigator:
Ioannis Patras
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This project builds on recent development in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in order
to develop methods for recognition and localisation of human and animal action categories in image sequences.
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Past Grants
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EU FP7 funded project nextMedia (2010-2011)
Future Media Internet support action
- Website: http://www.fi-nextmedia.eu/
- Start date: 01/01/2010
- End date: 31/12/2011
- Duration: 24 months
- Consortium: 3 academic and 2 industrial partners
- Total project value: € 929,878
- QMUL funding:
€ 138,054
- Principal investigator:
Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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The objective of nextMedia is to enhance the coordination of the efforts in Europe towards producing a clear situation of the Future Media Internet, create common pillars and support the results of the developments of the European projects.
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EU FP7 funded project MISSA (2008-2011)
More Integrated Systems Safety Assessment
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The increase of aerospace systems complexity has meant that by using existing methods for systems development, industry has reached a barrier to innovation and a risk to the competitiveness of products. This is characterised by an increasing time to market for new technologies, increasing costs to demonstrate proof of safety, a greater demand for skilled resources and a limitation on design iterations, which means there is less time to optimise designs that are compliant with safety targets. MISSA aims at filling this gap and providing methods and infrastructure that accelerate the convergence toward optimal system architecture that integrate safety constrains.
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EU funded IST project PetaMedia (2007-2011)
Peer-to-peer Tagged Media
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The goal of Petamedia is to bring togheter strong
academic groups to build an European network of excellence in
order to achieve larger momentum, to integrate available
resources, and to further develop complementary expertise. All of
this is necessary for pushing new paradigms in enabling efficient
and effective access to multimedia content in emerging network
structures. The collective research effort that thus comes
available will be directed towards integration of existing
multimedia content analysis (MCA) and social and peer-to-peer
(SP2P) technologies, and towards identification and exploration
of potentials and limitations of MCA/SP2P combinations.
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Industrial Grant on Surveillance Centric Codec (2006-2009)
- Project partners:
UTRC
- Start date: 01/03/2006
- End date: 31/03/2009
- QMUL funding: $ 150,000
- Principal investigator: Prof Ebroul Izquierdo
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Surveillance Centric Codec (SCC) is a joint project between United Technology
Research Centre (UTRC) and QMUL. The overall aim of the project is to design
and develop a video coding model that uses the surveillance analytics for
optimization rather than the human visual system as in conventional video
coding technology.
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EU-IST co-funded project Papyrus (2008-2010)
Cultural and historical digital libraries dynamically
mined from news archives
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Past and existing efforts for digital recapturing and preservation of
European cultural and scientific heritage have consumed significant effort
and resources for the digitisation, characterisation, and classification of
content. Digital libraries have thus emerged providing electronic access for
many communities of users to available information of their discipline. What
has never been targeted, however, is a digital library that draws content
from one domain and makes it available to the users of another. Papyrus
approaches this need by introducing the concept of a Cross-Discipline
Digital Library Engine. The project intends to be a dynamic digital library
which will understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline,
look for content in a domain alien to that discipline and return the results
presented in a way useful and comprehensive to the user.
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EU-IST co-funded project SALA+ (2008-2010)
Supporting R&D Cooperation between Europe & Latin America in the Networked Electronic Media Sector
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SALA+ is a collaborative European project (support action) funded
by the European Commission where European and Latin American
entities work together with the objective of paving the way for facilitating
future cooperation between European and Latin American
entities. The aim is to encourage international cooperation between
researchers, technology centres, companies, universities and
European and Latin American experts on networked and electronic
media (NEM).
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EU-IST co-funded project APIDIS (2008-2010)
Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing
- Website:
http://www.apidis.org/
- Duration:
36 months
- Consortium:
3 academic and 3 industrial partners
- Total project value:
€ 2.615 Million
- Total EU funding:
€ 1.925 Million
- QMUL funding:
€ 315,600
- Principal investigator:
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
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Democratic and personalized production of multimedia content is one of the most exciting
challenges that content providers will have to face in the near future. APIDIS
plans to address this challenge by proposing a framework to automate the collection and
distribution of digital content. As a federating objective, APIDIS targets
cost-effective autonomous production, so as to make the creation of audiovisual reports
profitable, even in case of small- or medium-size audience.
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EU co-funded IST project Rushes (2007-2009)
Retrieval of mUltimedia Semantic units for enHanced rEuSability
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The overall aim of RUSHES is to design, implement,
validate and trial a system for delivery of and access to raw
media material (rushes), as well as its reuse in the production
of new multimedia assets.
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EU funded IST project MESH (2006-2009)
Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced
News Services
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The MESH project was initiated with the vision to
integrate semantic technologies into a setting that will bring
the world of news closer to knowledge-enabled services.
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EU co-funded IST project EASAIER
(2007-2009)
Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval
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EASAIER is a two and a half years European research
project addressing access to and preservation of cultural and
scientific resources.
The project represent a collaboration of the MMV group with
the
C4DM group.
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EU funded IST project K-Space
(2006-2008)
Knowledge Space of semantic inference for
automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content
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K-Space integrates leading European research teams to
create a Network of Excellence in semantic inference for
semi-automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content.
The aim is to narrow the gap between content descriptors that can
be computed automatically by current machines and algorithms, and
the richness and subjectivity of semantics in high-level human
interpretations of audiovisual media: The Semantic Gap.
In this project the MMV group has got the coordinator role.
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European Science Foundation Project COST 292
(2004-2008)
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The main objective of COST 292 is to push forward the
frontiers of current research on semantic analysis, inference
and conceptualisation for high-level annotation and retrieval of
digital audiovisual content.
The MMV group is the coordinator this project.
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EPSRC grant on Multi-modal object tracking in a
network of audiovisual sensors (2005-2008)
- Project partners:
Intel, GE industrial (Visiowave)
- QMUL funding:
? 125,526
- Principal investigator:
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
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Industrial Grant on Audio detection and
classification of events (2005-2008)
- Project partners:
Visiowave
- QMUL Fundings:
? 23,014
- Principal investigator:
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
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EPSRC industrial CASE for New Academics on Audiovisual
semantic discovery (2005-2008)
- Project partners:
British Telecom
- QMUL fundings:
? 81,892
- Principal investigator:
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
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EPSRC industrial CASE for New Academics on Perceptually-sensitive
encoding(2005-2008)
- Project partners:
British Telecom
- QMUL fundings:
? 88,464
- Principal investigator:
Dr Andrea Cavallaro
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Industrial Grant on Motion adaptive spatial
wavelet transform (2005)
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BT short-term fellowship on Object-Based Image
Segmentation by Nonlinear Diffusion (1999)
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EU funded IST project aceMedia (2004-2007)
Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for
user-centred intelligent media services
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aceMedia focuses on generating value and benefits to end
users, content providers, network operators, and multimedia
equipment manufacturers, by introducing, developing and
implementing a system based on an innovative concept of knowledge
assisted, adaptive multimedia content management, addressing user
needs.
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EU funded IST project BUSMAN (2002-2004)
Bringing User Satisfaction to Media Access Networks
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BUSMAN's overall aim is to design, implement,
validate, and trial a secure and efficient system for both
delivery of and access to multimedia content, and for creation of
and querying large and distributed multimedia databases.
Management and delivery across mobile, fixed and distributed
networks are considered in order to facilitate cross-media content
access.
The project is coordinated by QMUL MMV group.
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European Network of Excellence SCHEMA
(2002-2004)
Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval
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The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to
bring together a critical mass of industrial partners, end users,
universities and research centres in order to improve the
systematic exchange of information on Content-Based Semantic
Scene Analysis & Information Retrieval.
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SAVANT - Synchronised and scalable AV content Across NeTworks ( 2002-2005)
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SAVANT is developing integrated broadcast and
Internet technologies simultaneously employing broadcast and
telecom networks to deliver interrelated and synchronised
multimedia content in an intelligent and transparent manner to
end-users in order to achieve added-value services to
conventional digital and interactive television.
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QIMERA - Advanced Video Segmentation Platform
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COST 211
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SAMBITS - System for Advanced Multimedia Broadcast and IT Services
- Website: -
- Consortium:
12 partners
- Total project value: -
- QMUL funding:
€ 9,000
- Principal investigator:
Dr Alan Pearmain
- Additional information: project page
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Royal Academy of Engineers Travel Grant (2005)
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Royal Society Fellowship on Ill-posed operators
for image authentication (2004)
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Royal Society Fellowship on Ill-posed operators
in image processing (2003)
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British Scholarship Trust Scholarship on New Perspectives
on Image Compression Using a Cartoon-Texture Decomposition Model (2003)
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EPSRC funded Project SmartVideo (2000-2003)
Highly Efficient Scale-Space Based Hierarchical
Video Indexing and Retrieval
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EPSRC/DTI PROMETHEUS (1999-2002)
PROMETHEUS - Production of Multi-Media
Content for Three-Dimensional Environments Distributed over Networks
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Royal Society Project on Spectral methods for Image Segmentation problems
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EPSRC Project on Highly Efficient Scale-Space Based Hierarchical
Video Indexing and Retrieval
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Royal Society Project on Efficient linear techniques
for estimating the epipolar geometry
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