PetaMedia: Peer-to-Peer Tagged Media

PetaMedia: Peer-to-Peer Tagged Media, a 3.5-year project (March 2008 - August 2011), an EC FP7-funded project, comprises 4 core academic partners (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Queen Mary & Westfield College University of London, Technische Universitaet Berlin , Technische Universitaet Delft). DCU is participating as an ad-hoc partner for 1 year (Dec 2009 - Noc 2010).

DCU was approved as an ad hoc partner in the EU FP7 PetaMedia Network of Excellence by the PetaMedia managers in late 2009. DCU’s involvement in PetaMedia is as one of the coordinators of the PetaMedia information benchmarking activity MediaEval (www.multimediaeval.org). The financial award to DCU is in support activities relating work in coordination of the MediaEval 2010 benchmarking campaign.

MediaEval is a benchmarking initiative that offers tasks promoting research and innovation on multimodal approaches to multimedia access and retrieval. The focus is on speech, language and social features and how they can be combined with visual features.

In 2010 MediaEval offers 5 evaluation tasks which are open to all participants registering for the campaign. Task data will be made available in early summer, results must be returned to the organisers by late summer, and results will be reported at the MediaEval workshop due to be held in Pisa, Italy in October 2010.

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• Dr. Gareth Jones