An Audio Indexing System for Election Video Material
Venue
Proceedings of ICASSP (2009), pp. 4873-4876
Publication Year
2009
Authors
Christopher Alberti, Michiel Bacchiani, Ari Bezman, Ciprian Chelba, Anastassia Drofa, Hank Liao, Pedro Moreno, Ted Power, Arnaud Sahuguet, Maria Shugrina, Olivier Siohan
BibTeX
Abstract
In the 2008 presidential election race in the United States, the prospective
candidates made extensive use of YouTube to post video material. We developed a
scalable system that transcribes this material and makes the content searchable (by
indexing the meta-data and transcripts of the videos) and allows the user to
navigate through the video material based on content. The system is available as an
iGoogle gadget as well as a Labs product. Given the large exposure, special
emphasis was put on the scalability and reliability of the system. This paper
describes the design and implementation of this system.
