| The semantic multimedia access project concentrates on the development of generic technology that satisfies multimedia information at a semantic level. Any search system's comprehension of a user's information need is necessarily incomplete, as this would require understanding completely the user's goals as well as the user's perception of retrieved objects. The project investigates how in spite of this uncertainty effective search strategies can be offered, exploiting the following search parameters: the collection (domain knowledge, background knowledge, language, format, etc.), the user (including use scenario, interaction type, history, preference) and the system (security aspects, performance). Users often know things about the multimedia objects in a collection being searched; yet, it remains a challenge how to exploit and adapt to such background knowledge during search. In this project we develop a search engine generator. - Available demonstrators: * Content management: T-map; * Information systems: multimedia retrieval; * Learning: pictures in publications. |
