Video Searching by Sight and Script

Video Searching by Sight and Script an article published at Technology Review by Brendan Borrel

Researchers have designed an automated system to identify characters in television shows, paving the way for better video search.

Now researchers have developed a system that uses a combination of face recognition, close-captioning information, and original television scripts to automatically name the faces on that appear on screen, making episodes of the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer searchable.

"We basically see this work as one of the first steps in getting automated descriptions of what's happening in a video," says Mark Everingham, a computer scientist now at the University of Leeds (formerly of the University of Oxford), who presented his research at the British Machine Vision Conference in September.

Full article at Technology Review


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Computer Vision Group at University of California, Berkeley

Visual Geometry Group at Oxford University