K-Space

K-Space will create a sustainable network of world-leading research teams from academia and industry to conduct integrative research and dissemination activities in semantic inference for automatic and semi-automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content, aiming at closing the gap between the low-level content descriptions that can be computed automatically by a machine and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media. Specifically, K-Space integrative research will focus on three key areas: Content-based multimedia analysis; Knowledge extraction; and Semantic multimedia. To ensure that the output of the targeted research becomes the primary feeding ground for industrial innovation, an Industrial Advisory Board with a core of four key industrial players has been set up and has been consulted from the very outset of proposal building. Its mission is to assist the network in defining research directions and to advise on potential exploitation of research results as they emerge. Specific dissemination objectives: (a) dissemination of the technical developments of the network across the broad research community, (b) delivering the means to bring the results beyond the research community in a way that appeals to the EU citizen © enabling the non specialist multimedia user to feedback into the K-Space technological framework and (d) influencing and contributing to related knowledge-based multimedia standardisation activities.

Consortium

1 Queen Mary, University of London (Coordinator) QMUL UK

2 Koblenz University KU D

3 Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH JRS AT

4 Informatics and Telematics Institute ITI GR

5 Dublin City University DCU IR

6 Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica CWI NL

7 Groupe des Ecoles des Telecommunications GET F

8 Institut National de l’Audiovisuel INA F

9 Institut Eurecom EURECOM F

10 University of Glasgow GU UK

11 German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence DFKI D

12 Technische Universita;t Berlin TUB D

13 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL CH

14 University of Economics, Prague UEP CZ