Funding for Mini-Projects - Semantic Media Call for Projects (Aug 2013)

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Please note that the following call is for UK-based institutions only.


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CALL FOR PROJECTS - Funding for Mini-Projects
Deadline 11 August 2013
Semantic Media Network project
http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=callforprojects_aug2013
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The EPSRC-funded Semantic Media Network project in collaboration with
the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is offering funding for
three to four mini-projects in the context of future media navigation
technology. To encourage working together, mini-projects must involve
at least two UK-based academic institutions eligible to receive EPSRC
awards. We accept applications in all fields relevant to the
development of future media navigation technology including but not
limited to signal processing (e.g. audio, video, image), computer
vision, text mining, semantic web, knowledge engineering, databases,
machine learning, e-research, human interactivity and social
computing. Applications incorporating either linked data technology,
methods for analysing/processing/annotating media during their
production, or cross-disciplinary / cross-modal strategies will be
preferred (see also next section).

To establish joint academic/industrial research and allow academic
researchers to gain industry experience, we additionally accept
project applications in collaboration with the BBC on the following
topics, which represent practical issues in the context of
broadcasting media:

  - Creating and Exploiting Mappings Between Linked Data Sources and
    Social Media Content.
  - Automatic Alignment of Production Scripts and Corresponding Audio
    Takes.
  - Robust Audio Fingerprinting for Extended Navigation Capabilities.

Please see http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=cfp_bbctasks for more
detailed information on the BBC tasks.

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About The Semantic Media Network Project

The Semantic Media Network project addresses the challenge of
time-based navigation in large collections of media documents. The
project focuses on investigating new ways to empower users to find
relevant content and exploring how industry and universities can work
together in this field. Central strategies to be explored include:

  - Content-related metadata as an effective and scalable approach
    applicable to future large scale, automated and interactive
    information systems.
  - The collection (and computation) of metadata during the production
    of media.
  - Representation of metadata amenable to knowledge processing and
    management, linked data strategies and logical inference.
  - Using a truly cross-disciplinary approach, ranging from fundamental
    theory to applied research set in the context of a real problem.

The project's scope is the whole life-cycle of content with the goal
of empowering human producers and consumers to effectively reuse,
re-purpose, and personalize material, whether for entertainment,
news, documentaries, education, interviews, health-care, science or
security.

A central goal for Semantic Media events and mini-projects is to
support interesting collaboration opportunities between researchers
in order to foster relationships and encourage working together
(EPSRC priority 'Working Together'). In this context, mini-projects
can help to try out brave new ideas and thus might serve as stepping
stones towards full-scale follow-up projects and collaborative grant
applications.

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 11 August 2013
Notification of Acceptance: 24 September 2013
Earliest Start of Project: 01 October 2013
Last Possible Start of Project: 01 January 2014

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Applications

Applications are subject to requirements listed here:
http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=cfp_requirements
Please carefully read the information provided before submitting an
application.

Please use the application form provided here:
http://semanticmedia.org.uk/?q=callforprojects_aug2013
and send the completed form back to
Sebastian Ewert (sebastian.ewert@eecs.qmul.ac.uk).

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Dr. Sebastian Ewert
PD Research Assistant
Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London
sebastian.ewert@eecs.qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 207 882 8287

Received on Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:06:10 UTC