Chorus+ Activities

CHORUS+ objective is to coordinate national and international projects and initiatives in the Search-engine domain and to extend this Coordination in non-European countries.

CHORUS+ aims at creating the conditions of mutual information exchange and cross fertilisation between the FP7 projects in the search-engines domain and the recently launched national and international initiatives in this area. A particular emphasis on setting concrete R&D and industrial objectives for multimedia search in Europe is planned through the implementation of discussion groups limited to selected representatives (industry and academia) and the organisation of and open participation in workshops, conferences and summer schools.

  

At the business level, CHORUS+ aims to foster discussion and avoid fragmentation. The outcome of this discussion will address the interests, needs and challenges of technology producers, content owners and consumer

At the technology level, numerous initiatives on analysing, annotating, classifying or otherwise linking audio-visual content will take place with the final aim to ease navigation, access and use of virtually unlimited quantities of audio-visual content.

 

CHORUS+ believes that, in order to address the large variety of potential use cases and the great level of uncertainty regarding future success stories, the profusion of initiatives is beneficial and will trigger competition between projects leading to better results.  

The Chorus + factsheet can be downloaded here

 

Media Search cluster meeting dedicated to Social Media Search
Social media
Collaboration

14 April 2011, Trento, Italy
The Media Search Cluster focused on Social Media Search with an invited talk from Yahoo!, presentations from relevant EC funded projects and companies, followed by a panel discussion and the launching of a white paper in the area.
 

This AV Media Search Cluster dedicated to Social Media Search was organised in Trento (Italy) on April 14, 2011.

You can find the complete minutes here

 

The agenda was based on Social Media Search with an invited talk from Yahoo!, presentations from the results of the Think-Tank meeting which was organized in October 2010 in Firenze (report to be found here), presentations from relevant EC funded projects and companies, followed by a panel discussion.

It has also been the starting activity for the preparation of a white paper in the area.

  • 10.00-10.15 Welcome by Jean-Charles Point

  • 10.15-10.30 FIArch activities by Theodore Zahariadis

  • 'Social Media Search' Session

  • 10.30-11.15 Invited speaker: Alex Jaimes (Yahoo) "Opportunities at the Intersection of User Behavior in Search and in Social Networks"

  • 11.15-13.30 Chorus+ "Social Search" Think-Tank report y Pieter Vander Linder; P2P-Next Content Discovery by Jari Ahola; Qlectives "Sociall Intelligent Systems for Quality Collectives" by Michal Ziembowicz; Engineering "Multimedia search: looking for a new paradigm" by Francesco Saverio Nucci; Petamedia "Tagging and Geotagging for Social Multimedia" by Martha Larson; Exalead "Search vs Social Media" by Henry Gouroud

  • 13.30-14.30 Lunch break

  • 14.30 -15.30 "WeKnowIt - Collective Intelligence from Social Media Analysis" by Yiannis Kompatsiaris; GLOCAL "Event-based Retrieval of Networked Media" by Francesco De Natale

  • 15.30-16.45 Panel and White Paper discussion moderated by Yiannis Kompatsiaris

  • News from the Cluster

  • 16.45-18.00 "3D shape matching and algebraic geometry" by Letizia Pernigotti; LivingKnowledge "a project overview" by Vincenzo Maltese; I-Search "a project overview" by Petros Daras; Upcoming events

  • News from the EC

  • 18.00-18.15 "What we learned from Call 7" by Loretta Anania

  • 18.15-18.30 Conclusions and closing by Jean-Charles Point

 

Previous Media Search Cluster meeting was organised on November 29, 2010 and was oriented on the two following topics:

  • Evaluation and Benchmarking

  • Standardization (needs and overview)

Report available here


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