apidis develops cost-effective solutions for autonomous and/or personalized production of video summaries for controlled scenarios (sports events or surveillance).

Democratic and personalized production of multimedia content is one of the most exciting challenges that content providers will have to face in the near future. APIDIS has addressed this challenge by proposing a framework to automate the collection and distribution of digital content. As a federating objective, APIDIS targets cost-effective autonomous production, so as to make the creation of audiovisual reports profitable, even in case of small- or medium-size audience.

First, APIDIS is investigating the automatic extraction of intelligent content from networks of multi-modal sensors. Intelligence refers here to the identification of salient segments within the audiovisual content, using distributed scene analysis algorithms.

Second, APIDIS exploits that knowledge to automate the production of video content for specific scenarios, e.g. most notably sports events or surveillance. It considers personalized and potentially interactive content summarization mechanisms, to address professional and non-professional needs.

The potential applications of the integrated technology and methodologies developed within APIDIS are numerous, ranging from personalized access to local sport events through a web portal or a mobile hand-set; cost-effective and fully automated production of content dedicated to small-audience, e.g. souvenirs DVD, university lectures, etc; but also interactive browsing and automated summarization for video surveillance.

co-funded by the European Union