WP2: EIS (Evaluation, Integration and Standards)
The principal objective of this workpackage is to co-ordinate activities that facilitate within and between research workpackage collaboration. This principal objective can be divided into several specific objectives that are placed into 3 groups: evaluation, standards and computation. Evaluation (or benchmarking) - The collection of a large test database of copyright-free multimedia data (video, sound, etc.) and video surveillance data, which will be placed at the disposal of members of the network for use in development and testing.
- The manual annotation of some of the data in the test database (location of scene changes, contents of a scene, behaviour of persons, etc.). This will allow objective evaluation of automatic algorithms.
- The organization of evaluation campaigns through which network members can compare the performance of their systems on the standard test data.
Standards - Selection of a Standard for the Metadata representation.
- Analyses of open-source native XML databases.
- Development of tools for the extraction of standardized Metadata informations.
- Development of an Infrastructure for MultiMedia Metadata Management based on Semantic Web technology.
Computation - To make available software for free use between network members.
- To publish resources on computational methods, such as software repositories and tutorial material.
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