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Enhancing Access to European Audiovisual Archives: The ECHO Project Overview

The ECHO (European Chronicles On-line) project aims to facilitate access and searching of vast audiovisual archives over the internet. Launched on February 1, 2000, it focuses on managing historical documentaries, adopting appropriate metadata formats, supporting multiple languages, and integrating both manual and automated indexing. The project has culminated in the creation of an advanced system for video summarization, semantic expansion, and improved metadata functionalities. With contributions from various international partners, the ECHO project enhances the interoperability of digital film collections.

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Enhancing Access to European Audiovisual Archives: The ECHO Project Overview

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  1. ECHO - European Chronicles On-line Pasquale SavinoI.E.I. - C.N.R.Via Alfieri, 1 - 56127 PisaE-mail: savino@iei.pi.cnr.ithttp://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/People/Savino.html ECHO Web-site: http://pc-erato2.iei.pi.cnr.it/echo/

  2. Project Figures • Starting date: February 1, 2000 • Duration: 30 months • Total effort: 475.8 p/m ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  3. Project Objectives Make possible to access and search by content over the net, large and inter-operating audio visual archives. • Management of historical documentaries • Definition and adoption of an appropriate metadata format • Support of multiple languages • Integration of manual and automatic indexing • Creation of automatic video summaries • Validation through testbeds of documentary film archives ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  4. ECHO System Overview L i b r a r y C r e a t i o n L i b r a r y C r e a t i o n Offline L i b r a r y E x p l o r a t i o n L i b r a r y E x p l o r a t i o n Online Digital Compression Interactive Story Selection Speech User Request Image Natural Language Indexed Video Database Recognition Extraction Interpretation Segmented Indexed Compressed Segmentation Transcript Semantic-expansion Audio/Video Translation Requested Video Segment Indexed Video Database Video Metadata Segmented Indexed Compressed Transcript Audio/Video ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  5. The Partners Project coordination IEI-CNR (I) Content providers Istituto Luce (I) Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (F) Stichting Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief (NL) Memoriav (CH) ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  6. The Partners (cont.) Industrial partners Tecmath (D) Media Site (GR) Eurospider Information Technology (CH) Research institutions IEI-CNR (I) Istituto Trentino di Cultura (I) Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique (F) University of Mannheim (D) Carnegie Mellon University (USA) ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  7. Project Activities • User requirements collection and analysis • Content selection and preparation • Metadata format definition and acquisition • System architecture design and detailed specification • System development and test • System Evaluation • Field Trials ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  8. Partner’s roles User Requirements Content selection Field trials Speech Recognition Video Summaries System Architecture System Development Advanced indexing & search Content Providers Research Institutions Industrial Partners ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  9. Project Milestones • Phase 1 • Collection and analysis of user requirements • Collection analysis and selection • Film metadata model definition • System Functionality and Global Architecture Completed by September 2000 ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  10. Project Milestones • Phase 2 • Specification and development of ECHO first prototype • Automatic indexing of documentary films • Adaptation and integration of four speech recognition engines for mono-lingual content-based indexing and retrieval. Completed by April 2001 ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  11. Project Milestones • Phase 3 • Specification and development of the ECHO final prototype. • Metadata editor • Indexing of the complete ECHO collection • Retrieval based on audio transcripts and metadata • Interoperability of digital film collection. • Automatic film summary. Completed by December 2001 ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  12. Project Milestones • Phase 4 • Evaluation • Validation • Dissemination Completed by August 2002 ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

  13. Some key technical issues • Metadata format • Interoperability • Integration of automatic and manual indexing • Automatic speech recognition of old documentary material • Cross Language Retrieval • Automatic abstracting • Image “understanding” for face, text and object recognition ECHO – European CHronicles On Line

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