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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2003
Hugh W. Adams, Jr., Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Giridharen Iyengar, Mahopac, NY (US);
Ching-yung Lin, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Chalapathy V. Neti, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Belle L. Tseng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Hugh W. Adams, Jr., Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Giridharen Iyengar, Mahopac, NY (US);
Ching-Yung Lin, Forest Hills, NY (US);
Chalapathy V. Neti, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
John R. Smith, New Hyde Park, NY (US);
Belle L. Tseng, Cupertino, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A manual annotation system of multi-modal characteristics in multimedia files. There is provided an arrangement for selection an observation modality of video with audio, video without audio, audio with video, or audio without video, to be used to annotate multimedia content. While annotating video or audio features is isolation results in less confidence in the identification of features, observing both audio and video simultaneously and annotating that observation results in a higher confidence level.