Author :
Tirakis, Andreas ; Katalagarianos, Panagiotis ; Papathomas, Michael ; Hamilakis, Christodoulos
Abstract :
The ESPRIT project DiVAN (EP 24956) aims at the building of a distributed audio-visual library system for TV broadcasters and video archives owners. The DiVAN system provides facilities to effectively, digitize, annotate, organize, store and access raw material in a coherent content-based manner, on top of high-speed wide area communication networks. Also, the project aims to demonstrate and assess the applicability and acceptability of the proposed system, through field trials on a DiVAN-based infrastructure interconnecting the archives of the users of the partnership, i.e. INA, RAI, and ERT. The consortium consists of industrial partners (i.e. INTRACOM, TECMATH), research institutes (i.e. ICS-FORTH, INRIA, Tech. Un. of Darmstadt) and users (i.e. Institut National de l´Audiovisuel-INA, Radiotelevisione Italiana-RAI and Greek National Broadcaster-ERT)
Keywords :
content-based retrieval; information retrieval systems; video databases; DiVAN; ESPRIT project; TV broadcasters; audio-visual archives network; content-based; distributed audio-visual library system; video archives; wide area communication networks; Buildings; Communication networks; Cultural differences; Documentation; File servers; Libraries; Multimedia communication; Raw materials; Scheduling; TV broadcasting;
