1. The CUbRIK Project
P.Fraternali, M.Tagliasacchi,
D.Martinenghi, A.Bozzon, I.Catallo,
E.Ciceri, F.Nucci, V.Croce,
I.S.Altingovde, W.Siberski
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2. The CUbRIK project
 36 month large-scale
integrating project
 partially funded by the
European Commission’s
7th Framework ICT
Programme for
Research and
Technological
Development
 www.cubrikproject.eu
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3. Objectives
 The technical goal of CUbRIK is to build an open
search platform grounded on four objectives:
 Advance the architecture of multimedia search
 Place humans in the loop
 Open the search box
 Start up a search business ecosystem
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4. Objective: Advance the
architecture of multimedia search
 Multimedia search: coordinated result of three
main processes:
 Content processing: acquisition, analysis, indexing
and knowledge extraction from multimedia content
 Query processing: derivation of an information need
from a user and production of a sensible response
 Feedback processing: quality feedback on the
appropriateness of search results
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5. Objective: Advance the
architecture of multimedia search
 Objective:
 Content processing, query processing and feedback
processing phases will be implemented by means of
independent components
 Components are organized in pipelines
 Each application defines ad-hoc pipelines that provide
unique multimedia search capabilities in that scenario
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6. Objective: Humans in the loop
 Problem: the uncertainty of analysis algorithms leads to
low confidence results and conflicting opinions on
automatically extracted features
 Solution: humans have superior capacity for
understanding the content of audiovisual material
 State of the art: humans replace automatic feature extraction
processes (human annotations)
 Our contribution: integration of human judgment and algorithms
 Goal: improve the performance of multimedia content processing
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7. CUbRIK architecture
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8. Human-powered trademark logo
detection demo
 Goal: integrate human and automatic
computation to increase precision and recall
w.r.t. fully automatic solutions
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9. Thanks for your attention
www.cubrikproject.eu
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