Handwritten Notes as a Visual Interface to Index, Edit and Publish Audio/Video Highlights

  • Authors:
  • Anselm Spoerri

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Digital libraries aim to make media-rich information accessible to "anyone, anywhere, anytime." However, digital audio and video are difficult to search and share. This paper describes Souvenir, a system which enables people to use their handwritten or text notes to retrieve and share specific media moments. Souvenir enables users to take time-stamped notes on a variety of devices, such as the paper-based CrossPad, the Palm Pilot and standard keyboard devices. Souvenir can segment unstructured handwriting into an effective media index without the need for handwriting recognition. People can use their notes to create hyperlinks to random-access media stored in digital libraries. Souvenir has also web publishing and email capabilities to enable anyone to access or email media moments directly from a web page. This paper presents an overview of Souvenir's functionality and describes its handwriting segmentation as well as note and media synchronization algorithms.