CUbRIK Project

Multimedia search
Humans in the loop
Business ecosystem
Open the search box

CUbRIK will provide programmable pipelines implementing workflow for search-based processes coordinated across machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks for the three typical processes of multimedia search:

content
query
relevance feedback processing.

Specific components will be developed to support entity-based time and space-aware search capabilities, based on accurate repositories of spatio-temporal entities (locations, events, trends), correlated with rich semantic associations.

More about the CUbRIK vision for Multimedia Search:
CUbRIK Introductory Video, CUbRIK in the strategy of Networked Media Cluster

CUbRIK will augment precision and relevance of multimedia search results by combining pure machine-based processing with human and social intelligence at all stages in media analysis - from feature extraction to search and validation.

The vision is to enrich the experience by incorporating rather than by emulating human and social capabilities in all processes. This ability will be investigated and piloted through the provision of expandable workflows able to coordinate and harmonize data processing and decision-making tasks with human emotions, social games (i.e Game with a purpose) and cooperative tasks (i.e crowdsourcing).

More about the CUbRIK vision for Crowdsourcing:
CUbRIK Logo Detection Demo, CUbRIK at CrowdSource 2012 workshop

Innovators will be enabled to freely explore the CUbRIK ‘white-box’ capability. Prototype applications will be used to prove the CUbRIK concept in the course of the project and to demonstrate the benefits of the systematic integration of machine, human and social computation for multimedia search. A CUbRIK Community will be formed and encouraged to enable non-project members to perform their experiments: from the simple construction of multimedia search and retrieval applications to tailored multimodal and real-time responsive applications built on top of a collection of components, individuals and communities.

More about the CUbRIK vision for business innovation:

Chorus White Paper , Consultation meeting on Networked Media Systems , CUbRIK Draw-and-Guess game , CUbRIK and Social Media for Community Management Systems

The CUbRIK "white box" approach to multimedia search will be accompanied by the releasing of its results free in the public domain. Project results and topic investigated in CUbRIK will be documented to provide the necessary knowledge for developers and integrators willing to experiment CUbRIK to build their workflows. Source codes, executables, documentation and examples will be made available as the project progresses.

More about CUbRIK Framework extensions

CUbRIK Framework Architecture, what is SMILA, CUbRIK and SMILA at Hackathlon and SMILA Themenkonferenz, resources for 3rd party developers

CUbRIK is a 36 month Collaborative Project, partially funded by the European Commission's in FP7, Grant agreement no: 287704. As the name recalls, in the same way that Stanley Kubrick was one of the most innovative and pattern-breaking Directors in the Cinema Industry, so the CUbRIK project aims to introduce real innovative patterns inside the Multimedia search domain, proposing the paradigm of human-enhanced time-aware multimedia search, driven by openness at all levels.
The CUbRIK Consortium consists of 15 partners, including research centres, universities and companies bringing complementary expertise from across Europe. CUbRIK provides a unique opportunity to pioneer the multimedia search of tomorrow: results will be incrementally released. Follow us and share your expectations, together we will bring the CUbRIK vision closer and closer to reality for common advantage!

CUbRIK is an affiliated project of the EMC² Center of excellence

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