On 9/26/02 3:23 PM, "T. Breheny / DiGiTAL ZEN" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Once Upon A Time, email@hidden wrote:
>
>> You mean that I could 'present' a short video clip of a 'Cross Body
>> Lead' to a video database and the software would hunt up all similar
>> clips to the clip I 'presented'.
>
>
> seems like something similar to this was demo'd in an apple keynote a few
> years back... think it was a specialized oracle database integrated w/ QT.
>
> lots of immediate fanfare, then i never heard of it again. :{
That was Oracle's Intermedia product.
http://www.oracle.com/intermedia
It can parse QuickTime files, index QT Text tracks, etc. (It's leveraging
QT Java).
One of the main problems right now is getting the right metadata in the
databases. Luckily there are companies working on ways to auto-index video.
Not only are they indexing scene changes, they are indexing color patterns,
limited facial recognition, voice patterns, etc.
VideoLogger from Virage is an example of an auto-indexing tool:
http://www.virage.com/products/details.cfm?productID=5&categoryID=1
--
David Egbert
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