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Social sensors for secUrity Assessments and Proactive EmeRgencies management (SUPER)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Social media (SM) statistics during recent disasters (e.g., the 20 million tweets relating to «Sandy» storm and the sharing of related photos in Instagram at a rate of 10/sec) provide tangible evidence that security forces and civil protection agencies could greatly benefit from the effective blending of SM information into their processes. However, despite the widespread use of SM in various dom ...
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Gathering media clusters to bridge digital content with emerging technologies (EUROTRANSMEDIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

"Transmedia, the future of Media industryMedia industry, a strongly ""technology driven"" sector suffers, in Europe, of fragmented R&D efforts (a fact highlighted by the “Digital Agenda”). In consequence there are still some missing essential technical components to be developed in Europe. Given the changing context in the media sector and the economic significance of this highly competitive and s ...
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Decentralised Citizens ENgagement Technologies (D-CENT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

D-CENT will accelerate innovation in the use of the Internet to help communities share data and collaborate to address major societal challenges. Despite its huge potential to transform everyday democratic decision making or to enable citizens to shape their own economic destiny, today's Internet is becoming highly centralised.D-CENT will accelerate the development of practical alternatives, thro ...
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Depth enabled workflow for flexible 2D and multiview video production (3FLEX)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The 3FLEX project aims to define and develop a new advanced workflow for flexible 2D, stereo and multiview video production capable to deal with and take advantage of the image+depth content approach and to develop the building blocks to implement it. This workflow enhances current 2D and 3D production workflows, and regarding the 2D to 3D conversion processes promises cost savings and improvement ...
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LEADS: Large-Scale Elastic Architecture for Data as a Service (LEADS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

There is a wealth of publicly available data in today's Internet (e.g., Web pages, government law texts, public statistics, media archives, etc.) that can be exploited by large and small companies in various business domains. Storing, processing, and querying such ever increasing amounts of data is becoming a major challenge, and having the capability to do so is a strong asset for the few big com ...
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Network of Excellence in Internet Science (EINS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2015,

The goal of EINS is coordinating and integrating European research aimed at achieving a deeper multidisciplinary understanding of the development of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact, whose evolution is increasingly interwined with that of human societies. Its main objective is to allow an open and productive dialogue between all the disciplines which study Internet systems und ...
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Linguistically Motivated Semantic aggregatIon engiNes (LiMoSINe)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

We increasingly live our life online. Information is accumulated on a wide range of human activities, from science and facts, to personal content, opinions, and trends. Across the globe, people's knowledge, experiences and interactions effortlessly find their way to online outlets, alongside traditional edited content, ready to be shared with millions.LiMoSINe will integrate the research activitie ...
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Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science (EMAPS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

EMAPS (Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science) is a collaborative research project aiming at answering in the most innovative way the topic SiS.2011.3.0.6-1 which calls for an assessment of “the opportunities and risks in the use of the web and the social media as a meaningful information tool and for developing a participatory communication between scientists and the different publics”. Our pro ...
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Monitoring public opinion on Nanotechnology in Europe (NANOPINION)

Start date: May 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

NANOPINION will provide a multi-tasking and enlivening online science-technology-social media-based platform for learning, information, outreach, dialogue and monitoring for young people, general public and consumer opinion on NT, realising the need for enhanced communication and dialogue between science and society for successful technology development and societal acceptance. A central dialogue ...
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Novel Scene representations for richer networked media (SCENE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

SCENE will develop novel scene representations for digital media that go beyond the ability of either sample based (video) or model-based (CGI) methods to create and deliver richer media experiences. The SCENE representation and its associated tools will make it possible to capture 3D video, combine video seamlessly with CGI, manipulate and deliver it to either 2D or 3D platforms in either linear ...
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Automated analysis of opinions in a multilingual context (CrossLingMind)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

In the recent years, massive amounts of personal opinions have been posted on the Internet. This allows the companies and institutions to get feedback about their services, provided that they are able to analyse this mass of information.Given that most people prefer to write and read information in their own language, it is clearly relevant to be able to analyse in one language opinions expressed ...
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Forecasting Financial Crises (FOC-II)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

In this project we set up an interdisciplinary consortium of computer scientists, physicists, economists and policy makers to deal with the problem of understanding and forecasting systemic risk and global financial instabilities. By leveraging on expertise in the various disciplines, we want to provide a novel integrated and network-oriented approach to the issue. On one hand, we will offer a the ...
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Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience (FINE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

Description The Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience (FINE) introduces a novel end-to-end architecture for the creation and delivery of Free-viewpoint Content.The project FINE is focused on the concept of live free-viewpoint content which provides rich and compelling immersive experiences by allowing remote viewers to place a vir ...
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Discount Coupon Recommendation and Redemption System (DICO(RE)2S)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

"DICO(RE)2S is an SME European Consortium devoted to develop and deploy a coupon-based discount campaign platform that will exploit state-of-the-art information and communication technologies and processes for providing consumers and retailers/manufactures with a personalized and efficient environment for maximizing customer satisfaction and business profitability.The platform will incorporate a c ...
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Analyzing and Recognizing Time, Factuality, and Opinion in Text (ARTiFactO)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

This project aims at exploring methodologies on porting natural language processing (NLP) technology from one language to another (Objective 1), while contributing specific technological infrastructure to the target language (Objective 2). Research on cross-linguistic porting of technology is increasingly popular due to the advantages of reusing NLP tools of costly production. Moreover, it is a ke ...
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"Surveillance platform based on multi-source video analytics, localized data and cognitive interfaces" (SV3D)

Start date: Jun 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

"The current surveillance systems used in big buildings or infrastructures are based on the juxtaposed display of multiple alarms, sensors, and independently captured and processed video feeds. That array of inputs generates such a volume of information that is near to impossible to manage by the system users. The SV3D project aims at designing and implementing a security software platform to face ...
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Technologies for the Multilingual European Information Society (T4ME Net)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Linguistic diversity is a corner stone of our multicultural European society. To preserve this essential asset in the age of the emerging information and knowledge society, Europe needs ICT technologies and applications at affordable costs that• enable communication, collaboration and participation across language boundaries• secure their language users equal access to the information and knowledg ...
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COntent Aware Searching, retrieval and sTreaming (COAST)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jul 31, 2012,

Towards the Future Internet age, COAST aims to build a Future Content-Centric Network (FCN) architecture, able to offer network-wide Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in service discovery and content consumption. In COAST FCN, the users will specify solely which content or web service they need and the COAST framework will find and deliver the desired or the most relevant data in an efficient, timel ...
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20-20 3D Media: Spatial Sound and Vision (20-20 3D Media)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Film or cinema has been the driving force for the entertainment industry, setting the standards of quality, providing the most compelling experience, and feeding the distribution chains of other media (broadcast TV, cable and satellite channels, DVD, video, games et cetera). The creation of a complete '3-D capable' chain is expected to follow a similar path. The media industry knows that astonishi ...
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LivingKnowledge – Facts, Opinions and Bias in Time (LivingKnowledge)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

Knowledge and its articulations are strongly influenced by diversity in, e.g., cultural backgrounds, schools of thought, geographical contexts. Judgements, assessments and opinions, which play a crucial role in many areas of democratic societies, including politics and economics, reflect this diversity in perspective and goals. For the information on the Web (including, e.g., news and blogs) diver ...
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intelligent Metadata-driven Processing and distribution of audiovisual media (iMP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2011,

Description 'Virtual Film Factory'iMP will create architecture, workflow and applications for intelligent metadata-driven processing and distribution of digital movies and entertainment. These will enable a ‘Virtual Film Factory’ in which creative professionals can work together to create and customise programmes from Petabyte-scale digit ...
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Autonomous Production of Images based on Distributed Sensing (APIDIS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Description APIDIS develops cost-effective solutions for autonomous and/or personalized production of video summaries for controlled scenarios (sports events or surveillance)Democratic and personalized production of multimedia content is one of the most exciting challenges that content providers will have to face in the near future.APIDIS ...
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Integrating CALL in Early Education Environments

Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

ICE3 aims at promoting computer assisted language learning (CALL) at school level, in a way that is based on a pedagogically sound orientation (based on the communicative teaching language principles) and that integrates advanced processing tools for the generation of immediate feedback.The consortium wishes to extend their previous work on the area to overcome clearly identified shortcomings of p ...
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AUTOmatic tutor for lifelong language LEARNing

This project has been conceived to define, carry out and evaluate a set of exploitationand dissemination activities - in connection with previously existing techniques andmethodologies - that should help develop a new ICT-based paradigm for the field ofForeign Language Training targeted at different audiences. Through the projectactivities, the consortium will gain experience and knowledge regardi ...
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Electronic Music & use of ICT for young at risk of exclusion

The project aims to create an innovative learning approach based on informaleducation, specifically on the use of ITCs in music to encourage young to re-startlearning. The pedagogic pathway proposed combines creativity, fun and keycompetenceslearning, particularly mathematics, sciences and ICT and offers the youngat risk of exclusion or dropouts a concrete chance to reconnect to learning. E-Music ...
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