prickl 2007 fp7 call 3: eu funding opportunities in intelligent content and semantics stefano...
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PriCKL 2007
FP7 call 3: EU funding opportunities in intelligent
content and semantics
Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media
Unit E2 – Content & [email protected]
Warsaw, 21 September 2007
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Why participate in FP7?
• no matter where you are, the majority of the smart people work elsewhere;
• reuse resources developed elsewhere, make yourself known;
• considerable amounts of funding available
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Framework Programme 72007-2013
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CooperationIdeasPeopleCapacitiesEuratomJRC
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FP7 Cooperation2007-2013
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1935ICTNanoEnvironmentEnergyTransportSocial SciencesSpaceSecurityHealthFoodAgroBio
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FPT ICT: Work Programme 2007-2008
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IC&S
DigLibr/ Learn
CognitiveSystems
Rest
ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/ict/docs/ict-wp-2007-08_en.pdf
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Intelligent Content &Semantics
Make digital resources that embody creativity and semantics (”intelligence”) easier and more cost effective to produce, organize, search, personalise, distribute and use across the value chain.
media professionals, enterprise designers, talented amateurs:
enhanced productivity; more communicative & participative forms of content; ease of use
organisations & communities:
automated collection & distribution of digital content and machine-tractable knowledge; sharing in collaborative environments
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Topical foci
• 3 axes:
– boost creativity (better)
– master content (easier, richer)
– dig out « hidden » information (humans & machines)
• 3 forms of content:
– (social) media content
– enterprise information
– scientific data
multimedia:
– text, image, video, audio …
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Overall approach
• research for a purpose, problem & objective driven
• centred around users, data & flows
– a compelling “use case” is as important as the underlying research
• meaningful demonstrator(s), field validation & assessment
• active promotion & dissemination of results beyond scientific circles
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Progress, 1st FP7 call
• broad effort– 3 WP Objectives centred around digital content:
Digital Libraries
Intelligent Content
Networked Media
– approx 190 Meuro in total
– c. 340 proposals received
• selection completed
• negotiation underway
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IC&S stats
• inputs:
– 148 proposals
– 1210 participants from 50 countries
– 473 Meuro requested, 51 Meuro available
• outputs:
– 15 top-ranked (retained) proposals
– 128 participants
– 55% academia & research centres
– 45% business & public sector
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Response
• video is very popular and so is 3D
• web 2.0 approaches are well represented alone or in combination with KE / semantic web text alone or as an aid for multimedia annotation speech is back, but proposals often lack sophistication
• information extraction & text/multimedia mining addressed by several proposals
• (semantic) search embedded within larger systems
• reasoning & machine learning the subjectof ambitous endeavours
• multilingual aspects are weak
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WP coverage
• popular themes: content creation & processing, both media (TV, film,
games, advertising …) & other appls (eg surveillance)
several instances of personalisation & summarisation
knowledge management & decision support, range of business & public-interest (eg environment) domains
semantic foundations, including semantic web & data integration
• gaps: creative authoring (e.g. games, virtual worlds, industrial
design) as well as immersive rendering & multimodal consumption
democratisation of editing/remixing/tagging/sharing tools
simple and yet powerful
low cost but high functionality
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Top proposals
• good coverage of the WP– research, development & field validation
• balanced partnerships– consortia smaller than in FP6
– well known players as well as newcomers
– teams from 7 of the 12 « new » member states
• multiple use cases– both private & public sectors
• good balance between instruments– 4 big (IP, 26 M), 11 small (STR, 25 M)
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ICT-2007.2.1Cognitive Systems, Interaction & Robotics
• Input: 185 proposals, 1,432 participations, 43 countries, €680m funding requested, €96m available budget• Output: 63 proposals ranked, 26 retained (19 STREPs, 6
IPs, 1 NoE)
• Themes: Robotics (grasping & manipulation; human-robot interaction; swarms); Detection of salient events (understanding behaviour); Interaction (natural language, incl. sign language, understanding); Robotics & language (endowing systems with intelligence, cognitive development through perception & action); Machine learning as key enabling technology
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ICT-2007.4.1Digital Libraries & Technology enhanced Learning
• Input: 191 proposals, 1,713 participations, 53 countries, €609m funding requested, €52m available budget• Output: 81 proposals ranked, 12 retained (7 STREPs, 4
IPs, 1 CA)
• Themes: Multimedia content (reuse, enhancement); Semantic Search ; Digitisation (scalability, cost effectiveness); Multilingualism; Competence centres (outreach and services); Digital Preservation (datagrids, intelligent web harvesters, software agents for autonomous preservation)
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ICT-2007.4.2Intelligent Content & Semantics
• Input: 148 proposals, 1,210 participations, 50 countries, €473m funding requested, €51m available budget• Output: 55 proposals ranked, 15 retained (9 STREPs, 4
IPs, 1 CA, 1 SA)
• Themes: Content creation/processing (TV, film, images, advertisement, surveillance); Personalisation (including social sharing) ; Knowledge management/Decision support (corporate, public interest information); Semantic foundations (large scale, approximate reasoning, identity management); Knowledge integration (scientific databases; web services)
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Prospects,short term
3rd ICT call due for publication in Q4
• same WP, same budget (50 M for IC&S, c. 200 M for Dir.E WP objectives)• 45 M for collaborative projects
• 5 M for networks, coordination & support actions
• inquiries, re-submissions … from Nov 1st on
• updated IC&S call Specifications by early Dec
• 2-day gathering on 12-13 Dec, Luxbg FP6 showcase selected call-1 projects call-3 information & networking
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Prospects,medium term
new ICT work programme
2009-2010 operations
finalized Q3 2008, ICT’08 conference
key directions set by Q1 2008
• WP Challenges expected to stay
• scope & focus of Objectives to be reassessed, adjusted where necessary
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ML and KD(D) opportunities I
• Usage/Usability logs– Who uses/needs what data/resources?– Who interacts with whom?– What sequences of user actions result in
success or predict dissatisfaction/problems (e.g. ingimp.org)
– Create systems whose performance improves the more they are used
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ML and KD(D) opportunities II
• Automation of scientific pipeline– Hypothesis generation, closed loop
learning– Virtual experiments– Integration of data resources (conceptual
mapping)
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ML and KD(D) opportunities III
• Integration of knowledge representation, multimedia and dimensional, geometric information– Induction of design grammars – Dimensional info as a source of constraints
for image segmenting/recognition– OWL 1.1 datatypes, JSR-275, Sun’s Fortress
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Questions?