Video Description Lecture
Nowadays, digital videos are everywhere and revolutionize very many domains, notably:
-Digital Media (video/movie) Content Production and Broadcasting,
-Social Media Streaming and Analytics (g., YouTube),
-Mobile computing and streaming
-Videoconferencing
-Medical/Biological/Dental Imaging and Diagnosis,
-Big Visual Data Analytics,
-Internet and Communications (media broadcasting, streaming).
-Scientific Imaging of any sort, e.g., Physics.
Furthermore, Video Processing and Analysis enables diverse applications, in unison with Computer Vision and Machine Learning:
-Autonomous Systems (cars, drones, vessels) Perception,
-Robotics Perception and Control,
-Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction,
-Anthropocentric (human-centered) Computing,
-Smart Cities/Buildings and Assisted living.
Visual Computing, encompassing Computer Vision and Video Processing and Analysis, coupled with AI (notably Machine Learning and Deep Neural Network) advances hit the news almost every day.
This lecture overviews that has many applications in broadcasting archives abd video description, search, retrieval and browsing. It covers the following topics in detail: MPEG-7 description Standard: Parts, Descriptors, Audiovisual Description Profile (AVDP). Video analysis / annotation software. EBUCore description Standard. PBCore description Standard. Standards and Usages. YouTube API & CNN Archive Metadata. Media Asset Management Systems (MAMs).