An Overview of the Informedia Digital Video Library Project

09/14/1999


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Table of Contents

An Overview of the Informedia Digital Video Library Project

Why Video?

Informedia Digital Video Library Project

Informedia-1 Overview

Application Areas

Application of Diverse Technologies

Challenge:  Imperfect Technology

Informedia Current Capabilities

Informedia Library Creation

Informedia Library Exploration

Techniques Underlying Abstractions

Image Processing

Goal: Automatic Video Characterization

Camera and Motion Detection

Text and Face Detection

Video OCR

Video OCR Block Diagram

Video Frames being Processed

VOCR Preprocessing Problems

Video OCR

Image Search & Similarity Matching

Image Similarity Challenge

Images Containing Similar Colors

Images Containing Similar Shapes

Images Containing Similar Content

Variety of Similarity

Image Understanding Results

Speech Recognition

Speech Recognition Accuracy

Speech Recognizer Results

“Name-It” Face/Name Association

Deriving “Matching Shots”

Query-based Thumbnail Menu

Query-based Thumbnail Selection Process

“Skim Video”: Extraction of Significant Content

KNN-based Topic Detection

Annotations

Geocoding Procedure, Part 1 of 2

Geocoding Procedure, Part 2 of 2

Named Entity Extraction

Informedia Focus

Key Challenges for Informedia-2

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Accomplishments

Credits

Author: Mike Christel

Email: christel@cs.cmu.edu

Home Page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christel