Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Quaero

Participants : Laurent Amsaleg, Sébastien Campion, Vincent Claveau, Ali Reza Ebadat, Julien Fayolle, Patrick Gros, Gylfi Gudmundsson, Camille Guinaudeau, Carryn Hayward, Hervé Jégou, Ewa Kijak, Fabienne Moreau, Christian Raymond, Pascale Sébillot.

Duration: 5 years, starting in May 2008. Prime: Technicolor.

Quaero is a large research and applicative program in the field of multimedia description (ranging from text to speech and video) and search engines. It groups 5 application projects, a joint Core Technology Cluster developing and providing advanced technologies to the application projects, and a Corpus project in charge of providing the necessary data to develop and evaluate the technologies. The large scope of QUAERO's ambitious objectives allows it to take full advantage of Texmex's many areas of research, through its tasks on: Indexing Multimedia Objects, Term Acquisition and Recognition, Semantic Annotation, Video Segmentation, Multi-modal Video Structuring, Image and video fingerprinting.

In 2012, a key fact is our strong participation to Mediaeval to evaluate the technologies developed in Quaero.