VIRUS: video information retrieval using subtitles

  • Authors:
  • Thibault Langlois;Teresa Chambel;Eva Oliveira;Paula Carvalho;Gonçalo Marques;André Falcão

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculdade Ciências da Universidade, de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Faculdade Ciências da Universidade, de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal;Faculdade Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th International Academic MindTrek Conference: Envisioning Future Media Environments
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Video is a very rich medium that is becoming increasingly dominant. A massive amount of video information is available, but very difficult to access if not adequately indexed: a challenging task to accomplish. We describe a Video Information Retrieval system, under development, that operates on a database composed of subtitled documents. The simultaneous analysis of video, subtitles and audio streams is performed in order to index, visualize and retrieve excerpts of video documents that share a certain emotional or semantic property.