Technical University of Crete (http://www.tuc.gr/) Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications (MUSIC) (http://www.music.tuc.gr/) Prof. Stavros Christodoulakis
TUC/MUSIC is a center of R&D and education in the technological fields of Information Systems and their applications. Research fields include web services systems, databases and knowledge bases, information retrieval, digital libraries, multimedia management systems, digital TV systems, e-Learning, speech processing etc. TUC/MUSIC has participated in many European and national Projects, including large basic research projects (like LTR HERMES), large projects for the development of innovative software tools and integrated multimedia systems (like ACTS SICMA) and projects for technology transfer. Current activities include research in audio-visual management systems and digital TV systems (IST-UPTV project). TUC/MUSIC also investigates the efficient integration of Internet digital libraries and services with the digital TV environment, focuses on audio-visual metadata management, semantic indexing of audio-visual content and mechanisms for personalization and information retrieval. Universal access of audio-visual content is another of the research topics of TUC/MUSIC. Efficient mechanisms for content filtering and summarization, modules for content transcoding and multi-channel delivery systems have already been developed and tested. |