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

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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
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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

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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

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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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UNDER DEVELOPMENT

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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

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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

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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