VITALAS

Video & image Indexing and Retrieval in the Large Scale

Keywords:
Cross-media indexing, retrieval, large-scale search techniques, multimedia archives, databases.

Abstract:

VITALAS delivers a pre-industrial prototype system accessing multimedia professional archives. The technology will be applied in B2B applications and adopted for public use by addressing consumers’ needs for efficient and reliable multimedia content search engines.

VITALAS addresses three major challenges:

Cross-media indexing (automatic annotation) and retrieval,
Large scale search techniques,
Visualisation and Context adapting (personalized services considering both on- and off-line).

Partners:

ERCIM (administrative coordinator)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - INRIA, France (scientific coordinator)
EADS Defence and Security Systems - EADS, France
Stitching Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica - CWI, The Netherlands
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V, Germany
Fundación ROBOTIKER - Robotiker, Spain
Institut national de laudiovisuel - INA, France
University of Sunderland - UoS, UK
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, CERTH-ITI, Greece
The Centre of Excellence in Digital Technology and Media Limited - Codeworks, UK
Agence télégraphique de Presse Belga SA -Belga, Belgium
Institut für Rundfunktechnik - IRT, Germany