Automatic annotation of media field recordings
Eric Auer, Peter Wittenburg, Han Sloetjes, Oliver Schreer, Stefano Masneri, Daniel M. Schneider, Sebastian Tschöpel · MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) · 2010
Abstract. In the paper we describe a new attempt to come to au-tomatic detectors processing real scene audio-video streams that can be used by researchers world-wide to speed up their annotation and analysis work. Typically these recordings are taken in field and ex-perimental situations mostly with bad quality and only little corpora preventing to use standard stochastic pattern recognition techniques. Audio/video processing components are taken out of the expert lab and are integrated in easy-to-use interactive frameworks so that the researcher can easily start them with modified parameters and can check the usefulness of the created annotations. Finally a variety of detectors may have been used yielding a lattice of annotations. A flexible search engine allows finding combinations of patterns open-ing completely new analysis and theorization possibilities for the re-searchers who until were required to do all annotations manually and who did not have any help in pre-segmenting lengthy media record-ings. 1