Research Group Projects
The Sensing Feeling project will create new technological capability that will significantly enhance the reliability and effectiveness of monitoring retail customer emotional responses to their surrounding environment. By combining current knowledge in retail environmental psychology with advanced techniques in affective computing and computer vision the project aims to develop sensing technology that when deployed into a physical retail setting will enable the retailer to derive a live and continuous feed of a well-defined "customer delight index" of the retail space being sensed. This will be achieved by detection and aggregation of the multi-modal affective (emotional) states of shoppers' interaction behaviours expressed within the retail setting. The aim is to provide retailers with the ability to unobtrusively and automatically derive a reliable measure of the emotional state of shoppers in response to in-store variables like products displayed, merchandising design, layout design, signage, atmospherics, staff dynamics etc. This will equip retailers with a smarter ability to make informed decisions that accelerate the provision of higher quality in-store customer experiences. Find out more.
Principal investigator: Dr Yiannis PatrasConsortium: 6 partners from industry and academia
The mission of the SafeShore project is to tackle existing problems and gaps in coastal border surveillance by developing a system for detection of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) using state-of-the-art, low cost, and low-emission technology. The system will be integrated with existing systems and create a continuous detection line along the border to help border officials in preventing crime such trafficking of human beings and smuggling of drugs. Find out more.
PROVISION is a network of leading academic and industrial organisations in Europe comprising of international researchers working on the problems plaguing most video coding technologies of the day. The ultimate goal is to make noteworthy technical advances and further improvements to the existing state-of-the-art techniques of compression video material.
The COGNITUS project aims to combine the advances in UHD broadcasting technologies with the explosion of UGC in order to create new interactive, immersive modes of production. Running from January 2016 to December 2018, COGNITUS is a joint research project comprising eight European participants, led by BBC R&D. The project is intended to optimise how UHD content is produced and distributed, by capitalising upon the knowledge of professional producers, the ubiquity of UGC and the power of interactive networked social creativity. Find out more.
The key technical principle of CUBrIK is to create a white-box version of a multimedia content and query processing system, by unbundling its functionality into a set of search processing pipelines, i.e., orchestrations of open source and third-party components instantiating current algorithms for multimedia content analysis, query processing, and relevance feedback evaluation. Examples will be pipelines for extracting metadata from media collections using the software mix that best fits application requirements, for processing multimodal queries, and for analysing users feedback in novel ways. CUBrIK aims at constructing an open platform for multimedia search practitioners, researchers and end-users, where different classes of contributors can meet and advance the state-of-the-art by joining forces.
Within REVERIE, we believe that the time is ripe to push social networking towards the next logical step in its evolution: to immersive collaborative environments that support realistic inter-personal communication. REVERIE will introduce a new paradigm for how communication happens in social networks by adding to the realism of immersive 3D virtual worlds. It behoves us to consider the impact of this on end?users. As with any new technology, understanding how users will apply it, the benefits it brings them and other associated sociological considerations (e.g. legal, ethical) will be key to ensuring its success, and thus investigated in detail within the project.
VideoSense will integrate leading European research groups to create a long term open integration of critical mass in the twin areas of Ethically-Guided and Privacy Preserving Video Analytics where the advent of new data intelligence technologies against the background of dynamic societal and citizen’s goals, norms, expectations, safety and security needs and thus surveillance requirements have all contributed to a complex interplay of influences which deserve in-depth study and solution seeking in order for the European society, citizen and industry to strike the optimal balance in resolution of the various challenges in this arena.
3DLife aims at stimulating joint research and integrating leading European research groups to create a long-term integration of critical mass for innovation of currently fragmented research addressing media Internet. It will foster the creation of sustainable and long-term relationships between existing national research groups and lay the foundations for a Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) in media Internet.
The main aim of the project is to build a platform that will support the delivery of real time streamed content over heterogeneous IP networks in order to offer the users Quality of Experience and personalised access to media content.
EternalS aims to create environment for mutual awareness and cross- fertilization among the 4 ICT-Forever Yours - FET projects LivingKnowledge, HATS, Connect and SecureChange.
This project builds on recent development in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition in order to develop methods for recognition and localisation of human and animal action categories in image sequences.