Open Call 2

Track #1: RESEARCH

Targets higher education and research institutions, academia and researchers to increase the value of the AI4Media ecosystem by expanding, developing and integrating new research in AI media domains. Projects funded under the Research track will run for 12 months and receive up to €50.000 each.

Track #2: APPLICATION

Targets entrepreneurs, companies (micro-SMEs, SMEs, mid-caps) to develop innovative AI applications for the media sector by building on the research coming out of AI4Media or by adopting AI solutions to the media sector. Projects funded under the Application track will run for 9 months and receive up to €50.000 each.

Research challenges

• C1-R Reinforcement learning and the challenge of generalisation
• C2-R Evolutionary learning and the challenge of evaluating quality
• C3-R Scarce data and the cross-media transfer of knowledge
• C4-R New decentralised collaborative learning paradigms for AI
• C5-R Quantum Reinforcement Learning for classical data processing
• C6-R Frugal cross-modal representation for media research
• C7-R Broadening the spectrum of Interpretable AI
• C8-R Standardising AI datasets and model creation
• C9-R Novel AI-powered enablers for social media research
• C10-R Social media alert system to avoid the attention gathering loop
• C11-R Representative and Inclusive Depictions of AI
• C12-R-OPEN Open Research Challenge

Application challenges

• C1-A Realising a hybrid AI application in AI4EU Experiments
• C2-A AI global support to informative content production
• C3-A New learning methods for music overcoming scarce data
• C4-A AI for suggesting visually appealing images based on text
• C5-A Recommender Systems to Support Exploratory Research with Media
• C6-A AI for automated testing and sound synthesis
• C7-A-OPEN Open Application Challenge