I-SEARCH - a multimodal search engine based on rich unified content description (RUCoD)

Thomas Steiner (1) , Lorenzo Sutton (2) , Sabine Spiller (3) , Marinella Lazzaro (4) , Francesco Nucci (4) , Vincenzo Croce (4) , Alberto Massari (5) , Antonio Camurri (5) , Anne Verroust-Blondet (6) , Laurent Joyeux (6) , Jonas Etzold (7) , Paul Grimm (7) , Athanasios Mamledis (8) , Sotiris Malassiotis (8) , Petros Daras (8) , Dimitrios Tzovaras (8) , Apostolos Axenopoulos (8)

1 Google Germany GmbH
2 Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Rome]
3 EasternGraphics GmbH [Ilmenau]
4 Engineering
5 UniGe - Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa
6 IMEDIA2 - Images et multimédia : indexation, navigation et recherche
7 Hochschule Fulda
8 ITI - Informatics & Telematics Institute

In this paper, we report on work around the I-SEARCH EU (FP7 ICT STREP) project whose objective is the development of a multimodal search engine. We present the project's objectives, and detail the achieved results, amongswhich a Rich Unified Content Description format.

Mots clés: Multimodality; Rich Uni fied Content Description; Information retrieval

Domaines: Multimédia [cs.MM]; Synthèse d'image et réalité virtuelle [cs.GR]; Traitement du signal et de l'image [eess.SP]; Traitement des images [eess.IV]

Thomas Steiner, Lorenzo Sutton, Sabine Spiller, Marinella Lazzaro, Francesco Nucci, et al.. I-SEARCH - a multimodal search engine based on rich unified content description (RUCoD). WWW 2012 Companion - 21st international conference companion on World Wide Web, Apr 2012, Lyon, France. pp.291-294, ⟨10.1145/2187980.2188031⟩. ⟨hal-00726753⟩