Experiential meeting system

  • Authors:

  • Ramesh Jain;Pilho Kim;Zhao Li

  • Affiliations:

  • Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA;Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  • Venue:
  • ETP '03 Proceedings of the 2003 ACM SIGMM workshop on Experiential telepresence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We are developing experiential meeting systems to allow people to be tele-present in a remote meeting and to be able to review proceedings of a meeting or of several meetings using all the data recorded in a meeting. We consider this as a problem in management and experiential access to all multimedia data acquired in a meeting. The data includes video, audio, presentations, text material, databases and websites related to people and the discussions in the meeting, and any other data or information that could be obtained related to the events in the meeting. For experiential access to live and archived meetings, we propose detecting and storing events at three levels, domain, elemental, and data. We address issues in organizing information at domain level and using current signal processing algorithms for detecting events at data level. We show that to provide better specifications for processing algorithms for video and audio, it is essential to identify what is expected from them and define the environment and expectations very clearly. We also believe that while data processing algorithms are being developed for automatic detection of events, it may be essential to build tagging environments that will allow rapid semiautomatic tagging of data at all three levels so practical meeting systems could be implemented. Use of tagging environment is not only required to enable development of meeting systems in near future, but for defining environments for automatic detection of events in multifarious data. In this paper we present our ideas and experience with different techniques and outline our future directions.