Computing a Multimedia Representation for Documents Given Time and Display Constraints

Author

Erol, Berna ; Berkner, Kathrin ; Joshi, Siddharth ; Hull, Jonathan J.

Author_Institution

Ricoh California Res. Center, Menlo Park, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 July 2006

Firstpage

2133

Lastpage

2136

Abstract

It is difficult to view multipage, high resolution documents on devices with small displays. As a solution, we introduce a multimedia thumbnail representation, which can be seen as a multimedia clip that provides an automated guided tour through a document. Multimedia thumbnails are automatically generated by taking a document image as input and first performing visual and audible information analysis on the document to determine salient document elements. Next, the time and information attributes for each document element are computed by taking into account the display and application constraints. An optimization routine, given a time constraint, selects elements to be included in the multimedia thumbnail. Last, the selected elements are synthesized into animated images and audio to create the final multimedia representation

Keywords

audio-visual systems; computer animation; document image processing; image representation; image resolution; information analysis; multimedia computing; animated image; audible information analysis; display constraint; document image; multimedia thumbnail representation; optimization routine; time constraint; visual information analysis; Animation; Auditory displays; Computer displays; Constraint optimization; Image analysis; Marine animals; Multimedia computing; Navigation; Text analysis; Time factors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0366-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2006.262657

Filename

4037054