KSpace: bridging the semantic gap

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K-Space bridging the semantic gap

• Craig Stewart (QMUL)

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Machines see pixels and numbers
Textures Colours Distributions
Elephant in the African Savannah
Textures Colours Distributions
Humans see semantic objects
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Overview of K-Space

• K-Space -- Knowledge Space of Shared Technology
  and Integrative Research to Bridge the Semantic
  Gap (in Multimedia Representation and Processing)
• A Network of Excellence in the 6th European RD
  Framework (see http//www.k-space.eu/)
• K-Space is a network of research teams from
  academia and industry to conduct integrative
  research and dissemination activities in semantic
  inference for (semi-)automatic annotation and
  retrieval of multimedia content.
• K-Space is aiming at closing the semantic gap
  between low-level content descriptions that can
  be computed automatically by machines and the
  richness and subjectivity of semantics in
  high-level human interpretations of audiovisual
  media.

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Network Partners

• Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) - UK
• Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (KU) - D
• Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH
  (JRS) - AT
• Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
  (CERTH) - GR
• Dublin City University (DCU) - IR
• Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) - NL
• Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications
  (GET) - F
• Institut National de lAudiovisuel (INA) - F
• Institut Eurécom (EURECOM) - F
• University of Glasgow (GU) - UK
• German Research Centre for Artificial
  Intelligence (DFKI) - D
• Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) - D
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  (EPFL) - CH
• University of Economics, Prague (UEP) - CZ

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K-Space Framework
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Summary
Creation of an open and expandable framework for
collaborative research on knowledge acquisition
based on a common distributed system made up of
flexible, modular and interconnected technology
needed to bridge the semantic gap.
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