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The Fischlar Digital Library: Networked Access to a Video Archive of TV News. Prof. Alan Smeaton Centre for Digital Video Processing Dublin City University. Fischlar O VERVIEW. Most CDVP research goes into a single demonstration system called
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The Fischlar Digital Library: Networked Access to a Video Archive of TV News Prof. Alan Smeaton Centre for Digital Video Processing Dublin City University
Fischlar OVERVIEW • Most CDVP research goes into a single demonstration system called • Recording, analysis, browsing, and playback of digital video, currently, TV from 8 channels • Users select programmes from TV schedule with genre (category) assigned • We capture video, we detect shots, scenes & keyframes • Users browse programme keyframes and then playback • We also capture teletext, 24/7 and are developing text searching
CURRENT Use • is very popular ... • 1,800+ users on campus, 850 “regular” • term-time recording 18-20 hours / day • Used from computing labs, residences, library, in DCU and soon NUIG and UL • Used for entertainment, research and for teaching & learning • We also record RTE1 main TV News, every day • We can store 300 hours (400 TV programmes) online at any one time • We can have 200 simultaneous playbacks
UNDER DEVELOPMENT • We currently do recording, indexing, browsing and playback • We are developing new ways to interact with digital video: • search our digital library of video • alert on transmission of certain material • generate a portfolio of clips on a given topic • summarise a program into 5 minutes • Also, automatic linking and weaving together of video segments
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RESEARCH TASKS Our work is very visual, but to develop these functionalities involves research into: • audio analysis • image processing • information retrieval • motion analysis • storage management • user interfaces • video coding
PLATFORMS • Until now ... accessed from a desktop PC, with a web browser • Can select recording from mobile phone … WAP and SMS • Now … developing full access from a wireless PDA including playback
Summary • Fischlar is a robust digital video library system supporting real people with real information access needs … study, research, entertainment • Fischlar supports video analysis and indexing, plus video browsing, playback and a limited form of searching • Fischlar-NEWS archive is the basis for our work on automatically linking of video clips