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.
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.
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.
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