The joint research activities of the network are aimed at convergence and resources optimization by exploiting important multidisciplinary aspects of multimedia knowledge extraction. This will be achieved by linking research efforts over the following three research clusters underpinning the K-Space framework.

Goals
Content-based multimedia analysis: Tools and methodologies for low-level signal processing, object segmentation, audio processing, text analysis, and audiovisual content structuring and description. Knowledge extraction: Building of a multimedia ontology infrastructure, knowledge acquisition from multimedia content, knowledge-assisted multimedia analysis, context based multimedia mining and intelligent exploitation of user relevance feedback. Semantic multimedia: knowledge representation for multimedia, distributed semantic management of multimedia data, semantics-based interaction with multimedia and multimodal media analysis.Goal Main objectives of K-Space are:

• To bring together leading European research teams to create critical mass for innovation of currently highly fragmented research groups addressing semantic inference for semiutomatic annotation and retrieval of multimedia content.
• To build an open and expandable framework for collaborative research on knowledge
  acquisition based on system made up of flexible, modular and interconnected technology.
• To disseminate the technical developments of the network across the broad research
  community.
• To boost technology transfer to industry, influence and contribute to related knowledge based multimedia standardisation activities.

The Institute of Information Systems & Information Management leads Workpackage 3 and is responsible for 'Content-based multimedia analysis'. Aim of this workpackage is to develop low and mid-level algorithms for the content-based multimedia analysis which can be used in the knowledge extraction and semantic multimedia analysis. In the context of WP3 the institut will develop suitable descriptors or description schemes for MPEG-7 or other appropriate description standards.