Automatic, context-of-capture-based categorization, structure detection and segmentation of news telecasts

  • Authors:
  • Arne Jacobs;George T. Ioannidis;Stavros Christodoulakis;Nektarios Moumoutzis;Stratos Georgoulakis;Yiannis Papachristoudis

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Computing Technologies, TZI, University of Bremen, Germany;Center for Computing Technologies, TZI, University of Bremen, Germany;Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete, MUSIC, Chania, Greece;Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete, MUSIC, Chania, Greece;Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete, MUSIC, Chania, Greece;Laboratory of Distributed Multimedia Information Systems and Applications, Technical University of Crete, MUSIC, Chania, Greece

  • Venue:
  • DELOS'07 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Digital libraries: research and development
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

The objective of the work reported here is to provide an automatic, context-of-capture categorization, structure detection and segmentation of news broadcasts employing a multimodal semantic based approach. We assume that news broadcasts can be described with context-free grammars that specify their structural characteristics. We propose a system consisting of two main types of interoperating units: The recognizer unit consisting of several modules and a parser unit. The recognizer modules (audio, video and semantic recognizer) analyze the telecast and each one identifies hypothesized instances of features in the audiovisual input. A probabilistic parser analyzes the identifications provided by the recognizers. The grammar represents the possible structures a news telecast may have, so the parser can identify the exact structure of the analyzed telecast.