SPEAKER: HOWARD WACTLAR
Vice Provost for Research Computing, and Associate Dean and Alumni Research
Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
ABSTRACT:
SPEAKER BIO:
Informedia Immortality-on-Demand: Searchable video as a form of
personal memory
The Informedia digital video library project provides "full-content" search
and retrieval from broadcast and other produced video. Integrated speech,
image and natural language understanding technology are applied to
automatically transcribe, segment, and index the linear video. We extend
these capabilities to continuously recorded, unedited video which captures
the experiences of our lives. Using our techniques to accomplish
intelligent video search, navigation and selective retrieval from this
database, enables ourselves and others to recall the people, places,
events, and possibly all the information we have otherwise consumed
throughout our lives.
Howard D. Wactlar is Vice Provost for Research Computing, Associate Dean,
and holds the Alumni Research Professor of Computer Science chair in the
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been
University Vice Provost since 1979, serving in various research, technical
and administrative capacities within CMU since joining them in 1967. He
was a founder of the DoD funded Software Engineering Institute where he
served as Director for Technical and Administrative Services 1984-88;
served from 1992-95 as Director of the Information Technology Center, a
research department within CMU focused on large-scale deployment and
technology transfer. He was primary architect and is project director of
the Informedia Digital Video Library, one of the NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital
Library Initiative projects. His research accomplishments have spanned
from symbolic mathematics to distributed operating systems,
multi-technology network architectures and multimedia platforms. His
current research interests center on multimedia, networking, distributed
systems and performance measurement.