The i3media project reaches successfully its first year research objectives

Jul 16, 2008 - BM news


The i3media project, for the creation and automated management of intelligent audiovisual contents, has reached successfully its objectives of the first year of validity. The representatives of the CDTI (Centre for the Industrial Technological Development) of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade of Spain (MITyC), have checked the results of the project, which has the support of the MITyC, during a monitoring visit.

i3media, developed in a four-year period (2007-2010), is carried out by a consortium of twelve enterprises, led by MEDIAPRO and managed by Barcelona Media.

Ángel García Sánchez-Valiente, director of the Department of Monitoring Projects of the CDTI, and Silvia Colado, technician of the same centre, have visited the companies and centres which take part in i3media. In the first working day, in MEDIAPRO, David Xirau, project coordinator, presented a detailed description of the aims and results attained until now. The CDTI representatives checked out the tasks carried out by other companies of the consortium and visited Active Multimedia, TV3 and the CCMA and, in the second working day, Telefónica I+D and Alcatel-Lucent.

Visit to Barcelona Media

Finally, the CDTI experts visited Barcelona Media facilities. In BM, they were received by Marta Ysern, director of the Department of Business Development, and they met technicians and CDTI representatives with i3media team, in Barcelona Media, on 9th Julyresearchers of the centre, that showed some of the first year research results.

The i3media project has a budget of almost €35 million and involves the participation of over 140 top-level researchers. Besides the consortium of twelve companies, nineteen groups participate in the research. Theses groups are attached to ten organizations: six universities, two research centres and two technological centres, one of which is, Barcelona Media. The CDTI approved of the i3media’s funding, as a "tractor" technological project, in the second call of the CENIT program and in the INGENIO 2010 initiative.

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