Trying to find a video among terabytes or petabytes of digital data is analogous to finding a needle in a haystack. Sorting through all of that data poses challenges not only for how queries are performed, but also in how effectively the results are presented. innoVidea, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, is a project at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center and is an extension of the Informedia Project at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science that began in 1994 at a time when digital video was still relatively new. Informedia research applied speech recognition, image processing, and natural language processing to digital video resulting in a more robust video investigation.
Our goal is to create a suite of interactive interfaces to enable a general audience to easily browse multimedia representations of the Digital Video Library (DVL), in an immersive environment. By creating a unique browsing experience that is efficient but also fun and informative, we will enable users to identify and exercise pertinent information and eventually empower them to succeed in “finding a needle in a haystack.â€
