Ongoing Projects
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SCENE. Novel scene representations for richer networked media. SCENE’s objective is to conduct further research into tools that give audiences a greater sense of reality and offer more possibilities of expression for professionals, through the development of new digital-media representations that enable the capture of 3D audiovisual formats and the mixing of real and artificial images. To achieve this, the project encompasses 3D data capture, the analysis and extraction of scene information and the construction and manipulation of the representation, through its optimisation for Internet access and the provision of different platforms and different quality levels. Programme: ICT– FP7 European Commission |
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SOCIAL MEDIA. Methods and technologies for social media. Leading companies in the field of innovation in the media sector have come together to research the new communication and business opportunities offered by social networks, in a project dubbed Social Media. The objective of Social Media is to exploit the latest social phenomenon provided by the Internet: the publication of information and opinions by online users and their growing participation in social networks. The consortium, led by Yahoo! Iberia, is made up of pioneering companies from different sectors such as marketing, advertising, communication, media-based information analysis, the general media, marketing-orientated data mining, IT, data visualisation and social networks, along with a variety of subcontracted research centres that also form part of the project framework. Programme: CENIT 2010 - Consorcis Estratègics Nacionals en Investigació Tècnica (National Strategic Consortia in Technical Research), MICINN-CDTI |
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dico(Re)2S - Discount coupon recommendation and redemption system. The chief objective of dico(Re)2S is to offer consumers personalised discount coupons; to achieve this, it uses state-of-the-art data-processing, data-mining and user-recommendation technologies, along with cutting-edge visualisation and coupon-reading technologies. Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs 2010 – FP7 European Commission |
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SV3D – Surveillance platform based on multisource video analytics, localised data and cognitive interfaces. The SV3D project involves the design and implementation of a security-software platform aimed at solving the problem created by the exponential growth of the quantity and complexity of visual and factual data that it is the responsibility of a security controller to manage, particularly in the context of large, complex buildings and open spaces. Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs 2011 – FP7 European Commission |
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2020 3D Media: Spatial sound and vision. 2020 3D Media has researched, developed and tested new forms of experience in the field of entertainment, based on technologies for the capture, production, network distribution and exhibition of immersive sound and images of a 3D, stereoscopic and multi-view nature. The project has added a fresh dimension to digital cinema and has created new types of stereoscopic- and immersive-media networks for both the public and private spheres, in addition to researching and developing technologies to support the acquisition, encoding, editing, network distribution and exhibition of stereoscopic and immersive audiovisual content in order to provide new, surprising forms of entertainment for both public and private audiences. |
EMaps - Electronic Maps to Assist Public Science. EMaps is a European research project that aims to offer the most innovative solutions to the challenges presented by the Commission regarding the provision of consulting on the risks and opportunities of using the Internet and social media as a meaningful information tool, and to develop participative communication between scientists and different audiences.
Programme: ICT - VII European Commission Framework Programme - SiS.2011.3.0.6-1 Science-Society interaction in the digital technologies era.
Scientific Coordinator: Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
Duration: 01/11/2011 – 31/10/2014
3D audio for digital cinema. The objective of this project is to provide the necessary technology to convert 3D audio into a viable and successful technology, as a response to the profound changes that have occurred in recent years in terms of cinema audio technology and the demand for more immersive audio content.
Programme: INNPACTO (MICINN)
Duration: 02/05/2011 – 31/12/2013
Opinion analysis in client communication. This project is concerned with designing Customer Interaction Analytics technologies to develop a new commercial services platform. To this end, it is involved in the development of a new generation of the Speech Analytics systems offered by the company Fonetic; natural language processing and opinion-mining technology will be applied in order to open up the possibility of making a qualitative leap in the analysis and management of the relationships between companies that have automated or semi-automated customer-service systems.
Programme: INNPACTO (MICINN)
Duration: 02/05/2011 – 31/12/2013
ICE3 - Integrating CALL in early education environments. The objective of this project is to promote computer-aided language learning at school, based on a pedagogical focus that incorporates processing tools for immediate response generation. Programme: Lifelong Learning – European Commission.
Scientific Coordinator: Toni Badia
Duration: 01/10/2010 – 30/09/2012
FINE - Free-viewpoint Immersive Networked Experience. The FINE project is focused on researching and developing an architecture for the creation and distribution of a new form of live multimedia content. It introduces the concept of real, arbitrarily selectable content that provides rich, convincing immersive experiences, in which audiences can view a scene from a viewpoint they choose and are able to change, as though a virtual camera had been positioned in the midst of real action scenes and could be freely moved in space and time, thereby intensifying the sensation of presence and reality.
Programme: ICT - VII European Commission Framework Programme.
Scientific Coordinator: Joan Bennassar – Mediapro.
Duration: 01/04/2010 – 31/03/2013
ATRAPA – System to aid real-time decision-making at airports. The aim of the consortium-based ATRAPA project is to develop a tool for the real-time, land-side management of airport operations. Vital to achieving the objective of real-time management are both the neural networks developed by CIMNE, owing to their capacity for instant simulation, and the visualisation tools of Barcelona Media’s Virtual Visualisation Laboratory and our experience in urban environments. This project was designed by a consortium of four companies and two technology centres and is funded by ACC1Ó’s Nuclis programme.
Programme: Nucli (ACC1Ó)
Duration: 21/04/2010 – 03/09/2012
T4ME - Technologies for the Multilingual European Information Society. T4ME is a Network of Excellence which seeks to build a strategic alliance for the creation of the technologies and applications necessary to ensure the sustainability of linguistic diversity and multiculturalism in European societies. It has addressed the problem and made advances by investigating other areas of research, such as automatic learning, social IT, cognitive systems, knowledge technologies and multimedia content. It is necessary to strengthen the European research community through research networks and the creation of new systems for the exchange of resources and efforts.
Programme: ICT - VII European Commission Framework Programme.
Scientific Coordinator: Hans Uszkoreit – Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH
Duration: 01/02/2010 – 31/01/2013
Projects completed
APIDIS- Autonomous Production of Images base on Distributed and Intelligent Sensing. APIDIS (www.apidis.org)has researched automatic smart content extraction with multimodal sensor networks and has used this knowledge to automate the production of video content for controlled scenarios, such as for example important sports events or surveillance.
Programme: ICT - VII European Commission Framework Programme.
Scientific Co-ordinator: Christophe De Vleeschouwer - Université Catholique de Louvain.
Gothic Barcelona. A research project carried out within the framework of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Digital Content Advance sub-programme, under the direction of Barcelona Media and in collaboration with the History Museum of Barcelona. The result was the creation of a 3D application of part of Ciutat Vella (Old City) of Barcelona by means of which you can discover the most outstanding Gothic and Neo-Gothic landmarks in real time.
E- Motion. Electronic Music and Use of ICT for young people at risk of exclusion. The main goal is to develop and apply an innovative and experimental focus on the use of ICT, more specifically the use of electronic music and ICT, combining creativity, fun and learning in order to improve the learning of key skills (mathematics, physics, languages), essential to enter the working world, among groups at risk of exclusion.
Programme: Lifelong Learning Programme (EAC/30/2007) Transversal Programme KA3-ICT.
Scientific Co-ordinator: Associazione di cultura, sport e tempo libero – Associazione Centri Sportivi Italiani (Rome, Italy).
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i3media. Technologies for the creation and automated management of smart audiovisual content. This industrial research project lasted four years and came to a successful end in December 2010. It was carried out by a consortium made up of twelve medium-sized nationwide companies and involved the participation of over 140 senior researchers. Apart from the company consortium, nineteen research groups belonging to two entities also took part: six universities, two research centres and two technological centres. The project enjoyed a total investment of almost 35 million Euros, and was supported by the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade within the framework of the CENIT-National Strategic Consortiums in Technical Research Programme. Programme: CENIT 2007- National Strategic Consortiums in Technical Research, MICINN –CDTI. |
iMP- Intelligent Metadata-Driven Processing and Distribution of Audiovisual Media. iMP proposes the creation of architecture, work flow and applications for processing and distribution based on metadata in digital cinema and entertainment. This led to a Virtual Film Factory, in which diverse professionals in different geographical environments worked together to create and personalise programmes from digital storage on a scale of Petabytes, making use of semantic technologies to organise data and processes.
Programme: ICT- VII European Commission Framework Programme.
Scientific Co-ordinator: Josep Blat – UPF.
LIVINGKNOWLEDGE. The vision that inspires LivingKnowledge is considering diversity as a resource and making it visible, understandable and usable, with the purpose of improving browsing and the search for very large multimodal data systems. LivingKnowledge studies the effect of diversity and time on opinions and trends. The ambitious goal they foresee is a future in which search engines and browsers will automatically classify and organise opinions, and therefore produce more profound, better organised and more understandable results.
Programme: ICT Call 3 – FET proactive 6: ICT Forever Yours.
Scientific Co-ordinator: Fausto Giunchiglia – University of Trent.
Support for the Strategic Plan for the development of tourism in Vietnam. The Culture and Tourism Laboratory, with a multidisciplinary team of specialists in heritage, tourism and cultural management, has drawn up the Master Plan for the Imperial City of Hue, declared a world heritage site by UNESCO, together with officials from the Public Authorities in Vietnam. The goal is the economic promotion of the city and its surroundings by using its heritage values, both tangible and intangible, through tourism. Tourism planning methodologies have been put together and significant processes of urban regeneration have been included in the plan for the area inside the walls – one of the poorest in the city. The project was carried out with support from the Spanish Agency for International Co-operation Development (AECID).
URBAS -Urban acoustic simulator. A research project developed within the framework of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade Digital Content Advance sub-programme. Its goal was the creation of a simulation system for acoustic pollution in urban settings, to discover acoustic impact on town planning projects. The results of the analysis are visualised on a 3D graph that shows the graphic representation of acoustic impact.
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