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Noel Murphy, School of Electronic
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The Fischlar Project
FÍSCHLÁR is a system that digitally records user-selected
broadcast TV programmes from any of 8 major TV channels into MPEG format
along with the associated teletext subtitles. It analyses the video part
of the content, structures it into shots and chooses a representative frame
for each shot. Using one of several web-based interfaces, a user can select
a recorded program and rapidly browse through its content, zooming in to
the sections of interest, and then playing the video directly to a desktop
or wireless-LAN-enabled PDA. Coupled with the PTV recommender system developed
at NUI Dublin, FÍSCHLÁR presents each user with a personalised
TV schedule of recommended programs yet to be broadcast, allowing them to
request the recording of programs. In addition, a recommended schedule of
programmes already broadcast, analysed, indexed and ready for browsing and
playback is the basic entry point for video content retrieval. See:
http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie/aboutfischlar.html
FÍSCHLÁR-NEWS is a based on a collection of news and
current affairs material being gathered on a daily basis, primarily for the
purposes of undergraduate and postgraduate journalism courses in DCU. It
is available on dedicated PCs in the DCU Library and is shortly to be rolled
out to other university libraries served by HEAnet. Using more sophisticated
analysis of the visual aspects of the material than in classic
FÍSCHLÁR, the news content can be browsed by topic. We are
also implementing the capability for subtitle-based keyword search through
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Dr Noel Murphy
Dr Noel Murphy, MIEEE, is a Senior Lecturer in Electronic Engineering
in DCU where he has fifteen years experience of teaching and programme
development and management, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
His primary degree was in theoretical physics (TCD 1985) and his postgraduate
work was on Computer Vision. He is an active member of the Visual Media
Processing group in RINCE, and in the Centre for Digital Video Processing
in DCU. His research interests include image and video coding, 3-D imaging
and visual perception.
During the last decade he contributed to the development of the ITU-T H.263
and ISO MPEG-4 video-coding standards.
The Centre for Digital Video Processing, DCU, is a small cohesive
interdisciplinary research group. It was established in 1996, received its
first research grant in 1997, and now, four years later is spinning off its
first commercial offshoot, Aliope Ltd. The centre is built on a passion to
find new and useful ways of working with Digital Video and Digital Media
in general, for the benefit of our society ¾ in Ireland and worldwide.
The mission of the Centre is to operate in the domain of developing and
evaluating automatic techniques for content-based operations on large
repositories of digital video information. See:
http://www.cdvp.dcu.ie |
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