Automated metadata in multimedia information systems creation, refinement, use in surrogates, and evaluation /

Improvements in network bandwidth along with dramatic drops in digital storage and processing costs have resulted in the explosive growth of multimedia (combinations of text, image, audio, and video) resources on the Internet and in digital repositories. A suite of computer technologies delivering s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christel, Michael G.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2009.
Series:Synthesis lectures on information concepts, retrieval, and services (Online) ; # 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Evolution of multimedia information systems, 1990-2008
  • Introduction to the Informedia project
  • Reflections/exercises
  • Survey of automatic metadata creation methods
  • Aural processing
  • Visual processing
  • Language processing
  • Reflections/exercises
  • Refinement of automatic metadata
  • Computationally intensive approaches
  • Temporal and multimodal redundancy
  • Leveraging context
  • User-controlled precision-recall trade-off
  • Reflections/exercises
  • Multimedia surrogates
  • Video surrogate examples
  • Surrogates for collections of video
  • Reflections/exercises
  • End-user utility for metadata and surrogates effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction
  • Informedia experiments on various video surrogates
  • NIST TRECVID on fact-finding shot-based retrieval
  • Exploratory use of multimedia information systems
  • Reflections/exercises
  • Conclusions.