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.

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".

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.

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.