The research project CHEST – Collective enHanced Environment for Social Tasks will be integrating social media, crowdsourcing and collective intelligence techniques to support social innovation. Starting in February 2014, the CHEST Challenge will promote the generation of breakthrough ideas which promise substantial societal benefits by using modern Information Technology, carrying out two rounds of open calls for ideas which try… read more →

CUbRIK is a 36-month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. It will provide programmable pipelines implementing workflow for search-based processes coordinated across machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks for the three typical processes of multimedia search: content, query and relevance feedback processing. The final result of the project will be an open platform for multimedia search… read more →

The CUbRIK histoGraph application is a multimedia visual knowledge discovery tool for historical research, aiming to support humanities scholars in their daily research tasks. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application enhances access to exisiting multimedia collections. It supports e.g. automatic face detection and recognition of politicians and other important persons in historic photographs. Scholars are also provided with annotation… read more →

CUbRIK is a 36 month Collaborative Project involving 15 partners, partially funded by the European Commission. The Social Fashion Trend Intelligence application is one of two application demonstrators of the CUbRIK project. Integrating machine, human and crowd-sourced tasks, the application provides fashion trend analysis tools for small and medium businesses in the fashion industry, enabling them to identify insights into… read more →

The SoHuman Workshop Series aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to explore the challenges and opportunities of applying social media to designing novel applications of collective intelligence, with a special focus on crowdsourcing and human computation. By emphasizing practical challenges and experiences with real-world applications, the workshops will stimulate the discussion on best practices in this… read more →

The CUbRIK Fashion application provides new, affordable means of trend analysis of current consumer preferences in the fashion domain based on social network posts. Targeting small and medium fashion enterprises, one of the analysis functionalities enables the SMEs to upload photos of their own product line and perform a “similarity check”. It asses the product’s popularity by comparing it with… read more →