Reflections on the Informedia Digital Video Library Interface

10/25/1999


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Table of Contents

Title Slide

Informedia Digital Video Library Project

Informedia Library Creation

Informedia Library Exploration

Techniques Underlying Video Metadata

Goal: Automatic Video Characterization

Images containing similar colors

Images containing similar shapes

Images containing similar content

Variety of Similarity

Camera and Motion Detection

Text and Face Detection

Text Extraction and Alignment

Deriving 'Matching Shots'

User Testing of Video Library, Round 1

Early Lessons Learned

Empirical Study Concerning Thumbnail Images

Text-based Result List

'Naïve' Thumbnail Result List (Uses First Shot Image)

Query-based Thumbnail Result List

Query-based Thumbnail Selection Process

Empirical Study Summary*

'Skim Video': Extraction of Significant Content

Skims: Preliminary Findings

Empirical Study: Skims

Skim Study Results

Match Information

Enhancing Match Information

Discussed Multimedia Surrogates, i.e., Abstractions based on Library Metadata

Range of Multimedia Surrogates

Informedia Focus

Continually Growing Video Library

Evaluating Multimedia Surrogates

Other Lessons Learned, Later Phases

Modification Requests

Excerpt from 'Lessons Learned*' paper

Final Thoughts and Qualifications

Credits

Author: Mike Christel

Email: christel@cs.cmu.edu

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