Multimedia Information Access

The problem of information overload can be solved by the application of information retrieval systems to the huge amount of data. This application in mind, the design of a multimedia information access system is discussed. Information on radio and television can be retrieved using the audio track. A design problem for a multimedia filtering system using speech recognition is introduced and a prototype system is developed on top of the INQUERY information access system. The problem of automatic segmentation is explained and an implementation of audio segmentation in silence, speech, music and other is evaluated. Contents 1 INTRODUCTION 3 2 PROBLEM STATEMENT AND MOTIVATION 5 2.1 The Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.2 Outline of a Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Multimedia Information Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 The Indexing a Sea of Audio Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 2.5 The Thes..