Catalogue technologique

The targeted users and customers are the multimedia industry actors, and all academic or industrial laboratories interested in video analysis.

• TVideo indexing
• Multimedia document processing

Automatic music summary generation aims at providing informative audio preview of the content of a music file (rather than the commonly used first 30s). It can therefore benefit to any service providing access to music items requiring a quick preview of the music files such as music providers, online music portals. It can also be installed on a personal computer as a preview of the local user’s music collection.

Automatic music structure estimation provides the description of the temporal organization of music files in terms of repetition of parts over time. It can be used for visualization and interaction with the playing of a music file (intelligent forward/ backward, accessing directly the most repeated parts). It can benefit to any developer of music players or software for music interaction.

• Online music providers
• Online music portals
• Music players developers
• Music software developers

• Exploitation of mass of unstructured data
• Anonymization of sensitive data
• Strategic, business or competitive intelligence

• Search and indexing in unstructured documents
• Document processing
• Machine Reading and rich indexing
• Interconnection between metadata and unstructured content
• Intelligence, press and social networks monitoring
• Automatic text understanding
• Automatic annotation of content
• Document classification

Question-answering is an end-user application. The purpose is to go beyond the traditional way of retrieving information through search engines. Our system is interactive, with both a speech (phone or microphone) and  text (web) interface.

QA system can be viewed as a direct extension of search engines. They allow a user to ask questions in natural language.

• Music industry actors
• industrial laboratories interested in automatic music analysis

• Music description
• Music indexing
• Music analysis and creation

• Content owners
• Studios
• Post-production houses
• Content distributors

SECURE E-screener provides a traitor tracing mechanism for all high-risk screeners: internal quality assessment and validation reviews, promotional tools preparation, screeners and promotional viewing for distributors.

• Fully automated process within digital workflow
• Flexible integration of the embedder in existing content distribution frameworks
• Stronger reputation and controlled liability of the stakeholders

PREMIUM Video-on-Demand provides a serialization mechanism in home gateways enabling fine grained traitor tracing for premium content distributed on multi-devices into the home.

• Wider traitor tracing coverage enabling early window content release
• Ease of technology integration in low computational devices
• Secure implementation on dependable platforms, e.g. Conditional Access System

• Researchers
• Developers
• Integrators

The use of automatic speech recognition is so manifold that it is hard to list here. The main usages today are customer interaction via the telephone, healthcare dictation and usage on car navigation systems and smartphones. These applications will with increasingly better technology extend to audio mining, speech translation and an increased use of human computer interaction via speech.

• Content providers
• ISP (Internet Service Provider)
• Video editing software companies

• Video structuring
• Video archiving

Domain-specific communities, especially technical and scientific, willing to build search  engines and information systems to manage documents with fine-grained semantic annotations.

Search engines and information systems development.

• E-editors
• Media content producers
• Media application developers
• Search interface integrators

• Public/Private debates and conference: E.g. Parliament, Meetings
• E-learning/E-books: E.g. Audiobook
• Media Asset Management: E.g. Search in annotated media streams (TV, radio, films…)