Abstract Systems and methods of authoring a multimedia file are described. In one method
of authoring a multimedia file, a collection of media objects, including a reference media …

Video is a communications medium that normally brings together moving pictures with a
synchronised audio track into a discrete piece or pieces of information. The size of a “piece” …

In this paper, we introduce and evaluate two novel approaches, one using video stream and
the other using close-caption text stream, for segmenting TV news into stories. The …

Due to the explosion of news materials available through broadcast and other channels,
there is an increasing need for personalised news video retrieval. In this work, we introduce …

Digital audio & video data have become an integral part of multimedia information systems.
To reduce storage and bandwidth requirements, they are commonly stored in a compressed …

This paper describes a method for automatically detecting human faces in generic video
sequences. We employ an iterative algorithm in order to give a confidence measure for the …

This paper presents a novel technique for story segmentation of news videos. The visual
similarity, silence in the audio and the text in text boxes of a news video are used as …

The “Físchlár” systems are a family of tools for capturing, analysis, indexing, browsing,
searching and summarisation of digital video information. Físchlár-News-Stories, described …

The extensive amount of media coverage today, generates difficulties in identifying and
selecting desired information. Browsing and retrieval systems become more and more …

The paper presents an approach to segmenting broadcast TV news programmes
automatically into individual news stories. We first segment the programme into individual …