[LINK] Re: searchable video

Liddy Nevile liddy at sunriseresearch.org
Sun Jan 6 06:56:49 AEDT 2008


And the Indians I met last year are searching images of archival  
texts in many languages by matching images of words rather than  
transcribing everything to do that.

Liddy

On 05/01/2008, at 3:45 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

>
>>
>>  SEARCHABLE VIDEO LECTURES .. video indexing
>> using automatic speech recognition technology.
>> <http://web.sls.csail.mit.edu/lectures/>
>> <http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19747/page1/>
>
>
> Searching videos will be essential in future. MIT's working on
> speech recognition .. Google's the other way, text recognition.
>
>
> WebProNews. January 5, 2008  <http://www.WebProNews.com>
>
> Patent For Google. by David A. Utter | Staff Writer
>
> "Recognizing Text In Images" served as the main idea for a Google
> patent filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization.
>
> The search engine could have another avenue for gathering
> information from the world it sees. A pair of Google's engineers
> have applied for a patent that would enable machines to read text
> included in pictures.
>
> An InformationWeek report said the patent would allow tasks like
> searching videos by keywords appearing in the content as one example.
>
> Pulling off a technology that could do this would be quite a feat.
> In a real world full of myriad typefaces and languages, it seems
> Google will have a challenge in implementing the patent, should
> they have plans to do so."
> --
>
> Cheers people
> Stephen Loosley
> Victoria Australia
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