ICT-2007.1.5: Networked Media
Target outcome:
- Interoperable multimedia network and service infrastructures that
- offer a seamless, personalised and trusted experience of
- multimedia services and applications;
- home management and control services;
- media content, for users in a variety of roles (consumer, producer
or manager of communication and media), locations, contexts and mobility
scenarios;
- maintain the integrity and the quality of the media whilst enabling
automatic and intuitive enrichment at every step of the media lifecycle;
- are optimised in particular for unstructured distribution, delivery,
sharing, storage and intelligent retrieval of media and applications,
and that enable variable media distribution patterns between multiple
users.
- End-to-end systems and application platforms that enable
- intuitive, intelligent, professional and non-professional creation,
manipulation, torage/handling/search, management and rendering of media;
- new creative forms of interactive, immersive and very high quality
media (such as 3D, virtual and augmented reality) as well as new forms
of experiences for individual users or user communities.
- Roadmapping and conference support, for co-ordination with related national
or regional programmes or initiatives, for international standardisation and
interoperability initiatives.
Expected Impact:
- World leadership in a new generation of media technologies providing significantly
higher performances in terms of intelligence, scalability, flexibility, speed,
capacity, ease of use and cost.
- New and sustainable market opportunities based on converged business models
between content, telecom, broadcast and consumer electronics industries. Reinforced
European position vis-à-vis global interoperability and standardisation
initiatives.
- Widespread adoption of new digital media consumption and production patterns.
Enhanced quality of life through new usage forms contributing to social, intellectual
and leisure well-being. New opportunities for content production and exploitation.
Funding schemes a-b): CP, NoE; c): CSA
Indicative budget distribution 73 M€:
- CP 65 M€ of which a minimum of 26 to IP and a minimum of 20 M€
to STREP;
- NoE 6 M€;
- CSA 2 M€