Section: Application Domains

Video Annotation, Interpretation, and Retrieval

Both specific and category-level object and scene recognition can be used to annotate, augment, index, and retrieve video segments in the audiovisual domain. The Video Google system developed by Sivic and Zisserman (2005) for retrieving shots containing specific objects is an early success in that area. A sample application, suggested by discussions with Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) staff, is to match set photographs with actual shots in film and video archives, despite the fact that detailed timetables and/or annotations are typically not available for either medium. Automatically annotating the shots is of course also relevant for archives that may record hundreds of thousands of hours of video. Some of these applications will be pursued in our MSR-INRIA project, in which INA is one of our partners.