Risk assessment for customs in western Balkans
RACWeB project aims to improve the Western Balkans and EU neighbouring countries customs efficiency and transparency in risk assessment by enhancing the identification of risk profiles through the utilisation of data mining techniques and by developing an advanced, web-based risk assessment service in customs declarations. The RACWeB service will be accessible by Western Balkans and EU neighbouring customs administrations or any other authorised user whenever the level of risk involved in a customs declaration made by a declarant needs to be further assessed. Such a service clearly does not intend to replace, but to complement current and future national customs systems and to assist human controllers in Western Balkans and EU neighbouring counties. Therefore, the service will be developed according to the Service-Oriented Architecture approach that allows for easy access and seamless integration with legacy systems. The RACWeB project involves 4 EU technology/scientific partners, 4 central customs administrations along with 3 IT consulting companies / research organizations from Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia respectively. The duration of the project is 30 months.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
Low cost advanced white goods for a longer independent life of elderly people
The elderly suffer some disabilities that get worst with the passing years. These disabilities will make carrying out the tasks of an independent life more difficult. It is a reality that the main disabilities (42%) prevent individuals from carrying out home tasks and that, about a fourth part of the household accident are produced in the kitchen, where the \"white goods\" are key elements. Facing this situation, the project consortium, has decided to carry out the EASY LINE+ project in order to develop prototypes near to market of advanced white goods in order to support elderly persons with or without disabilities to have a longer independent life and will compensate their loss of physical and/or cognitive abilities. The project foresees using the integrated RFID, Neuronal Networks and HMI technologies to build a system that can capture data of the home environment, and can control via wireless communication (Zigbee) or the mains electricity (EMS PLC), any white good in the home. The users, elderly persons, may actuate by himself any white good in the home, or may leave the \"e-servant\" to do the actuation. The e-servant will be a white good control system, based on the sensor information and the habits of the user that can program any application without/or with user cooperation. The e-servant also will be a learning system that detects the loss of abilities of the user and tries to compensate them. The consortium of this project will be led BSH-E as European level and third at world level in White Goods manufacturing, jointly with R&D experts in new technologies suitable for increasing the functionalities of white goods like I3A (Neuronal Networks, Zigbee, RFID sensors), NEWI (Human Machine Interfaces). Accessibility expert as SBS C-LAB, important industries in RFID applications (IDENT), software/HM (ADSS) and domotic implementation (G2V).
MarieCurie-iLEAPS - A Training program under a theme of \"Integrated Land Ecosystem and Atmospheric Processes Study\",Theory and Applications
THE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE IN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA LIMITED
BRASIL is a Specific Support Action where the main objectives are focused on important aspects of interactive applications via satellite in Latin America, with specific focus on Brazil, and on DVB-RCS. BRASIL thus targets SO 2.6.5/1, but also covers objectives of SO 2.6.5/2. A main objective of BRASIL is to identify constituencies and potentialities for deeper strategic cooperation and establish privileged partnerships opening opportunities for the joint development of DVB technologies and associated interactive applications and services. Brazil has a large focus on bridging the digital divide through government initiatives, and satellites will play a key role in meeting this objective. Technical focus as such should demonstrate a sufficient level of maturity with respect to previous actions related to international cooperation. The target region for BRASIL is Latin America in general, but specifically supporting European interactive satellite broadcast communications technologies such as DVB-RCS in Brazil. Latin America has been strongly influenced and dominated by US technologies. There is a significant potential for Europe to contribute to solving Latin American communication needs with European technology as well as a valuable benefit for Latin America. Reciprocally there is great benefit for European DVB-RCS industry from Latin-American initiatives that can stimulate the developing European market and help the industry struggling with the slow service roll-out. SME cooperation between Europe and Latin America in the field of satellite communication is an important element of deeper strategic cooperation, recognizing that the majority of Brazilian companies (98%) are SMEs. Europe�s DVB-RCS equipment market is currently driven by almost solely by SMEs. BRASIL will be fostering small networks with technical and service expertise in DVB-RCS across the two continents.
Broadband to Rural America over Satellite Integrated Links
VALSTYBINIS INFORMACINES TECHNOLOGIJOS INSTITUTAS
SENsing and ACTION to support mobility in Ambient Assisted Living
The SENSACTION- AAL project offers the opportunity for a significant advancement of the state-of-the-art in the field of ambulatory assisting devices for enhancing safety and security in balance and movement. The ultimate goal of the project is to assist older people in maintaining independent mobility and daily life activities and prevent injuries by introducing smart body fixed sensor based technology that allow medical professionals to initiate interventions in the home environment. To achieve this goal, the SENSACTION-AAL project will design, test and release a next-generation, smart, wireless on-body system which enables: (1) monitoring of activities of daily living and (2) simultaneous real-time active control of physical performance using principles such as sensory augmentation and biofeedback. This system is equipped with both biosensors and bio actuators in-the-loop. The SENSACTION-AAL architecture will introduce new ICT solutions that make the proposed system: 1) easy-to-wear and easy-to-use; 2) active anywhere, anytime; 3) cost effective.SENSACTION-AAL will develop an ICT-based solution which is highly usable and can support the elderly people in their preferred environment. The key challenge is to develop an integrated system that brings together the different components involved (network cells; communication protocols; embedded real-time algorithms for actuator control; signal processing algorithms; data warehousing, web-based data access). An extended in-vivo accurate validation carried out with the support of end-users will be required to assess the satisfaction of key user requirements and produce a solution which is adequate for industrial take-up. Ultimately, this project could have important influences on the quality of life of European citizens. These new systems will empower persons with disabilities and aging citizens to play a major role in society and will help them to augment their autonomy and realize their potential.
Retrieval of mUltimedia Semantic units for enHanced rEuSability
The overall aim of RUSHES is to design, implement, validate, and trial a system for both delivery of and access to raw media material (rushes), as well as its reuse in the production of new multimedia assets. RUSHES targets indexing, search and retrieval of rushes archives, to ease in-house postproduction and reuse in a professional environment. It also aims at providing raw content to end users for the creation and editing of content in a shared computational environment using a multimodal approach that combines knowledge extracted from the original content, metadata, visualization and interactive browsing functionality.RUSHES will consider professional content creator or provider, and consumer for the design of the system. At the provider side, techniques for automatic content cataloguing and semantic based indexing will be used to link raw content with metadata. At the consumer side, browsing and retrieval strategies will be implemented to provide advanced search functionalities and low access latency when navigating rushes databases. The core research issues of RUSHES are knowledge extraction for semantic inference, semantic-based content annotation, scalable multimedia cataloguing, interactive navigation, and non-linear querying and retrieval techniques using hierarchic descriptors. To evidence the viability of the project goals, a complete system for search, retrieval and use of rushes will be designed, implemented and tested with potential professional and end-users. The envisaged system prototype will not only serve as a means to showcase the functionality of the proposed technology but also provide a realistic and commercially valid proof of concept.
INSTITUTO DE APLICACIONES DE LAS TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION Y DE LAS COMUNICACIONES AVANZADAS - ITACA
ROBERT BOSCH GESELLSCHAFT FUR MEDIZINISCHE FORSCHUNG MBH
GUY' S AND ST. THOMAS' HOSPITAL NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE TRUST
LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN
European electronic public procurement application framework in the Western Balkan region
Western Balkan countries in view of their path to EU economic and political integration will concretely benefit from the early adoption of electronic Public Procurement systems that are compliant to the new EU legislative framework on public procurement, due to: a) More transparent procurement processes that ensure fair utilisation of public funds b) Achieving equal opportunity to the participation of both SMEs and large suppliers within each country c) Facilitating access of EU suppliers to Western Balkan public procurement markets resulting in transfers of EU expertise and know-how to the region d) Timely preparing full participation of Western Balkan suppliers in the EU public procurement markets via interoperable electronic Public Procurement solutions. ing the above opportunity, the overall aim of the ELLECTRA-WeB (European Electronic Public Procurement Application Framework in the Western Balkans Region) project is to: \"specify, develop and test an Open Source Application Framework for electronic Public Procurement and a set of Supporting Guidelines that will enable, on the one hand, Western Balkan ICT developers to cost-effectively develop, and, on the other hand, Western Balkan Public Administrations and Suppliers to easily adopt and use interoperable, user-friendly, secure and EU compliant electronic Public Procurement solutions\". The usability of the ELLECTRA-WeB Application Framework will be demonstrated by developing, testing and evaluating 4 distinct electronic Public Procurement solutions in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia, respectively. The ELLECTRA-WeB project involves 3 EU technology partners, 4 IT consulting companies / research organizations from the Western Balkan Region and public administrations representing all Western Balkan countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Republic of Serbia.
SOPRANO will design and develop highly innovative, context-aware, smart services with natural and comfortable interfaces for older people at affordable cost, meeting requirements of users, family and care providers and significantly extending the time we can live independently in our homes when older. User friendliness and acceptability is top priority for the project - a zero-slope learning curve is to be achieved and interfaces are to \"vanish\" into domestic settings. Large-scale viability in real homes will be demonstrated with 600 users to raise public awareness and accelerate AAL exploitation. SOPRANO extends today's EandAR methods to profoundly change the RTD process, integrating design-for-all - to combat stigma and reap economies of scale in consumer markets - and involving older users in RTD - from requirements, iterative prototyping and usability tests through to 6 month field trials. Research is expected to strongly advance global knowledge in semantic IT, RFID location, remote diagnostics, radar and integration architectures. A new AAL architecture is to support pro-active assistance based on situational analysis fed by user input and local monitoring. Responses are to follow agreed rules and seamless access provided to external professionals. Safety and security is strongly enhanced with adherence to stringent reliability standards. Multiple modalities and dialogue adaptations to cognitive ageing help meet special accessibility and usability needs. The consortium represents all stages in AAL value chains from academic research to quality integration, includes key local authority providers and is coordinated by the market leader in AAL systems provision. A top smart-homes player and advice by top user groups help rapid exploitation of innovative, accepted systems which reduce institutionalisation and offer autonomy and comfort to all older Europeans.
Service oriented programmable smart environments for older Europeans
EXIT CENTAR - IT BUSINESS SUPPORT CENTRE
COOPERATIVA SOCIALE COOSS MARCHE ONLUS SOCIETA COOPERATIVA PER AZIONI
FRATELLI ALINARI ISTITUTO DI EDIZIONI ARTISTICHE I.D.E.A. S.P.A.
CENTRE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY HELLAS
FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.
FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK AN DER UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE
EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
FUNDACIO BARCELONA MEDIA UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA
ASOCIACION CENTRO DE TECNOLOGIAS DE INTERACCION VISUAL Y COMUNICACIONES-VICOMTECH
Secure, interoperable, cross border m-services contributing towards a trustful European cooperation with the non-EU member Western Balkan countries
In all West Balkans the penetration rates for mobile services are more than double that of fixed lines. This gives the advance to the regional public administrations to skip a step and enter directly the mobile Government. Enabling Western Balkan governmental organizations with the ability to provide secure m-services to other European public organizations and citizens holds a lot of future prospects by strengthening the fundamental structure of these organizations, by enhancing the European collaboration and by contributing towards the solution of difficult pan-European problems like illegal immigration/employment and money laundry. SWEB directly contributes to the above-mentioned aims respecting the relevant European legislation, policies and European strategies. Its overall objectives are: to develop a secure, interoperable, open, affordable platform upon which two secure cross border government services will be built: - Residence, Employment certification and permits issuance, in which a public organization or individual citizens' residence certification and permits and employment documents (work permits) may be securely issued, requested, sent and audited. This service will enhance the prevention of illegal immigration and employment and the secure movement of citizens in the European continent. - Electronic/Mobile Invoicing has a pivotal role in all the stages of handling Value Added Tax (VAT) for European Member States. Through e/m-invoicing, tax administrators will be able to implement new tools and procedures to carry out alternative controls. This service prevents money laundry and promotes secure investments in the region. The SWEB platform and services will be demonstrated, tested and evaluated in Municipalities and Cities of seven EU and non-EU Members. A preliminary list of candidates for the SWEB Advisory Committee has already been formulated, which will monitor and enhance the results in order to provide fundamental impact on the policy field.
JOURNALISTS UNION OF MACEDONIA AND THRACE DAILY NEWSPAPERS
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH
FOUNDATION FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY - HELLAS
SINGULAR SOFTWARE ANONYMOS ETAIRIA MICHANOGRAFIKON EFARMOGON
SECRETARIADO NACIONAL PARA A REABILITACAO E INTEGRACAO DAS PESSOAS COM DEFICIENCIA
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Young and old alike speculate(d) again and again about robotic helpers at home. While the Swiss Expo.02 saw 11 robots guide visitors to exhibits and service robots navigate in hospitals, museums, or office corridors, one could ask, \"where is the mobile robot successfully going from the living room to the kitchen?\" The objective of robots@home is to provide an open mobile platform for the massive introduction of robots into the homes of everyone. The groundbreaking innovations are: (1) A scaleable, affordable platform in response to the different application scenarios of the four industrial partners: domotics, security, food delivery, and elderly care. (2) An embedded perception system providing multi-modal sensor data for learning and mapping of the rooms and classifying the main items of furniture. (3) A safe and robust navigation method that finally sets the case for using the platform in homes everywhere. The system is tested in four homes and at a large furniture store, e.g., IKEA. Developers as well as laypersons will show the robot around, indicate rooms and furniture and then test the capabilities by commanding to go to the refrigerator or dining table. The results of the robots@home project lead to an affordable, scaleable and versatile platform that is targeted for marketing in two to three years after project end open to any application that requires the safe navigation capability. The scenario-driven approach is inspired by recent work in cognitive science, neuroscience and animal navigation: a hierarchical cognitive map incorporates topological, metric and semantic information. It builds on structural features observed in a newly developed dependable embedded stereovision system complimented by time-of-flight and sonar/infrared sensors. This solution will be developed along three progressively more challenging milestones leading up to a mobile platform that learns four homes, navigates safely and heads for at least ten annotated pieces of furniture
The project's primary aim is to establish an important communication and information management network hosted by the National News Agencies of the Western Balkan countries. The project will involve policy makers and stakeholders from Western Balkans such as relevant Governmental Organizations (Ministries), Public News Agencies and citizens into the e-Democracy processes, supported through a unified environment, under a set of specified procedures and a common code of ethics. The project brings together 8 partners representing three Western Balkan Countries (Albania, Serbia and FYROM) as well as two Member States (Greece and United Kingdom).
Western Balkans democratic participation
STICHTING NEDERLANDS INSTITUUT VOOR BEELD EN GELUID
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM
AGENCE BELGA AGENCE TELEGRAPHIQUE BELGE DE PRESSE, S.A. - AGENTSCHAP BELGA BELGISCH PERSTELEGRAAF AGENTSCHAP N.V.
ASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION DE LA INDUSTRIA TEXTIL
The VITALAS system technology is not only expected to become a leading B2B application in the field of multimedia content search engines, but it is also foreseen to be derived into a wide array of consumer applications and services tailored for the public willing to access large scale multimedia information. VITALAS will provide advanced solution for indexing; searching and accessing large scale digital audio-visual content. In this regard, the project will confront its technology to real use-cases reflecting the joint concerns of three major European content providers: INA, BELGA. In particular, two concrete use-cases will be considered: the first one addressing political/societal news content; the second covering fashion and entertainment news. To this end, VITALAS will address three major challenges: i) the cross-media indexing (automatic annotation) and retrieval, ii) the large scale search techniques and iii) personalized services considering both on-line (interactive) and off-line context adaptation. This implies the development of efficient and advanced informative content description methods, robust machine learning approaches towards automatic annotation and interactive content search. The methods to be developed will anticipate the on-line user needs (queries) by allowing advanced retrieval of non-previously annotated persons/objects through effective non-textual content description and automatic metadata generation. The scalability issue of searching large-scale index feature space will also be addressed, and intelligent visualization techniques will be developed for smart content navigation. As a user-centric system, VITALAS will benefit from a strong involvement of content providers and from external user trials, besides the internal evaluation of individual technological components. Moreover, training of our content provider's archivist partners will be carried out internally, as a first step towards broader vocational training.
image Indexing and reTrievAl in the LArge Scale
INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS
FUNDACION INSTITUTO GERONTOLOGICO MATIA - INGEMA
STICHTING VERPLEGING EN VERZORGING EINDHOVEN E.O. DE ARCHIPEL
SOSIAALI- JA TERVEYSALAN TUTKIMUS JA KEHITTAEMISKESKUS
THE FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND HEALTH SERVICES NEXT TO THE MEDICAL CENTER TEL-AVIV
TELEFONICA INVESTIGACION Y DESARROLLO SA UNIPERSONAL
KOMPETENZNETZWERK INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIE ZUR FOERDERUNG DER INTEGRATION VON MENSCHEN MIT BEHINDERUNG
GEODAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT & TECHNOLOGY B.V.
KENTRO EREVNON NOTIOANATOLIKIS EVRO PIS ASTIKI MI KERDOSKOPIKI ETAIREIA
COMUNITA MONTANA DELLE VALLI DEL TARO E DEL CENO
ST'S CYRIL AND METHODIUS UNIVERSITY OF SKOPJE
Tripod's primary objective is to revolutionise access to the enormous body of visual media. Applying an innovative multidisciplinary approach Tripod will utilise largely untapped but vast, accurate and regularly updated sources of semantic information to create ground breaking intuitive search services, enabling users to effortlessly and accurately gain access to the image they seek from this ever expanding resource. Any image tagged with a direction and location can be harnessed, either legacy photographs with place name captions (therefore all old photos are maintained) or those produced by increasingly prevalent cameras with built in compass and GPS information (thereby managing the future). Tripod will augment images with spatial data to compute contextual information about the location and features of the actual landscape pictured. Using 3D models, buildings and landscape features contained in the image will be identified and located within the picture. Methods from a number of disciplines will use the spatial data to derive additional semantic information about the area photographed. Techniques from Web search and text summarisation will be applied to automatically create textual descriptions of the photographs, producing a rich readable and multifaceted caption far removed from merely location but encompassing culturally encoded notions such as beauty and socially connoted language of place such as suburb, west end, etc. Like Google, Tripod is domain independent. Its services can be applied to a broad range of searching needs and languages due to the adaptability and flexibility of the caption generation. It is a solution for the exponential swell of images available as it will manage all images with a location and potentially video as well. Tripod will empower the user by adapting the search infrastructure to their complex understanding and language. Thus Tripod manages access to images for the present and the future by bridging the semantic gap.
TRI-Partite multimedia Object Description
D.D. SYNERGY HELLAS ANONYMI EMPORIKI ETAIREIA PAROCHIS YPIRESION PLIROFORIKIS
NETHERLANDS ORGANISATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH - TNO
Supported human autonomy for recovery and enhancement of cognitive and motor abilities using information technologies
The goal of SHARE-it is to develop a scalable, adaptive system of add-ons to sensor and assistive technology so that they can be modularly integrated into an intelligent home environment to enhance the individual's autonomy. The system will be designed to inform and assist the user and his/her caregivers through monitoring and mobility help. Thus, we plan to contribute to the development of the next generation of assistive devices for older persons or people with disabilities so that they can be self-dependent as long as possible. We focus on add-ons to be compatible with existing technologies and to achieve an easier integration into existing systems. We also aim at adaptive systems as transparent and easy to use to the person as possible. Scalability is meant to include or remove devices from the system in a simple, intuitive way. SHARE-it will address important issues in sensor networks, assisted mobility, knowledge engineering and Ambient Intelligence. In this context SHARE-it will make significant contributions to fundamental, long-term research in the following two areas: C1: Verifying system adaptation to persons with special needs: both at design and run-time - as operating conditions and governing norms change - to establish e.g. safety, regulatory and security requirements C2: Incorporating shared autonomy: ensuring individual components can be designed to operate in a given intelligent ambiance and adapt to possible changes both in the needs of the user or in the environment Objectives of SHARE-it are: O1: To explore the benefits of the concept of situated intelligence to build elements (add-ons) that will enhance the autonomy of the target user group in their daily life in their preferred environment O2: To investigate and implement innovative forms of shared autonomy O3: To build appropriate add-ons to standardised technologies to provide ubiquitous sensing, computation and assistance O4: To build adaptive interfaces for the target group
EMPIRICA GESELLSCHAFT FUER KOMMUNIKATIONS- UND TECHNOLOGIEFORSCHUNG MBH
SIEMENS BUSINESS SERVICES GMBH & CO. OHG
Collaboration environment for Judicial European network in Western Balkans
J-WeB aims at designing and developing an innovative judicial cooperation environment to enable an effective judicial cooperation specifically in the cross-boarder criminal matters investigation phase carried out between EU and Associate countries. The project focus is on the development of a designed to support the judicial operators in their daily duties on the two main procedures preceding the request for warrant of arrest. J- Web will be built on Web-based groupware tools supporting a more realistic collaboration and knowledge sharing and transferring also among geographically distributed workforces, within and between law organizations. It will represent the convergence of technologies such as multimedia document/image management, videoconferencing, in compliance with security requirements needs, helping public administrations transcend all sorts of boundaries (geography, time and organizational structure) by making available the right information to the right actor at the right place and at the right time. Main J-WeB project objectives are: - The analysis of the judicial communication process and the security constraints to \"enter\" some procedures/services - The implementation of intelligent environments enabling judges, public employees, law enforcement authorities to access one-stop-shop knowledge transfer, sharing and management - The strengthen of networking, mutual co-operation on general subjects of common interest to the Member States, Candidate Countries and Applicant Countries
A wearable system supporting services to enable elderly people to live well, independently and at ease
The project will develop a personal, user-centred enabling system, with services, for use by an elderly person in or out of the home, to mitigate the effects of any disability and to increase quality of life: independence, autonomy, mobility, communications, care and safety. The system will be based on a distributed open platform, enabling other services to be added by third parties, by \"plugging\" into defined interfaces. The platform includes a mobile phone, enabling the user to get out and about, for visiting, shopping, recreation, etc, whilst maintaining contact for help and services. Problems of everyday living to be addressed include: - using the phone; - raising the alarm in emergency to get help; - being monitored for health conditions, a fall, or sign of distress, with automatic raising of alarm; - labelling of medicine, and checking that it's taken; - turning things on and off around the house, and checking their status, e.g. for cooking. For a person with dementia: - knowing where you are, and what to do; -recognising somebody at the door to let them in; - being found if wandering. For somebody with poor eyesight: - shopping for things and subsequently identifying them; - checking details in small print. - writing text for messages; - reading text from messages. The aim of the project is to develop an open and highly accessible reference architecture, to which subsystems and services can be seamlessly added according to particular needs of elderly people and their carers. The system is built round a dual platform of mobile phone and wrist unit, to which will be added modular capabilities for (1) alarm function, (2) control of appliances and other devices around the home, (3) identification of objects, (4) identifying the user's location, (5) health monitoring and (6) security. The project addresses mobile phone accessibility by providing a highly accessible user interface extension, using the wrist unit and speech guidance.
Perceptive spaces promoting independent aging
PERSONA aims at advancing the paradigm of Ambient Intelligence through the harmonisation of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) technologies and concepts for the development of sustainable and affordable solutions for the social inclusion and independent living of Senior Citizen, integrated in a common semantic framework. It will develop a scalable open standard technological platform to build a broad range of AAL Services, to demonstrate and test the concept in real life implementations, assessing their social impact and establishing the initial business strategy for future deployment of the proposed technologies and services. The main challenges of PERSONA are: - To find solutions and develop AAL Services for social inclusion, for support in daily life activities, for early risk detection, for personal protection from health and environmental risks, for support in mobility and displacements - To develop a technological platform that allows the seamless and natural access to those services indicated above, - To create a psychologically pleasant and easy- to- use integrated solutions - To demonstrate that the solutions found are affordable and sustainable for all the actors and stakeholders involved: elderly citizens living, welfare systems, and service providers in the AAL market. The PERSONA technical platform will exploit and incorporate a broad range of relevant technologies which are developed and integrated in the project: AAL system reference architecture, micro- and nano-electronics, embedded systems, Human Machine Interfaces, Communication, software, web and network technologies, biosensors, embedded and distributed sensors, energy generation and control technologies, and intelligent software to tools for decision support. An important measure of success for the project will come from the outcome of the evaluation and validation in extensive test-beds and trials in three sites in Spain, Italy, and Denmark.
STICHTING WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK REVALIDATIEVRAAGSTUKKEN
Strengthening the strategic cooperation between the EU and Western Balkan region in the field of ICT research
SCORE is a Specific Support Action that addresses the need for well-defined future research priorities that will enhance scientific and research co-operation between the Western Balkan region and the EU. SCORE addresses specifically the thematic area of Information Communication Technologies (ICT), which corresponds to one of the nine thematic areas of the FP7's \"Co-operation\" Programme. ing the above need, the objectives of SCORE are to: - Develop a Strategic ICT Research Agenda for the Western Balkan region that will define the region's ICT research priorities following a broad consultation with affected stakeholders (e.g. national RTD policy-makers, research actors including academic, not-for-profit and private sector research organisations, and ICT companies). - Develop a Policy Paper with \"Recommendations for shaping EU scientific co-operation with the Western Balkan Region in the field of ICT research: 2007-2013\". The policy paper will contribute to the shaping of the FP7's Co-operation programme. - Transfer EU research results and technologies in the identified ICT research priorities / thematic areas in order to familiarise Western Balkan research actors with current research developments and state-of-art technologies in these areas. - Facilitate the development of networks between research actors within the Western Balkan region and between the region and the EU in order to develop contacts, exchange ideas and pursue joint research collaboration. The SCORE consortium represents all countries in the Western Balkan region (Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia). The project's key results i.e. the Strategic ICT Research Agenda and the Policy Paper will be delivered within the first 15 months of the project, in order to allow their timely contribution to the shaping of the FP7 programme and future calls. The project's total duration is 24 months.
Interactive semantic video search with a large thesaurus of machine-learned audio-visual concepts
Video is vital to society and economy, playing a key role in news, cultural heritage documentaries, and surveillance and is becoming the natural form of communication for the Internet and mobile phones. Consumers and professionals alike need advanced storage and search technology for the management of large-scale video assets. This project takes on the challenge of creating a substantially enhanced semantic access to video, implemented in a search engine. Video search engines result from the progress in many technologies: visual analysis; audio processing; machine learning; visualization, and interaction technology. A good measure of the overall progress is the TRECVID competition, posing increasingly hard and realistic problems with the obligation to discuss methods openly. In 2005, the best interactive video search came from the coordinating partner of this project. This project will boost the performance of video search by basing it on a 10-fold enhancement of the thesaurus characterizing audio, visual or mixed-media content. In the US, a similar grand challenge has been posed. This project's approach is to let the system learn many, possibly weaker, detectors instead of modelling a few of them carefully. The combination of many detectors describing different aspects of the video content will render a much richer basis for the semantics. The Consortium presents excellent expertise and resources: the machine learning is lead by Univ. of Surrey; video stream processing is lead by CERTH, Greece. The component audio event detection, is lead by INESC-ID, Portugal; visual image processing is lead by Univ. of Amsterdam; The Univ. of Florence leads the efforts in interaction, and CVC, Spain leads software consolidation. Finally, Beeld & Geluid, the Netherlands, and FRD, Italy, as application stakeholders, provide data and perform evaluation and dissemination.
INESC PORTO - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES DO PORTO
CENTRO ESTATAL DE AUTONOMIA PERSONAL Y AYUDAS TECNICAS
FONDAZIONE RINASCIMENTO DIGITALE - NUOVE TECNOLOGIE PER I BENI CULTURALI
USTAV NORMALNEJ A PATOLOGICKEJ FYZIOLOGIE SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED
C-CENTER ENGINEERING AND CONSULTING SHPK
MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MONTENEGRO
The main objectives of the Beacon Project are: - To perform research on innovative Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) services addressed to the tLearning domain notably customized for the Brazilian specific needs related with social inclusion issues - To establish a Brazilian - European Consortium, which will manage the exploitation of the assets and the services implemented by the project activities - To disseminate the project results and to provide research results and feedback data analysis of pilot run to the Brazilian Public Administration in order to contribute to the relevant policy making process in the field of deploying the DTT technology and services The main expected outputs and results are the following: Research on innovative DTT eLearning methodology and on the interoperability between the European (DVB) and the Brazilian (SBTVD) respective technologies performed Innovative interoperable (DVB-SBTVD) tLearning pilot services developed (the pilot services are addressed to the Brazilian Public Administration employees and citizens in order to foster the social inclusion) Operating DTT platform implemented and sited in the State of Sao Paulo (Brazil) DTT Services Centre aimed at designing, developing and providing broadcasting of tLearning services in the state of Sao Paolo implemented tLearning pilot run services delivered Pilot services data collection and experimentation results gathered and available Evaluation of pilot services and experimentation results performed Exploitation model identified and relevant plan developed Brazilian - European Consortium established The project work has been broken down into the following Work Packages: WP1 Needs Analysis and User Requirements WP2 tLearning services design and development WP3 DTT platform design and deployment WP4 Evaluation, Dissemination and Exploitation WP5 DTT Services Centre deployment and Pilot run WP6 Project Management
Brazilian European Consortium for DTT Services
INSTITUTI SHQIPTAR PER STUDIME DHE EDUKIM NE TEKNOLOGJINE E INFORMACIONIT
APOLLIS - INSTITUT FUER SOZIALFORSCHUNG UND DEMOSKOPIE OHG
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, FAKULTETA ZA ELEKTROTEHNIKO
Professional repositories and Intranets, like the Internet as a whole, present the problem of how to find precise segments of audiovisual files among a sea of largely un-indexed, heterogeneous data. SEMEDIA aims to create new methods, environments and widely usable tools for media labelling, searching and retrieval from very large collections of heterogeneous data, building on and extending research in media technologies, web semantics, AI, Content Based IR and interface design. SEMEDIA will enable the rapid, semi-automatic annotation of large data populations at greatly reduced cost, and the production of professional and consumer tools for near instantaneous data search and retrieval from very large, distributed stores of mainly un-indexed audiovisual media. SEMEDIA will develop techniques to extract metadata from 'essence' in ways that allow the automatic inference of high-level structural information from new, partly annotated media content. It will create tools for: - navigating intelligently and searching efficiently; - summarising and clustering visually similar content; searching for 'scenes similar to...'; - finding scenes with a given character and all the associated files, geometry, shading, colour model, speech characteristics, motion data etc; - data architectures that support secure content tracking and multiple user access; - user interfaces that allow fast browsing with user defined criteria and adaptive feedback that recognises context and intent, and contributes to the annotation. The research will be guided by user scenarios developed with professionals in the postproduction and broadcast industries, and on-line communities. The results will adopt an open systems approach, which can be combined with existing media and web environments, to provide search tools that meet the needs of producers and consumers of audiovisual media in the digital postproduction, broadcast, advertising and on-line sectors.
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Southampton University : ./rdf/cordis-projects-2007.rdf
DRUSTVO ZA INFORMACIONE SISTEME I RACUNARSKE MREZE - INFORMACIONO DRUSTVO SCG
CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI
INFORMATION SOCIETY OPEN TO IMPAIRMENTS E-ISOTIS
DIDACIEBE CENTRO INTEGRADO DE EDUCACAO BRASIL - EUROPA LTDA
Complete Ambient Assisting Living EXperiment
Europe faces a social change, which is brought about by the unprecedented demographic change: the share of elderly people to the entire population is steadily growing, while the share of the youngest; especially the working population is shrinking. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), as a specific user-oriented type of \"Ambient Intelligence\", may greatly help in this situation. AAL aims to prolong the time people can live in a decent more independent way by increasing their autonomy and self-confidence, by allowing them to discharge normal everyday activities, by improved monitoring and care of the elderly or ill person, by enhancing their security while ultimately saving resources. The main objective is to develop a wearable light device able to measure specific vital signs of the elder or ill person, to detect falls and to communicate autonomously in real time with his/her caregiver in case of an emergency, wherever they are. The emergency information can be directed to the personal caretaker and/or the 112 Emergency Service. The emergency information will provide the geographic position and health information of the elder in a sensible way for the caretaker or emergency service. The incorporation of largely non-intrusive new sensors for fall detection and highly sensitive positioning is expected to address many of the elderly concerns about adopting technology. The monitoring device for the caretaker can range from a mobile phone and/or a more complex system so that an integrated care-taking service can be created to look after groups of elders. In this case, when monitoring the elder at home, the system will be complemented with other devices such as cameras in a way that personal services can be established for the elder. The system will be tested in a real usability site arranged through a social programme for the elderly, and will obtain reliable assessment by gathering real end user's feedback.
NORTH EAST WALES INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
Ambient Lighting Assistance for an Ageing Population
The overall aim is to extend our knowledge about the impact of lighting on the well-being and health of older people and translate this into a cost-effective open solution. Adaptive lighting can contribute considerably to sound sleep and a regular sleep-wake cycle, which are essential to preserve and enhance people's health and well-being. This will assist older adults in living at home autonomously for a longer time and contribute to their quality of life. The ALADIN prototype will revolutionise the permanent lighting industry and comprise the following components: 1. An intelligent open-loop control and biofeedback system which can adapt various light parameters such as intensity, light directions or colour in response to the psycho-physiological data, which are continuously registered by the system. 2. A control system that can be manually adjusted via graphical interfaces and allows the resetting of all light parameters to their default values. To achieve truly ageing friendly interfaces design-for-all principles will be applied which take into account changing levels of capability due to age. 3. An advice and support application that can intervene and assist older people in accomplishing their daily activities. The interventions can be defined by a therapeutic plan to regulate a person's circadian rhythms. By developing an assessment system that captures and analyses the individual and situational differences of the cognitive and emotional effects of lighting, ALADIN will go well beyond the current state of the art of compensation systems for older adults. Both hardware and software applications will be developed to allow easy integration with other ICT building blocks, thus becoming part of a general assistive environment. Due to its open architecture; the system can easily be extended to include other environmental factors such as temperature, acoustics, colour or information displays and other application domains and target groups.
SECURITAS AG SCHWEIZERISCHE BEWACHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE EN INFORMATIQUE ET EN AUTOMATIQUE
FUNDACION ANDALUZA DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES
PROZONE D.O.O. ZA RAZVOJ I IMPLEMENTACIJU INFORMACION H TEHNOLOGIJA
INSTITUTE FOR LANGUAGE AND SPEECH PROCESSING
THE JAI GROUP CONSULTORIA E ASSESSORIA LTDA
AGILIS ANONYMI ETAIREIA STATISTIKIS KAI PLIROFORIKIS
STICHTING CENTRUM VOOR WISKUNDE EN INFORMATICA
SIHTASUTUS EESTI NAGEMISPUUETEGA INIMESTE FOND
SINTEF - STIFTELSEN FOR INDUSTRIELL OG TEKNISK FORSKNING VED NORGES TEKNISKE HOEGSKOLE
The CA aims to support networking for Design for All in Europe, in order to promote inclusion by advancing DfA practices in the Information Society, and in particular though contribution to the efforts of EDeAN towards the implementation of the eInclusion priorities and the eEurope 2005 - 2010 Action Plans. On the basis of the creation and development of innovative Design for All communities, like EDeAN, it is now uniquely possible to establish thoroughly those aspects that work best and those which can be either refined or replaced, better to achieve the EU's goals of eInclusion through DfA. Therefore, the core of this CA is to explore and evaluate the EDeAN environment in order to create enhanced coordination actions to achieve new levels of eInclusion, coherence, effectiveness and efficiency to boost the role of the EU in eInclusion. From a technological perspective, the main aim of CA DfA@eInclusion is to support and enhance the networking and cooperation activities of the European Design for All (DfA) community, emphasizing the overall target of eInclusion, which is to ensure that future technological developments are user-based and, therefore, take into account the needs and requirements of all citizens, including people with disabilities and elderly people. Towards this end, the proposed CA builds upon, supports and extends past, and ongoing initiatives, such as the \"European Design for All e-accessibility Network\" - EdeAN, as well as and some IST funded projects that have been realized in the context of the EC FP 5 (e.g., IST-2001-38833 D4ALLnet, IST- 2001-38786 IDCnet).
INESC ID - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES: INVESTIGACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO EM LISBOA
FUNDACION DE LA OFICINA VALENCIANA PARA LA SOCIEDAD DE LA INFORMACION
SABIEDRIBA AR IEROBEZOTU ATBILDIBU \"TILDE\"
ZENTRUM FUER GRAPHISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNG E.V.