Paschalina Medentzidou

Enriching 360 media with 3D storytelling and personalization elements

The end-goal of Hyper360 is to develop an enriched 360o media production toolset capable of delivering compelling personalized and interactive viewing experiences. This toolset will enable content distributors to deliver these media through broadband (OTT) to a variety of platforms. To this intend, existing work and technologies among the consortium members (360o video – DRK/FOKUS, personalization engine – FOKUS/CERTH, 3D capture – CERTH) will be adapted and extended by their respective IP owners while being evaluated for integration (ENG), with expertise in the fields of image processing (FOKUS/CERTH) and video quality analysis (JRS) utilized to design and create the required technological components to complete the proposed production solution, namely the 360o/3D fusion and emplacement technology (CERTH) and the online produced content quality analysis (JRS).

Virtual Reality Together

VR Together is a media project funded by the European Commission as part of the H2020 program, under the grant agreement 762111. It will last for 3 years (2017-2020) and operate with a budget of 3.9M€. We aim at radically improving the experience by innovating in how media formats are used (i.e., how audio, video and graphics are captured, delivered and rendered at users’ homes) demonstrating a significant improvement of the feeling of being there together and the photorealistic quality of the content.

Surveillance video archives investigation assistant

The SURVANT project aims to deliver an effective and efficient innovative system able to collect, analyse videos from heterogeneous repositories of surveillance videos and extract inter/intra-camera video analytics, supporting investigators in discovering suspicious criminal events within a huge amount of video tracks.

Large Scale Information Exploitation of Forensic Data

The LASIE project aims to design and implement an open and expandable framework that will significantly increase the efficiency of current investigation practices, by providing an automated initial analysis of the vast amounts of heterogeneous forensic data that analysts have to cope with. The framework will be able to handle forensic data that have been acquired from a variety of different sources including CCTV surveillance content, confiscated desktops and hard disks, mobile devices, Internet, social networks, handwritten and calligraphic documents.

Advanced Tourism Planning System

ATLAS seeks to create a step change in tourism services by advancing the state-of-the-art of the algorithms for fast geo‐aware social media tagging and annotation and geo‐aware multimedia information retrieval and recommendation. In particular, ATLAS aims at an innovative breakthrough in combining the just mentioned technologies for practical tourism services at a quality level that meets the expectations of the users.