The IST project (Information Society Technologies) of the European Union, DIVAS, combined the expertise of eight companies and institutions for development of a multimedia search engine that works directly on the encoded data of audio and video contents. The focus was on content based search technologies, such as the automated extraction of content features from compressed contents as "Fingerprints" or "Thumbnails".
Responsibilities of Fraunhofer IDMT
Development and evaluation of an algorithm for extraction of audio fingerprints for audio identification directly in an encoded audio signal.