Data Analysis for a Multimedia Library

This section describes the indexing, search, and retrieval of various combinations of audio, video, text, and image media and the automated content processing that enables it. The intent is to provide a framework for data analysis in multimedia digital libraries. The organization of this article is as follows: The introduction briefly distinguishes digital from traditional libraries and touches on the specific issues important to searching the content of multimedia libraries. The second section introduces the Informedia Digital Video Library as an example of a multimedia library, including a quick tour of the functionality. The next section discusses the processing of audio and image information, as it relates to a multimedia library. Section four illustrates the interplay between audio and video information using a video information retrieval experiment as an example. Section five discusses the exporting and sharing of metadata in a digital library using MPEG–7. Finally, section 6 presents one vision of a future digital library, where all personal memory can be recorded and accessed.