Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EUCOGII)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Belgium,Sweden,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Switzerland,Germany,Spain,Germany,Greece
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2838210.0
EU funding (EUR): 1908337.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Research in artificial cognitive systems currently suffers from fragmentation and the lack of a clear agenda. It is for this reason that EUCogII establishes a closely cooperating research community in Europe that develops its vision for the discipline. The project sets up a network of several hundred European researchers in the wider area of artificial cognitive systems, with an emphasis on participants in projects of FP7 ICT Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics, building on the achievements of the FP6 project euCognition.This EUCogII community will meet in about 30 events with over 1000 participants during the project duration and participate in web-based work throughout. In these network activities its members are invited to step back from their day-to-day research, talk to people other than the usual experts in their sub-field and consider the bigger picture. It is this bigger picture of aims and methods that is needed for coherent artificial cognitive systems research and funding, and that EUCogII helps to clarify by its coordination action.The activities are structured in four content work packages: (1) ‘state of the art’, (2) ‘challenges’, (2) ‘education’ and (4) ‘outreach’: (1) The network establishes and maps the a basic image of what is the ‘state of the art’ in the discipline, with an emphasis on the coherence of the whole. (2) It formulates a set of specific medium and long-term challenges for cognitive systems; these challenges provide a direction for research and a measure of its success. (3) The network contributes to the education of future researchers by the formulation of European aims for specific educational programmes in cognitive systems, by providing material for such programmes and by specific training events for its members. (4) The partners reach out to the members of the network and to the wider community in a variety of events where researchers meet regularly, such as the bi-annual members meetings, workshops, summer-schools, a

Keywords: artificial cognition,cooperation,state of the art,challenges,outreach,education,website
Social Signal Processing Network (SSPNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Network of Excellence
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Italy,United Kingdom,Germany,France,Netherlands,Sweden
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2014-01-31
Duration (months): 60.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8210066.0
EU funding (EUR): 6268000.0
Participants: 12
Project status: CLOSED

The ability to understand and manage social signals of a person we are communicating with is the core of social intelligence. Social intelligence is a facet of human intelligence that has been argued to be indispensable and perhaps the most important for success in life. Although each one of us understands the importance of social signals in everyday life situations, and in spite of recent advances in machine analysis and synthesis of relevant behavioural cues like blinks, smiles, crossed arms, laughter, etc., the research efforts in machine analysis and synthesis of human social signals like empathy, politeness, and (dis)agreement, are few and tentative. The main reasons for this are the absence of a research agenda and the lack of suitable resources for experimentation. The mission of the SSPNet is to create a sufficient momentum by integrating an existing large amount of knowledge and available resources in Social Signal Processing (SSP) research domains including cognitive modelling, machine understanding, and synthesizing social behaviour, and so: (i) enable creation of the European and world research agenda in SSP, (ii) provide efficient and effective access to SSP-relevant tools and data repositories to the research community within and beyond the SSPNet, and (iii) further develop complementary and multidisciplinary expertise necessary for pushing forward the cutting edge of the research in SSP. The collective SSPNet research effort will be directed towards integration of existing SSP theories and technologies, and towards identification and exploration of potentials and limitations in SSP. A particular scientific challenge that binds the partners is the synergetic combination of human-human interaction models and tools for human behaviour sensing and synthesis within socially-adept multimodal interfaces.

Keywords: social signals,automatic social behaviour analysis and synthesis,human-human interaction,human-computer interaction
intelligent Metadata-driven Processing and distribution of audiovisual media (IMP)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Ireland,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-06-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4092959.0
EU funding (EUR): 2905000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

iMP will create architecture, workflow and applications for intelligent metadata-driven processing and distribution of digital movies and entertainment. The goal is to enable a ‘Virtual Film Factory’ in which creative professionals can work together to create and customise programmes from Petabyte-scale digital repositories, using semantic technologies to organise data and drive its processing. By separating metadata from essence, controlling all the image and sound processing operations from the metadata layer, we can maintain the underlying data library unchanged while enabling a new generation of more flexible applications. This will radically reduce the amount of data created: new versions, grades, or language releases only result in additional metadata, not new data files. The system will support a more automated workflow for content distribution from postproduction to the assembly, distribution and playout of multiple variations of programmes in different formats and locations. Outcomes will be: An infrastructure in which multi-Petabye data stores are managed by persistent metadata in a distributed metadatabase. Real-time interaction with media sequences selected from the data store. When a sequence is changed, by an application, the commands are stored as a new set of metadata. The data remains unchanged in the store, but viewing and listening sequences are rendered ‘on the fly. Semantic instruction sets to define associations between sequences of essence, the processes applied, and the uses to which they are put. Integration of currently separate processes (such as grading, CGI, audio effects and editing, version creation, previewing and viewing, customisation, mastering, distribution) in a ‘Virtual Film Factory.’ Changes to the video space will transfer to changes in a three-dimensional audio representation. Automated adjustment of video and audio to the physical characteristics, acoustics or screen size of the viewing environment.

Keywords: collaborative workflow,digital cinema,semantic metadata
Trans-national cooperation among ICT National Contact Points (IDEALIST2011)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Bulgaria,Switzerland,Cyprus,Czechia,Denmark,Spain,France,Greece,Israel,Iceland,Italy,Luxembourg,Malta,Netherlands,Norway,Poland,Portugal,Romania,Sweden,Slovenia,Slovakia,Türkiye,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Egypt,India,Mexico,Belgium,Estonia,Croatia,Hungary,Latvia,Montenegro,Belarus
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-10-01
End date: 2011-09-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3525882.0
EU funding (EUR): 2995160.0
Participants: 40
Project status: CLOSED

The main objective of Idealist2011 is reinforcing the network of National Contact Points (NCP) for ICT under FP7, by promoting further trans-national cooperation within this network. This cooperation will not be reduced to only ICT NCPs but also a degree of collaboration and networking with similar networks in parallel themes (Security, SSH, ENV, Transport, Energy, Health,…etc) especially in the context of joint/coordinated calls will be covered. Special focus is put on helping less experienced NCPs from Member States (MS) and Associated States (AS) to access the know-how accumulated in other countries and to apply it in a locally relevant and efficient manner. Furthermore Idealist2011 aims to address national and cross-border audiences, relying on the NCP network mainly established in the MS and AS at national and regional level, to stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation in current and future Community ICT research of organisations of all types. Special focus is put on newcomers and SMEs, including organisations from MS, AS and 3rd countries which comprise countries from Eastern Europe Partner Countries (EEPC), Mediterranean Partner Countries (MPC) and selected 3rd coubtries with high technical and economical potential. The activities of Idealist2011 are incremental to the formal NCP responsibilities as they address the international aspects not covered by the nationally funded NCP role. It is built upon: - Experience gained over more than 13 years from the 6 preceding projects covering FP4 to FP7 - Strengthening NCP cooperation with support for MS, AS and ICPC - Provision of Training and Twinning for the less experienced NCPs - Provision of partner search quality support - Focused support for SMEs in the ICT sector and for organisations new to the FP - Provision of NCP support for countries with S&T international agreements - Promotion of opportunities and Idealist services ensuring a higher visibility of the NCPs

Keywords: cooperation action for eu ict ncps
RESPONSIVE OPEN LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS (ROLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Austria,Belgium,Germany,Sweden,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Austria,Germany,China,Germany,United Kingdom,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-01-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8501198.0
EU funding (EUR): 6600000.0
Participants: 16
Project status: CLOSED

ROLE's cross-disciplinary innovations will deliver and test prototypes of highly responsive TEL environments, offering breakthrough levels of effectiveness, flexibility, user-control and mass-individualisation. Our work also advances the state-of-the-art in human resource management; self-regulated and social learning; psycho-pedagogical theories of adaptive education and educational psychology; service composition and orchestration; and the use of ICT in lifelong learning. Significant benefits arise for learners, their communities, employers, TEL developers and society. ROLE offers adaptivity and personalization in terms of (1) content and navigation and (2) the entire learning environment and its functionalities. This approach permits individualization of the components, tools, and functionalities of a learning environment, and their adjustment or replacement by existing web-based software tools. Learning environment elements can be combined to generate (to mashup) new components and functionalities, which can be adapted by lone learners or collaborating learners to meet their own needs and to enhance the effectiveness of their learning. This empowers each user to generate new tools and functions according to their needs, and can help them to establish a livelier and personally more meaningful learning context and learning experience. ROLE's generic framework uses an open source approach, interoperable across software systems and technology. Hence any tool created by an individual is available from a pool of services and tools to all learners via the internet, no matter which learning environment, operating system, or device they use, and which subject matter they learn. The consortium consists of well-renown experts covering all required pedagogical and technical competencies. Respective activities have been defined to bring the results of ROLE to the targeted international markets in higher education and corporate training.

Keywords: learning service mashup,empowered learner,world-wide impact,self-regulated learning,community development
SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND VISION-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT FOR CONTINUOUS SIGN LANGUAGE RECOGNITION AND TRANSLATION (SIGNSPEAK)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Belgium,Spain,Netherlands,Spain,Austria,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3767599.0
EU funding (EUR): 2756905.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Deaf communities revolve around sign languages as they are their natural means of communication. Although deaf, hard of hearing and hearing signers can communicate without boundaries amongst themselves, there is a serious challenge for the deaf community in trying to integrate into educational, social and work environments, as the vast majority of Europeans do not have signing skills. The overall goal of SignSpeaker is to develop a new vision-based technology for translating continuous sign language to text, in order to improve the communication between deaf and hearing communities. To this end, at the beginning of the project a new scientific study will be carried out to increase the linguistic understanding of sign languages; this new knowledge about the nature of sign language structure from the perspective of machine recognition of continuous sign language is crucial for a further development of sign-language-to-text technologies. The breakthrough in the understanding of sign language will allow a subsequent breakthrough in the development a new vision-based technology for continuous sign language recognition and translation to text. The SignSpeaker system will track the dominant and non-dominant hand, as well as facial expressions and body posture, taking into account the signs performed before and after or, in other words, taking into account the context in which a sign has been realised; the new technology will be also signer and ambient-independent. SignSpeaker will be the first step to approach sign language recognition and translation to the levels already obtained in similar technologies like translating from text-to-speech and speech-to-text. But the impact of SignSpeaker’s results is much broader than the unique application in sign languages, because the results have also important applications in the industry for improving human-machine communication by gesture and for an automatic object and body part recognition and tracking in video streams.

Keywords: sign-language-to-text technology,multimodal visual analysis,asr,smt,human-machine communication
Humanoids that Learn Socio-Communicative Skills by Observation (HUMANOBS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Iceland,Switzerland,Italy,Italy,Spain,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-06-30
Duration (months): 42.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3111729.0
EU funding (EUR): 2025000.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Human communicative skills rely on a complex mixture of social and spatio-temporal perception-action processes. Autonomous virtual agents that interact with people could benefit greatly from socio-communicative skills; endowing them with such skills, however, could mean decades of person-years in manual programming. Enabling the agents to learn these skills is an alternative solution the learning mechanisms for this, however, are also well beyond the state of the art. Our goal is to develop new cognitive architectural principles to allow intelligent agents to learn socio-communicative skills by observing and imitating people in dynamic social situations on the job. Skill development, in our approach, is a fundamental architectural feature: Learning happens through unique architectural constructs specified by developers, coupled with the ability of the architecture to automatically reconfigure itself to accommodate new skills through observation. As an appropriate and challenging demonstration the resulting system will control a virtual humanoid television host, capable of taking interviews with users and conducting a 10-minute TV program. By observing and imitating humans the TV-host will acquire increasingly complex socio-communicative skills; by the end of the project it will have reached socio-communicative skills comparable to an average human television show host. The agent’s skills will be evaluated using a thorough, formal method.

Keywords: socio-communicative skills,imitation learning,integrated cognitive control,multi-modal interaction,virtual agent,model-driven cognitive architecture,schema
System for highly reliable, cost effective, early detection and accurate localization of incipient forest fires (FORFIRE)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Research for the benefit of SMEs
Destination: Research for SMEs
Action type: Research for the benefit of specific groups
Countries involved: France,Poland,France,Spain,Greece,Ireland,Romania,Spain
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-06-01
End date: 2011-11-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1447235.0
EU funding (EUR): 1099560.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Europe has suffered in the last years a large number of forest fires that has caused enormous losses in terms of human life and environmental damage. During 2007, more than 3376 square kilometres of forest and agricultural fields disappeared in smoke, causing the loss of more than 64 lives and more than 1.6bn Euros [1].These figures meant an increase of a 50% in southern European countries such as Greece in relation to the impact by forest fires in the previous years. The burnt area represented a 14% of the total forest mass in the European Union, and an 25% for the southern European countries (Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece), in danger of desertification [2]. Despite of the use of the latest technologies, such as satellite monitoring, the situation has not significantly improved for the last 25 years. Even more, it seems that the risk and number of forest fires are increasing each year due to a combination of human (smokers, campers and picnickers or tourists) and environmental factors (earthquake, erupting volcanoes, drought, lightning, etc). FORFIRE aims to develop an outdoors fire detection system using a new camera sensor only sensible to VUV part of the spectrum. This feature provides a set of advantages comparing with current sensors. Developing this new sensor will provide the capability of early fire detection with a very low rate of false alarm (0.1%). This can be achieved by focusing on the spectral characteristics of flames in the Vacuum Ultra Violet (VUV) area (at wavelengths between 140 to 240 nm) of the electromagnetic spectrum. The objective of the project is to develop each of the components necessary for the integration and validation of FORFIRE product to place SMEs in a position for successfully differentiation from abroad competitors.

Keywords: detection
Interactive Knowledge Stack for small to medium CMS/KMS providers (IKS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Austria,Germany,Switzerland,Italy,Germany,Türkiye,France,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,Germany,Germany,Finland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8650054.0
EU funding (EUR): 6579998.0
Participants: 17
Project status: CLOSED

Interactive Knowledge (IKS) is an integrating project whose target are the hundreds of SMEs in Europe providing technology platforms for content and knowledge management to thousands of end user organisations. Downstream, hundred-thousands of corporate end users and millions of content consumers are affected by the quality of service provided through these platforms. The majority of these platforms is built under the "Linux/Apache/mySQL/php" paradigm known as the LAMP stack. More advanced CMS platforms are provided by firms with a software engineering background using frameworks such as .NET and JEE5. All of these frameworks lack the capability for semantic web enabled, intelligent content, and therefore lack the capacity for users to interact with the content at the user's knowledge level! Interactive Knowledge will close the - engineering gap for CMS architectures: the Interactive Knowledge Technology Stack will enable many open source CMS frameworks to become semantically enabled - research gap on user interaction with knowledge objects: the use of semantics to support direct user interaction with knowledge content will be a focus of Interactive Knowledge - research gap on empirical validation: we involve a group of six technology providers and further 50 smaller CMS/KMS providers for controlled engineering experiments to ensure quantitative analysis of requirements and of subsequent technology validation for semantically enabled, interactive knowledge and content management systems. - impact gap for industrial take-up: starting with six industrial partners in the consortium, we will recruit 50 more European CMS/KMS providers and activate a dozen relevant open source communities to embrace IKS specifications, and be present in standards bodies (W3C,OASIS, etc). INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE invites all stakeholders to work towards bringing European CMS/KMS providers to the leading edge of innovation in knowledge technologies, for the benefit of all users.

Keywords: knowledge and content technology framework,semantic web,integrating project,small to medium enterprises,sme,open source communities