SCHEMA - Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval

www.iti.gr/SCHEMA/

The aim of this 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 by the forging of links between partners.

The SCHEMA Network of Excellence will create a synergy and a multiplier-effect enriching the capabilities of the group of partners by bringing together complementary skills and know-how. The following new research topics, activities and standards will be investigated in the SCHEMA Network:

• Access to the information using query structures that come naturally to human beings,
• Retrieval processes which understand the nature of the information in the database,
• Content-based multimedia analysis,
• Copyright issues of multimedia,
• New methods for multimedia access and delivery,
• Semantic web technologies,
• MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards,
• User interfaces and human factors.

Partners

Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas/Informatics and Telematics Institute, EL
Tampere University of Technology, FI
BTexact Technologies, UK
Universite Catholique de Louvain, B
Universite de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, F
Dublin City University IRL
Frateli Alinari, I
Munich University of Technology, D
Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, E
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, I
University of Brescia, I
Macedonian Press Agency, EL

Funding

European IST Network of Excellence, 2002-2004, € 65,000

Scientist in charge

Prof Ebroul Izquierdo

People Involved

Tsz Ying Lui