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Publications, Howard Wactlar

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• Informedia at TRECVID 2003: Analyzing and Searching Broadcast News Video
  A. Hauptmann, D. Ng, R. Baron, M. Chen, M. Christel, P. Duygulu, C. Huang, W. Lin, H. Wactlar, N. Moraveji, N. Papernick, C.G.M. Snoek, G. Tzanetakis, J. Yang, R. Yan, and R. Jin
  Proceedings of (VIDEO) TREC 2003 (Twelfth Text Retrieval Conference), November, 2003.
  Download: pdf [575 KB] copyrighted

• Digital Video Archives: Managing through Metadata
  H. Wactlar and M. Christel
  Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving, April, 2002, pp. 84 - 99.
  Download: pdf [576 KB] copyrighted

• Improving Access to Digital Video Archives through Informedia Technology
  M. Christel, A. Hauptmann, and H. Wactlar
  Journal of the AUdio Engineering Society, Vol. 49, No. 7/9, 2002.

• Demonstration of Hierarchical Document Clustering of Digital Library Retrieval Results
  H. Wactlar, R. Valdes-Perez, J. Pesenti, C. Palmer, D. Ng, A. Hauptmann, and M. Christel
  Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'01), June, 2001. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [11 KB] copyrighted

• Complementary Video and Audio Analysis for Broadcast News Archives
  H. Wactlar, A. Hauptmann, M. Christel, R. Houghton, and A. Olligschlaeger
  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 2, February, 2000, pp. 42 - 47.
  Download: pdf [147 KB] copyrighted

• Informedia - Search and Summarization in the Video Medium
  H. Wactlar
  Proceedings of Imagina 2000 Conference, January, 2000. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [348 KB] copyrighted

• Informedia Experience-on-Demand: Capturing, Integrating and Communicating Experiences across People, Time and Space
  H. Wactlar, M. Christel, A. Hauptmann, and Y. Gong
  ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 9, June, 1999. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [363 KB] copyrighted

• New Directions in Video Information Extraction and Summarization
  H. Wactlar
  10th DELOS Workshop, June, 1999.
  Download: pdf [485 KB] copyrighted

• Lessons Learned from the Creation and Deployment of a Terabyte Digital Video Library
  H. Wactlar, M. Christel, Y. Gong, and A. Hauptmann
  IEEE Computer, Vol. 32, No. 2, 1999, pp. 66 - 73.
  Download: pdf [1153 KB] copyrighted

• Informedia News-on-Demand: Using Speech Recognition to Create a Digital Video Library
  H. Wactlar, A. Hauptmann, and M.J. Witbrock
  tech. report CMU-CS-98-109, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, March, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [46 KB], ps.gz [85 KB] copyrighted

• Multi-Lingual Informedia: A Demonstration of Speech Recognition and Information Retrieval across Multiple Languages
  A. Hauptmann, P. Scheytt, H. Wactlar, and P.E. Kennedy
  Proceedings of the DARPA Workshop on Broadcast News Understanding Systems, February, 1998. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [21 KB], ps.gz [22 KB] copyrighted

• Transcribing Multilingual Broadcast News Using Hypothesis Driven Lexical Adaptation
  P. Geutner, unknown, P. Scheytt, unknown, and H. Wactlar
  Proceedings of the DARPA Broadcast News Workshop 1998, 1998.
  Download: pdf [150 KB], ps.gz [263 KB] copyrighted

• Indexing and Search of Multimodal Information
  A. Hauptmann and H. Wactlar
  Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-97), April, 1997.
  Download: pdf [57 KB] copyrighted

• The Next Generation Electronic Library - Capturing the Experience
  H. Wactlar
  ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 28, No. 4, December, 1996, pp. 114.
  Download: pdf [9 KB] copyrighted

• Intelligent Access to Digital Video: The Informedia Project
  H. Wactlar, T. Kanade, M. Smith, and S. Stevens
  IEEE Computer, Vol. 29, No. 5, May, 1996, pp. 46-52. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1266 KB] copyrighted

• Informedia: News-on-Demand Experiments in Speech Recognition
  H. Wactlar, A. Hauptmann, and M. Witbrock
  Proceedings of ARPA Speech Recognition Workshop, Arden House, Harriman, NY, February, 1996. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [62 KB] copyrighted

• Techniques for the Creation and Exploration of Digital Video Libraries
  M. Christel, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, S. Stevens, and H. Wactlar
  Multimedia Tools and Applications, Borko Furht, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Vol. 2, 1996.
  Download: pdf [273 KB] copyrighted

• Automated Video Segmentation for On-Demand Retrieval from Very Large Video Libraries
  H. Wactlar, A. Hauptmann, M. Smith, and K. Pendyala
  The 138th SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Technical Conference and World Expo, 1995.

• Informedia Digital Video Library
  M. Christel, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, M. Sirbu, S. Stevens, and H. Wactlar
  Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 4, 1995, pp. 57 - 58.

• Technical Challenges for the Informedia Digital Video Library
  H. Wactlar, M. Christel, S. Stevens, T. Kanade, M. Mauldin, R. Reddy, and M. Smith
  Technical Challenges for the Informedia Digital Video Library, 1995.

• Informedia Digital Video Library
  M. Christel, S. Stevens, and H. Wactlar
  Proceedings of the ACM Multimedia '94 Conference, October, 1994, pp. 480 - 481.