The event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission
This highly successful Workshop was organised in cooperation with the European Commission. The event brought together the technical, administrative and financial representatives of the various national initiatives, which have been established recently in some European countries to support research and technical development in the area of audio-visual content processing, indexing and searching for the next generation Internet using semantic technologies, and which may lead to an internet-based knowledge infrastructure.
The objective of this workshop was to provide a platform for mutual information and exchange between these initiatives, the European Commission and the participants.
Top speakers were present from each of the national initiatives. There was time for discussions with the audience and amongst the European National Initiatives. The challenges, communalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impact, success criteria, etc. were tackled. This workshop addressed how these national initiatives could work together and benefit from each other.
The Chorus Event on National Initiatives with the Support of the European Commission
The Chorus event on National Initiatives took place in Geneva, Switzerland on 10th of October 2007. The meeting was held at the headquarters of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
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AGENDA - National Initiatives on Multimedia Content Description and Retrieval
09:00 - Opening
Dr. Joao Schwarz da Silva, Director, Converged Networks and Services, European Commission
View video clip of Joao Schwarz de Silva
09:20 - Chorus Plans and Progress, Meeting Objectives (Part 1)
Chorus Plans and Progress, Meeting Objectives (Part 2)
Dr. Nozha Boujemaa, Director of Research INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt (Part 1) & Jean-Charles Point, Head of JCP Consult (Part 2).
View video clip of Nozha Boujemaa (Part 1)
View video clip of Jean-Charles Point (Part 2)
09:30 - 10:15 - Quaero (French Governmental Initiative)
presented by Pieter van der Linden, Thomson, and Henri Gourard, Exalead
View video clip of Pieter van der Linden
View video clip of Henri Gourard
10:15 - 11:00 - THESEUS (German Governmental Initiative)- Part 1
THESEUS - Part 2
presented by Dr. Ralf Schäfer, Coordinator of the Content Technology Cluster (CTC) (Part 1), and Thomas Niessen, Director Program Management (Part 2).
View video clip of Ralf Schafer (Part 1)
View video clip of Thomas Niessen (Part 2)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
iAd (Norweigan Initiative) - Part 1
iAd - Part 2
presented by Prof. Dr. Dag Johansen, University of Tromsø (and Chief Scientist at FAST) (Part 1) and Dr. Dag Kavlie, Division for Innovation, The Research Council of Norway (Part 2)
View video clip of Dag Johansen (Part 1)
View video clip of Dag Kavlie (Part 2)
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 14:45 - MultimediaN (Dutch Initiative)
presented by Prof. Martin Kersten, adj. Science Director (Part 1), and Johan Vos, Director of Business (Part 2)
View video clip of Martin Kersten (Part 1)
View video clip of Johan Vos (Part 2)
14:45 - 15:15 - IM2 (Swiss Initiative)
presented by Prof. Hervé Bourlard, Director
View video clip of Hervé Bourlard
15:15 - 15:45 - Mundo AV (Spanish Initiative)
presented by Fernando Campos (Part 1), Antonio Alfaro (Part 2) and Marcal Panareda (Part 3)
View video clip of Fenando Campos (Part 1)
View video clip of Antonio Alfaro (Part 2)
View video clip of Marcal Panareda (Part 3)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:45 - Open Session
Part 1 - European National Initiatives: Challenges, communalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impact, success criteria? What could be done together?
Moderators: Dr. Nozha Boujemaa and Christoph Dosch
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Part 2 - Gaps and challenges in search Engines
Moderator: Dr. Loretta Anania, EC DG INFSO
Report
Click here to view the report of this workshop (CHORUS deliverable D4.3)
