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CHORUS Deliverable 2.2: Second report - identification of multi-disciplinary key issues for gap analysis toward EU multimedia search engines roadmap
After addressing the state-of-the-art during the first year of Chorus and establishing the existing landscape in
multimedia search engines, we have identified and analyzed gaps within European research effort during our second year.
In this period we focused on three directions, notably technological issues, user-centred issues and use-cases and socio-
economic and legal aspects. These were assessed by two central studies: firstly, a concerted vision of functional breakdown
of generic multimedia search engine, and secondly, a representative use-cases descriptions with the related discussion on
requirement for technological challenges. Both studies have been carried out in cooperation and consultation with the
community at large through EC concertation meetings (multimedia search engines cluster), several meetings with our
Think-Tank, presentations in international conferences, and surveys addressed to EU projects coordinators as well as
National initiatives coordinators. Based on the obtained feedback we identified two types of gaps, namely core
technological gaps that involve research challenges, and “enablers”, which are not necessarily technical research
challenges, but have impact on innovation progress. New socio-economic trends are presented as well as emerging legal
challenges
Emissions Reporting Maturity Model: supporting cities to leverage emissions-related processes through performance indicators and artificial intelligence
Climate change and global warming have been trending topics worldwide since
the Eco-92 conference. However, little progress has been made in reducing
greenhouse gases (GHGs). The problems and challenges related to emissions are
complex and require a concerted and comprehensive effort to address them.
Emissions reporting is a critical component of GHG reduction policy and is
therefore the focus of this work. The main goal of this work is two-fold: (i)
to propose an emission reporting evaluation model to leverage emissions
reporting overall quality and (ii) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to
support the initiatives that improve emissions reporting. Thus, this work
presents an Emissions Reporting Maturity Model (ERMM) for examining,
clustering, and analysing data from emissions reporting initiatives to help the
cities to deal with climate change and global warming challenges. The
Performance Indicator Development Process (PIDP) proposed in this work provides
ways to leverage the quality of the available data necessary for the execution
of the evaluations identified by the ERMM. Hence, the PIDP supports the
preparation of the data from emissions-related databases, the classification of
the data according to similarities highlighted by different clustering
techniques, and the identification of performance indicator candidates, which
are strengthened by a qualitative analysis of selected data samples. Thus, the
main goal of ERRM is to evaluate and classify the cities regarding the emission
reporting processes, pointing out the drawbacks and challenges faced by other
cities from different contexts, and at the end to help them to leverage the
underlying emissions-related processes and emissions mitigation initiatives
CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines
Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective.
The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines.
From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research
Digital Image Access & Retrieval
The 33th Annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in March of 1996, addressed the theme of "Digital Image Access & Retrieval." The papers from this conference cover a wide range of topics concerning digital imaging technology for visual resource collections. Papers covered three general areas: (1) systems, planning, and implementation; (2) automatic and semi-automatic indexing; and (3) preservation with the bulk of the conference focusing on indexing and retrieval.published or submitted for publicatio
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