Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network of Excellence, K-Space: Knowledge Space of semantic inference for automatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content Dissemination activities Craig Stewart, Ebroul Izquierdo (QMUL) Thierry Declerck (DFKI)

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Partners 1.Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL)- UK 2.Universitaet Koblenz-Landau (KU)- D 3.Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (JRS)- AT 4.Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)- GR 5.Dublin City University (DCU)- IR 6.Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI)- NL 7.Groupe des Ecoles des Télécommunications (GET)- F 8.Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA)- F 9.Institut Eurécom (EURECOM)- F 10.University of Glasgow (GU)- UK 11.German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)- D 12.Technische Universität Berlin (TUB)- D 13.Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)- CH 14.University of Economics, Prague (UEP)- CZ

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Structure  Responsible Partners WP3-WP4-WP5-WP6 Jointly Executed Research Activities (JRS-CERTH-KU-DCU) WP7 - DFKI Activities to Spread Excellence WP1 Management - QMUL WP2 - GU Integration Activities WP8 - EURECOM Assessment and Evaluation

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Activities to Spread Excellence  Publications  Website (Feb 2006, continuously updated,  Electronic newsletter, brochure, poster (6-monthly updated)  Proceedings of K-Space conferences, special sessions and Summer Schools  Special Issues in Leading Journals  Planned: IEEE Trans. on signal processing, IEEE Trans. on image processing, IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Eurasip Journals, International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Journal of Web Semantics, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Intelligent Systems  Realised: IEEE Trans. on circuits and systems for video technology (published in April 2007),  K-Space book(s), including state-of-the-art studies in Multimedia Semantics and related technologies  Online Teaching material (as part of WP2), made available beyond the consortium partners (registration via )

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Activities to Spread Excellence  R&D Events  K-Space (& aceMedia) conference – The International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT). First Edition 8th-9th December 2006, in Athens (continuation of successful EWIMT conferences).  Special Sessions in Relevant Conferences. For example:  The K-Space special session on “Integrating knowledge, semantics and image processing for classification and recognition in video surveillance applications“ at ICIP 2006 in Atlanta  The First International Workshop on Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia (SWAMM), as an event of the WWW 2006 conference in Edinburgh.  Joint Project meetings on dedicated issues (for examples Ontologies for Multimedia Analysis with the projects AceMedia, MESH etc.)  Stand at Exhibitions.

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Activities to Spread Excellence  Academic Events  Exchanges of researches and PhD Students within and outside of the consortium  Summer Schools (September 2006 in Greece, 2007 in Scotland), in collaboration with other projects (eg aceMedia).  Industrial Events  Industrial placement of research personnel, in close collaboration with the Industrial Advisory Board of K-Space  Technology transfer to industry, including market studies etc., in close collaboration with the Industrial Advisory Board of K-Space.  Project Cluster  Collaborations with other projects (eg aceMedia, Salero, MESH)

Dissemination & Awareness Strategy Meeting, Luxembourg, 15 – 16 February, 2006 Network Activities to Spread Excellence  Other activities:  Towards a Scientific Forum in Multimedia Knowledge Extraction and Analysis  During the first 18 months of K-space the consortium will launch an association similar to the Duch Stichting, German Verein or scientific society. The mission of the Verein or Society is the promotion of Semantic Multimedia Research and Technology, e.g. SMART e.V. The first task within this activity is to produce a plan for the achievement of the scientific forum and draft the guidelines that will govern the forum. This draft guidelines and plan will be produced during the first 6 months.  Liaison to Standards  All partners will contribute to dissemination within the standardisation bodies they are involved in. We will check for K-Space specific work items in standardisation bodies.  For example: we are currently participating in MPEG-21 and JPSearch (JPEG)