In this paper, we present a system we have developed for automatic TV News video indexing that successfully combines results from the fields of speaker verification, acoustic analysis, very large vocabulary video OCR, content based sampling of video, information retrieval, dialogue systems, and ASF media delivery over IP. The prototype of TV news content processing Web was completed in July 2003. Since then, the system has been up running continuously. Up to the date when this message is written (March 27, 2006), the system records and analyzes the prime time evening news program in Taiwan every day of these years, except a few power failure shutdown. The TV news web is at http://140.113.216.64/NewsQuery/main.asp Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.5 [INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL]: Online Information Services ? Commercial services, Data sharing, Web-based services General Terms Documentation, Design, Experimentation, Human Factors Keywords TV news, video OCR, information retri...
Hsin-Chia Fu, Yeong-Yuh Xu, C. L. Tseng