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GR@SP

Bridging the gap between Quality of Service and Quality of Experience

Quality of Service and Quality of Experience are undoubtedly key concepts within today’s innovation development process. Similarly, both concepts are crucial for the (user) research, which aims to support and drive this process. In practice however, both concepts are still often confused.

Date: 1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2011

AIB

Archives in movement: the unlocking of digital audio visual collections from a users perspective

This project focuses on the preservation, and especially on the disclosure of digital cultural heritage of Flemish and Dutch broadcast stations, with a focus on imagery. With this choice they choose for a digital 'return': at this time already a large number of broadcasters save their archival material digitally.

Partners: University of Utrecht - ICS & O&I
Research groups: UGent MICT
Tags: AIB

Date: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2012

Beeldcanon

Categorizing Video Images from Atomium to Zaanse Schans

Images are an essential part of our culture. Thanks to digitization and other technological innovations it is easier to distribute images. The research project Canon Image wants to map out 'typical' images from the Flemish and Dutch culture, store them into a database and make that database easily searchable. Flemish researchers focus on listing buildings, such as the Atomium, Louvain’s town hall or the Cathedral in Antwerp, while their Dutch counterparts focus on typical landscapes or scenes like the cheese market in Alkmaar and the Dam in Amsterdam.

Partners: University of Amsterdam | Netherlands institute for sound and vision | ISLA
Research groups: KU Leuven PSI | |
Tags: Beeldcanon

Date: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2012

BATS

Topic and Speaker Tracking in Broadcast Archives

This project researches expertise and technology needed to quickly and easily search multimedia archives of radio and television in Flanders and the Netherlands. It focuses on the recovery of fragments on a specific topic or a speaker. For instances, recall the speeches of President Obama or anything said about the Oosterweelverbinding, regardless of the speaker. For both purposes, it is necessary for the programs (news, documentaries, interviews ...) to be classified by subject and speaker. In this way, the material is easily searchable.

Partners: VRT | TNO - Defence, Securtiy & Safety | Raboud University of Nijmegen - Language- & Speech technology
Research groups: KU Leuven PSI | |
Tags: BATS

Date: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2012

Da Vinci

Digital Archiving and Hidden Information for the Control of Intellectual Propery Rights

More and more material from archives is made available online in large databases. This among other things to reduce the physical storage, to have a fast access and to make searching easier. While splendid for users who can quickly and easily access the requested material, however, they often forget these materials contain intellectual property rights. Da Vinci aimes at clearly identifying the legal aspects of Digital Rights Management (DRM) and technical aspects of Intellectual Property Management & Protection (IPMP) and at offering solutions in this context.

Partners: University of Tilburg - TILT
Research groups: VUB ETRO | |
Tags: Da Vinci

Date: 1 Oct 2008 - 30 Sep 2012

CHF

CHF Disease Management

Healthcare spending on chronic disease conditions is skyrocketing. In many countries, including Belgium, the expenses for the most important chronic diseases comprise over 75% of the total public health budget. In Belgium, this means a cost in the order of 15billion Euro, on a total of about 20 billion Euro. Within the chronic diseases, the cardiovascular group is one of the most important ones (beside diabetes, chronic lung diseases etc.). Within the group chronic cardiovascular diseases, Congestive Heart Failure is probably the largest. Heart failure means an impaired pump function of the heart. CHF typically follows an acute myocardial infarctus, yet can also be caused by other conditions. The goal of this project is to apply ICT in order to provide an innovative solution for truly integrated patient-centric care for CHF.