This track demonstrates some of the ways in which the Pharos project is advancing audiovisual search engines, we take a closer look at photo recognition software.

Future technologies: The Pharos project

The volume of stored information is growing exponentially and an increasing share is audio-visual content. This content drives the demand for new services, making audio-visual search one of the major challenges for organisations and businesses today. The Open University is one of fifteen European partners in The Pharos project which aims to advance audio-visual search using an integrated search platform paradigm.

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