Advanced and Innovative Models And Tools for the development of Semantic-based systems for Handling, Acquiring, and Processing knowledge Embedded in multidimensional digital objects “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting February 15 th -16 th, 2006 Luxembourg “Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting February 15 th -16 th, 2006 Luxembourg

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Keyword: Digital Shape  Multi-dimensional media characterized by a visual appearance in a space of 2, 3, or more dimensions.  Examples: pictures, images, 3D models, videos (disregarding the sound track), animations, etc.

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg what is shape?  is aimed at coordinating research on representing, modelling and processing knowledge related to digital shapes.  Shapes have a geometry (the spatial extent of the object),  they can be described by structures (object features and part- whole decomposition),  they have attributes (colours, textures, names, attached to an object, its parts and/or its features),  they have a semantics (meaning, purpose),  they may also have interaction with time (e.g., history, shape morphing, animation, video). Shape = any individual object having a visual appearance which exists in some (two-, three- or higher- dimensional) space (pictures, sketches, images, 3D objects, videos, 4D animations,...)

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Digital shape lifecycle(s) a teapot

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg 4 th wave of DM content  After sound in the ’70s, images in ’80s, and video in the ’90s: technology is converging to support the creation and delivery of high fidelity, high performance shape content (3D, 3D+T)  Why?:  H/S Technology advances (acquisition, rendering, grid, internet,..)  Solution to problems related to 2D (occlusions, transformations,..)  Non ambiguity or Completeness (view independency)  Consistency with the real world (I&O)  Suitability for LOD, ….

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg scientific & technological innovation  New approach to model digital shapes  Ontologies for Digital Shape Knowledge Modelling  3 levels of shape knowledge representation  Acquisition and reconstruction  Analysis and structuring  Interpretation and mapping  Common platform for shape models & tools  Digital Shape Workbench

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Dissemination Activities Target Groups  Scientific Community Target: The research community in related thematic areas: Universities, Research Institutes, R&D in industry.  Industry Target: European industry that will eventually profit from our results (Manufacturing, CAD, CAE, & Medicine, Games, GIS, Cult. Heritage…)  Standards. Target: Standardization bodies and organizations (MPEGs, STEP, H- Anim, COLLADA….)  EU projects Target: Allied and related Projects and initiatives (EC, FP5 and FP6 Projects,..)  General Audience Target: Schools, governmental organizations, general public

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Foreseen Dissemination Activities (Jan – June 2007 ) On-line  web site (  Digital Shape Workbench, a platform for shape models and software tools  Digital Library of scientific references and technical reports Off-line  DVD (presentations, demos, models, software,…) (planned end 2006) Print/electronicPublications  newsletters (2 per year)  brochures, posters  proceedings/tutorials of workshops/summer schools  scientific and technological articles, special issues of journals  presentations at conferences/exhibitions  preparation of a Springer-Verlag book  press releases

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Foreseen Dissemination Activities (Jan – June 2007 )  Organize or co-organize  SMI'06 - International Conference on Shape Modelling and Applications, Matsushima, Japan, June,   1st International Workshop on Shapes and Semantics Japan June 17th  Annual Open Summer School,Tallinn July 19-25, 2006  Network Industrial Group Meeting, Fall 2006 & Summer  Project Clustering Workshop on  Virtual Humans & Animation, summer 2006 (CASA 2006) (and possibly 2007)  3D Shapes 2006 (and possibly 2007)  Active participation  15th annual World Wide Web Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, May  3rd Annual European Semantic Web Conference, Budva, Montenegro, June,  Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering, Tallinn, Estonia, August, 2006  C&O'06 - Contexts and Ontologies, Riva del Garda, Italy August 2006,  IST Information Society Technologies Conference, Helsinki, Finland, November,  4th Annual European Semantic Web Conference, May-June, 2007.

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg How to create Virtual Humans

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Digital product shape lifecycle: from semantics to model Hand sketched Free-form features modeling Design view Semantically structured model Capturing the designer’s intent Shape transformations under simulation criteria Simulation view Shape annotation during shape transformation Other product views

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Shape Repository  > 160 models  test cases  benchmarks  real-world, large-scale shapes  open (researchers, NIG)  critical mass sought after

“Dissemination & Awareness Strategy” Meeting, Feb 15-16, 2006, Luxembourg Tool Repository 51 Tools & Libraries  structured by taxonomy  browser  keyword-based search engine engine  applet to add/edit tools  forum in the portal  online help