DIRECT-INFO

Media monitoring and multimodal analysis for time critical decisions

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DIRECT-INFO aimed to create a basic system for semi-automatic extraction of consistent and meaningful semantic information from multimedia content and was characterized by:

  • ability to monitor and analyze audio, image, video and audio-visual information across media channels including radio, TV and the Internet;
  • applicability to numerous industries (also beyond the media-information market);
  • non-intrusive solution allowing instant capture of information;
  • access to information integrated across channels and markets; Comprehensive end-user access to global information.

THE PROJECT

DIRECT-INFO research activities were largely innovative in the areas of:

  • semantic correlation &fusion of multi-modal content analysis;
  • identification of semantic objects within audio/video contents;
  • multi-modal event modeling for video segmentation.

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

  • Joanneum Research Forschungesellschaft mbH (AT)
  • Nielsen Media Research (IT)
  • Softeco Sismat S.p.A.(IT)
  • Idioma Ltd (IL)
  • HS – Art Digital Service GmbH (AT)
  • Fraunhofer IGD (DE)
  • DFKI Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DE)
  • Promitheas Business Innovation Centre (CY)

SYNOPSIS

COORDINATOR

Joanneum Research Forschungesellschaft mbH (AT)

PROGRAM

FP6 IST

START DATE

January 2004

DURATION

24 months

FLYER

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