2. The CUbRIK project
36 month large-scale
integrating project
partially funded by the
European Commission’s
7th Framework ICT
Programme for
Research and
Technological
Development
www.cubrikproject.eu
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3. Objectives
The technical goal of CUbRIK is to build an open
search platform grounded on four objectives:
Advance the architecture of multimedia search
Place humans in the loop
Open the search box
Start up a search business ecosystem
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4. Objective: Advance the
architecture of multimedia search
Multimedia search: coordinated result of three
main processes:
Content processing: acquisition, analysis, indexing
and knowledge extraction from multimedia content
Query processing: derivation of an information need
from a user and production of a sensible response
Feedback processing: quality feedback on the
appropriateness of search results
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5. Objective: Advance the
architecture of multimedia search
Objective:
Content processing, query processing and feedback
processing phases will be implemented by means of
independent components
Components are organized in pipelines
Each application defines ad-hoc pipelines that provide
unique multimedia search capabilities in that scenario
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6. Objective: Humans in the loop
Problem: the uncertainty of analysis algorithms leads to
low confidence results and conflicting opinions on
automatically extracted features
Solution: humans have superior capacity for
understanding the content of audiovisual material
State of the art: humans replace automatic feature extraction
processes (human annotations)
Our contribution: integration of human judgment and algorithms
Goal: improve the performance of multimedia content processing
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