The Visual Sense (ViSen) project is a collaborative research project between four academic institutions in Europe in the domain of visual and text data analysis. It builds on expertise from multiple disciplines, including computer vision, machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), and gathers four research groups from University of Surrey (Surrey, UK), Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI, Spain) , Ecole Centrale de Lyon (ECL, France), and University of Sheffield (Sheffield, UK) having each well established and complementary expertise in their respective areas of research.