Victory - Audio-Visual Content Search and Retrieval in a Distributed P2P Repository

VICTORY is a EC co-funded research project which will develop an innovative, distributed search engine, introducing MultiPedia search and retrieval capabilities to a standard (PC-based) and a mobile P2P network. A MultiPedia object is defined as a 3D object along with its accompanied information i.e. 2D views, text, audio, video.

VICTORY Innovation

• Development of the first distributed 3D search engine that will enable searching, accessing and retrieving 3D and other types of digital content, in a distributed MultiPedia object repository, through Peer-to-Peer networks.
• Development of innovative 3D search and retrieval techniques supporting mixed-media searching based on the extraction of low-level geometric characteristics (content) and intuitive semantics (context) from the audiovisual content.
• Development of an open-source, self-contained, P2P-based middleware framework, which will integrate Quality of Experience coordination services, Identity Management services and Knowledge Infrastructure services, along with enhancements/extensions to existing distributed-computing technologies (JXTA, OMG DDS, etc).
• Development of the knowledge infrastructure serving the organization and exploitation of data pertaining to business rules and security policies with regard to 3D content access and manipulation.
• Integration of novel mobile interfaces with knowledge extraction algorithms in order to provide next generation information query and access mechanisms.
• Personalization of information access and knowledge-based content manipulation and visualization.
• Development of a specialized server network or remote visualization of heavyweight 3D content by low-power mobile devices.
• Integration of novel 3D watermarking techniques with state-of-the-art copyright protection techniques.