SemaPhoto - Emergent content and semantics from personal media, context and metadata

Personal digital media collections are a key facet of virtually everyone's life. With digital cameras and mobile phones with build in cameras, we capture billions of photos in Europe annually. These photos are not only captured but increasingly shared, printed or published on the Web. However, scientific advances in content processing have not kept pace with this explosive growth. The semantic understanding of these collections of photos remains limited and the power and potential of these collections to enhance our lives and enrich our relations with others remains untapped. Thus, we aim at an intelligent creation, enhancement, and usage of photo collections exploiting not only the media content itself but also user context and external sources such as professional collections and the Web.

The goal of the project proposal is to achieve a substantial step forward in understanding the media content provided by the users. We aim at developing methods to continuously allow personal media collections to grow and evolve with every personal media asset and external Web 2.0 content sources while digging out and exploiting the collections’ semantics and users’ knowledge. These efforts shall be embedded in a community-based approach for personal digital photographs.

media management
semantic enrichment
photo management
community portal
user experience
metadata extraction
semantic market
media content
multimedia content
telephone provide
community portal
creative community
social community
social engineering
social network

The technical and research partners of the consortium are already fixed. We have successfully acquired high quality leaders in the understanding of media semantics, metadata extraction, and metadata enrichment. We also have a key player from the photo finishing industry.

We are looking for one additional industry partner for exploiting the project results. This exploitation must include the use of digital photographs but can be in different ways and in different domains. The concrete exploitation mainly depends on your expertise and business field. Some examples are: telecommunication companies, providers of community portals, photo sharing systems, travel portals, event management, documentation, and journalism.

We are seeking for a SME or a large company that has experience with and provides services based on digital photographs. We are looking for a visible and mainstream-oriented application for end users that can benefit from intelligent, semantically-enriched photo content. You can be present throughout Europe (or more) or a national player. However, important is a strong commitment to exploit and use the project results. The European Commission expects a compelling presentation of how to commercialize the results. If you think that you are a good candidate for the project consortium, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Develop with us an application scenario of how you can use and exploit intelligent, semantically-rich photo content. Make use of our strong technological and research experience. Exploit this expertise for setting up a next-generation digital photo service. Have a strong commitment to monetize and commercialize the project results.

Industry partner, either SME or large company that makes use of intelligent, semantically-rich photo content.

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