Unified Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Audiovisual Content

The overall objective of FAETHON project is to develop an integrated information system that offers enhanced search and retrieval capabilities to users of digital audiovisual (a/v) archives.

This novel system will exploit the advances in handling a/v content and related metadata, as introduced by MPEG-4 and worked out by MPEG-7, to offer advanced access services characterized by the tri-fold "semantic phrasing of the request (query)", "unified handling" and "personalized response".

Contact:

Prof. Stefanos Kollias
Institute of Communications and Computer Systems
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
National Technical University of Athens
9 Iroon Polytechniou Str.
Zographou 157 73, Athens, Greece
Tel: +3010 7722488, Fax: +3010 7722492
E-mail: stefanos@cs.ntua.gr