WP8. Dissemination & Exploitation
Josh Reiss, Project Coordinator
Betty Woessner, Project Administrator
Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval
Introduction to Workpackage
 T 8.1 Deployment
 demonstrate & market use of enhanced access tools in real
world sound archives
 T 8.2 Dissemination
 Covers wide range of activities concerning spreading and
promoting project & outcomes
 T 8.3 Exploitation
 Exploitation Strategy Team
 develop commercialisation routes for EASAIER technologies
 define business plan
 road map for future development
 use and exploitation for project & outcomes
 monitor developments outside project
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WP8 Deliverables & Milestones
Deliverables
Month1- Public website & promotional brochure
Month27- Demonstrate deployed access tools in external archives
Month30- Business plan
Milestones
Month08- Initial dissemination & use plan
Month12- scientific publications, create Exploitation Strategy Team
Month18- Dissemination & use plan with IPR Strategy & Expert User
Advisory Board feedback, deployment plan
Month21- Market watch & state of the art analysis
Month24- Prototypes deployed, promotional kit, initial business plan
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ICT Call 3 Information Days
Promote EASAIER
Find out about new calls for proposals
Join consortia
Content and Knowledge
12-13 December in Luxembourg
Deadline: 30 November
Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning
17-18 December in Luxembourg
Deadline: 5 December
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Dissemination
Website – easaier.org
Revised and reorganised
Demos on front page
Working documents on top level of intranet
FTP site – large content
 Speech with aligned transcripts
…
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Dissemination
Demonstrations available
DERI
Ontology (needs work)
DIT
Source Separation
Time / Pitch Scaling
QMUL
Sonic Visualiser
Soundbite
SILOGIC
EASAIER Interface
Video Time Scaling (with DIT, QMUL)
ALL
???
NICE
???
RSAMD
???
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Dissemination
Exploitation Strategy Team and Business Plan
 Explore ways of exploiting project outcomes & IP
 Dissemination & use plan revised throughout project
 inputs from Exploitation Strategy Team
 feedback from Expert User Advisory Board
 market watch & state of the art
 Business plan
 initial draft - month 24
 final plan - end of project
 Business Plan
 Product & services to be exploited
 Team in charge of exploitation
 Market analysis
 Marketing plan
 Risk assessment
 Financial plan and scenario analysis
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Exploitation
Exploitation Strategy Team
 Roughly 1 senior person per partner
 Voluntary
 QMUL – Panos Kudumakis / Josh Reiss
 DERI – Martin Hepp?
 ALL – Akos Levay
 NICE – Barak Gablinger
 DIT – Eugene Coyle
 SILOGIC – Luc Barthelemy (+ David Cher?)
 RSAMD – Celia Duffy
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Exploitation
Business Plan
1. Exploitation of the EASAIER System
 Server
 Archiver
 Client
2. Exploitation of the individual EASAIER components
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Mash-ups (DERI)
 Music Segmentation (DIT)
Ontology Management (DERI)
 Source Separation (DIT)
Music Ontology (QMUL)
 Video Time Scaling/ Pitch
Shifting (DIT + QMUL)
The Archiver(QMUL)
Speech features / Call Centers (NICE)  Intelligent Interfaces (SILOGIC)
…
Soundbite Music Retrieval (QMUL)
 ???
Speech Retrieval (ALL)
Vocal queries (ALL)
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Exploitation
list of exploitable technologies
Exploitable Knowledge
(description)
Exploitable
product(s) or
measure( s)
1.real-time sound source
separation
Patent, software
To be determined
Patented
DIT
2. real-time pitch and scale
modification
licensing, software
To be determined
Not specified
DIT
3. real-time restoration EQ module
with real-time AV feedback
Patent, software
To be determined
Not specified
DIT
4. Speaker Recognition System
Patent, software
To be determined
Several Patents
NICE
5. Ontology Management System
Software
To be determined
Several Patents
DERI
6. Music Retrieval System
Not specified
To be determined
Patent Applied:
spin-off Company
Isophonics
QMUL
7.Feature extractor
Not specified
To be determined
Not specified
QMUL
8. Speech Retrieval System
Not specified
To be determined
Not specified
ALL
9. EASASIER System 1
Open Source
Software , support
To be determined
Not specified
SILOGIC, EASAIER
Consortium
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Sector(s) of
application
Telephony/
Call centers
Cultural
Heritage
Timetable for
commercial use
Patents or other IPR
protection
Owner & Other
Partner(s) involved
Quantified Data on dissemination & use of results
Items about the dissemination and use of the project
results (consolidated numbers)
Currently achieved Estimated future
quantity
quantity
# of product innovations (commercial)
2
2
# of process innovations (commercial)
2
2
# of new services (commercial)
4
4
# of new services (public)
1
1
# of new methods (academic)
0
0
# of scientific breakthrough
0
0
# of technical standards to which this project has contributed
4
4
# of EU regulations/directives to which this project has
contributed
0
1
# of international regulations to which this project has
contributed
0
0
# of PhDs generated by the project
0
3
# of grantees/trainees including transnational exchange of
personnel
0
0
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Description of each result
 Title
 Summary
 What it is, what it does, how it is used…
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Current Stage Of Development
Documentation And Information On The Result
Intellectual Property Rights
Market Application Sectors
 Acoustics, recording industry, telephony, music
education,…
 Quantified Data About The Result
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Current Stage Of Development
•Scientific and/or Technical knowledge (Basic research)
•Guidelines, methodologies, technical drawings
•Software code
•Experimental development stage (laboratory prototype)
Prototype/demonstrator available for testing
•Results of demonstration trials available
•Other (please specify.):
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Documentation And Information On The Result
Documentation
type
•Details (Title, ref. number, general
description, language)
•Status:
PU=Public
CO=Confidential
•Installation
manual
•Installation guidelines for the end user
•PU
•User guide
•Explanation of how to use the service
•PU
•Survey
•Result of questionnaire on service
acceptance
•CO
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Intellectual Property Rights
•Type of IPR
•Tick a box and give the corresponding details (reference
numbers, etc.) if appropriate.
•Current
•Foreseen
•Patent applied for
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•Patent search carried
out
•Patent granted
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•Registered design
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•Trademark applications
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•Copyrights
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•Secret know-how
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•other – please specify :
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•Knowledge/
•Pre-existing
know-how
Quantified Data About The Result
Items (about the results)
Actual current
quantity
Estimated (or
future) quantity
Time to application / market (in months from the end of the research
project)
6
Number of (public or private) entities potentially involved in the
implementation of the result :
5
of which : number of SMEs :
1
of which : number of entities in third countries (outside EU) :
1
Targeted user audience: # of reachable people
Hundreds
Millions
# of S&T publications (referenced publications only)
4
0
# of publications addressing general public (e.g. CD-ROMs, WEB sites)
2
0
# of publications addressing decision takers / public authorities / etc.
1
0
Visibility for the general public
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Yes
Action Points/ Review of the Minutes
 Next meeting to be hosted by tentatively
Invited user
Date?
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