Le 10 octobre prochain aura lieu à Genève une journée d'information sur les projets de moteurs de recherche en cours de réalisation en Europe. Au cours de cette journée seront notamment présentés les projets suivants :

- Quaero (France)
- Theseus (Allemagne)
- iAD (Norvège)
- MultimediaN (Hollande)
- IM2 (Suisse)
- Mundo AV(Espagne)

La conférence est mise en place par Chorus, consortium chergé de promouvoir ce type de projet en Europe.

Voici le programme complet de la journée (plus d'infos ici :

National Initiatives on Multimedia Content Description and Retrieval

(The agenda is updated regularly with additionnal information)

09:00 - Opening - Dr. Joao Schwarz da Silva, Director, Converged Networks and Services, European Commission

09:20 - Chorus Plans and Progress, Meeting Objectives
Dr. Nozha Boujemaa, Director of Research INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt & Jean-Charles Point, Head of JCP Consult

09:30 - 10:15 - Quaero (French governmental initiative)
presented by Pieter Van Der Linden, Thomson and Joseph Mariani, CNRS

10:15 - 11:00 - Theseus (German governmental initiative)
presented by Dr. Ralf Schäfer, Coordinator of the Content Technology Cluster (CTC) and Thomas Niessen, Director Program Management

11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:15 - iAD (Norwegian initiative)
presented by Prof. Dr. Dag Johansen, University of Tromsø (and Chief Scientist at FAST) and Dr. Dag Kavlie, Division for Innovation, The Research Council of Norway
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:45 - MultimediaN (Dutch initiative)
presented by Prof. Kersten - adj. Science Director, and Johan Vos - Director of Business

14:45 - 15:15 - IM2 (Swiss initiative)
presented by Prof. Herve Bourlard, Director

15:15 - 15:45 - Mundo AV (Spanish initiative)
presented by Fernando Campos (tbc)

15:45 - 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:45 - Open Session -
Moderators: Dr. Nozha Boujemaa and Christoph Dosch
European National Initiatives: Challenges, communalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impact, success criteria? What could be done together?