LAVA is a 3 year EC funded Research and Technology Development project in the
Information Society Technologies programme of the 5th Framework. Xerox Research
Centre Europe is the co-ordinating partner in this project. The LAVA project
began in May 2002. The main objective of the project is to devise machine
learning technologies:
for the reliable categorisation of generic object classes in
real-world images
and for the interpretation of events in video data.