Translation of music within the visual language: A tin box belonged to the director’s mother becomes animated for a movie based on traditional children’s songs and acts as an intermission between two performances of a talking doll, and as an interpretation of the music instruments and their improvisation into animation.

Duration: 2008-2011

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Funding: Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture/Cyprus Cinema Advisory Committee

National survey of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs with a probability sample of 3500 persons.

Duration: 2009-2010

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Funding: Cyprus Anti-Drugs Council

Project implemented by the Center for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET), including a national survey of elementary school teachers.

Duration: 2009-2011

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Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

The main aim of POLYBIO project is the design and implementation of a multi-modal biometric system that will offer to users enhanced security in physical or remote access.The human biometric characteristic as opposed to PINS, cards or codes, constitute the absolute means for secure user identification that prohibits impostors from abusive usage of the system.The consortium will design and implement the appropriate technologies based on the extraction, analysis, coding and classification of the human biometric characteristics that cover the areas of voice recognition, fingerprint identification, hand geometry and face recognition, with the aim to develop a robust multi-modal system that will eliminate False Acceptances and False Rejections.

Main Contractor: Philips College

CUT Principal Investigator: Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

Duration: 28/12/2006-27/12/2008

Website: http://www.signalgenerix.com/polybio/

Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

Commandaria is considered one of the oldest types of wines and it has been ranked as one of the best wines of the last millennium. Production of Commandaria in Cyprus is associated with historical and political events that took place at the island, especially during the last millennium, hence studies related to Commandaria are heavily related to the culture and history of Cyprus.Unfortunately up to now the issue of preserving the history and traditions related to the production of Commandaria over the years did not receive adequate attention and as result the danger of losing important aspects of the relevant Cypriot cultural heritage is obvious. With our work we aim to develop an interactive system through which the history of the production of Commandaria at different areas in Cyprus and different time periods will be presented along with historical events that took place in the island and can be related with Commandaria production.As part of the project we will establish a multimedia digital library that will contain items related to the history and production of Commandaria in Cyprus. All multimedia database entries will be sorted according to various criteria, including the chronological period, the geographical location they refer to and the actual contents of the item, and could be searched via semantic-based queries with the aid of an ontology. In addition, an interactive application will be created where users will have the opportunity to explore the history of Commandaria in Cyprus at different geographical locations and different time periods. The final system will operate both as a web application and as a stand alone application in information kiosks.

Investigators for CUT: Dr. Andreas Lanitis, Olga Gewrgiou

Duration: 1/3/2009-28/2/2011

Website: http://cis.cut.ac.cy/CommandariaPortal/

Funding: Cyprus Research

 The main aim of this project is the development of intelligent algorithms, technologies and tools for the extraction and representation of visual features for semantic analysis and search of multimedia content. The number of multimedia files in on-line repositories grows rapidly every day. Currently, less than 10% of such files are professionally annotated, since it is practically impossible to do it manually. For this reason, most multimedia files are of no, or at best, of poor textual description and thus they are difficult to efficiently search and retrieve. The efficient search of such files is based on the technologies and algorithms that will be investigated in the framework of the current project. The successful outcome of the proposed project will lead to important innovations and give great impetus to research areas of search, access and retrieval of multimedia information based on content and using semantic information.

CUT Principal Investigator: Zenonas Theodosiou

Duration: 1/12/2010-30/11/2013

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Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

Description of methodology: content analysis of websites, national survey of high-school students, in-depth interviews with students, teachers, football fans and government officials, field observations

Duration: 2009-2011

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Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

The project is funded by the Cyprus Radiotelevision Authority and implemented by the Cyprus University of Technology and Centre for the Advancement of Research and Development in Educational Technology (CARDET) (Project Director: Prof. Stelios Stylianou). The project aims at (a) studying in-depth the portrayal of violence and delinquency in the content of Cypriot television as well as evidence of intolerance in certain television genres (b) comparing the content analysis findings with reality indicators regarding the phenomena under study and (c) studying the attitudes regarding the role of the Cyprus Radio-Television Authority and the possible ways of anticipating the phenomena under study.

Duration: 2011-2013

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Funding: Cyprus Radiotelevision Authority

The project is funded by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus and implemented by the Cyprus University of Technology (Project Director: Dr. Vaia Doudaki). The project aims at (a) studying the ways and the conventions by which conflict and violence is portrayed in Cypriot television news, (b) familiarizing journalists and citizens with an ‘open society’ approach towards conflict and violence and (c) developing new skills and attitudes among journalists regarding the use of the internet for creating participatory forms of journalism and actively engaging the public in public expression and discussion through the media.

Duration: 2012-2014

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Funding: Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

The project is funded by the Republic of Cyprus and the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals and implemented by the Cyprus University of Technology. It aims at (a) studying how the Cypriot media represent Third Country Nationals and cover immigration in general (b) conducting a comparative analysis of how the media cover immigration and TCNs in four European countries (UK, Sweden, Italy and Cyprus) (c) providing recommendations for policy makers the design of further integration initiatives in relation to the Cypriot media to the benefit of TCNs in Cyprus

Duration: January-June 2014

Website: http://migrationinthemedia.eu/

Funding: Republic of Cyprus; the European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals