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University: University of Glasgow
Sector(s): Information & Communications Technologies, Creative Industries
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A video retrieval system has been developed which automatically captures daily news broadcasts and segments the bulletins into news stories according to the user’s interests.
NewsBoy aims to adapt to the user’s multiple aspects of interest by capturing implicit interactions with its graphical interface, extracting terms from visited video documents and storing them in user profiles. The terms are weighted based on the type of implicit feedback and multiple interests are identified by clustering the content of the profile. The interface provides various features which are employed as a feedback source.
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The initial application area chosen is news retrieval for the consumer market, however, the core event detection and classification technology would also be suitable for use in applications where video asset management is a key requirement, such as:-
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A technology demonstrator has been implemented in software and is available as an Easy Access licence deal to interested companies and individuals.
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