Research Aims

• Information retrieval:  intelligent agents, open hypermedia, metadata.
• Content based retrieval and navigation of sound, images and video.
• High quality digitisation of images, audio, video, 3D.
• High performance multimedia delivery.
• User interface: for retrieval, management, visualisation and virtual environments.
• Data formats and storage: open standards, multimedia formats.
• Classification and indexing: particularly automatic techniques.