Re: Story bound segmentation task - anybody want to share ASR/CC segmentation

[Joop van Gent <gent@irion.nl>]

Dear Alan,

Thank you for the information. As you will have noticed I have been very 
silent over the last period. This is due to the fact that my occupation 
with our current expanding business is consuming all my time. I wish I had 
more time to do participate in the interesting things you propose, but am 
afraid that I will have to prolongue my role as an auditor/spectator the 
coming period.

All the best,

Joop



At 16:20 09/07/2003 -0400, Prof. Alan Smeaton wrote:

>Folks
>
>This message will be of interest to those taking part in the story bound
>segmentation task in TRECVID.  As you know from the guidelines, we are
>all required to do certain runs, as follows:
>
>    1.Required: Video + Audio (no ASR/CC)
>    2.Required: Video + Audio + ASR/CC
>    3.Required: ASR/CC (no Video + Audio)
>.. and so on.  The rationale behind including video/audio with and
>without ASR/CC is to show how video/audio information can enhance story
>segmentation algorithms.
>
>Like some of you, we at CDVP/DCU will be taking part in this task,
>benchmarking our segmenter from the Fischlar system which combines audio
>and video analysis only, i.e. we don't use closed captions or automatic
>speech recognition.  That means we have two choices, we can
>
>(1) build an ASR/CC segmenter and combine with our A/V analyses or
>(2) use the ASR/CC segmentation provided from some other group
>
>Option (1) is the least attractive because we would be implementing some
>basic version of text-tiling or somesuch, just in order to complete the
>required runs and that would not really be exploring how video/audio
>analysis can enhance story segmentation.
>
>So, my question is to those who are
>(a) doing the story segmentation task and
>(b) are using an ASR/CC only segmentation and
>(c) are willing to share this with us and
>(d) might use our audio/video analysis in return.
>
>Anybody interested ?
>
>- Alan
>
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>Professor Alan F. Smeaton          [asmeaton-at-computing.DCU.ie]
>School of Computing
>Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, IRELAND.
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