The developing interest in recording digital diaries or archives of one’s life needs a good indexing and search capability to be useful or interesting. Diaries can be any combination of audio, video, geographic location, photos, phone logs, and whatever other multimedia data the user generates or accesses. To make the data accessible, it needs to be parsed into indexable, browsable, and searchable structures such as places, environments, episodes, actions, and events of various sorts, and clustered and tagged with categories, identities, and tags of whatever sort the user proposes. A UI is needed to browse and manually improve these structures and tags, and to search for things that the user knows about but that the system hasn’t yet learned a name for.
The challenge is to develop good schema, algorithms, UI, etc., that will be useful for diaries from audio-only through full-featured multimedia. Specializations to certain contexts, as well as generic systems, are all of interest.
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on Mar 1st, 2010 at 7:36 pm
How can I such data? Any suggestion?
on Mar 1st, 2010 at 7:38 pm
I mean… how can I get such data? Any training data available…? Or do I need to collect them by myself?
on Mar 2nd, 2010 at 4:12 am
Naturally personal diaries cannot be provided, it is suggested to use your own personal multimedia data. Especially of interest are clever ways to make the indexing and retrieval through these diaries fast.