StoryImaging: a media-rich presentation system for textual stories

Authors:
Genliang Guan;Zhiyong Wang;Xian-Sheng Hua;Dagan Feng
Affiliations:
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia;Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA;University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Venue:
MM '11 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Year:
2011

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The Story Picturing Engine---a system for automatic text illustration

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)

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Abstract

In this demo, we develop the StoryImaging system to illustrate a textual story with both images harvested from the Web and synthesized speech. At the backend, a story is firstly processed to identify key terms such as named entities and to obtain the story summary. With the aid of commercial search engines, images are then collected from the Web for those key terms and re-ranked by taking the summary as context. At last, images are clustered to provide an overview of the story. At the web-based frontend, the user interface has been tailored to both improve information comprehension and provide engaging and explorative experiences for users by closely bridging textual and visual modalities.