Prototyping The VISION Digital Video Library System

The digital libraries of the future will provide electronic access to information in many di erent forms Recent technological advances make the storage and transmission of digital video information possible This project is to design and implement a digital video library system prototype suitable for storage indexing and retrieving video and audio information and providing that information across the Internet The goal is to allow users to quickly search indices for multiple videos to locate segments of interests and view and manipulate these segments on their remote computers A minimum of one hour of video which will serve as the searching information source will be digitized segmented and stored in a database An initial VISION prototype that handles video clips in KUIM video le format was implemented It has been modi ed to handle video data in AVI video le format with JPEG compression Videos soundtracks and transcripts are digitized and information from the soundtrack and transcripts is used to automatically index videos in a clip by clip manner While this technology would be applicable to any collection of videos we are aiming at the educational user providing teachers with the ability to select segments of videos which complement their lessons This system prototype will serve as the pilot work of the VISION project in which a complete and fully functioning digital video library system will be implemented and evaluated Video Indexing for SearchIng Over Networks