1. Bridging the gap between knowledge technologies and multimedia
Pierre-Paul Sondag
DG Information Society Unit: Knowledge Management & Content Creation Luxembourg

2. Lisbon summit March 2000
Labour productivity growth in EU, US and Japan average annual growth of GDP per employed person
Manufacturing is going to emerging countries,
While strong gap between America and Europe on high tech.
Source: European Commission

3. Strategic objectives implemented through the E R A
=> Towards a knowledge-based economy and society
Lisbon Summit: the European Union aims “to become the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion” in 2010,
reinforced by the Barcelona summit (2002) boosting R&D in the EU by increasing expenditure to reach 3% of GDP by 2010, two thirds of is expected to come from the private sector.
The Lisbon European Council Summit in March 2000 set an objective to ‘make the European Union the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world by 2010’.
This has since been interpreted as requiring focused community-wide investment in research, and the improvement of innovation and entrepreneurship.
ERA European Research Area: reach critical mass, remove national barriers, introducing competition, attracting best foreign researchers
EU Heads of State and Government, in Barcelona in March 2002, agreed the objective of boosting R&D and innovation in the EU by increasing expenditure to approach three per cent of GDP by 2010.
Aim to close the gap between the EU and its major competitors. Two thirds of the new investment in R&D is expected to come from the private sector which invests proportionately less than that in its major global competitor countries.
implemented through the E R A

4. anywhere anytime natural access to IST services for all
Total IST Budget Euro 3,625 Mio. in FP6
Knowledge and Interface Technologies
IST
Components Microsystems
Communication Computing Software
Future and Emerging Technologies
Technologies for major economic and societal challenges
Vision anywhere anytime natural access to IST services for all
basic research: long-term, “understand” content, master knowledge embedded in multimedia objects
applied research: enable smarter, next-generation multimedia and web
To develop semantic-based and context-aware systems to acquire, organise, process, share and use the knowledge embedded in multimedia content.
aim to maximise automation of the complete knowledge lifecycle
achieve semantic interoperability between Web resources and services.

5. Drivers
digital media becomes the standard, => capability to transport, process and store content in an homogeneous way
generalisation of sensors, actuators
generalisation of DSL, WiFi, 3G mobile
immersive, 3 D, intuitive forms of content
GRID, dynamic content
agent driven web services
Convergence of the media formats
Ambient technology

6. Challenges ability to exploit and retrieve content
ability to share knowledge
complex work processes collaborative work flows
trust, privacy
The media environment is saturated with content
massive, heterogeneous data sets
unstructured content ( s…)
linear audio visual (DVD, broadcasting…

7. Workprogramme 2003-2004 Workprogramme 2005-2006 under discussion
1st Call Semantic-based Knowledge Systems
deadline 24 April 2003, 124 proposals retained 3 IP, 4 NoE, 7 streps, 73 M€
2nd Call Cross-media content for leisure, entertainment
deadline 15 October 2003, 6 IPs 1 NoE, 8 Streps 55 M€
3rd Call
to be published 18 May 2004, deadline 22 Sept.
only SSA,CA to support new MS, INCO, ERA
4th Call
to be published end 2004, re-open themes of call 1 and 2
geared towards SME and new member states
Workprogramme under discussion

8. Call 1 - Semantic based K systems
Theme 1 Semantic-enabled systems and services
Next generation web services, interoperable, able to negotiate
networked knowledge discovery
multimedia content mining
information visualisation
Theme Knowledge based adaptive systems
ability to reason over / act on large volumes of data with fuzzy boundary for:
decision support, time-critical applications, modelling and optimisation, anytime-anywhere inferencing

9. Call 2 - Cross-media Digital Content
towards new forms of multimedia interaction
Theme 1 Creation of new, compelling forms of content for interactive, creative or artistic consumption
advancing in imaging and AV representations, 3D, 4D, immersive
virtual and mixed reality, featuring higher levels of quality
contextualisation, personalisation, multimodal input
Theme 2 Developing integrated content programming
allowing to retrieve content from different sources, types, locations
store, compress & categorise it to realise appropriate programming to a particular audience or delivery channel
focus on interactive D TV, e-cinema, online games - music

10. KT objectives
Digital content is growing tremendously but has to be turned into knowledge to be exploitable
Knowledge should enable to make better decisions, to improve productivity, Lisbon objectives
Technologies should disclose tacit knowledge
Support collaborative processes, like virtual knowledge communities
automate knowledge flows
intelligent knowledge-based systems and services
adding high level semantics to annotate multimedia
to be shared by humans, software agents and devices

11. multimedia objectives
smart content: highly interactive, environment-aware, mobile
ambient intelligence vision
natural interaction
innovative business models (e.g.replace the audi CD decline)

12. research Two intertwined goals:
basic research: “understand” content, master knowledge embedded in multimedia objects
applied research: exemplary applicative showcases
Strong multidisciplinarity with many constituent disciplines & technologies; significant integration issues

13. How to use the knowledge embedded in (multimedia) content ?
Future challenges
How to use the knowledge embedded in (multimedia) content ?
How to improve usability of multimedia ?

14. Future challenges
Segmenting multimedia, adding metadata, automatic mark-up,
Liking content to ontologies, achieving interoperability
Matching MM low level features with high level concepts
Bringing K-management and MM communities together

15. …to know more about About FP6 (CORDIS)
Knowledge Management and Content Creation:
More about new Instruments:
europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/networks-ip.html
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