SPEAKER: HOWARD WACTLAR

Vice Provost for Research Computing, and Associate Dean and Alumni Research Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University


Informedia Immortality-on-Demand: Searchable video as a form of personal memory

ABSTRACT:
The Informedia digital video library project provides "full-content" search and retrieval from broadcast and other produced video. Integrated speech, image and natural language understanding technology are applied to automatically transcribe, segment, and index the linear video. We extend these capabilities to continuously recorded, unedited video which captures the experiences of our lives. Using our techniques to accomplish intelligent video search, navigation and selective retrieval from this database, enables ourselves and others to recall the people, places, events, and possibly all the information we have otherwise consumed throughout our lives.

SPEAKER BIO:
Howard D. Wactlar is Vice Provost for Research Computing, Associate Dean, and holds the Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science chair in the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been University Vice Provost since 1979, serving in various research, technical and administrative capacities within CMU since joining them in 1967. He was a founder of the DoD funded Software Engineering Institute where he served as Director for Technical and Administrative Services 1984-88; served from 1992-95 as Director of the Information Technology Center, a research department within CMU focused on large-scale deployment and technology transfer. He was primary architect and is project director of the Informedia Digital Video Library, one of the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiative projects. His research accomplishments have spanned from symbolic mathematics to distributed operating systems, multi-technology network architectures and multimedia platforms. His current research interests center on multimedia, networking, distributed systems and performance measurement.

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