Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 European Project AXES

Participants : Ramazan Cinbis, Zaid Harchaoui, Dan Oneata, Danila Potapov, Cordelia Schmid, Jakob Verbeek.

This 4-year project started in January 2011. Its goal is to develop and evaluate tools to analyze and navigate large video archives, eg. from broadcasting services. The partners of the project are ERCIM, Univ. of Leuven, Univ. of Oxford, LEAR, Dublin City Univ., Fraunhofer Institute, Univ. of Twente, BBC, Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision, Deutsche Welle, Technicolor, EADS, Univ. of Rotterdam. See http://www.axes-project.eu/ for more information.

FP7 European Network of Excellence PASCAL 2

Participants : Zeynep Akata, Adrien Gaidon, Zaid Harchaoui, Thomas Mensink, Cordelia Schmid, Jakob Verbeek.

PASCAL (Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modeling and Computational Learning) is a 7th framework EU Network of Excellence that started in March 2008 for five years. It has established a distributed institute that brings together researchers and students across Europe, and is now reaching out to countries all over the world. PASCAL is developing the expertise and scientific results that will help create new technologies such as intelligent interfaces and adaptive cognitive systems. To achieve this, it supports and encourages collaboration between experts in machine learning, statistics and optimization. It also promotes the use of machine learning in many relevant application domains such as machine vision.