Intelligent
video analysis
Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition techniques are developed and applied to video
analysis in order to automatically obtain descriptions of contents
that can be used later for organization and retrieval from digital
video archives. Video OCR and face detection algorithms allow
us to obtain textual annotations directly from video images. Other
applications covered by our research group include content-based
image and video retrieval, and automatic video structuring.
Interoperability
All products developed
by Visual Century have used XML in order to allow for easy integration
and interoperability, thus foreseeing the use of MPEG-7 as a multimedia
content description standard. Intelligent video analysis will
allow us to automatically obtain partial MPEG-7 descriptions.
We are also working on new ways of taking the most out of new
standards for interoperability like MPEG-21 and MXF.
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User-centered
interfaces
New ways of interaction
between the user and multimedia systems will be required in order
to take full advantage of its capabilities. Tools like the Visual
Context Line enhance user experience and improve the usability
of the system. |
