The aim of the SCHEMA Network of Excellence is to bring together a critical mass of industrial partners, end users, universities and research centres in order to improve the systematic exchange of information on Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis & Information Retrieval.
Among the objectives of SCHEMA was the design of a general architecture for content-based analysis, representation indexing and retrieval. The system supports high level (semantic) descriptors and the integration of visual media indexing and retrieval with other modalities (like text and audio based indexing and retrieval). SCHEMA gives the opportunity to research institutions and organisations to take this system as a test-bed and a common dataset for the evaluation and comparison of different modules and interfaces within CBIR context.