Informedia Digital Library

The Informedia Digital Library is an ongoing research program at Carnegie Mellon University to build search engines and information visualization technology for many types of media. [ [http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/ the Informedia initiatives] 1994-2008 Carnegie Mellon.] [Alexander G. Hauptmann (1997). [http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/documents/CHI97.pdf "Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Interface to a Digital Video Library"] . Proceedings of the CHI-97 Computer-Human Interface Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 1997.]

The program has carried out research on Spoken Document Retrieva] , Video Information Retrieval, Video Segmentation, face recognition, and Cross-language information retrieval.

The Lycos search engine was an early product of the Informedia Digital Library Project.

The project is led by Howard Wactlar. Researchers on the project have included: Michael Mauldin, Alex Hauptmann, Michael Christel, Michael Witbrock, Raj Reddy, Takeo Kanade and Scott Stevens.

References

Further reading

* Xiuqi Li and Borko Furht. [http://www.cse.fau.edu/~borko/Chapter18_ic.pdf "DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES"] .
* Howard D. Wactlar (1996). [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hdw/Computer96.pdf "Intelligent Access to Digital Video: Informedmia Project"] .