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Over the last 10 years, the European Commission and governments have invested substantial funds in scientific grid computing. Scientists have access to state-of-the-art computational and data resources located around the world, putting European research into a leading position to address the greatest challenges facing us today, such as climate change, pandemics and sustainable energy.With the adve ...
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Bringing the Media Internet to Life (3DLife)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

3DLife will integrate leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. The main objective of the NoE are:-To foster the creation of sustainable relationships between existing national research groups and to start development of a Virtual Centre of Excellence in the field.-To create suffici ...
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Description DigiBIC is a 30 months project focused on the deployment of best practice, tools and results from FP6, FP7 and national research projects in cultural heritage, digital libraries and preservation to the wider Creative Industry (CI) sector and in particular to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).The following activities are p ...
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Roadmap for Music Information ReSearch (MIReS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

The field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) has centered primarily on the analysis of sound signal for the purpose of more efficient search and faster access to digital collections of recorded music. The advent of web-mediated social networks has created a dynamic global market for digital music, collateral services and new user behaviours with significant challenges and opportunities for explo ...
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The rapid progress in hardware/software media technologies has changed the role of individuals from passive content consumers to active content creator/producers. It is clear that in a few years everyone will be multimedia content producer (by publishing digital pictures, video recordings, remote e-health services, home surveillance, etc.), multimedia content mediator (by storing/forwarding strea ...
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Latest research work within ICT has allowed to pinpoint the most important and urgently required features that future systems should have to meet users' needs. Accordingly, methods making systems capable of adapting to changes in user requirements and application domains are key research areas.Adaptation and evolution depend on several dimensions like time, location, and security conditions, expre ...
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LIving with Robots and intEractive Companions (LIREC)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

LIREC aims to establish a multi-faceted (memory, emotions, cognition, communication, learning, etc.) theory of artificial long-term companions, embody it in robust and innovative technology, verify the theory and technology experimentally in real social environments, and provide resulting guidelines for designing such companions. Whether as robots, social toys or graphical and mobile synthetic cha ...
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Sparse Models, Algorithms, and Learning for Large Scale Data (SMALL)

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

SMALL will develop a new foundational framework for processing signals, using adaptive sparse structured representations.A key discriminating feature of sparse representations, which opened up the horizons to new ways of thinking in signal processing including compressed sensing, has been the focus on developing reliable algorithms with provable performance and bounded complexity. Yet, such approa ...
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PEer-to-peer TAgged MEDIA (PetaMedia)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

In the Netherlands, Switzerland, UK, and Germany, national networks exist of collaborating excellent research groups in the areas of multimedia content analysis (MCA) and social and peer-to-peer (SP2P) networks. The Network of Excellence PetaMedia brings these four strong national networks together, at first to form a European network of national networks, and eventually to establish a sustainable ...
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Future Media Internet Coordination Action (nextMEDIA)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

The objective of nextMEDIA is to enhance the coordination of the efforts in Europe towards producing a clear situation of the Future Media Internet, create common pillars (e.g. the Future Media Internet reference architecture for Europe) and support the results of the developments of the European projects by means of the following actions:• Coordinate and Support of research collaboration in netwo ...
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The increasing cost of experimental facilities in many research fields is powering a concentration of such facilities in a few selected places, sometimes driven also by environmental conditions.The clear, steady skies without light pollution necessary to Astronomical Observatories are generally not easily found. In the Southern hemisphere the best observing facility for optical and infrared astron ...
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The main idea of My-e-Director is to research and develop a unique interactive broadcasting service enabling end-users to select focal actors and points of interest within real-time broadcasted scenes. The service will resemble an automated ambient intelligent director that will operate with minimal or even without human intervention. Contrary to state-of-the art services of similar nature that fo ...
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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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Description The researchers created a cross-discipline digital library engine that allows for drawing content from one domain and making it available and understandable to the users of another.Digital libraries generally provide electronic access for communities of users to information of their discipline. A new challenge to research is a ...
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GridTalk: co-ordinating grid reporting across Europe (GridTalk)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2010,

The impact of Grids has rapidly expanded beyond that which can be disseminated by individual projects. GridTalk will bring the success stories of Europe's e-Infrastructure to policy makers in government and business, to the broader scientific community, and to the general public. The project will co-ordinate the dissemination outputs of EGEE and other European Grid efforts, ensuring their results ...
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Genetic Message Oriented Secure Middleware (GEMOM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The core scientific focus of GEMOM is the significant and measurable increase in end-to-end intelligence and resilience of complex, distributed information systems. GEMOM's definition of intelligence and resilience include:- Insensitivity or significant reduction in sensitivity to individual and sometimes multiple faults in the system. Fault is defined as any deterioration of the functional profil ...
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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE III (EGEE-III)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

A globally distributed computing Grid now plays an essential role for large-scale, data intensive science in many fields of research. The concept has been proven viable through the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project (EGEE and EGEE-II, 2004-2008) and its related projects. EGEE-II is consolidating the operations and middleware of this Grid for use by a wide range of scientific communities, such as ...
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SALA+ is a Support Action (SA) intended to foster International Cooperation in the area of Networked Electronic Media (NEM) between Europe and Latin America. The global aim of the project is to prepare for future concrete partnerships between Europe and Latin American countries.SALA+ will provide support to the implementation of the FP7 ICT Work Programme. In this context, the SALA+ project will e ...
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Promotion of life-long learning with the European Steel Industry, in response to the established need to help employees to adjust to new ways of working, to new processes and technologies and to provide them with transferable skills. The need to promote equal opportunities in the sector is borne out by the fact that 90% of the workforce is male. Existing and new research will be used to map exist ...
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