Content-Based Video Retrieval in Historical Collections of the German Broadcasting Archive [chapter]

Markus Mühling, Manja Meister, Nikolaus Korfhage, Jörg Wehling, Angelika Hörth, Ralph Ewerth, Bernd Freisleben
2016 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
The German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) maintains the cultural heritage of radio and television broadcasts of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The uniqueness and importance of the video material stimulates a large scientific interest in the video content. In this paper, we present an automatic video analysis and retrieval system for searching in historical collections of GDR television recordings. It consists of video analysis algorithms for shot boundary detection, concept
more » ... ion, person recognition, text recognition and similarity search. The performance of the system is evaluated from a technical and an archival perspective on 2,500 hours of GDR television recordings.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-43997-6_6 fatcat:3v5tz7pju5bedpnsp23ar4rr5q