CENTRE FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING

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• CENTRE FOR DIGITAL VIDEO PROCESSING

School of Computer Applications School of
Electronic Engineering
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Fischlar OVERVIEW

• Most CDVP research goes into a single
  demonstration system called
• Recording, analysis, browsing, and playback of
  digital video
• Currently, material is broadcast TV from 8
  channels
• Users select programmes from TV schedule with
  genre (category) assigned
• We capture, detect shots, scenes keyframes
• Users browse programme keyframes and then
  playback

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CURRENT Use

• is very popular ...
• 1,000 users on campus
• currently record 10-15 hours / day
• Used from computing labs, residences, main
  library
• Used for entertainment and for teaching
  learning
• We can store 300 hours (400 TV programmes) online
  at any one time
• We can have up to 200 simultaneous playbacks

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• The DEMO !!!

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT

• We currently do recording, indexing, browsing and
  playback
• We are developing new ways to interact with
  digital video
• search our digital library of video
• alert on transmission of certain material
• generate a portfolio of clips on a given topic
• summarise a program into 5 minutes
• Also, automatic linking and weaving together of
  video segments

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT

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RESEARCH TASKS

• Our work is very visual, friendly, but to develop
  these functionalities involves research into
• audio analysis
• image processing
• information retrieval
• motion analysis
• storage management
• user interfaces
• video coding

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UNDER DEVELOPMENT PLATFORMS

• Until now ... accessed from a desktop PC, with a
  web browser
• Can select recording from mobile phone WAP and
  SMS
• Now full access from a wireless PDA including
  playback

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PEOPLE INVOLVED
and 37 others ... visitors, researchers, summer
interns, and students
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FUNDING

• National Software Directorate (Enterprise
  Ireland) (1997-2000)
• ASTI-2 project (Enterprise Ireland) (2000)
• Informatics 2000 (Enterprise Ireland) (2000-2003)
  
• EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Researcher
  (2000-2002)
• HEA PRTLI RINCE (2000-2002)
• Dublin City University (1997-)
• Industrial support SUN Microsystems, Parthus,
  Logica