If you could see what I mean : descriptions of video in an anthropologist's video notebook

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-108).by Thomas G. Aguierre Smith.M.S

Parsing Movies in Context

Traditional approaches in Multimedia systems force the user to segment video material into simple descriptions, which usually include endpoints and a brief text description in the form of keywords. We propose to segment contextual information into chunks rather than segmenting contiguous frames. The computer can help us organize sets of descriptions that are related to the recorded moving image: it can help us remember what we have shot. Such descriptions can overlap, be contained in, and even encompass a multitude of other descriptions. Parsing moving image sequences is reduced to simply parsing the contextual information which forms the description. Our approach, Stratification, also has important ramifications in terms of an elastic representation of moving images. Ambient sound can provide us with important contextual clues as to what is going on within the frames. Using audio to find patterns of content is an important step towards the eventual automatization of the logging process