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• Based on the collection of documentaries of the Russian State Film & Photo Document Archive
• The greatest collection of silent and sound newsreels and other documentaries representing the history of Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union
• About 215,000 units (boxes with films) produced in Russia, USSR, and some other countries)
June 1999
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• To store a collection of documentaries• To provide the digitized video library for effective and easy access by its users
Project Project Objectives
Target Target Audience
• Citizens of the former Soviet Union• Students and researchers• Program producers• Emigrants and interested others living
outside Russia
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“Cinema Chronicle of Russia”Project Stages
1. To create a digital Russian/ English catalogue database About 10,000 film descriptions stored in the full-text database are already accessible on the Internet and on CD-ROM
Query facilities
Search by title, authors, subject, and other text information associated with films
2. To develop a digital library Full content-based video retrieval
Video Content
Human-provided metadata: content description, title, authors, technical parameters, and other textual data (may be taken from montage sheets, if they exist)
Speech
Captions
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TextualTextual ContentContent VisualVisual ContentContentVisual features
Domain objects
AudioAudio ContentContentBackground music
Laugh
Noise
Silence
and the like
… from various sources
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“Cinema Chronicle of Russia”Tools for Visual Content Definition
Segmentation of video stream
Visual features computation
Video content description in terms of visual features
Domain object detection
Object identification
Video visual content description in terms of
domain objects
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Color:- color histogram- color sets
Visual Features Computation
Shape:- bounding contours extraction- the Fourier transform of the contour curvature and of the distance between the contour points and the center of the figureTexture:- characteristics of a gray level cooccurence matrix- Gabor functions
Motion: optical flow
Uniform regions extracted by localization of the close gray values
Source video stream V(x,t)=(u(x,t),v(x,t))
Two dimensions of optical flow velocity:
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Optical flow method
Motion detectors
Computation of visual features (including motion-based features)
Program determining object’s presence or absence detects visual features specific for domain object
Object Detection in Video
The idea is to use information about motion not available in static images
Pixel-by-pixel comparison method
V(x,t)=(u(x,t),v(x,t))
Source
Person / Human Face Detection
The first step of image investigation is correction of illumination defects, contrast enhancement, etc.
Inspected area may be restricted to the regions first extracted by motion detector or by skin color detector
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In the project, object of the most interest is a person (or,at least, a human face).
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“Cinema Chronicle of Russia”Integrated Use of Comprehensive
Representation of Video ContentApplying the narrative content knowledge to the problem
of visual content understandingObject identification based on the interpretation of the corresponding text annotations
… for Various Tasks
Knowledge about frames containing pictures of certain persons, about their size and location, etc.
Organizing access to information based on: data of any represented type full content representation (a composite query)
Intelligent segmentation of a video stream: for indexing for search results representation
-description-00:21Title “Happy Children of Country of Socialism”. Episode 1.Close up of picture of Stalin with a childs. Shots of people crowding at exhibition. Children look at exhibits. Close-ups of their faces and guide who explains.Episode 2.Hoisting of a flag. A young pioneer (children) summer camp in the morning. Children are swimming in the Gaskon river. Children are drawing, playing draughts, dance round dances. Close up of entrance and general shot of Park for children in the Soviet far Eastern city of Khabarovsk. A tutor is swinging ham-mocks with kids. Children play with baby bear, they dance, play harmonica. Close ups of kids’ faces.03:12Title - “Amateur Performances of Red Navy Sailors”.Title - “Red Navy Ensemble”. A performance of a group of Red Navy seamen in white uniform. Close ups of their faces.
-number- 3002-type- film magazine-title- “Union’s Film Magazine” N 39-year- 1938-studio- Union’s Newsreel-country- USSR-language- Russian-parts- 1-time- 11:41-color- black/white-sound- talking-format- 35mm-origin- positive-directors- —-camera- F.Pechul, G.Simonov (00:21); G.Ostrovsky (03:06); Barbutly, V.Sobovoy (05:02);M.Livshitz, O.Samutsevich, N.Lytkin (06:55); G.Simonov, R.Solovyev (10:12)-subject- Exhibition of Children’s Technical and Agricultural Achievements; Amateur performances of Red Navy Sailors. Rally for sailors of the MS “Smidovich” team; In summer military camp; “Prominent People of Our Country” - M.N.Mazai;
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