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EU research in Content & Knowledge technologies: Progress & prospects

EU research in Content & Knowledge technologies: Progress & prospects. Roberto Cencioni & Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media Unit INFSO.E2 infso-e2@cec.eu.int EWIMT’05, London. Basic facts. by Q1 2006: 58 projects, 260 M€ funding 443 participants, 638 participations :

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EU research in Content & Knowledge technologies: Progress & prospects

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  1. EU research in Content & Knowledge technologies:Progress & prospects Roberto Cencioni & Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media Unit INFSO.E2infso-e2@cec.eu.int EWIMT’05, London

  2. Basic facts • by Q1 2006: 58 projects, 260 M€ funding • 443 participants, 638 participations: • 52% public, education, … participants • 48% private, commercial, … participants • 32 countries; 58% from top 5 countries(DE, UK, FR, IT, ES)

  3. Scope • RTD&D • long termresearch (formal, theoretical) • technology / component research & development • applied, system-level research • demonstration • Emphasis on • generic, enabling technologies • flexible, cross-sectoral application platforms

  4. 3 project lines • Cross-media Content (call 2):new media paradigms, new forms of digital contentcreativity, interactivity, user experience & control, cross-platform delivery& presentation / adaptation… • Content & Knowledge (call 4):“intelligent” contentaccess & management (meta data generation / extraction, semantic indexing & contextual retrieval…), aggregation & personalisation, automated workflows... • Knowledge (calls 1 & 4):intersection of Web, MM and KR&R (SemWeb+)networked information & communities; automation of knowledge lifecycle; web / multimedia “documents”; from static to dynamic information, interaction & evolving processes

  5. Content: 2 research tracks • content is King: everywhere in the IST programme! • our approach: • long term vision, beyond today’s commercial imperatives • more compelling content, more effective creation & flexible (re-)use • more digital-born content, better content, at a lower cost • commercial content, as opposed to scientific, medical, educational… content • two intertwined tracks: • creation • provide better user experience & control • by pulling together & integrating ICT advances • access & management • content analysis & categorisation (text + image, video, audio, n-D objects) • (semantic / contextual) search & retrieval • personalisation & reuse • aggregation & work flows …

  6. Outcome of Call-4 • 150+ submissions received • 25 proposals retained, nearly 250 organisations • 124 M€ total funding • largest EU call ever in the ICK domain • projects due to start Q1 2006

  7. Knowledge & Content Portfolio Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA IperG M-Pipe 3DTV Multimedia IPRacine WorldScreen MUSCLE Holonics Knowledge Representation GameTools REWERSE Towl Live Luisa NeOn WalkOnWeb K-Space Metokis DirectInfo Aim@Shape Aspic Salero Inscape Swing Acemedia Trends Sevenpro NM2 Ontogeo Mesh KnowledgeWeb X-Media Axmedis Caretaker Polymnia Boemie VIKEF MediaCampaign OpenKnowledge TripCom Simac Super AsIsKnown RevealThis TAO Musing DIP Patexpert Nepomuk S-TEN Alvis BootStrep SEKT KB20 Peng INCOMM Content4All Text AgentLinkIII LeMatch News Services

  8. Medianet 245M€ Multimedia & Audiovisual Portfolio 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia Instinct Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Pulsers Inscape Live Eperspace 7M€ MUSCLE Enthrone IperG 3DTV K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape Danae VIKEF Unic NM2 Sivss 3M€ Caretaker Boemie WorldScreen e-Next Portivity Teaha M-Pipe Suit MediaCampaign Simac Semantic hifi MHP-KDB Estia Tiramisu Alvis DirectInfo Visnet RevealThis Coherent mCDN Holonics WCam Olga Content4All MobiDuck Uni-Verse Astrals Polymnia GameTools Arena Metacamera Peng INCOMM Avista D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  9. 30M€ Content 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Inscape Live Eperspace 7M€ MUSCLE Enthrone IperG 3DTV 5M€ Aim@Shape VIKEF NM2 3M€ Caretaker Boemie WorldScreen Simac Alvis DirectInfo Holonics Content4All MobiDuck Polymnia GameTools D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  10. Authoring & Workflow 19.3M€ 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Inscape Live 7M€ MUSCLE IperG 3DTV K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape VIKEF NM2 3M€ Boemie WorldScreen M-Pipe MediaCampaign Alvis Holonics Content4All MobiDuck Polymnia GameTools Peng D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media content analysis games Networked AV Home Platform

  11. 21.6M€ Personalisation 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Inscape Live 7M€ MUSCLE IperG 3DTV K-Space 5M€ VIKEF NM2 3M€ WorldScreen e-Next Teaha Simac Tiramisu Estia DirectInfo RevealThis mCDN Olga Content4All Polymnia GameTools Arena INCOMM Avista D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  12. Medianet 55M€ Access & Management 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Pulsers Inscape Live Eperspace 7M€ MUSCLE Enthrone IperG 3DTV K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape Danae VIKEF Unic NM2 Sivss 3M€ Caretaker Boemie WorldScreen e-Next Portivity Teaha M-Pipe Suit MediaCampaign Simac Tiramisu Alvis Estia DirectInfo Visnet RevealThis Coherent WCam mCDN Holonics Olga Content4All MobiDuck Uni-Verse Polymnia Arena Metacamera Peng INCOMM Avista D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  13. 26.1M€ Metadata & Semantics 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Inscape Live 7M€ MUSCLE IperG K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape VIKEF 3M€ Caretaker Boemie M-Pipe MediaCampaign Simac Semantic hifi Alvis DirectInfo RevealThis Coherent mCDN Holonics Content4All Polymnia Arena Peng Avista D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  14. Medianet 61.4M€ Delivery & Networking 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA X-Media Acemedia Salero 9M€ IPRacine Axmedis Mesh Pulsers Inscape Live Eperspace 7M€ Enthrone IperG 3DTV K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape Danae Unic NM2 Sivss 3M€ Boemie WorldScreen e-Next Portivity Teaha M-Pipe Suit MediaCampaign Tiramisu Alvis Estia DirectInfo Visnet RevealThis Coherent WCam mCDN Holonics Olga Content4All MobiDuck Uni-Verse GameTools Arena Metacamera Peng INCOMM D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  15. 10.7M€ Standards & Interoperability 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA 9M€ IPRacine Live Eperspace 7M€ IperG K-Space 5M€ Aim@Shape 3M€ WorldScreen Portivity M-Pipe Suit RevealThis Coherent mCDN Content4All Uni-Verse Metacamera Peng Avista D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  16. Medianet 7.2M€ Digital Rights Management 2M€ Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA 9M€ Axmedis Pulsers Eperspace 7M€ Enthrone 5M€ 3M€ Teaha Tiramisu Uni-Verse D-cinema I-TV 3D Cross-Media Content analysis Games Networked AV Home Platforms

  17. Creativity tools: Salero • Integrated Project, 48M • lowering cost of content creation, creation and management of intelligent content objects, adaptation across different platforms, knowledge based control of appearance, sound, behaviour, artists and creative media professionals

  18. Intelligent content mgmt: Acemedia • Integrated Project, 48M • semantic multimedia analysis, semantic indexing/search, mpeg-7 descriptors, automated content collection, device adaptation, personalization, scalable video coding, content/metadata/intelligence layers

  19. Networking & distribution: Medianet • Integrated Project, 24M • multimedia communications, AV distribution, residential services, supply chain architecture, cooperation, digital rights management, home networking

  20. Towards FP7 • new framework expected to start end 2006 • main proposals (FP, SPs, RfP) forwarded to Council & Parliament • significant budget increase … depending on EU financial perspectives after 2006 • traditional as well as new SPs (eg Space) • multinational collaborative research (Cooperation SP) as well as grants for individual teams (Ideas SP)

  21. ICT research within FP7 • IST rebranded - now simply ICT, ~2 B€ / year • still the largest thematic component within FP • centred around 4 components: • Core Technologies (incl. Knowledge) • Integration of Technologies (eg personal, home) • Applications Research (incl. Content) • Future and Emerging Technologies • Knowledge placed next to (human & artificial) Cognition • Content (commercial, corporate…) next to educational & cultural Content • by and large, the proposed structure does not follow current DG-INFSO organisational lines … See www.cordis.lu/fp7/

  22. Timeplan • timeframe: • phase 1 (directions & priorities) => March 2006 • phase 2 (strong justification!) March-May • phase 3 (workprogramme) June-July • phase 4 (focus of initial calls) July-Sep • phase 5 (spreading the word…) Oct-Dec • elicit input from ALL relevant circles: • research topics • continuity vs. new directions • emerging challenges vs. gaps & failures in FP6 • long term research vs. development & validation • relationships vis-a-vis adjacent topical areas • instruments & shared infrastructures • stakeholders: S&T communities & disciplines • ICT and media industry, user industries

  23. We need your input, now! • work ahead: • assess FP6 portfolio, identify gaps & duplications • screen vendors & integrators, market drivers & products • gather socio-economic justification, facts & figures • sounding board (virtual / physical meetings) • expert roundtables (Bxl / Lux / at major conferences) • open public consultation • by email • web based • for each candidate research topic: • why public intervention • why at EU level, rationale & added value • expected impact (scientific, technological, economic) • time-to-maturity/exploitation & (eventual) application space

  24. Some issues • Content & Knowledge the largest topical area in FP6, budgetlikely to remain ~ constant in FP7, so • ongoing convergence of Knowledge & mutimedia Content tracks • new and emerging research challenges • which research lines can be discontinued to make room for new research topics • how to share more widely& effectively precompetitive research results • how to enhance impact & promote uptake: more focused approachto application domains or research tasks? • how to foster more ambitious endeavours • how to stimulate synergy with national & industrial initiatives • how to broaden the programme base • more research centres, more companies, more high-tech users

  25. More information www.cordis.lu/fp7/ Our website (under re-construction): • www.cordis.lu/ist/kct/ Your input (1 page per topic): • infso-e2@cec.eu.int Inquiries: • stefano.bertolo@cec.eu.int • roberto.cencioni@cec.eu.int

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