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Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory

Country: Greece

Competence Centre Description: The Image, Video and Intelligent Multimedia Systems Lab (IVML, www.image.ntua,gr) was established in 1988, as one of the Laboratories of the School of Computer and Electrical Engineering and of the Institute of Computer and Communication Systems (ICCS) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in Greece. The members of the Lab (which are about 35, including research scientists, researchers, Ph.D students, programmers, and supporting staff) are active members of the research community having published more than 150 journal articles and 250 international conference contributions. The most important areas of R&D activities performed or supported by IVML include: ? Knowledge based technologies ? Semantic Web technologies and knowledge representation ? Uncertainty modelling, artificial neural networks, fuzzy and neurofuzzy technologies ? Content-based semantic multimedia content search and retrieval ? Interoperability and access to cultural content ? MPEG-7 , MPEG-21 standards and Semantic Web technologies ? Intelligent Human Computer Interaction and Intelligent agents ? Face, Emotion and Biometric Analysis and Recognition ? MPEG-4 and Natural - Synthetic Hybrid Coding, Augmented Reality. IVML has been involved in more than a hundred R&D projects. Half of them have been funded by the European Commission and the rest by Greek organisations. Eighty five of them have been completed, while fifteen are in progress. IVML participates in the design and implementation of intelligent semantic analysis and retrieval of multimedia content, following the MPEG (4,7,21) and Semantic Web standards (being a member of W3C). The leader of the Lab, Prof. Stefanos Kollias has been one of the experts that the EC has used for defining the framework of ?Semantic Content Analysis? and its perspective for 2012. He has been a member of the EC ?Interoperability Group? on Digital Libraries in 2006-2007. He is National Representative of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture since 2004, participating in the NRG up to 2006 and to the EC Expert Group on DL since then, the EDLnet, the Minerva-ec and the Michael plus projects.

Israel Antiquities Authority

Country: Israel

Laboratory of Archaeological Computing

Country: Italy

Competence Centre Description: LIA is engaged in participations of several excavation researches in South Italy (Puglia), and in the Mediterranean area (Turkey and Malta). Management of excavation data by mean of GIS.

Laboratory of Photogrammetry

Country: Greece

Competence Centre Description: The Laboratory of Photogrammetry and its personnel have over 25 years of experience in geometrically documenting monuments. Know-how for producing 2D and 3D products, both vector and image based. The equipment available includes all contemporary instruments capable of acquiring and processing a wealth of information for the best possible result.

Makebelieve design & consulting

Country: Greece

Competence Centre Description: makebelieve is a small interactive design and consulting company based in Greece. makebelieve brings together a unique team of artists and technologists with extensive experience in the design and comprehensive planning of user-centred, functional and aesthetically striking immersive and interactive digital experiences, drawing on contemporary research and emerging practice in the area of educational and cultural technology, entertainment, and marketing. makebelieve?s activities encompass a range of topics concerning the initial concept development, design, coordination, and evaluation of innovative digital media experiences and high-end immersive Virtual Reality (VR) projects, as well as multimedia and web design work for a diverse clientele. Clients include public and private institutions, museums, location-based entertainment, research, and commercial spaces. makebelieve also participates in a number of research projects.

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Country: Turkey

Regional Centre of Competence for Development and Transfer of Innovation for Cultural and Environmental Heritage

Country: Italy

Competence Centre Description: INNOVA main goal is innovation spread and technology transfer in the field of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. The Centre aims to supply technological support and advising for the institutions of protection and management in the field of cultural and environmental heritage, but also for the firms that are committed to conservation, valorisation and fruition in the same field. INNOVA main goal is innovation spread and technology transfer in the field of Cultural and Environmental Heritage. The Centre aims to supply technological support and advising for the institutions of protection and management in the field of cultural and environmental heritage, but also for the firms that are committed to conservation, valorisation and fruition in the same field. Thematic Areas at the Centre of Competence Diagnostics The Diagnostics Division, providing necessary back-up for restoration and conservation activities, focuses on developing and applying methods and techniques to locate finds as well as analyse and monitor their chemical, physical, geophysical, geological and palaeontological characteristics for the conservation of the cultural heritage. Conservation and Renewal Division The activities of this division are designed to survey buildings and land use systems, and are carried out by developing methods and tools for studying the built environment and its natural context. Promotion and Use Division Research and Development in this division focus on testing in the field the possibility of combining various IT methods and techniques within the complex scenario of promoting the cultural identity of a geographical area. The methods and techniques developed and used concern several encoding systems and are organised on several levels of representation to ensure both their integration and the development of several access modes. Technology Transfer Division This division is the interface between INNOVA, public institutions and the industrial world. INNOVA thus makes available, by means of technology transfer management (TT), the results of research undertaken in-house. This ensures the supply of innovations in terms of process, product and organisation. As a result of the cooperation among researchers belonging to the above mentioned areas, a set of integrated services have been developed. These services are grouped in seven integrated services: ? Environment and archaeology ? The built environment and architecture ? Conservation, restoration and promotion ancient and historic finds ? Plant engineering, organisation and management of museum structures ? Application of new information technology and communications to cultural heritage ? Land use management ? Innovation diffusion and integration More information: http://www.innova.campania.it/english_version/english%20version.htm