Ruben Tous, Ph.D
DMAG (Distributed Multimedia Applications Group)
Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC-Barcelona Tech)
Department of Computer Architecture
mailto: rtous at ac.upc.edu

Ruben Tous' Home Page

Biographical Information

Ruben Tous got his Ph.D in Computer Science and Digital Communication from UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain) in 2006. Previously he got degrees in Computer Science (UPC, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain) and Business Management (UPF). From 2000 to 2001 he worked as a consultant at CapGemini Ernst&Young in Barcelona, From 2001 to 2005 he worked at the Department of Techology of UPF. Since 2006 he is a researcher at DMAG (Distributed Multimedia Applications Group) of the Department of Computer Architecture of UPC and an Associate Professor.

He is an expert for the Asociación española de Normalización y Certificación (AENOR) and has been participating as spanish delegate in ISO/MPEG and ISO/JPEG. He is editor of Part 12 of the MPEG-7 standard (MPEG Query Format, ISO/IEC 15938-12:2008) and the Part 3 of the JPEG's JPSearch standard (ISO/IEC 24800-3:2008). He is participating in W3C's Media Annotations Working Group. He is currently, or has been in the past, involved in an european 6th FWP Integrated Project (AXMEDIS), two european networks of excellence (VISNET and VISNET II) and five projects funded by the spanish government (Area2000, E2E-RM, DRM-MM, SEGURA and MCM-LC).

He is interested in algorithms and data structures, knowledge representation and reasoning for multimedia understanding, multimedia databases and query languages, multimedia information retrieval and image retrieval in medical applications.

He adheres to the New Jersey style ("worse is better").

Publications: Books

  • Ruben Tous (2008). Data Integration with XML and Semantic Web Technologies. VDM Verlag Dr. Müller Aktiengesellschaft and Co. KG 2008. ISBN 978-3-8364-7138-1

Publications: Journal papers

  • Anna Carreras, Ruben Tous, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado, Giovanni Cordara, Gianluca Francini, Diego Gibellino. A Standards-Based Generic Approach for Complex Multimedia Management. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Special issue on context-aware and mobile multimedia databases and services, ISSN 0972-7272, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2010.

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado. Semantic-driven Multimedia Retrieval with the MPEG Query Format. Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP). Special Issue on Semantic Multimedia. ISSN: 1380-7501 (print version). ISSN: 1573-7721 (electronic version). DOI: 10.1007/s11042-009-0390-9. pp 149-163 http://www.springerlink.com/content/2416546753285126/. October 2009. Springer Netherlands

  • Mario Döller, Ruben Tous, Matthias Gruhne, Miran Choi, Tae-Beom Lim, Jaime Delgado, Ndjafa Yakou. Semantic MPEG Query Format Validation and Processing. IEEE Multimedia, ISSN: 1070-986X, IEEE MultiMedia, October-December 2009 (vol. 16 no. 4). pp. 22–33. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MMUL.2009.71

  • Matthias Gruhne, Peter Dunker and Ruben Tous (2009). Using the MPEG Query Format for Cross-Modal Identification. Journal of Multimedia (JMM, ISSN 1796-2048) Special Issue on Multimodal Information Retrieval. Volume 4, Issue 5, pp. 263-329, 6 papers, October 2009. http://www.academypublisher.com/jmm/vol04/no05/jmm0405266276.pdf

  • Mario Doeller, Ruben Tous, Matthias Gruhne, Kyoungro Yoon, Masanori Sano, and Ian S. Burnett (2008). The MPEG Query Format: On the way to unify the access to Multimedia Retrieval Systems. IEEE Multimedia, ISSN: 1070-986X, volume 15, issue 4, 2008. pp. 82-95. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4740394

  • Ruben Tous, Roberto García, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado (2005). Architecture of a Semantic XPath Processor. Application to Digital Rights Management. 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies EC-Web 2005 August 23 - August 26, 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3590 (2005), pp. 1-10. ISSN: 0302-9743 (Classification A according the 2007 Ranking of ICT Conferences) http://www.springerlink.com/content/b3cqmp4h0pdlnd8e/fulltext.pdf

Publications: Conference papers

  • Victor Torres, Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado (2010) Reliable Scholarly Objects Search and Interchange Framework. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Electronic Publishing. 16 - 18 June 2010, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Ruben Tous, Olga Ferrer, Jaime Delgado (2010) CBIR - Content based information retrieval in Optical Biopsies In CATAI 2010 IoT. Internet of Things for Medical Devices – Proc XVIII Winter Course. ISBN: 978-84-613-7246-1. CATAI Editions 2009 Tenerife. Pp41-46.
    CATEDRA UNESCO DE TELEMEDICINE, CATAI (CENTRE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE ANALYSIS)

  • Mario Döller, Florian Stegmaier, Harald Kosch, Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado Standardized Interoperable Image Retrieval ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Track on Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS), pages=881-887, Sierre, Switzerland, 2010

  • Olga Ferrer, Vinicius Duval, Jaime Delgado, Claudio Rolim, and Ruben Tous (2010)
    Query by Image Medical Training. Optical Biopsy with Confocal Endoscopy (OB-CEM)
    HEALTHINF 2010
    ISBN: 978-989-674-016-0
    Pag: 166-172
    Organized by: INSTICC, IEEE (technical co-sponsor), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMB), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), ACM – SIGART), UPV, CRIB.

  • Anna Carreras, Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado (2009) How MPEG Query Format enables advanced multimedia functionalities. SEMUDATE 2009 (SAMT 2009) (Classification C according the ERA Conference Ranking - CORE 08)
    SeMuDaTe2009, 10th International Workshop of the Multimedia Metadata Community collocated with the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT2009)
    Graz, Austria - Dec 2-4, 2009
    Organized by: JOANNEUM RESEARCH
    published at CEUR Workshop Proceedings as Volume 539
    ISSN 1613-0073
    http://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-539/

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2009) A LEGO-like Metadata Architecture for Image Search&Retrieval. MDMM 2009: 3rd Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management. in conjunction with 20th International Conference on DEXA 2009. August 31 - September 4, 2009. Linz, Austria. ISBN: 978-0-7695-3763-4. pp.246-250, 2009. In 20th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Application, 2009.
    Organized by: Johannes Kepler University Linz
    Organized by: DEXA, JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY, AUSTRIA COMPUTER SOCIETY

  • Ruben Tous (2009) Query formats for multimedia applications ISO/IEC 15938-12 (MPEG Query Format) & ISO/IEC 24800 (JPSearch) In CATAI 2009 Super-Resolution and Optical Biopsy – Proc XVII Winter Course. ISBN: 978-84-612-8620-1. CATAI Editions 2009 Tenerife. Pp25-32. http://www.teide.net/catai/xvii_wintercourse%20Esp/Abstract_esp_Winter_Tous.pdf Wednesday 11th March, 2009
    CATEDRA UNESCO DE TELEMEDICINE, CATAI (CENTRE OF ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY IN IMAGE ANALYSIS)

  • Anna Carreras, Ruben Tous, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado, Giovanni Cordara, Gianluca Francini, Diego Gibellino (2009). A Standards-Based Generic Approach for Complex Multimedia Management. 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata (WMM'09) March 19th-20th (in conjunction with CORESA'09), Toulouse, France. 2009. In "Wmm'09 9th Workshop on Multimedia Metadata". Irit Press, 2009, p. 147-159.
    Organized by: Institute of Research in Informatics (IRIT) of the University of Toulouse (www.irit.fr)
    In: Irit Press, 2009, p. 147-159?
    In: CEUR-WS Vol. 441, 2009 http://CEUR-WS.org/Vol-441/ (ISSN 1613-0073

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2008). Semantic-driven multimedia retrieval with the MPEG Query Format. 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies SAMT 3 - 5 Dec 2008, Koblenz, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. ISSN 0302-9743. Volume 5392/2008. ISBN 978-3-540-92234-6. Pag. 149-163. http://www.springerlink.com/content/r1201h61806k2043/fulltext.pdf
    Organized by: UNIVERSITY OF KOBLENZ, IEEE German Section, ACM-SIGART, ACM-SIGMM (Classification C according the ERA Conference Ranking - CORE 08)

  • Karol Wnukowicz, Grzegorz Galinski, Ruben Tous (2008). Still Image Copy Detection Algorithm Robust to Basic Image Modifications. 50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008 10-13 September 2008, Zadar, Croatia. In Proceedings Elmar 2008. Hrvatska el troprivreda, 2009, Vol 2. p. 455-458. ISBN: 978-1-4244-3364-3. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4747541
    Organized by: CROATIAN SOCIETY ELECTRONICS IN MARINE (ELMAR), IEEE, EURASIP
    pp.

  • Anna Carreras, Giovanni Cordara, Jaime Delgado, Frédéric Dufaux, Gianluca Francini, Thien M. Ha, Eva Rodríguez, Rubén Tous (2008). A Search and Retrieval Framework for the management of copyrighted audiovisual content. 50th International Symposium ELMAR-2008 10-13 September 2008, Zadar, Croatia. To be published.
    Organized by: CROATIAN SOCIETY ELECTRONICS IN MARINE (ELMAR), TECHNICALLY CO-SPONSORED BY IEEE REGION 8
    In ELMAR, 2008. 50th International Symposium Volume: 2 Date: 10-12 Sept. 2008
    pp. 435-438
    978-1-4244-3364-3
    http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=4747505&isYear=2008&count=80&page=1&ResultStart=25
    Organized by: CROATIAN SOCIETY ELECTRONICS IN MARINE (ELMAR), IEEE, EURASIP

  • Anna Carreras, Ruben Tous, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado, Giovanni Cordara, Gianluca Francini, Skjalg Lepsoy, Safak Dogan, Hemantha Kodikara Arachchi (2008). Enriching search and retrieval of multimedia information with DRM services and context-based content adaptation MDMM'08 (DEXA 2008) 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Data Mining and Management. September 1-5, Turin, Italy. IEEE Computer Society Press.
    Organized by: DEXA, POLITECNICO DI TORINO
    pp.117-121
    Organized by:

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2008). The MPEG Query Format, a new standard for querying digital content. Usage in scholarly literature search and retrieval. ELPUB2008. Open Scholarship: Authority, Community, and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0 - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Toronto, Canada 25-27 June 2008 / Edited by: Leslie Chan and Susanna Mornati. ISBN 978-0-7727-6315-0, 2008, pp. 45-55 http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?045_elpub2008
    Organized by: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, KNOWLEDGE MEDIA DESIGN INSTITUTE (KMDI)

  • Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado, Anna Carreras, Eva Rodríguez (2008). A TV Digital Assets Interchange Framework Based on Emerging Standards. ISCE 2008. 12th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics, Algarve (Portugal)April, 14-16th 2008. In "Consumer Electronics, 2008. ISCE 2008. IEEE International Symposium on" Published 14-16 April 2008 On page(s): 1-4 ISBN: 978-1-4244-2422-1 DOI: 10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559468. IEEE Computer Society Press http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4559468 To be published by .
    Organized by: IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

  • Matthias Gruhne, Peter Dunker, Mario Döller and Ruben Tous (2008). Distributed Cross-Modal Search with the MPEG Query Format. WIAMIS 2008. 9th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, May 7-9, 2008, Klagenfurt, Austria In Ninth International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, 2008 pp.211-214 ISBN: 978-0-7695-3130-4 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/WIAMIS.2008.61
    Organized by: KLAGENFURT UNIVERSITY, THOMSON, SIEMENS

  • Ruben Tous, Anna Carreras, Jaime Delgado, Giovanni Cordara, Francini Gianluca, Enric Peig, Frederic Dufaux and Grzegorz Galinski (2008). An Architecture for TV Content Distributed Search and Retrieval Using the MPEG Query Format (MPQF). AMDIT 2008. International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television , Quebec City, Canada, February 11-14, 2008 http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/116458/files/2008_tous_et_al.pdf
    Organized by: (technical sponsor) ACM SIGCHI
    Publisher: ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) ICST, Brussels, Belgium, Belgium
    Article n3

  • Daniel Jiménez-González, Carlos Álvarez, David López, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Javier Alonso, Christian Perez, Ruben Tous, Pere Barlet, Montse Fernandez and Jordi Tubella (2008). Work in Progress-Improving Feedback Using an Automatic Assessment Tool. The 38th Annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (FIE2008), Saratoga Springs, New York. October 22–25, 2008 (Classification B according the 2007 Ranking of ICT Conferences) http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=4720591
    ISBN: 978-1-4244-1969-2
    Organized by: ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Education Society
    On page(s): S3B-9-T1A-10

  • Carlos Álvarez, Daniel Jiménez, David López, Javier Alonso, Ruben Tous, Joan M. Parcerisa, Pere Barlet, Montse Fernández, Jordi Tubella, Christian Perez (2008). SISA-EMU: Feedback Automático Para Ensamblador. XIV Jornadas de Enseñanza Universitaria de la Informática (JENUI 2008), Granada 9-11 de julio de 2008. Páginas 557-564. ISBN: 978-84-612-4475-1 2008

  • Kevin Adistambha, Mario Doeller, Ruben Tous, Matthias Gruhne, Masanori Sano, Chrisa Tsinaraki, Stavros Christodoulakis, Kyoungro Yoon, Christian H. Ritz and Ian S. Burnett (2007). The MPEG-7 Query Format: A New Standard in Progress for Multimedia Query by Content. 7th International Symposium on Communications and Information Technologies (ISCIT 2007), Sydney, Australia, October 16-19, 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN: 978-1-4244-0977-8. p. 479-484

    Technical Sponsorship: IEEE
    Endorsed by: ECTI, EiC
  • Matthias Gruhne, Ruben Tous, Mario Doeller, Jaime Delgado and Harald Kosch (2007). MP7QF: An MPEG-7 Query Format. 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2007), Barcelona, 28 to 30 November 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-7695-3030-3. p. 15-18

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2007). L7, an MPEG-7 Query Framework. 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2007), Barcelona, November 2007. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-7695-3030-3. p. 256-263

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2006) A Vector Space Model for Semantic Similarity Calculation and OWL Ontology Alignment. 17th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2006), 4-8 September 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4080 proceedings. ISSN 0302-9743. p. 307-316. (Classification A according the 2007 Ranking of ICT Conferences) http://www.springerlink.com/content/c4611502q465417n/fulltext.pdf

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2006) A Semantic XPath processor Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Volume 150, Issue 2 , 23 March 2006, Pages 87-102 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB 2005) Namur, Belgium (doi:10.1016/j.entcs.2005.11.036)

  • Rosa Gil, Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2005) Managing Intellectual Property Rights in the WWW: Patterns and Semantics. Book, 1st International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution (AXMEDIS 2005), Italy, 30-2 November 2005
    ISBN: 0-7695-2348-X
    Editorial: IEEE Computer Society

  • Ruben Tous, Roberto García, Eva Rodríguez, Jaime Delgado (2005) Architecture of a Semantic XPath Processor. Application to Digital Rights Management. 6th International Conference on Electronic Commerce and Web Technologies EC-Web 2005. August 23 - August 26, 2005 Copenhagen, Denmark. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 3590 (2005), pp. 1-10. ISSN: 0302-9743 (Classification A according the 2007 Ranking of ICT Conferences (CORE)) http://www.springerlink.com/content/b3cqmp4h0pdlnd8e/fulltext.pdf

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2005) RDF Databases for Querying XML. A Model-mapping Approach. DISWeb 2005 International Workshop Data Integration and the Semantic Web. Procedings of the CAiSE'05 Workshops- J. Castro, E. Teniente(Eds.). Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal 2005 - ISBN 972-752-077-4 Pages: 363 - 377 13-17 June 2005, Porto, Portugal
    Organized by: FEUP: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, DSIC-UPV: Departament de Sistemes Informàtics i Computació, Universitat Politècnica de València

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2005) Using OWL for Querying an XML/RDF Syntax. WWW'05: Special interest tracks and posters of the 14th international conference on World Wide Web. Chiba, Japan. May 10-14, 2005. Pages: 1018 - 1019. ACM Press 2005. ISBN:1-59593-051-5. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1062745.1062847. (Classification A+ according the 2007 Ranking of ICT Conferences)

  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2003) Interoperability Adaptors for Distributed Information Search on the Web, ELPUB2003. From information to knowledge: Proceedings of the 7th ICCC/IFIP International Conference on Electronic Publishing held at the Universidade do Minho, Portugal 25-28 June 2003/Edited by: Sely Maria de Souza Costa, João Álovaro Carvalho, Ana Alice Baptista, Ana Cristina Santos Moreira. Universidade do Minho, 2003. http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?0341 ISBN 972-98921-2-1 Pàg. 334-340.

  • Ruben Tous, Núria Garcia, Rosa Gil, Manel Guerrero, Anna Escudero et al. (2004). Implementació d'un Portal d'Aprenentatge no Presencial: El Laboratori Virtual de Sistemes de Transmissió (LAVISIT). XII Congreso Universitario de Innovación Educativa en las Enseñanzas Técnicas (CUIEET), Barcelona 26-28 Julio 2004
    ISBN: 84-688-6913-9. Pàg. 208
  • Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (2002) Advanced Meta-Search of News in the Web , elpub2002 - Technology Interactions. Proceedings of the 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, 6–8 November 2002. Editors: Carvalho, Joao Álvaro; Hübler, Arved; Baptista, Ana Alice. Publisher: VWF Berlin, 2002. ISBN 3-89700-357-0. 395 pages. http://elpub.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?02-34 pp 337-345

Publications: PhD thesis, technical reports, etc.

Standardization: Editor of

  • WD1.0 of ISO/IEC 15938-12/Amd.1 MPEG Query Format Ref. Soft & Conf. (w10257)
    Editors: Mario Doeller, Matthias Gruhne, Ruben Tous, Masanori Sano, Miran Choi, Tae-Beom Lim, Walter Allasia
    Status: Working Draft
    Description: Output document from 86th MPEG meeting the October 2008, Busan, Korea.

  • ISO/IEC CD 24800-3:2008 CD Information technology - JPSearch - Part 3: JPSearch Query format (wg1n4705)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16) (wg1n4705)
    Editors: Kyoungro Yoon, Mario Doeller, Ruben Tous
    Status: Commitee Draft
    Description: Output document from the 45th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 Poitiers meeting, July 7th to 11th, 2008.

  • Information Technology - Multimedia Content Description Interface - Part 12: Query Format
    (2008) ISO/IEC 15938-12 FDIS MPEG-7 Query Format
    Editors: Kyoungro Yoon, Mario Doeller, Matthias Gruhne, Ruben Tous, Masanori Sano, Miran Choi, Tae-Beom Lim, Jongseol James Lee, Hee-Cheol Seo
    Status: Final Draft International Standard (FDIS)
    Description: Output document from the 80th MPEG meeting in San Jose, California. April 2007.

Standardization: Contributions

  • WD version 4 of JPSearch Part 2 (24800-2) Registration, Identification, and Management of Metadata Schema and Ontology (wg1n4869)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 47th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 San Francisco meeting, January, 2009.

  • Proposal of a new part for JPSearch. ISO/IEC 24800 Part 6 - Metadata Ontology (wg1n4786)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado, Anna Carreras and Eva Rodríguez
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 46th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 Busan meeting, October, 2008.

  • Proposal for JPSearch Part 2 (24800-2) Schema and Ontology Registration & Identification (wg1n4785)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Ruben Tous, Mario Döller
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 46th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 Busan meeting, October, 2008.

  • Semantic-driven multimedia retrieval with the MPEG Query Format (wg1n4684)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 45th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 Poitiers meeting, July 7th to 11th, 2008.

  • MPQF Profile for JPSearch Part 3 (wg1n4670)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Mario Döller, Ruben Tous
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 45th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 Poitiers meeting, July 7th to 11th, 2008.

  • Extensions for the JPEG Query Format and its application (wg1n4539)
    (2008) JBIG/JPEG (ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 and ITU-T SG16)
    Authors: Mario Döller, Ruben Tous
    Status: Proposal
    Description:Input document to the 44th ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 San Francisco meeting, March 31 to April 4, 2008.

  • (2007) MPEG-7 Search and Retrieval Web Service: A response to the MPEG-7 Query Format Call for Proposals
    Document number: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2007/M14117
    Authors: Ruben Tous, Jaime Delgado, Enric Peig, Eva Rodríguez, Anna Carreras, Giovanni Cordara, Francini Gianluca, Frederic Dufaux, Grzegorz Galinski
    Status: Proposal
    Description: Input document for the 79th MPEG meeting in Marrakech, Morocco. January 2007.

  • (2001) DMAG Contribution to RDD-REL: IPRonto
    Document number: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2001/M7675
    Authors: Jaime Delgado, Isabel Gallego, Roberto García Rosa Gil, Enric Peig, Ruben Tous
    Status: Proposal

Institutional Research Projects

  • MCM-LC (GESTION DEL CICLO DE VIDA DE CONTENIDOS MULTIMEDIA)
    Institución:MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACION
    Investigador principal: Jaime Delgado Mercé
    Código: TEC2008-06692-C02-01
    Duración: 01/01/2009-31/12/2011
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  • SEGURA (CENIT en el área de seguridad) (01/07/2007-31/12/2010) Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio (Programa CENIT). Institutions: UPC, Safelayer.

  • VISNET II (Networked audiovisual media technologies) (01/07/2006-30/06/2009) 6th FWP NoE (IST-2005-2.41.6). Institutions: UPC, UPF, Univ.Surrey, TU Berlin, Telecom Italia, INESC, EPFL, ...

  • DRM-MM (Digital Rights Management - Multimedia) (15/10/2005-14/10/2008) MEC (TSI2005-05277).

  • AXMEDIS (Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-channel Distribution) (01/09/2004-21/08/2008) 6th FWP Project (IST-2-511299). Institutions: UPF, Univ.Florencia, Univ.Leeds, Giunti, Tiscali, Fraunhofer, EPFL, HP Italia, Sejer (hasta 18).

  • E2E RM INTEROPERABLE (End to End Rights Management) (01/07/2007-31/12/208) Ministerio de Industria, Turismo y Comercio Proyecto Singular Estratégico. Convocatoria 2007. Ayudas para el Fomento de la Investigación y Científica para el Fortalecimiento del Sector Industrial TICs. Coordinador: Sociedad Digital de Autores y Editores (sDae). Plataforma Tecnológica Nacional de Tecnología y Redes Multimedia (eNEM). Institutions: UPC, SDAE, Microgénesis, Telefónica I+D, Gigle, ATOS, etc.

  • VISNET (Networked audiovisual media technologies) (01/12/2003-30/11/2005) 6th FWP NoE (IST-2003-506946). Institutions: UPC, UPF, Univ.Surrey, TU Berlin, Vodafone, INESC, EPFL, ... (hasta 15).

  • AgentWeb (Agentes y ontologías para la gestión de derechos digitales y servicios web) (01/12/2002-30/11/2005) MCYT (TIC2002-01336).

  • Area2000 (Contenidos y Servicios Multimedia, Movilidad y Seguridad) (07/11/2001-07/11/2003) MCYT (TIC2000-0317-P4-05). Institutions: UPF, UPC, UOC, Safelayer, Media Techonology Group.

Software and demos

  • Contorsion Project (2004-2005): Design and implementation of a Semantic XPath Processor using OWL and RDF. Project supported by VISNET, the Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies European Network of Excellence (6th framework programme).
  • Advanced Metasearch Project (2001-2003): Advanced Metasearch project is part of the research work being done in the information search and retrieval area by the Distributed Multimedia Applications Group (DMAG) at the Technology Department of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The project consists in putting to work some of the group ideas in the field of metasearch by developing some practical applications like for e.g. a news search engine. The engine can help users in finding very specific news from online newspapers around the world, with the posibility to specify very precise conditions about the information that they are looking for. Furthermore the system offers the guarantee that the searched news include the latest ones published by the sources.

 

 

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