European Research Project on multimedia search and retrieval of Rushes data

RUSHES is a STREP funded by the European Commission from Call 6 of the 6th framework programme. RUSHES brings together complementary expertise of 9 leading EU partners from both academia and industry with view to develop and demonstrate technologies for the semantic retrieval of media from large repositories of raw audiovisual content used by the broadcast industry.

The overall aim of the RUSHES project is to design, implement, and validate a system for indexing, accessing and delivering raw, unedited audio-visual footage known in broadcasting industry as "rushes". This system will have its viability tested by means of trials. The goal is to promote the reuse of such material, and especially its content in the production of new multimedia assets by offering semantic media search capabilities. .