Projects

[Defalsif-AI - 10/2020 - 09/2022]

[FFG KIRAS, Work Package Lead]. defalsif-AI addresses the problem of disinformation in the context of an attack on democracy and the public trust in its institutions. The official stakeholders BKA, BMLV and BMEIA, are concerned about potential external attacks on the Austrian democratic process. At the same time, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and the Austria Press Agency (APA) are concerned about fulfilling their crucial roles as journalistic institutions. Based on these stakeholder requirements, the project focuses on research in the areas of audio-visual media forensics, text analysis and the multimodal fusion of these with the support of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning methods. A principal focus of this research will be in enhancing the comprehensibility and interpretability of the results for non-experts in the forensic/technical field.

[AMMONIS - 10/2020 - 09/2022]

[FFG FORTE, Work Package Lead]. In the AMMONIS project, services are being developed for the linked analysis of audio and text data using heterogeneous data sources. These services enable the classification and linking of audio events with text information that is related spatially, temporally or thematically. The goal is to use these services to detect contradictory - or complementary - representations in the different news channels, thus enabling improved monitoring and early detection.

[Study: Disinformation - Threads and Resilience Options - 01/2020 - 12/2020]

[Contract Research, Project Lead] This comprehensive study researches and evaluates a broad perspective of current threads through online disinformation, state-of-the-art approaches to create as well as identify disinformation on the web, and options to counter disinformation on various scales.

[COPKIT - 2018 - 2021]

[H2020 Project, Researcher]. The COPKIT project focuses on the problem of analysing, investigating, mitigating and preventing the use of new information and communication technologies by organised crime and terrorist groups. For this purpose, COPKIT proposes an intelligence-led Early Warning (EW) / Early Action (EA) system for both strategic and operational levels. The project duration is 36 months (from 2018 to 2021).

[VICTORIA - 05/2017 - 11/2020]

[H2020 Project, Task Lead]. This projects develops a framework for state-of-the-art media forensic tools to assist Law Enforcement Agencies (LEA) in post-terrorist-attack scenarios. VICTORIA will deliver a Video Analysis Platform (VAP) with a scalable architecture based on big data technologies, feature new user interface paradigms allowing complex semantic investigation queries and 4D crime scene reconstruction, be adaptable to specific user needs, and be future proof thanks to an open analytic plug-in feature, based on standardized interfaces and open to third party suppliers.

[Speech2Text - 03/2019 - 02/2020]

[FFG Innovationsscheck, Principal Investigator] The aim of this project is to build speech recognition models for the Austrian idiom based on open source speech recognition frameworks and state-of-the-art approaches. Tasks of this project include annotating recorded speech as well as training and evaluating acoustic and language models.

[SpeechRec - 02/2019 - 01/2020]

[FFG Innovationsscheck, Principal Investigator] The aim of this project is to automate the task of consulting seminar transcription and sentence categorization through state-of-the-art speech recognition and natural language processing approaches.

[FLORIDA - 11/2016 - 02/2019]

[FFG KIRAS, Workpackage Lead] With the help of FLORIDA, a flexible, semi-automated system is to be created which will support the authorities responsible for public security administration, such as the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counter-Terrorism (BM.I.BVT), in investigating, providing evidence and clarifying the situation following attacks. By using state-of-the-art technologies, the system will noticeably improve the quality of work and working conditions for the people employed in this field, as it will simplify the research, processing and analysis of extremely extensive and heterogeneous inventories of audio and video data. The main developments in the project to make this possible are The creation of a scalable open-source platform for forensic video analysis on a large scale; the definition of interfaces to allow different (video) programs to access them.

[Europeana Sounds - 02/2014 - 01/2017]

[EU Europeana, Researcher] The Europeana Sounds project became the domain aggregator for audio and audio-related material. Europeana Sounds is hosted by the British Library, supported by the Europeana Sounds Task Force. Europeana Music, which was developed as part of the Europeana Sounds project, is also curated by the British Library. Europeana Sounds therefore also aggregates collections with music-related content, such as music manuscripts, printed music, photographs of musicians, etc. Europeana Sounds has over 530,000 records on Europeana, corresponding to around 618,000 audio recordings and 312,000 audio-related objects. Currently 20 archives contribute to Europeana through Europeana Sounds.

[MusicBricks - 01/2015 - 06/2016]

[H2020 Project, Workpackage Lead] The goal of the European project MusicBricks is to facilitate the transfer of new musical technologies from major European research centers specialized in the domain to small digital creation companies. The project involves the creation of programming interfaces, of graphic and tangible user interfaces, the development of an ecosystem based on events during Music Tech Fest and in selected technology incubators to prepare access to the market.

[Scape - 02/2011 - 09/2014]

[EU FP7 Project, Researcher] The SCAPE project developed scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies on an open source platform that orchestrates semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects. SCAPE developed infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions, provided a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows, and integrated these components with a policy-based preservation planning and watch system. These project results were validated within four large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas. SCAPE has made a significant impact on the community and practice of digital preservation.

[CHORUS+ - 01/2010 - 12/2012]

[EU FP7 Project, Researcher] The SCAPE project developed scalable services for planning and execution of institutional preservation strategies on an open source platform that orchestrates semi-automated workflows for large-scale, heterogeneous collections of complex digital objects. SCAPE developed infrastructure and tools for scalable preservation actions, provided a framework for automated, quality-assured preservation workflows, and integrated these components with a policy-based preservation planning and watch system. These project results were validated within four large-scale Testbeds from diverse application areas. SCAPE has made a significant impact on the community and practice of digital preservation.