Search for FlashTM Movies on the Web

  • Authors:
  • Jun Yang;Qing Li;Liu Wenyin;Yueting Zhuang

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • WISEW '02 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (Workshops) - (WISEw'02)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

FlashTM is experiencing a breathtaking growth andhas become one of the prevailing media formats on theWeb. Unfortunately, no research effort has beendedicated to automatic retrieval of Flash movies bycontent, which is critical to the utilization of the enormousFlash resource. A close examination reveals that theintrinsic complexity of a Flash movie, including itsheterogeneous components, its dynamic nature, and userinteractivity, makes Flash retrieval a host of researchissues. As the first endeavor in this area, we propose ageneric framework termed as FLAME (FLash Access andManagement Environment) embodying a 3-tierarchitecture that addresses the representation, indexing,and retrieval of Flash movies by mining andunderstanding of movie content. In particular, FLAMEfeatures a unique multi-level indexing and retrievalapproach that supports characterization and retrieval ofFlash at (1) object level, which describes theheterogeneous components embedded in a movie, (2)event level, which depicts the movie's dynamic effectsconstituted by the spatio-temporal features of objects, and(3) interaction level, which models the relationshipsbetween user behaviors and the consequential events. Anexperimental prototype for Web-based Flash retrieval isimplemented to verify the feasibility and effectiveness ofFLAME.