K-Space: bridging the semantic gap

Craig Stewart (QMUL)

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Humans see “semantic”

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Overview of K-Space K-Space -- Knowledge Space of Shared Technology and

Integrative Research to Bridge the Semantic Gap (in Multimedia Representation and Processing)

A Network of Excellence in the 6th European R&D Framework (see http://www.k-space.eu/)

K-Space is a network of research teams from academia and industry to conduct integrative research and dissemination activities in semantic inference for (semi-)automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content.

K-Space is aiming at closing the semantic gap between low-level content descriptions that can be computed automatically by machines and the richness and subjectivity of semantics in high-level human interpretations of audiovisual media.

Network Partners

1. Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) - UK

2. Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (KU) - D

3. Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (JRS) - AT

4. Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) - GR

5. Dublin City University (DCU) - IR

6. Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) - NL

7. Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications (GET) - F

8. Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) - F

9. Institut Eurécom (EURECOM) - F

10. University of Glasgow (GU) - UK

11. German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) - D

12. Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) - D

13. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) - CH

14. University of Economics, Prague (UEP) - CZ

K-Space Framework

Summary

Creation of an open and expandable framework for collaborative research on knowledge acquisition based on a common distributed system made up of flexible, modular and interconnected technology needed to bridge the semantic gap.

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