Project details

Search on Audio-visual content using Peer-to-peer Information Retrieval

Project code 045128 CEP CORDIS MU WEB INET MU
Duration 01.12.2006–31.05.2009
Status completed
Investor European Union
Programme 6th Specific RTD Programme
Faculty investigator

Annotation

Web search is dominated today by search giants like Google, Yahoo or MSN that deploy a centralized approach to indexing and utilize text only indexes enriched by page rank algorithms. Consequently, while it is possible to search for audio-visual content, it is limited to associated text and metadata annotations.Supportingreal content-based audio-visual search requires media specific understanding and extremely high CPU utilization which would not scale in today´s centralized solutions.
SAPIR aims at breaking this technological barrier by developing a large-scale distributed P2P architecture that will make it possible to search in audio-visual content using the query by example paradigm. ...
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