Networked Media 8th FP7 Concertation Meeting : Presentations
Presentations
Plenary
Provides a framework in which the following (but not only) could be presented and discussed between Networked Media projects and the Commission Services.
- Networked Media project portfolio evolution
- Dissemination plans
- AOB
- Clusters' view on new or existing INFSO policies
Also, a time period slot could be reserved for demonstrations and for posters session.
Click here to browse submitted presentations for the Plenary.
3D Immersive Interactive Media
The 3D Immersive Interactive Media cluster provides an
umbrella for better interaction and collaboration amongst related EC funded
projects, in order to contribute to their successful completion and to enhance
their dissemination efforts. In this context, its targets include the
development of strategic plans like research roadmaps or informative
standardization papers and present, circulate and disseminate such results among
the stakeholders, and possibly to wider audiences. It therefore serves as a
gateway to distribute public project results to the outside world, as well as
inform cluster members about international research in the concerned area (3D,
Immersive and Interactive Media technologies). The cluster will also facilitate
joint presence of the participating projects at various dissemination
activities, like exhibits, conferences and publications.
The cluster focus on the following issues:
- Capture, enhancement, delivery, display, as well as interaction with content and immersive usage of true 3D video data
- Exact optical replicas of 3D environments and scenes displayed in a “ghost-like” fashion as well as the capture, creation and delivery of such replicas
- Perfect scene assembly of 3D video objects from different sources, creating the feeling of being immersed within a 3D environment, as well as easy interaction with 3D scene content
Click here to browse submitted presentations for this cluster.
Future Media Networks
The Future Media Networks cluster is formed from the projects in the
Networked Media Systems unit that are concerned with the algorithms, protocols,
techniques, tools and platforms for the support, by future networks, of advanced
interactive media applications and the seamless delivery of a range of content
including text, images, audio-visual streams and 3D media, virtual and augmented
worlds, and games.
The cluster is therefore in a privileged position to research novel networking
solutions in the context of demanding network problems posed by distributed
media applications and content delivery systems.
The cluster provides a forum for the exchange of ideas between projects,
facilitating the harmonization of views on topics of common interest as well as
building a comprehensive view of complementary and alternative solutions.
The projects in the cluster have a spectrum of approaches to the networking of
such applications and content, ranging from P2P overlays that make no
assumptions on the underlying network through to visionary and potentially
disruptive novel network architectures that are able to access, discover and
route content natively.
Some of the topics of common interest that are currently under investigation include:
- Network architectures for supporting advanced media applications
- Adaptation of content to network capabilities, including scalable video coding
- P2P applications and their interaction with underlying networks
- Distributed versus centralised media/content servers
Click here to browse submitted presentations for this cluster.
Media Search
The cluster is formed from the projects which are actively pursing research
in the multimedia information retrieval and search engine domain. The
concertation meetings facilitate the exchange of information and the sharing of
results among those research projects. A dozen EU R&D project representatives
participate regularly, including representatives from several of the nationally
funded flagship projects on search engines.
EU collaborative R&D intervention targeting media search technologies started
five years ago. The EC grants can help specialized research organizations and
European SMEs to enter and to compete in the exploding and rapidly evolving
media search market, where despite the dominant commercial internet search
giants such as Google, there is still room for small players, starting with
niche markets. Experts agree that the SE business is still in its infancy.
The objective of the entire cluster of projects is to build up specialized
knowledge to enter and compete in the European media search markets.
Some of the R&D topics of common interest that are currently under investigation
include:
- Novel forms of multimedia tagging and search.
- Future internet architectures (since today search engines lie at the very core of broadband networks in terms of access and distributed audiovisual content retrieval.)
- Realtime search
- multimodal multimedia search
- 3D object search
- Mobile Search and geolocation based services.
Click here to browse submitted presentations for this cluster.
User Centric Media
The User Centric Media cluster is formed from projects that are getting
involved at the sector of generation, distribution and experience of high
quality media content by end-users. More specifically, User Centric Media is
about the user itself becoming the major media producer and distributor, and
about exploiting this media created by different citizens at different moments
of time to generate a co-created application.
The cluster provides support for the completion and commercial exploitation of
the final outcome of the projects, promote their participation at
standardization and dissemination activities, boost the synergies with relevant
projects in other European, national and regional programmes and contribute to
the diffusion of their results between them and to the public.
Between the topics that are currently under investigation concerning the
exponential grown user generated content, facilitated by the use of improved
modelling tools and digitisation devices and technology innovation in computer
graphics and computational equipment, are included:
- Social Networks and online games
- User generated content creation, management and consumption systems
- Novel Networked Media Systems to support human creativity
- User centric media services in the extended home
- Personalized Access to Media Systems
Click here to browse submitted presentations for this cluster.