This coordinated project aims to push the frontiers in the AI field by investigating and developing novel universal scene understanding AI algorithms and benchmarks that can democratize AI adoption and usage. In particular, AI-FUSE will develop novel algorithms for video understanding in different application scenarios of interest in many domains, from the private sector (surveillance or robotics) to public institutions (health and ecology). The project's ambition is not to tailor the algorithms for each application but to create a general algorithmic workflow for all and any domains, so that the proposed approaches can be applied broadly, including fields with currently low AI adoption.
To contribute to a broader adoption of AI in different fields, during the project the AI-FUSE team will first thoroughly study the interdisciplinary requirements from the team's diverse backgrounds, to consider among other aspects, the possible synergies. We will develop new algorithms, models and evaluation frameworks that will boost the applicability of scene understanding techniques. AI-FUSE will investigate more universal solutions, thanks to the diverse viewpoints, and explainable, thanks again in part to the inclusion of interdisciplinary ideas from the design.
AI-FUSE will innovate in the AI field, with novel video understanding approaches, including technical contributions to improve their efficiency, make them more effective and facilitate their applicability in natural scenarios related to disciplines where AI is not broadly adopted yet, such as cell biology or ecology.