WP1 materialises the Baseline Phase of the project and sets the basis for the realization of all the Pillars of the project.

WP1 aims to: 

• identify and explore societal challenges and opportunities that exist in a smart city environment.
• show the critical role of MARVEL’s multimodal perception and intelligence in addressing these challenges.
• synthesise and present project’s progress beyond the state of the art for extreme-scale multimodal analytics.
• revise project’s experimental protocol – specifically describe in details which societal challenges and technological requirements will be addressed by MARVEL framework, define trial cases for the real-life experiments, ensure citizens participation without violating ethical and privacy limits, and release a verification and validation strategy.
• define a comprehensive benchmarking strategy and quantitative progress evaluation for both MARVEL framework as a whole, as well as MARVEL technologies per se.
• revise project’s benchmarks.
• describe in details the project’s E2F2C technical specifications and the methods for the convergence of MARVEL’s diverse technologies.
• specify MARVEL guidelines and protocols for achieving responsible AI at all project levels