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Firefox Plugin Annodex For Searching Audio, Video
loser in front of a computer writes "ZDNet Australia reports that 'Australia's CSIRO research organisation has developed a Firefox plugin named Annodex that allows browsing through time-continuous media such as audio and video in the same way that HTML allows browsing through text.' I've just checked Annodex out and it's very cool. The sample video from the Perl conference is way funny too." The catch is, the media to be searched has to be prepped first.
I got some Anime in ogg once. It was the Rurouni Kenshin OVA. It was such a wonderful format and I could switch between english/jap audio and subs just by right clicking a system tray icon.
I really wish the Anime community saw it as a viable format rather than using XVid and DivX for everything. OGG is beautiful.
Have you metaroderated recently?
Although I guess that might present a chicken/egg situation.
How could a computer possibly work out what media is sports or music videos or anime or tv shows or whatever.
That sounds like a doctorate in the making... I'd anticipate an 80% hit rate in genre classification (at least) within 6 months of research, just given those sorts of categories. It's just image recogition and classification, really, but with a fscking huge dataset (which is a good thing).
We're in Russia doing this for video and audio for years. Will not link to sample, as this is bandwidth consuming.
it can be prepped in realtime and published online along with the event and uses anything as output video format.
composition tools are not yet available for the general public.
So can anybody tell me is this extension for the integrated Mozilla suite or is it only for the standalone browser Firefox?
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
How is this innovative above a DVD "jump to a scene" menu? (honest question)
I watched the video, but all it seems to be is a system of sectioning audio-visual files into smaller chunks, and a browser that gives access to a "table of contents" that lets the user jump directly to a section.
Is the sectioning/table-of-content-generation process automated? It seems to be manual.
I think software is already available that can partially automate the sectioning of a video. It does this by detecting scene-transitions, and then offering up the "chunks" to the user for approval and labelling. I think such software is used in DVD authoring for generating the "Jump to a Scene" DVD menu.
For proper search in rich media, check out a service like www.blinkx.tv, where the audio is transcibed. No reliance on meta-data, and the sectioning is also automated.
Are there any legal restrictions on the indexing of files? I can see a lot of companies becoming upset at having their media prepared in such a way..
Best regards, A.C.
This could be really useful for TV broadcasts, particularly news.
I think anybody doing closed captioning already has the descriptive content they need. (Others could use a similar process to create it.)
That info, combined with relatively easily-detectable scene transitions, would make it possible to automate the searchable video file creation to a large extent.
So the CC or equivalent would still have to be done manually but you'd have this extremely useful, huge searchable archive of video.
Not so easy for things that depend on the visual content as opposed to the spoken content, but for news it could be amazing.
Then watch as politicians and captains of industry squirm at the thought that their every word and twitch is available for searching...
This Like That - fun with words!
What's more SMIL is already supported by Quicktime, Real, MS Media Player, & MS Internet Explorer (& Firefox with some effort).
For platforms SMIL is available on Linux, Linux/PDA, Windows, Windows CE, MacOS, & MacOS X.
For content creation numerous SMIL tools are out there, inlcuding most industry standard ones.
For those curious here's a SMIL tutorial, in SMIL.
I don't read ACs: If a post isn't worth so much as a nom de plume to its author then I wont bother either.
Even if you have the largest bandwidth you can imagine, still local indexes are the way to go. I can't imagine any movie search engine that will not pre-process the movie info, to fit the data into an index first. This pre-processing could be made externally to aid the search engine, and keeped in a separate file with the metadata for the movie. (I din't read the article due to the slashdot effect, but I imagine this is something like that).
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