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Firefox Plugin Annodex For Searching Audio, Video

Posted by timothy on from the well-lookie-and-hearie-here dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Read more... by Agret · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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    Have you metaroderated recently?
  2. Re:Not likely at currently then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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).