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Goals
The main goals of the Research Planning Target Area are to identify the key challenges, problems, and required system functionalities of cognitive vision systems so that both the community and the EC can focus on the critical areas of research efficiently and effectively. The intention is not to co-ordinate research in cognitive vision in Europe but rather to build, by consensus, a picture of the current state-of-the-art in cognitive vision and to construct a ‘research roadmap’ which will identify the key problems and some potential avenues for attacking them. This roadmap will be multi-dimensional, addressing:
  • Functionality (e.g. learning, spatial and temporal reasoning, recognition/categorization, representation, goal specification, cue extraction, cue integration, control & feedback issues …);
  • Theoretical foundations;
  • Algorithmic formulations and complexity issues;
  • Implementation & systems engineering;
Outcomes
The following is a list of the expected outcomes of the network.

Some outcomes will be generated incrementally over the three-year lifetime of the network and, thus, there will be a number of different versions, each being delivered at periodic intervals. This list is not exhaustive and it is likely that other results will arise throughout the lifetime of the network.

  • Organization of workshops
    • Meetings focussed on individual areas
    • General brainstorming meetings
    All things being equal, these workshops will be held twice a year with an additional kick-off meeting being held at the start of the project.
  • Position papers setting out individual perspectives on cognitive vision. These will be produced on a periodic basis, as circumstances allow, but it is intended to produce at least two per year.
  • Survey of advances in computer vision in the past ten years. This is intended to bring those in the AI community up to speed on the current state of the art. This should be produced as early as possible in the life of the network, and certainly by month 6.
  • Survey of advances in AI in the past ten years. This is intended to bring those in the computer vision community up to speed on the current state of the art. Again, this should be produced as early as possible in the life of the network, and certainly by month 6.
  • White papers on research
    • Overview of cognitive vision
    • Taxonomy of cognitive computer vision techniques
    • Implications for low-level vision
    • Implications for artificial intelligence
    • Implications for robotics
    • Market relevance of computer vision
    These will be produced on a periodic basis, as circumstances allow, but it is intended to produce at least two per year.
  • Specification of benchmark applications
    The goal is help identify real practicable achievable applications which would crystalize the key issues in cognitive vision and which would exercise the core functionalities of a complete cognitive AI-enabled vision system.
  • Research Roadmap addressing
    • Research priorities
    • Risks
    • Potential gains
    • Potential avenues of investigation
    This will be delivered incrementally, on an bi-annual basis.
  • Database of pan-European research activities and results, including:
    • Research staff
    • Centres and Laboratories
    • Particular areas of expertise
    • Problem areas addressed
    • Theories and techniques
    • Publications
    • Applications
    • Platforms
    This will be delivered incrementally, on an bi-annual basis.

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