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Abstract

Important information is often generated at meetings but identifying, and retrieving that information after the meeting is not always simple. Automatically capturing such information and making it available for later retrieval has therefore become a topic of some interest. Most approaches to this problem have involved constructing specialized instrumented meeting rooms that allow a meeting to be captured in great detail. We propose an alternate approach that focuses on people’s information retrieval needs and makes use of a light-weight data collection system that allows data acquisition on portable equipment, such as personal laptops. Issues that arise include the integration of information from different audio and video streams and optimumuse of sparse computing resources. This paper describes our current development of a light-weight portable meeting recording infrastructure, as well as the use of streams of visual and audio information to derive structure from meetings. The goal is to make meeting contents easily accessible to people.

Notes

Sponsor: National Business Center (NBC) of the Department of the Interior (DOI) under a subcontract from SRI International.

Associated Center(s) / Consortia: Vision and Autonomous Systems Center

Associated Lab(s) / Group(s): People Image Analysis Consortium and MultiRobot Lab

Associated Project(s): Camera Assisted Meeting Event Observer

Number of pages: 6

Text Reference

Alexander Rudnicky, Paul Rybski, Satanjeev Banerjee, and Manuela Veloso, "Intelligently Integrating Information from Speech and Vision Processing to Perform Light-weight Meeting Understanding," International Conference on Multi-modal Interfaces (ICMI), International Workshop on Multimodal Multiparty Meeting Processing , October, 2005.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Rudnicky_2005_6659,
   author = "Alexander Rudnicky and Paul Rybski and Satanjeev Banerjee and Manuela Veloso",
   title = "Intelligently Integrating Information from Speech and Vision Processing to Perform Light-weight Meeting Understanding",
   booktitle = "International Conference on Multi-modal Interfaces (ICMI), International Workshop on Multimodal Multiparty Meeting Processing ",
   month = "October",
   year = "2005",
}

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