1. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Image, Video And Multimedia Systems Laboratory http://www.image.ntua.gr

2. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Established in 1988 by Prof. Stefanos Kollias (Director) Belongs to the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) School of Electrical & Computer Engineering Computer Science division and the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) Background

3. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Since 1997, the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology (GSRT) has selected IVML, as a Service Providing Lab in its field; IVML was funded to  acquire and install professional audiovisual equipment  implement its ISO 9001 quality management plans In May 2000 IVML became the first lab in its department and the third in the NTUA to obtain the ISO 9001 certificate Quality Management

4. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Research Topics  Image and video processing and analysis  Knowledge based adaptive content analysis  Content-based semantic retrieval of multimedia information  The MPEG-7, MPEG-21 standards and Semantic Web technologies  Artificial neural network, fuzzy and neurofuzzy technologies  Intelligent human computer interaction & intelligent agents  Face, emotion and biometric analysis and recognition  MPEG-4 and natural-synthetic hybrid coding, augmented reality  Applications in cultural heritage, surveillance, communications, medicine

5. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Research & Development IVML has been involved in 70 R&D Projects  Information retrieval & distance learning  EUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA-“Modulates” (1998-2000), LEONARDO-“SPERO” (2001-2004)  Principled hybrid systems with application to the problem of emotion recognition  TMR-“PHYSTA” (1998-2001), IST-“ERMIS” (2001-2004), NoE-“HUMAINE” (2004-2008), IP-“CALLAS” (2006-2009)  Hybrid intelligent artefacts for human computer interaction  IST-“ORESTEIA” (2003-2005)

6. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS  Semantic-based & Intelligent multimedia analysis systems  IST-“FAETHON” (2001-2004), IP-“ACEMEDIA” (2004-2007), NoE-“MUSCLE” (2004-2008), IP-“MESH” (2006-2009), NoE-“K-Space” (2006-2008)  Semantic Web technologies  NoE-“Knowledge-Web” (2004-2008), IP-“X-MEDIA” (2006-2009) STREP-“BOEMIE” (2006-2008)  Knowledge-based assistance for e-inclusion  IP-“AskIT” (2004-2008) STREP-“Agent Dysl” (2006-2009) Research & Development

7. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS  “aceMedia: Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user centred intelligent media services”, IP 2004-2007  “KnowledgeWeb: Realizing the Semantic Web”, funded by the DG XIII, NoE 2004- 2007  “MESH: Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services”, IP 2006- 2008  “K-Space: Knowledge Space of Semantic Inference for Automatic Annotation and Retrieval of Multimedia Content”, NoE 2006-2008  “BOEMIE: Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction”, STREP 2006-2008  “Muscle: Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning”, NoE 2004-2008  “FAETHON: Unified Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Audiovisual Content”, IST FP5 2001-2004 Projects on MM & SW

8. NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Conferences & Workshops  SWAMM’06, Edinburgh, May 22, 2006 Semantic Web Annotations for Multimedia  SSMS'06, Chalkidiki, Greece, September 4-8, 2006 Summer School on Multimedia Semantics  ICANN’06, Athens, September 10-14, 2006 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks  SAMT’06, Athens, December 6-8, 2006 International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies  BOEMIE’06, Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 6, 2006 (@EKAW) Workshop on Ontology Evolution & Multimedia Information Extraction  WIAMIS’07, Santorini, Greece, June 6-8, 2007 International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services