...to the AVIR Project (ESPRIT-28798), a collaborative effort of several distinguished companies to create an Audio-Visual Indexing and Retrieval solution, allowing common users to easily access, store and retrieve relevant audio-visual information from the vast amounts of resources at their disposal, e.g. through the next generation of multimedia-connected television systems.

Last updated  14 November 2000

If you need more information about the AVIR Project, please directly contact europartners@philips.com

        For all financial issues, please, contact:
        F&A European Projects Philips Research

Please use the links below or click the different sections in the menu-bar above to get public information on the AVIR project!   In sections containing more than one page, links on the top right side cycle through the available subtopics.  The currently available public information includes the following subjects:

• project summary, approach, consortium
• who to contact
• a picture of the project coordination committee
• links to related projects and initiatives

• A collection of screenshots of the AVIR Graphic User Interface by the Tomorrow Internet AG:
  • Demonstration of the GUI Navigation/Functionality
  • Demonstration of custom Interface-"Skins"
• TOCAI: an innovative multimedia browser

• Summary of publications
• AVIR contributions to MPEG-7

• Overview of all scheduled public deliverables
• Deliverables as PDF-Files

• Pictures from the Project Startup, 15/16 September 1998
• Presentation by project leader Marco Ceccarelli during ACTS meeting (24 Nov. 98)
• Presentation by Riccardo Leonardi - Univ.of Brescia during CBMI conference (Oct. 99)

• A link to the project internal pages (only for project members)