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Howard Wactlar
Vice Provost Res Computing/Res.Professor, RI/CS

Associated center: MRTC

Email address: wactlar@cmu.edu

Mailing address:
MRT Center
The Robotics Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
(412) 268 6553 (Jim Osborn, Executive Director)
(412) 268 6436 (FAX)

For more information, see my personal homepage.

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Research interest keywords

machine understanding of video and human behavior, multimedia information systems, and quality-of-life technology

Current Projects

Informedia Digital Video Library - Informedia Digital Video Library - Informedia is pioneering new approaches for automated video and audio indexing, navigation, visualization, summarization search, and retrieval and embedding them in systems for use in education, health care, defense intelligence and understanding of human activity.

Quality of Life Technology Center - QoLT is a unique partnership between Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh that brings together a cross-disciplinary team of technologists, clinicians, industry partners, end users, and other stakeholders to create revolutionary technologies that will improve and sustain the quality of life for all people.

Recent publications [View all 21 publications]

• 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