Universitat Pompeu Fabra will organize an interim workshop on “Extended use of metadata in production and distribution of audiovisual media”. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a common ground for researchers and professionals to exchange research results and ideas about the theory and practice of production and distribution of audiovisual media, especially related [...]

The First Annual Public Report has been published. It describes the work carried out in the first year of the project, the progress toward the objectives and the main objectives to achieve until the end of the project.

http://imp.deri.ie
The iMP ontology is created and maintained with Neologism [1], a simple web-based RDF Schema vocabulary editor and publishing system, producing output compliant to Linked Data [2]. Neologism is is written in PHP and built on the Drupal platform [3].
For more information on Neologism contact Dr. Michael Hausenblas ( michael.hausenblas@deri.org), Linked Data Research Centre, DERI, [...]

Reference: http://clam-project.org/
Conference: Blender conference in Amsterdam, 23-25 October
What happened: Clam developers Pau Arumí­ and Natanel Olaiz recently presented some new work in the fantastic Blender conference in Amsterdam. The talk was about a technology developed at BarcelonaMedia within the iMP and 20203D-Media european projects, involving an innovative usage of Blender for 3D audio using CLAM [...]

Author: John Usher, Audio Group, Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre.
Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Abstract: Determining the onset time of reflections in an acoustic impulse response (IR) has ap-plications for both subjective and physical acoustics problems. Although computationally simple, a first-order energetic analysis of the IR can lead to false-positive identification of reflections. [...]

Presented as a poster at ACM Advanced in Computerised Entertainment Technology 2009 (ACE2009), Athens, Greece.
iMP ACE Poster
iMP ACE SUBM FINAL
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The 3rd Technical Meeting will be held at DTS Europe Ltd, Twyford, UK. 19 to 21 January 2010.  This meeting will consolidate the first year’s work of the project.

The partners of the European project IMP (Intelligent Processing and Metadata-driven distribution of audiovisual media), coordinated by Barcelona Media, have held the second technical meeting on 2nd and 3rd September, at the the University of Galway, Ireland.
The project, which began in January and lasts 30 months, is formed up by the following members: Europese FilmLight [...]