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The WCAM project study, develop and validate a wireless (WLAN) seamless and secured end-to- end networked audio-visual system focused on the technology convergence between video surveillance and multimedia distribution over the Internet. It takes into account real time aspects as well as security and scalability. The project improves state of the art technologies in each of the technological components involved in the system and combine them. The WCAM system is installed and tested with users of both multimedia distribution and video surveillance communities. Recent progresses in flexible bit streams representation of video including Region-of-lnterest (ROI) have led to new standardisation efforts in the frame of JPEG-2000. WCAM pursues and enforces these works, integrating concerns like wireless, security, and annotations obtained by high-level analysis. WCAM delivery scenario includes both JPEG-2000 and MPEG-4 AVC platforms, which requires also addressing the efficient and seamless transcoding between these two recent standards. The WCAM platform includes the following key modules: – Camera video encoding incorporating scene analysis, object tracking and adaptive and efficient video coding – Automatic detection of events through scene analysis – Scalable access to video content through transcoding and Scalable Video Coding of MPEG – Multimedia storage and distribution – Wireless networking for local connectivity (WLAN) – Security, both at the network and content levels – Metadata driven access to content The technologies and systems developed within WCAM are validated during two trials: – the first trial takes place in Annecy (France) during the festival of animated movies in 2005 – the second trial is done in a video surveillance site and demonstrates the ability to operate a video surveillance platform on a wireless network. More info at the European Comission website here.

Apesar de Portugal ter uma legislação laboral igualitária, a pertença de género é ainda uma categoria importante na participação dos cidadãos em diferentes domínios profissionais, pelo que as práticas sociais e os conteúdos culturais que lhes atribuem significado estão, frequentemente, em contradição com a lei. Os cidadãos que se inserem em domínios profissionais não compreendidos nas representações hegemónicas cruzam fronteiras sócio-culturais. Analisando a influência da construção social das categorias de género na constituição dos sujeitos sociais e na estruturação da sua vida pessoal, familiar e profissional este estudo visa compreender os elementos que condicionam a entrada de homens e mulheres em domínios profissionais associados a categorias de género a que não pertencem. Entre gerações sociais transmitem-se elementos culturais que enformam a identidade social dos indivíduos, modelando a definição de categorias como o masculino e o feminino, associando actividades a desempenhos "próprios de mulheres" ou "próprios de homens", que tornam os indivíduos "protagonistas naturais" de certas tarefas e de determinados espaços sociais (cf. Comas; Aguilar). A formação pessoal e profissional dos indivíduos constrói-se, portanto, com recurso a qualificações técnicas associadas à sua categoria de género, que condicionarão tanto a sua inserção no mercado de trabalho, como o seu desempenho e progresso na profissão. Porém, encontramos múltiplas situações em que os indivíduos se inserem em universos profissionais socialmente entendidos como pertencentes a categorias de género a que não pertencem. A pesquisa que se propõe visa identificar os processos que conduzem a essas situações em que se transpõem profissionalmente as barreiras impostas pelas representações sociais em torno das categorias de género e será realizada através da análise de dois grupos profissionais cujos actores estejam numa posição de "não-conformidade de género nas profissões" (cf. Kimmel): homens auxiliares...

INOCOP - InoCoP - Inovação e Melhoria da Performance no Cluster Automóvel, 2004/EQUAL/A2/AD/235 (P. Ramos)

MediaNet, is a key and the largest FP6 Networked Audio-Visual Systems and Home Platforms – NAVSHP IP project, which addresses the domain of digital multimedia personal communication and content distribution for residential markets, as well as cooperation schemes between content owners, service providers, network access operators, and telecommunication, computer, components and consumer electronics industries. The objective is to remove the obstacles in Europe to end-to-end digital communications and content exchange, from content/service providers to customers and between persons, over shared broadband access and home network infrastructures, while protecting at the same time suppliers’ and customers’ investments, content owners’ rights, assuring a fair revenues sharing to the stakeholders of the value chain, as well as permitting the necessary regulation actions. The MEDIANET open architecture model enable the deployment of a plethora of different multimedia services from different suppliers over common access and home networks. It will develop enabling technologies, equipment, architectures, services as well as related standards, business models and good practices, addressing content distribution and access services, access/home interworking at the gateway, common home networking, distributed media storage systems, multimedia terminal platforms, common content protection approaches with different digital rights management systems. Advanced coding/decoding circuits based on the latest standards will enable HQ audio-video distribution over wireless connections. More info at the European Comission website here.

NTERREG III B « ATLANTIC AREA », PIMHAI, “Multispectral and hyperspectral imagery analysis from acquisition to decision, making and expertise in environment management” (2004-2007) The objective of this project is to provide the industrial sector and the political/institutional decision-makers of the Atlantic area with an operational system including the acquisition and the analysis of aerial EO remote sensing images. This system will be devoted to the interpretation of information and the help in decision-making, to face the important environmental problems in their region. This system will be open and will integrate the recent and future developments of research in multisource/multicomponent imagery. More Information at the website here