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The Fischlar Digital Library: Networked Access to a Video Archive of TV News

Explore the innovative Fischlar Digital Video Library for accessing TV news archives, with advanced features like video analysis, browsing, and playback. Join over 1,800 users to study, research, and enjoy entertainment.

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The Fischlar Digital Library: Networked Access to a Video Archive of TV News

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  1. The Fischlar Digital Library: Networked Access to a Video Archive of TV News Prof. Alan Smeaton Centre for Digital Video Processing Dublin City University

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Digital Video Library UNDER DEVELOPMENT Program Program Program Program Program Program Program Program

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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