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VITALAS Internal Awareness Workshop |
The VITALAS project has organized an internal Awareness Workshop on 21 February 2008 at IRT premises, Munich, Germany.
The objective was to invite users from IRT, INA, Belga and AFP, as well as their "close user community" to discover the VITALAS functionalities/objectives. The audience was staff from IRT's associates (editors, journalists, annotators, archivists), archivists from INA, picture editors and sales managers from Belga and their shareholders and at last press employees from AFP.
The participants will be asked to give their feedback through a questionnaire, which will also allow the definition of success criteria for VITALAS. |
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MCVC'08 Cannes (MUSCLE Conference joint with VITALAS Conference) |
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The first VITALAS conference was held at Palais Stéphanie in Cannes, France, on 11 & 12 February 2008, jointly with the final conference of the MUSCLE EU funded Network of Excellence.
This scientific conference is opened to members of communities in the field of Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Machine Learning.
Some of the first achievements of VITALAS project will be presented during this event. Read more... The videos of the presentations are now available (click on the logo below) 
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AFP (Agence France-Presse) will join VITALAS project |
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In an article published on 19/10/2007 in les echos.fr, Nozha Boujemaa, scientific coordinator of the project, announced that the AFP will be involved in the development of the VITALAS multimedia content search engine. "We want to know how professionals use the results of our work to have experts feedback. The first tests will begin during the 2nd semester 2008". "AFP will act as beta-tester on these new technologies. Such a search engine would help us to index semi-automatically all our pictures" declared Denis Teyssou, editor in chief of Medialab at AFP. Read the whole article in French . |
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Technical Meeting in EADS |
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A VITALAS Technical meeting has been held on 2 and 3 July 2007, and was hosted by EADS - Paris, France. The focus was on Cross model indexing and on system design. List of participants |
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A Plenary meeting has been held in INA, Paris, France on 24 and 25 May 2007. The objective was to have an overview of each Workpackage activities, including problems and delays encountered in order to plan corrective actions. List of participants |
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