Data-Gouv-ML/pcri-informations-sur-les-projets-laureats huggingface dataset:
Sign Language Recognition, Generation and Modelling with application in Deaf Communication (DICTA-SIGN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Greece,Germany,United Kingdom,France,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3923566.0
EU funding (EUR): 3010879.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Dicta-Sign addresses the need for communication between deaf individuals and communication via natural language by deaf users with various HCI environments. It will research and develop recognition and synthesis engines for sign languages (SLs) at a level of detail necessary for recognising and generating authentic signing. Research outcomes will be integrated in three laboratory prototypes (a Search-by-Example tool, a SL-to-SL translator and a sign-Wiki) leading to a practical project demonstrator. Dicta-Sign will be based on research novelties in sign recognition and generation exploiting significant linguistic knowledge and coded SL resources. Interoperation of several scientific domains is required in order to combine linguistic knowledge with computer vision for image/video analysis for continuous sign recognition, and with computer graphics for realistic avatar animation. Coding of SL linguistic knowledge requires exploitation of annotated parallel video corpora for four SLs (BSL, DGS, GSL and LSF), linked to common grammar and lexicon modules created to feed both recognition and synthesis engines. These resources will also be applied, by exploiting multilingual syntactic and lexical interrelations, to domain-specific SL-to-SL machine translation. Sign input will be extended by integrating continuous sign recognition with multi-modal fusion and signer adaptation. Sign recognition technology will also help with annotation procedures and tools developed within the project as a necessary support for adequate corpus construction and data access. Procedural sign synthesis will be extended by further development of current state-of-the-art representations of manual signing elements in order to achieve close-to-natural signing, including non-manual features of eye gaze, mouthing patterns and body postures. Prototypes and the demonstrator will validate the interaction between sign recognition, linguistic modelling, and sign synthesis.

Keywords: multimodal communication,sign recognition,sign synthesis,sl-to-sl machine translation
PrestoPRIME (PRESTOPRIME)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: France,United Kingdom,Italy,Austria,Netherlands,Austria,Italy,France,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Austria,Netherlands,Israel
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2012-11-30
Duration (months): 47.0
Total project cost (EUR): 12057722.0
EU funding (EUR): 8000000.0
Participants: 15
Project status: CLOSED

Audiovisual content collections are undergoing a transformation from archives of analogue materials to very large stores of digital data. As time-based digital media and their related metadata are edited, re-used and re-formatted in a continuously evolving environment, the concept of the unique original loses its meaning and we require dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights. PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework. This will result in a range of tools and services, delivered through a networked Competence Centre. The project will deliver a preservation framework, complete with risk management and content quality and corruption control measures, capable of supporting audiovisual signal migration and multivalent preservation methods using federated services for distributing and storing content. It will create a metadata conversion and deployment toolkit, with a novel and efficient process for metadata vocabulary alignment, annotation and services for user-generated content metadata. A rights management system and audiovisual fingerprint registry will make it possible to track and manage content at all stages of its lifecycle, in all contexts of use. The project will demonstrate and evaluate an integrated prototype of the preservation Framework and software in the networked Competence Centre. The Competence Centre and the European Association for Audiovisual Archives will be established to provide business models, registry and best practice services and training.

Keywords: digital preservation and access of audiovisual contents
Proactive Knowledge for Smart Products (SMARTPRODUCTS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Digital libraries and content
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,France,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Italy,Finland,United Kingdom,Switzerland
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 10547515.0
EU funding (EUR): 6964308.0
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

The project will develop the scientific and technological basis for the embedding of proactive knowledge into smart products that are able to communicate and co-operate with humans, other products and the environment. Proactive knowledge encompasses knowledge about the product itself (features, functions, dependencies, usage, etc.), its embedding (physical & virtual environment), its users, and the specific use context. In contrast to static content, proactive knowledge comprises executable software and engages in proactive interaction using multimodal interfaces, thus enabling smart products to talk, guide, and assist the designers, workers and consumers. Some proactive knowledge will be co-constructed with the product, while other parts are gathered during the product lifecycle using embedded sensing and communication capabilities.By focusing on the individual product new forms of product-centred knowledge management become possible. Such concepts are urgently needed to deal with the challenges posed by the increasing complexity of products (more features and functions), the emerging diversity within products lines (customisation, variant management), the ever-growing amount of product-related content and data and the need for interoperability between products in open environments.The project aims at researching all aspects relevant to the acquisition, modelling, reasoning,management, and use of proactive knowledge. A service-oriented SmartProducts platform with support for context integration and multimodal UIs will be developed and released. Widely reusable concepts for smart products will be implemented and evaluated in three industrial application scenarios. In addition, a socio-economic analysis will also be carried out, which will evaluate the economic potential deriving from a massive deployment of smart products.This will represent a big step towards a widely applicable, standardisable approach to industrywide deployment of proactive knowledge.

Keywords: proactive knowledge,smart products,knowledge management,ontologies,multimodal user interfaces,sensors,embedded systems
Self-organized recurrent neural learning for language processing (ORGANIC)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,Belgium,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-04-01
End date: 2012-03-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3518400.0
EU funding (EUR): 2700000.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The human brain is an unrivalled "engine" for speech processing and language understanding. It integrates a large variety of learning, adaptation, optimization and self-stabilization mechanisms across many dynamically interacting levels of processing. The result of this highly entwined mesh of processes is supreme robustness, efficiency, and versatility. ORGANIC adopts principles of cortical architecture and self-organizing neurodynamics for the design of a new type of cognitive architectures for speech/language tasks. The neurodynamical models will be grounded in the paradigm of Reservoir Computing is a biologically inspired perspective on how arbitrary computations can be learnt and performed in artificial neural networks which are -- like their biological role models -- large, randomly grown, highly nonlinear and eminently adaptive. R\&D activities in Organic will result in * a much deeper theoretical understanding of how very complex computations, especially those related to language processing, can be robustly and adaptively performed in neurodynamical systems, * a publicly available ``Engine'' of programming tools which conforms to recent interface standards for parallel neural system simulations, together with a reference collection of large real-life benchmark datasets, * prototype implementations of large-vocabulary online speech recognizers and handwriting recognition solutions. The consortium brings together the original pioneers in reservoir computing, leading researchers in cortical architectures for speech and language processing, speech recognition technology and an industrial partner at the frontier of automated text recognition.

Keywords: cognitive architectures,recurrent neural networks,speech recognition,human-robot interaction
Collective Emotions in Cyberspace (CYBEREMOTIONS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Future and emerging technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Poland,Switzerland,United Kingdom,Austria,Slovenia,Germany,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2013-05-31
Duration (months): 52.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4636660.0
EU funding (EUR): 3600000.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

The main aims of the project are: - to understand the process of collective emotions formation in e-communities as a spontaneous emergent behaviour occurring at complex techno-social networks - to create decentralized adaptive tools to amplify positive or suppress negative collective emotions in e-societies and will take into account heterogeneity of interacting humans - to create theoretical background for the development of the next generation emotionally-intelligent ICT services using models of self-organized active agents models, and sociophysics methods. The project focuses on the role of collective emotions in creating, forming and breaking-up of e-communities. Understanding these phenomena is important in view of the growing role of ICT-mediated social interactions and specific features of e-communities. The challenge of this interdisciplinary project is to combine both: psychological models of emotional interactions and algorithmic methods for detection and classification of human emotions in the Internet with probabilistic models of complex systems and data driven simulations based on heterogeneous emotionally reacting agents approach. Theoretical foundations will mainly base on statistical physics applied for study of emergent properties of many-object systems interacting in self-organized evolving networks. Empirically, we concentrate on the issue of how to support and maintain emotional climates of security, trust, hope, and freedom in future techno-social communities and how to prevent and resolve conflicts in them. Data on human emotions as well as on their influence on the structure of sustainable cooperative communities will be received from Blogoshere, newsgroups and Internet discussion forums and compared to computer simulations based on active agents models. Finally, we plan to develop artificial agents that can help to influence emotional states of the members of e-communities and can act as cyber-advisers.

Keywords: sociophysics,e-communities,complex networks,virtual society,social psychology
Skin-Based Technologies and Capabilities for Safe, Autonomous and Interactive Robots (ROBOSKIN)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Switzerland,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Italy
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2012-04-30
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4668535.0
EU funding (EUR): 3557139.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

This project will develop and demonstrate a range of new robot capabilities based on robot skin tactile feedback from large areas of the robot body. An investigation of these issues until now has been limited by the lack of tactile sensing technologies enabling large scale experimental activities, since so far skin technologies and embedded tactile sensors have been mostly demonstrated only at prototype stage. The new capabilities will improve the ability of robots to operate effectively and safely in unconstrained environments and also their ability to communicate and co-operate with each other and with humans. To support this aim, one part of the project will focus on the investigation of methods and technologies enabling the implementation of skin sensors that can be used with existing robots. Other parts of the project will develop new structures for representing and integrating tactile data with existing cognitive architectures in order to support skin-based cognition, behaviour and communication. As a result, the project will address three main objectives. The first is to develop new sensor technologies that can provide tactile feedback from large areas of the robot body. This development process will be incremental and will take advantage of feedback produced from the application of these technologies in the work done on the other project objectives. The second objective is to develop and integrate fundamental cognitive structures for efficient and safe utilisation of tactile data in terms of a robot body image, safe reflexive reactions to tactile events and flexible representations of spatially and temporally distributed patterns of physical contact. The last objective is to develop cognitive mechanisms that use tactile feedback to improve human-robot interaction capabilities particularly in the domains of programming through demonstration and robot assisted play.

Keywords: robot skin,tactile feedback,programming by demonstration,human-robot interaction,robot assisted play
Enhancing biomorphic agility through variable stiffness (STIFF)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Netherlands,Switzerland,United Kingdom,France
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2009-01-01
End date: 2011-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3890520.0
EU funding (EUR): 2953710.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

The goal of the proposed study is to equip a highly biomimetic robot hand-arm system with the agility, robustness and versatility that are hallmarks of the human motor system by understanding and mimicking the variable stiffness paradigms that are so effectively employed by the human CNS. A key component of the study will be the anatomically accurate musculoskeletal modelling of the human arm and hand. The project will develop novel methodologies to comprehend how the human arm can adapt its impedance, e.g. by changing the co-contraction level or by adapting the reflex gains. The impedance of the arm and of the hand will be investigated using powerful robot manipulators capable of imposing force perturbations. The existing closed-loop system identification techniques will be extended with non-linear time-variant techniques which can identify the behaviour during reaching and grasping tasks. The grasp force modulation and hand muscle activity correlations will be learned for use on the robotic system. Finally, optimization techniques gleaned and validated on the detailed biophysical model will be transferred to the variable impedance actuation of the novel biomorphic robotic system The central question that this proposal focuses on for both the human and robotic arm is: how is stiffness used to enhance performance?; and this project represents one of the first attempts where targeted modelling studies will go the full circle by exploiting these results for optimal control of an embodied, high dimensional, variable impedance robotic system.

Keywords: stiffness,joint impedance,human arms,robotic arms,variable impedance actuation systems,grasping,human arm model,human-robot interaction,optimal feedback control,reinforcement learning
PROmotion of an ICT Dialogue between Europe and America Latina (PRO-IDEAL)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Information and Communication Technologies
Destination: Horizontal support actions
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Spain,United Kingdom,Brazil,Argentina,Chile,Uruguay
Call:  (FP7-ICT-2007-3, 2007)
Start date: 2008-11-01
End date: 2011-04-30
Duration (months): 30.0
Total project cost (EUR): 568321.0
EU funding (EUR): 510000.0
Participants: 6
Project status: CLOSED

PRO-IDEAL aims to promote the ICT programme in Argentina, Brazil (Sao Paulo southwards), Chile and Uruguay. These countries were selected because they represent a) powerful emerging economies on the subcontinent, b) have a similar social and industrial level of development, and thus c) are valuable potential partners for Europe. PRO-IDEAL plans a series of activities that are geared at improving the overall performance of the countries' research community in the ICT programme. The main activities consist in: * Coaching courses to "coach the coaches": This allows active knowledge transfer that creates a multiplying effect in the target region. The trained coaches will, in turn, act as "Project Angels" for their region. * Organising awareness raising and coaching events for potential partners in ICT projects, three in each target country, linked to open calls. * Reinforce the ICT policy dialogue with key stakeholders. These efforts will be supported by the PRO-IDEAL ICT promotion platform, an on-line tool based on the Web 2.0 paradigm of knowledge sharing comprising: * an ICT Wiki providing easy access to information, * Blogs displaying coaching modules for self-learning, * news feeds on events, calls, etc. The platform will be a free, permanent source of information and communication tool that will be sustained beyond project duration by its user community. The above activities are carried out by an experienced partnership that has a proven track record in successful international projects: INMARK from Spain will co-ordinate the consortium; the European Multimedia Forum disposes of the network in the ICT sector and takes care of the dissemination strategy as well as the Web 2.0 tool; the partners in the target countries will act as "hub" implementing the promotion activities at local level, using their established networks covering academic and industrial research communities, and public institutions.

Keywords: international cooperation,ict promotion,web 2.0 platform,latin america,ict dialogue
Development of an innovative, accurate, monolithic 2D CVD Diamond based radiation dosimetry system for conformal radiotherapy solutions (RADI-CAL)

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: Hungary,Italy,Germany,United Kingdom,France,Ireland,Germany,Poland,Germany
Call:  (FP7-SME-2008-1, 2008)
Start date: 2009-02-01
End date: 2011-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1467609.0
EU funding (EUR): 1084206.0
Participants: 9
Project status: CLOSED

Cancer is responsible for 25% of all deaths in Europe and is the biggest killer of people aged 45-64 and 1 in 3 EU citizens can expect to deal with a cancer episode in their lifetime. The cost of treatment in Europe is over €50 billion and fighting the disease is a major EU priority. Radiotherapy is in the most used treatment and recent advances such as IMRT and other conformal radiotherapy solutions are significantly improving treatment success rates. However, existing dosimetry techniques are not capable of delivering the high resolution, tissue equivalence and high speed measurements required for IMRT calibration. This leads to lengthy set-up times, seriously limiting the number of patients that can be treated. Radi-Cal will look to build on recent breakthroughs in CVD diamond technology (realised with EC support) and develop an innovative, high resolution, monolithic 2D CVD diamond array based dosimeter which will deliver the levels of performance required by IMRT and other conformal radiotherapy solutions whilst reducing calibration and set-up time by a factor of 7, thereby allowing more patients access to conformal radiotherapy which will significantly improve treatment success rates. The science and technology required to do this will be challenging, however our consortium comprises some of Europe's leading research and industrial companies. Our innovations are in CVD diamond structure and contacts for a 2D sensor; 2D array sensor fabrication and radiation shielding; ultra low 2D array readout electronics. The market potential for such a product is over €130 million. Although European SME’s dominate the market for radiotherapy dosimetry systems this situation is being seriously threatened by large non-EU enterprises such as Varian, who are now targeting dosimetry. As European SMEs, we urgently need to beat our competition to an IMRT dosimetry solution to protect our market and enable us to compete against internationally.

Keywords: radiotherapy,dosimetry