Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects

Georg ThallingerJOANNEUM RESEARCH, Austria

INFSO.E2 Dissemination and Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxemburg, February 15-16, 2006

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Project Overview

Motivation Digital audiovisual media pervade our life Automated processing of content is THE problem Need to advance the state of the art in digital media to create/reuse

audiovisual content more automated Objectives

Define and develop ‘Intelligent Content’ for media production consisting of multimedia objects with context-aware behaviour

‘Intelligent Content’ should enable the creation and re-use of complex, compelling media by artists

Figures 01/2006 – 12/2009 13 Partners (6 Industry, 5 Universities, 2 Research)

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Dissemination Plans

Target Group Media production professionals: Games, TV, post production

First project phase Web http://www.salero.info Press release Scientific conferences User Group 06/2007: Open House Event

University of Arts & Design, Helsinki, Finland Second project half

Demonstrations at trade fairs IBC, NAB, AES, Siggraph

Professional & scientific education / training programmes Continuation of first project phase activities

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Possible co-operations

Citizen Public showcases / demonstrations collocated with highly attractive events

Scientific Community Workshops / conference sessions

Rule based programme generation / animation Multimedia ontologies (Emotional) speech synthesis

Links to NM2, IP-Racine, K-Space, MediaCampaign, aceMedia

Industry Focused participation in trade fairs

Present results with immediate value for professionals Preferably at industry partner’s booth, industry organisations and / or highly

visible attractive EC booth