Section: Application Domains

Application Domains

• Security applications Examples: Identify faces or digital fingerprints (biometry). Biometry is an interesting specific application for both a theoretical and an application (recognition, supervision, ...) point of view. Two PhDs were defended on themes related to biometry. Our team also worked with a database of images of stolen objects and a database of images after a search (for fighting pedophilia).

• Audio-visual applications Examples: Look for a specific shot in a movie, documentary or TV news, present a video summary. Help archivists to annotate the contents. Detect copies of a given material in a TV stream or on the web. Our team has a collaboration with INA (French TV archives), IRT (German broadcasters) and press agencies AFP and Belga in the context of an European project. Text annotation is still very important in such applications, so that cross-media access is crucial.

• Scientific applications Examples: environmental images databases: fauna and flora; satellite images databases: ground typology; medical images databases: find images of a pathological character for educational or investigation purposes. We have an ongoing project on multimedia access to biodiversity collections for species identifications.

• Culture, art and design IMEDIA has been contacted by the French ministry of culture and by museums for their image archives.

  Finding a specific texture for the textile industry, illustrating an advertisement by an appropriate picture. IMEDIA is working with a picture library that provides images for advertising agencies. IMEDIA has been involved in TRENDS European project dedicated to provide designers (CRF Fiat, Stile Bertone) with advanced content selection and visualisation tools.