PHAROS: AN AUDIOVISUAL SEARCH PLATFORM USING MUSIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES
Cyril Laurier, Mohamed Sordo, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Piero Fraternali · 2011
at building a platform for advanced audiovisual search applications. The Consortium comprises 12 partners from 9 European countries. 2 PHAROS unbundles the functionalities of an audiovisual search engine into an open servicebased ecosystem, where content can be submitted to customized analysis pipelines, third-party annotation components can be plugged-in, and content based search engines can be registered. PHAROS enables a variety of application scenarios, from content acquisition and enrichment, to annotation fusion, to multi-modal queries. Figure 1 shows the architecture of PHAROS, which supports two main process: Content Caption and Refinement (CCR) executes flow of operators on the captured content and produces XML metadata (subsequently indexed by a core XML search engine) and derived artifacts(used for similarity querying and result presentation); Query Execution and Result Presentation (QUIRP) accepts a user’s query (by keyword, by image