POLYMNIA is an intelligent cross-media platform for the production of custom video souvenirs for visitors to leisure and cultural heritage venues.

Visitors are visually tracked by cameras as they enjoy a venue by human detection and tracking technology. Live video stream channels are constantly available to friends and family so they can share in the visitors experience at the venue. A personalized DVD, or a less expensive eCard, souvenir is produced at the end of a visitor's stay which can be purchased, allowing visitors to relive their experiences at the park well after the initial visit.

POLYMNIA technology scales well to large venues, such as theme parks or museums, and we have installed and tested POLYMNIA in a real theme park as part of our final project evaluation. The POLYMNIA consortium has gained a lot of practical experience and is well placed to exploit these results.

Click here for an example DVD [QuickTime, low-res, 4 MBytes]

The concept, upon which POLYMNIA is based, started 9 years ago as the vision of Christos Mangos, a Greek cinema director of photography. Mr Mangos participates in the project consortium with Cinegram, a Greek film production company, included among the main contractors of the POLYMNIA project.

POLYMNIA is a 30 months research and development project co-funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme, Priority 2 "Information Society Technologies". The project ended in March 2007 and the consortium are currently actively looking to exploit POLYMNIA technology commercially and collaborate in new related R&D projects to extend the work done within POLYMNIA.