Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Live Immerse Video-Audio Interactive Multimedia (3D VIVANT)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Greece,Germany,Hungary,Italy,Germany,Portugal,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5243977.0
EU funding (EUR): 3621519.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The aim of the project 3D VIVANT is to capture events automatically in 3D and deliver them for realistic, interactive and immersive play back to home users-viewers. This will require the project to create, develop and integrate a comprehensive range of components from the generic technology of 3D imaging. Real and virtual 3D content will be homogeneously combined/mixed producing a novel form of rich and interactive content, defined as “3D Holoscopic content”. 3D Holoscopic imaging is a technique for creating full colour 3D optical models that exist in space independently of the viewer. The images exhibit continuous parallax throughout the viewing zone. The continuous nature of the images produced with this method eliminates the effect of cardboarding (flattening of objects into discrete depth planes) and flipping (a visible effect created by moving between image fields) present in multiview stereoscopic systems. Unlike multiview stereoscopy, information about a point is contained in many different parts of the image plane. In this respect 3D Holoscopic imaging is akin to holography. However 3D Holoscopic imaging is more advantageous, since it can operate under incoherent illumination, which is in contrast with holography, and hence it allows more conventional live capture and display procedures to be adopted. Furthermore, in viewing the 3D optical model accommodation and convergence work in unison (i.e. the viewer’s eyes focus and converge to the same point) to prevent eye-strain from occurring. The 3D VIVANT project will investigate the possibility of using different technologies for capture and display of 3D content. For the capture, 3D VIVANT will take full advantage of 3D Holoscopic imaging technology, where a single camera is required. Hence in this project a world first single aperture ultra-high definition 3D Holoscopic imaging camera will be constructed which will permit live capture of 3D content. For the display, the project will take advantage of Holography to provide immersive, ultra high resolution presentation of 3D content. To increase the immersive experience, the generation and playback of 3D spatial sound is also investigated. The developed system will be tested using two user cases, namely, broadcasting and online hyperlinking. For this purpose various 3D Holoscopic video processing algorithms, such as 3D codecs and 3D object segmentation, as well as search and retrieval techniques will be developed

Keywords: 3d imaging,camera,image sensors,holoscopic imaging,holographic display,autostereoscopy,codec
Multilingual Ontologies for Networked Knowledge (MONNET)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Ireland,Germany,Germany,Spain,Germany,Belgium,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2013-02-28
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3200608.0
EU funding (EUR): 2362622.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

The Monnet project will provide a semantics-based solution for integrated information access across language barriers, which is of growing importance to industry as exemplified by the Monnet use cases. A key solution to this problem is to deal with information at the semantic level, i.e. by abstracting away over language and form, allowing for more advanced and uniform: i) integration, ii) aggregation, iii) querying and iv) presentation of information across languages. The Monnet approach therefore consists of: systematic investigation of ontologies as normalizing language-independent semantic models that permit moving flexibly between languages in information extraction, integration and access; provision of automatic, cost-effective localisation of ontologies through innovative approaches exploiting existing web-based resources (lexica, corpora, translation services, etc.); the exploitation of localized ontologies for cross-lingual information extraction from heterogeneous data sources, including text documents, semi-structured tables and increasingly also structured and ‘linked data’ available in web-accessible RDF knowledge bases; development of flexible multilingual knowledge access and presentation components designed in a principled way based on ontology-lexicon models and multilingual localized ontologies. As outcome, Monnet will have a clear impact by: i) developing models, semi-automatic approaches and methodologies allowing cost effective ontology localization as a basis for ii) implementing an integrated solution to providing semantic-level access to information across languages and iii) providing new evaluation methodologies that evaluate systems in an end-to-end “in vivo” fashion to understand user interaction, in addition to more traditional “in vitro” (batch-mode) evaluations for system tuning; developing several use case driven demonstrators to showcase exploitation potential in the domains of business, financial and public services.

Keywords: cross-lingual information access,ontology localisation,information extraction,knowledge visualization
Service-oriented Operating Systems (S(O)OS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Portugal,Italy,Netherlands,Switzerland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2013-04-30
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2936818.0
EU funding (EUR): 2249998.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

Processor and network architectures are making rapid progress with more and more cores being integrated into single processors and more and more machines getting connected with increasing bandwidth. Processors become heterogeneous and reconfigurable, thus allowing for dynamic adaptation to specialised needs. In future, thousands of billions of devices may be connected to form a single computing unit. No current programming model is able to cope with this development, as they are too tightly coupled with the underlying device structure. Furthermore, complex, non-aligned middlewares and operating systems render the programming model unnecessarily inefficient. In order to realise efficient programmability of terascale devices by experts and average developers equally, a complete new approach to handling these types of devices across all layers is required: The S(o)OS project will address future distributed systems on the level of a holistic operating system architecture by drawing from Service Oriented Architectures and the strength of Grids. This will decouple the OS from the underlying resource infrastructure, thus making execution across an almost unlimited number of varying devices possible, independent from the actual hardware. S(o)OS will allow for automatic distribution of code parts across such a resource fabric by investigating means to execute processes, threads and parallel applications across resources in a way that addresses both code requirements and resource availability, thus improving overall performance. S(o)OS intends to enable even average developers to cope with large, widely distributed infrastructures. The project therefore examines means for run-time code assessment, its segmentation and distribution across the infrastructure. This will range from automated assessment to a powerful extension for experienced developers to specify e.g. communication and relationship requirements.

Keywords: execution control,holistic model,enhanced programmability,heterogeneity & scalability
Researching Interoperability using Core Reference Datasets and Ontologies for the Virtual Physiological Human (RICORDO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Towards sustainable and personalised healthcare
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,New Zealand,Spain,United States,United Kingdom,Denmark,United Kingdom,United Kingdom
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 32.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1847259.0
EU funding (EUR): 1416000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The Virtual Physiological Human network represents an active and diverse community of biomedical scientists that studies human biology by computational means. This diversity is the basis for an impressive breadth of scientific approaches, and emergent technologies, as well as potentially shareable resources such as data and models. Although in principle, the resources generated are re-usable, in practice, few can currently be shared. A key reason for this disparity stems from the lack of consistent cataloguing, annotation and accessibility of VPH data and models (VPHDMs). The creation of a communal annotation strategy that supports the interoperability of VPHDMs across different biological scales (known as vertical integration), in such a way that is clinically relevant, is a fundamental goal for the VPH community. For this objective to be achieved, a community standard for the representation of multiscale biological entities represented across VPHDMs must be studied and tested carefully. To this end, this project will take a key step in prototyping a multiscale anatomy standard, and demonstrate its effectiveness in connecting patient specific radiological images to mathematical models of physiology, as well as to related genomic and molecular data. VPH data and model resources vary in type, complexity and accessibility. Therefore, the technical infrastructure that complements such an annotation strategy, and supports the interoperability of distributed VPH resources, will also be prototyped in this project.The outcome of this work will contribute a resource interoperability plan to the VPH’s Toolkit Development Plan.

Keywords: interoperability,multiscale,vph,international,models,annotation,standards
We.Gov - Where eGovernment meets the eSociety (WEGOV)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for Independent Living, Inclusion and Governance
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Germany,United Kingdom,Greece,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-09-30
Duration (months): 33.0
Total project cost (EUR): 2668176.0
EU funding (EUR): 1881135.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

Social networking technology provides major new opportunities for policy makers (eGovernment) to engage with the community (eSociety). WeGov will develop a toolset so full advantage can be taken of well established social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, WordPress etc.) when engaging citizens in two-way dialogs as part of governance and policy-making processes. The tools will make it possible to detect, track and mine opinions and discussions on policy oriented topics including their origins, bias and evolution. The tools will allow discussions to be seeded and stimulated through injection of policy discussion points into relevant communities. Pseudo-anonymisation, audit trails, and access control will safeguard against misuse and ensure privacy for all involved. WeGov will be delivered as fully implemented software components packaged in a government toolbox broadly applicable to the interaction between eGovernment and the eSociety, including deployment on cloud infrastructure to dramatically lower the cost of operation. Success will be measured through three live field trials (diversity of opinion on public health, public spending in an era of financial uncertainty, and public policy research in the social sciences) conducted by three end-user partners. The trial results will be combined into a methodology, including a legal and ethical analysis and review by a confirmed external project Advisory Board of eGovernment stakeholders. The methodology, toolbox, and exemplar use cases will be published through a combination of open source, public reports and open workshops. Together with an exploitation strategy targeted at widespread take-up and use, long-term sustainability of the project results is assured. Policy makers will be freed from the inherent limitations of bespoke and dedicated platforms (e.g. government websites), and instead engage directly with citizens in their native online social environments to close the loop with this audience.

Keywords: egovernment,esociety,social networks,opinion extraction
Broadband Evolved FEMTO Networks (BEFEMTO)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Pervasive and Trustworthy network and service infrastructures
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Spain,Germany,Spain,Spain,France,Finland,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-07-31
Duration (months): 31.0
Total project cost (EUR): 9929345.0
EU funding (EUR): 6851221.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

BeFEMTO is a timely proposal to address broadband communications, an important stimulus to the European economy. It aims to research and develop evolved femtocell technologies that accelerate cost-effective provision of ubiquitous broadband services by smoother convergence between fixed and wireless broadband. The approach adopted is pragmatic in two ways: near-term solutions as enabler for early deployment that impact on LTE-A standardisation, as well as longer-term solutions for enhanced efficiency in terms of power, capacity and OPEX. Near-term solutions focus on novel techniques for standalone femtocells. The long-term solutions focus upon novel concepts of networked femtocells, femtocell as fixed relays in macrocells for enhancing cell-edge capacity and mobile femtocells in public transports, all with self-organising techniques for high capacity and optimum use of transmit power whilst minimising OPEX and simplifying complexity for remote network management of expected multiple million femtocells. Furthermore, BeFEMTO has set itself challenging targets of maximum mean transmit power of 10mW and a minimum cell capacity of 8bits/sec/Hz. The scope and tangible results of BeFEMTO are: 1) Optimisation of radio access, 2) new generation of BB and RF techniques, 3) self-optimization techniques, 4) new indoor positioning techniques, network synchronization and intelligent interference management, 5) cooperative networked femtocells enabling highly flexible and resource efficient coverage extension, 6) mobile femtocells, and 7) validation of developed technologies using testbeds and simulation tools. BeFEMTO is a strong consortium of key industrial and leading-edge academics, supported by an Advisory Board for regulatory issues and standardisation. BeFEMTO will develop technologies that will have a major impact on LTE-A, ease potential EMC problems, and open up new services at home and in public places, thus achieving a ubiquitous broadband Network of the Future.

Keywords: ubiquitous broadband,femtocell,networked femtocells,mobile femtocells,fixed-mobile convergence,self-organisation,self-optimisation,spectrum-efficient access
Internet Vision: Distributed and secure algorithms for image search and match (INTERNETVISION)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: International Re-integration Grants
Action type: Support for training and career development of researchers (Marie Curie)
Countries involved: Israel
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG, 2009)
Start date: 2010-12-01
End date: 2014-11-30
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 100000.0
EU funding (EUR): 100000.0
Participants: 1
Project status: CLOSED

Motivation. The spread of low cost, digital cameras triggered a revolution in the way people capture and share images, as is evident by the rise of photo and video sharing sites such as YouTube, DailyMotion or Flickr, to name a few. The intersection of computer vision and the internet gave rise to the emerging field of “Internet Vision&quot;. Computer vision techniques are used to develop new ways to navigate visual content on the web, and the availability of large-scale, online photo collections led to tremendous progress in the field of object recognition and image understanding. This is just the beginning; Internet-enabled cameras offer radical new ways to capture and process images. Therefore, I believe that future computer vision algorithms should be developed for mobile devices that couple together a camera, a computing unit, and an internet connection. With a billion camera-phones sold in the last six years, and billions more expected to be sold in the coming years, the field of Internet Vision is certain to have a profound social and cultural impact on the way we capture and consume visual content. In the past several years I have been actively developing distributed and secure vision algorithms. I propose to extend and improve them.

Keywords: computer engineering,electrical engineering
POSITIVE-ENERGY BUILDINGS THRU BETTER CONTROL DECISIONS (PEBBLE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: ICT for mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,Germany,Austria,France,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3337482.0
EU funding (EUR): 2393637.0
Participants: 7
Project status: CLOSED

In the design and operation of positive-energy buildings a pragmatic target is maximization of the actual net energy produced (NEP) by intelligently shaping demand to perform generation-consumption matching. To achieve this, informed decisions in (almost) real-time are required to operate building subsystems and to account for unpredictable user-behavior, occupancy scheduling and occupants’ activity and changing weather conditions. These decisions have direct consequences to occupant thermal comfort, energy efficiency and, ultimately, to the NEP. The complex interplay between the many parameters precludes empiricism or rule-based decisions and necessitates the development of generic decision tools. As maximization of the NEP for Positive-Energy Buildings is attained thru Better ControL dEcisions (PEBBLE), a control and optimization ICT methodology that combines model-based predictive control and cognitive-based adaptive optimization is proposed. There are three essential ingredients to the PEBBLE system: first, thermal simulation models, that are accurate representations of the building and its subsystems; second, sensors, actuators, and user interfaces to facilitate communication between the physical and simulation layers; and third, generic control and optimization tools that use the sensor inputs and the thermal models to take intelligent decisions. Building occupants have a dual sensor-actuator role in the PEBBLE framework: through user-interfaces humans act as sensors communicating their thermal comfort preferences to the PEBBLE system, and in return the PEBBLE system returns information with the goal of enhancing energy-awareness of the users. The generality of the proposed methodology affords a universality that transcends regional, behavioral, environmental or other variations. For this reason, the PEBBLE system will be demonstrated and evaluated in three buildings possessing a variety of design and performance characteristics, located at different places across Europe. PEBBLE goes beyond producing a positive NEP which could be the result of installing a sufficiently-large renewable-energy generation capacity. The added-value of PEBBLE is on utilizing harmoniously, and most effectively all installed systems in a building, taking into account human factors and adapting the decisions in (almost) real-time as and when uncertainties occur.

Keywords: energy efficiency,optimization,control,decisions,positive energy buildings,model based control,thermal simulation,renewable energy
SYNthesis using Advanced Process Technology Integrated in regular Cells, IPs, architectures, and design platforms (SYNAPTIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Components, systems, engineering
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Spain,France,Belgium,Brazil,Denmark,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2009-4, 2009)
Start date: 2009-11-02
End date: 2013-02-01
Duration (months): 39.0
Total project cost (EUR): 5410613.0
EU funding (EUR): 3520000.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

This proposal addresses Objective ICT-2009.3.2: “Design of Semiconductor Components and Electronic Based Miniaturized Systems” by development of “methods and tools to cope with the design challenges in the next generations of technologies” and focuses on the objective “design for manufacturability taking into account increased variability of new processes”. The project described in this proposal targets the optimization of manufacturability and the reduction of systematic variations in nanometer technologies through exploitation of regularity at the architectural, structural, and geometrical levels. We propose the creation of a methodology and associated suite of design tools which extract regularity at the architectural and structural level and automate the creation of regular compound cells which implement the functionality of the extracted templates. The cell creation will employ Restricted Design Rules (RDR’s) and other regularity techniques at the geometrical level to maximize manufacturability and reduce systematic variations. Since the majority of designs in the nanometer regime employ some form of SRAM the project will include a study of the effects of RDR’s on SRAM in terms of performance and manufacturability and the subsequent definition of a set of RDR’s which allow manufacturability optimization for logic functions while remaining compatible with SRAM technologies. To this end we have assembled a consortium of European academic, research and industrial experts with world class experience in regularity approaches at the various levels. In order to ensure the successful commercialization and deployment of the resulting tool suite the consortium includes a European EDA vendor with significant expertise in the field of design optimization through automated cell creation. This project will enable European industry to play a leading role in the definition of next generation design methodologies and challenge the US domination in the area of design automation.

Keywords: semiconductor design metholology,nanometer scale technologies,design for manufacturability,lithography friendly layout regularity,restricted design rules (rdr)