Chorus + Activities

Step in building our Collaborative Platform & contribute to our Resources and Data Collection!

 

Since January 2011...
These resources comprise an extensive collection of Datasets, Tools and Publications available for audio-visual media, to support search, retrieval and evaluation efforts.

Latest Trends in Multimedia Search Computing

 

White paper
This report provides an overview of the existing technology in several areas related to search together with the major challenges and future trends. The areas of interest include Media search, Social and Mobile search, Enterprise search, Technology Transfer, and the Economics of Search. For each of these areas the document highlights the overlaps and the differences with the other areas as well as the recommendation for future activities.

Trends in search computing

Think Tank report, September 2012
Notes taken during and following the Chorus+ Think-Tank roundtable discussion on "Trends in search computing” held in Brussels on September 24th 2012. This Think-Tank brought together experts and stakeholders of multimedia search related benchmarking efforts in order to exchange opinions on the future trends in the area of multimedia information search.


Multimedia Search Technology Transfer driven by Benchmarking

 

Report from our TTK 5 - April 2012 - Now available
This Think-Tank brought together experts and stakeholders of multimedia search related benchmarking efforts in order to exchange on lessons learned and to assess suitability of benchmarking as a tool to foster exchange between academia and industry at the European level.

A white paper on "Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-Economic Challenges"

   

Now available on this page!
The objective of this white paper is to provide an overview of the business areas, the research challenges and the socio-economic aspects related to "Search Computing".

Chorus+ January 2012 Newsletter

January 2012
We hope you will enjoy the reading of our 5th newsletter and, as usual, your feedback is mostly appreciated!

Study on Mobile Image Search

   

2011 (NEM Summit)
This presentation covered a survey made on the existing applications for visual-based mobile image search and on their technical and socio-economic aspects.

Chorus + Newsletters

 

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We are pleased to inform you of the latest news and information about the activities organised within the framework of the European Coordination Action CHORUS+.

Media Search cluster meeting

   

4 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium


"EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF MOBILE SEARCH" - An expert workshop & Think-Tank event

   

9 June 2010, Ghent, Belgium
Workshop colocated with CTTE 2010 (7-9 June 2010 in Ghent, Belgium)

Techno-Economic and Socio-Economic Analysis of Mobile Search

 

July 2010
A survey particularly focusing on particular the techno-economic and socio-economic aspects of mobile search in collaboration with reputed professionals in the field.

1st Think-Tank report on "Exploring the Future of Mobile Search"

 

9 June 2010, Ghent, Belgium
1st Think-Tank report on "Exploring the Future of Mobile Search"

"Exploring the Future of Mobile Search" 1st Think-tank meeting

   

9 June 2010, Ghent, Belgium
1st Think-Tank report on "Exploring the Future of Mobile Search" is available for downloading

Practitioner's Day in CIVR 2010

     

July 2010
CHORUS+ supported Practitioner's Day in CIVR 2010 (July 2010)- Download the Minutes Report

Think Tank on the Future of Social Search

 

27 October 2010, Firenze, Italy


The Future of Social Research

 

27 October 2010, Firenze, Italy
Experts and stakeholders of Social and Search related aspects exchanging on trends on technologies and features for the next years.

"THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL SEARCH" - An expert Think-Tank

   

27 October 2010, Florence, Italy
Experts and stakeholders of Social and Search related aspects exchanging on trends on technologies and features for the next years.


Media Search (MS) Cluster meeting

   

30 November 2010, Brussels, Belgium
The Media Search (MS) Cluster will meet on November 30, 2010, in Brussels.


The Future of Music Search, Access, and Consumption

 

January 2011, Cannes, France
The aim of this Chorus+ event organized within the MIDEM 2011 in Cannes (France) was to discuss the challenges of the European music market in an international context and to assess the business and societal impact of current and future music search and recommendation technologies and services.

THE FUTURE OF MUSIC SEARCH, ACCESS, AND CONSUMPTION - An expert Think-Tank

     

2011, Cannes, France
The aim of this Chorus+ event organized within the MIDEM 2011 in Cannes (France) was to discuss the challenges of the European music market in an international context and to assess the business and societal impact of current and future music search and recommendation technologies and services.

Media Search cluster meeting dedicated to Social Media Search

   

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.

"Mobile Image Search" - The survey

   

May 2011
on the existing applications for visual-based mobile image search also investigating their technical and socio-economic aspects.

Media Search cluster meeting dedicated to Evaluation and Benchmarking

     

November 2010
The Audio-Visual Search Cluster meeting gathered about 30 participants who actively discussed evaluation and benchmarking so as standardization topic.

"Access to scientific multimedia data" - An exciting work session you should have attended!

21 September 2011, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
A Chorus+ community session networking chaired by Alexis Joly, Inria.


MediaEval 2011 Social Event Detection Task

 

1-2 September 2011, Pisa, Italy
MediaEval Benchmarking Initiative for Multimedia Evaluation: speech, audio, visual content, tags, users, context

"Search Computing and Social Media" workshop

   

28 September 2011, Torino, Italy
This workshop presents cutting-edge search computing solutions that have been developed to provide users with access to networked media and in particular, social multimedia. It will showcase new techniques and applications have been developed in European research laboratories and focus on those solutions that are ripe for industry application.

"EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ENTERPRISE SEARCH" reports now available

13-14 October 2011, Seville, Spain
This expert workshop and Think-Tank aimed at gaining insights into the techno-economic trends in enterprise search!

Media Search cluster meeting

       

13 December 2011, Brussels, Belgium
The Cluster is formed from the projects which are actively pursuing research in the multimedia information retrieval and search engine domain. Twice a year, the cluster meets aiming at facilitating the exchange of information and the sharing of results among those research projects.