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2009. September 14
ICT Results reports on IMAGINATION
2009. February 24
Deliverable 15 "User Guide of ImageNotion" was delivered.
Summary: This is the end user guide of the ImageNotion application. The ImageNotion application represents the integrated result of the IMAGINATION project that is visible for the end users, and thus for the general public.
2009. Ferbruary 19-20, Rome.
Second user evaluation workshop was help in Rome. For 2 full days users evaluated final version of ImageNotion prototype. The application demo movies are available here
2008. October 23-24 Plenary meeting Place: Paris (France) Host: Photo12 Participants: All partners Content: Partners discussed the recommendations from the last review. Everyone came to a conclusion that all of the recommendations can be fulfilled until the end of the project.
Upcoming user guide deliverables were discussed. The consensus was that these deliverables should be merged into one. In addition to a paper deliverable, a flash tutorial should be also produced. Partners also discussed IPR issues. Valuable assets of the project were enumerated and FZI gave a PowerPoint presentation about the potential exploitation of the project results. Questions relating the final workshop, evaluation workshop and review meeting were discussed.
2008. July 17-18
IMAGINATION Second Annual Review Meeting
Place: Greece, Athens, NTUA Library (see it on Google map)
2008. May 19-20
Plenary meeting Place: Riga (Latvia) Host: RIDemo Participants: All partners  Content: During the Riga meeting partners resolved administrative issues concerning the Y2 management report. FZI gave the ESWC presentation on “The Combination of Techniques for Automatic Semantic Image Annotation Generation in the IMAGINATION Application”. Partners discussed the installation of the new server by FZI and its potential uses.
This was followed by RIDemo’s presentation of the Forum Application. Thereafter formative evaluation was debated. ICT Survey problems, such as poor/irrelevant results were identified. Partners decided to define use cases and criteria for the second workshop themselves.
The upcoming deliverables were reviewed. In particular, the upcoming ontology export was scrutinised. Also partners discussed evaluation of algorithms, and how to best use the evaluation results.
"Current state and future work" section involved presentations by Photo12 and by NTUA on domain selection issues, FZI raised the face detection training and new workflow issues, while RIDemo put forward a number of improvements of user interface.
Coordinator went through the EU review recommendations, and concluded that most were already fulfilled. Concrete tasks were identified to fulfil the rest.
2008. April 30
Deliverable 9 "Results of the Formative Evaluation" (internal project deliverable under WP9: Validation and Deployment) was delivered.
Deliverable 13 "Exploitation Plan TIP – first draft" (internal project deliverable under WP 10: Dissemination and Exploitation) was delivered.
2008. February 17-19 Plenary meeting Place: Rome (Italy) Host: BSMC Participants: All partners Content: Rome meeting was focused mainly on assessing the evaluation and dissemination issues of the project.
BSMC gave a presentation, which dealt with potential scenarios of IMAGINATION dissemination within the framework of MINERVA, MICAHEL and MICHAEL Plus projects. Partners discussed the IMAGINATION's presence at conferences (such as Cyprus conference) and set up tasks to boost the project's participation in the pertinent events.
FZI presented the state of the IMAGINATION prototype for the workshop, which was followed by general discussion of the workshop time plan and methodology.
Features of the IMAGINATION prototype, especially regarding the automatic metadata generation were reviewed.
Partners also discussed the required input for the exploitation plan, and decided that each partner would provide detailed description as to how its organisation will use results of the project and also will put forward ideas about how project results can be exploited (independently of individual organisations).
2007. November 20
Imagination takes part in EVA/MINERVA 2007 Conference
Place: Jerusalem (Israel)
 Participants: Andreas Walter (FZI)
Content: Imagination project was represented by Andreas Walter (FZI), who delivered a project presentation, which involved such points as image contents in the IMAGINATION project; automated tools and benefits from iterative combinations; and the ImageNotion tool: collaborative ontology development.
2007. October 22-23
Plenary meeting
Place: Paris (France)
Host: Photo12
Participants: All partners
 Content: The Paris meeting was held in the sign of the forthcoming user evaluation of the IMAGINATION system. A number of issues related to the user requirements and user evaluation were debated. Evaluation methodology discussion resulted in defining a list of evaluation measures. Partners were also informed that a new user group: teachers of high-school would participate in the evaluation meeting.
Evaluation workshop strategy was discussed in detail, including the preparation process, as well as the distribution of tasks. The following presentations of the Imagination tools were given: JSI: SearchPoint; NTUA: object detection; FZI: imaginaiton prototype new features.
Partners also discussed dissemination-related issues, such as preparation for the Jerusalem workshop, as well as a number of ways to spread the word about the project, including putting videos on videolectures.net, etc. The second day of the meeting was mainly devoted to technical discussion, during which Andreas Walter (FZI) gave a presentation about the CI server. Discussion about technical infrastructure also involved defining the system functionality for the workshop version. Status of C++ DLL/SO and Java integration was debated. NTUA gave a presentation on the progress of its technical development.
2007. August W3C membership
FZI, the coordinator of the IMAGINATION consortium delegates Andreas Walter as member to  the W3C Group "W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group". Mr. Walter will disseminate the results of the project in this group with the aim to incorporate these results into future standards developed by W3C.
2007. August 6 EVA/Minerva workshop
IMAGINATION workshop proposal for EVA/Minerva conference (Nov.2007, Israel) was accepted.
2007. July 19 Review meeting
Location: Karlsruhe (Germany) IHK "Haus der Wirtschaft" Lammstr. 13-17 76133, Room: Fidelitas.
Abstract: EC evaluators assessed the project progress and evaluated it as good. All the major milestones of the project were met, several developments even go before the schedule. During the first year IMAGINATION consortium has demonstrated excellent collaborative work, which has resulted in successful outcome.
 IMAGINATION approaches Wikipedia!
For more information please read our
Call for participation in the Evaluation of the EU-funded research project IMAGINATION (.pdf)
2007. April 16-17 Plenary meeting
Place: Bled (Slovenia)
Host: JSI Participants: All partners  Content: During the meeting partners discussed administrateive issues, including the operation of the mailing list. D8 Assesment of contextualization data was reviewed. NTUA did a presentation about person detection. Also dissemination issues were discussed, particularly the issue of building a community of users. The whole scope of evaluation related issues were discussed. Overview of D7 was presented by Disy.
During the ontology creation debate FZI presented the Imagenotion editor application.
Technical discusison also covered such topics as D7 UML model and technical project infrastructure.
2007. February 05-06
Plenary meeting
Place: Rome (Italy)
Host: BSMC
Participants: All partners, external users from Rome university
 Content: During this meeting partners discussed the available content for the project prototype. Text mining technology provider emphasised a need for more textual information to be provided alongside the pictures. The scope of the content was agreed to be about 1000 images with texts.
Internal reviewers for deliverables D7 and D8 were designated.
Partners also discussed the ontology related issues, such as the number of concepts and relations in the ontology. A concept of “imagenotion” was proposed as an ontology entity. Deadline for the first version of the ontology was set.
Also dissemination issues were discussed, particularly the structure of the Imagination Newsletter, as well as the partner participation in the fairs and conferences.
The second day of the meeting was devoted to technical discussion, which included such topics as usage of MPEG-7 for technical metadata, Dublin Core for textual metadata and own metadata schema for semantic metadata. Some important technical decisions were made, such as that User management is completely part of the web application module and that only combined search is provided. Detailed discussion was carried out on the issue of text mining in the system. Several text mining scenarions were discussed.
2006. October 16-17
Plenary meeting
Place: Athens (Greece)
Host: NTUA
Participants: All partners, external evaluator Olga Fakatseli
 Content: During this meeting partners discussed Administrative issues, as well as the state of the Deliverables due by M6, particularly User requirements and the legal situation.
The External evaluation expert, Olga Fakatseli, identified potential problems and made suggestions to cope with them.
It was agreed that content partners would provide a certain number of images with metadata for the 2 content domains covered by Imagination project. These two domains upon which the Imagination system will be demonstrated were chosen to be a) European politicians; b) World war I images.
During the second day technical partners discussed the system architecture, particularly the open-source strategy for the whole project and for its individual modules, such as text mining, ontology reasoning, etc.
It was decided that only a part of modules can be open-source. However, manual usage should be possible on an open-source basis.
Technical discussion also covered the overall technology used for the system development. It was agreed that Java interfaces to integrate the components will be used. Server architecture was agreed to be Windows.
There was a consensus that everything should be web based and that "Stand alone" tool was deleted from the requirements.
2006. July 17-18
Plenary meeting
Place: Erlangen (Germany)
Host: IIS
Participants: All partners
 Content: Discussion points were as follows:
- Project website, Procedures for quality control, Dissemination plan, Legal situation in the area of privacy.
- Methodology for the user requirements analysis.
- Discussion about the available images.
- Discussion and decision about the end-user groups.
- EU contract: actual status.
2006. June 29-30
Concertation meeting
Place: Luxembourg
Content:
Imagination project was participating in this Cultural Heritage concertation meeting and was involved in the discussion of such topics as discovering, accessing and using cultural resources, indexing, semantic annotation, search & retrieval of specialised content, multilingual and heterogeneous content.
During the meeting contacts with other projects within cultural heritage area were established, particulary with CONTRAPUNCTUS; MultiMATCH; MOSAICA; QVIZ; BRICKS; DELOS.
2006. May 04-05
Kick-off meeting
Place: Karlsruhe (Germany)
Host: FZI
Participants: All partners
Content:
This was the first time the whole Imagination team got together.
All the partners did brief presentations of their organizations and their pertinent areas of expertise.
The partners agreed on the responsibilities and timeline for the upcoming deliverables.
As the result of the kick-off meeting a common understanding and agreement about the main goals of the project was reached. If you are interested in the further developments of IMAGINATION project, please subscribe to our Newsletter.
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