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[Project image] Informedia Digital Video Library
Head: Howard Wactlar
Contact: Colleen Everett (everett@cs.cmu.edu)

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Informedia Digital Video Library
Carnegie Mellon University
School of Computer Science
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

informedia@cs.cmu.edu

Associated center: VASC

For more information, see this project's homepage.

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Project Description

The overarching goal of the Informedia initiatives is to achieve machine understanding of video and film media, including all aspects of search, retrieval, visualization and summarization in both contemporaneous and archival content collections. The base technology developed under Informedia-I combines speech, image and natural language understanding to automatically transcribe, segment and index linear video for intelligent search and image retrieval. Informedia-II seeks to improve the dynamic extraction, summarization, visualization, and presentation of distributed video, automatically producing collages and auto-documentaries that summarize documents from text, images, audio and video into one single abstraction.

Research efforts underway apply Informedia technology to the domains of education, health care, defense intelligence and the coordination and understanding of human activity. Informedia also has international digital library collaborations in Europe and Asia that have produced multilingual, multi-cultural and cross-lingual versions.

For complete information visit the project web site at http://www.Informedia.cs.cmu.edu

Our subprojects include:

Personnel [Past Members]

Name Title Email Address
Chris's personal homepage Chris Atkeson Professor, RI/HCII cga@cs.cmu.edu
Robert's personal homepage Robert Baron Principal Research Programmer, CS rvb@cmu.edu
Datong Chen Systems Scientist, CS datong@cs.cmu.edu
Mike's personal homepage Mike Christel Senior Systems Scientist, CS christel@cs.cmu.edu
Mark's personal homepage Mark Derthick Adjunct Research Associate, HCII mad@cs.cmu.edu
Colleen's personal homepage Colleen Everett Communications Manager, CS everett@cs.cmu.edu
Christos Faloutsos Professor, CS christos@cs.cmu.edu
Alex's personal homepage Alex Hauptmann Senior Systems Scientist, CS alex@cs.cmu.edu
Dale James Managing Editor, CS dale@cs.cmu.edu
Takeo's personal homepage Takeo Kanade U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Prof., RI/CS tk@cs.cmu.edu
Melissa Keaton Administrative Associate, CS melissa@cs.cmu.edu
John's personal homepage John Lafferty Professor, LTI lafferty@cs.cmu.edu (Currently On Leave)
Bryan Maher Manager of Systems Engineering, CS bsm@cs.cmu.edu
Dorbin's personal homepage Dorbin Ng Systems Scientist, CS
Henry Schneiderman Adjunct Faculty (Adjunct) hws@ux1.sp.cs.cmu.edu
Scott's personal homepage Scott Stevens Senior Systems Scientist, HCII sms@cs.cmu.edu
Raul's personal homepage Raul Valdes-Perez Adjunct Associate Professor, CS valdes@cs.cmu.edu
Howard's personal homepage Howard Wactlar Vice Provost Res Computing/Res.Professor, RI/CS wactlar@cmu.edu
Jie Yang Senior Systems Scientist, CS yang+@cs.cmu.edu
Yiming's personal homepage Yiming Yang Professor, LTI yiming@nl.cs.cmu.edu

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