Search party [digital media retrieval]
Simon N. Waddington · Communications Engineer · 2004
Service providers store and offer endless amounts of video content, but is anybody thinking about how users find what they want? Huge investments are being made in broadband wireless and wired IP networks, which enable users to access, large archives of video content. In order to stimulate the market for video services, there is a need for user-friendly video indexing and retrieval. This objective has been addressed by the EC IST project BUSMAN (bringing user satisfaction to media access networks). The article looks at the methods BUSMAN uses to make it easier for digital media users searching for the needle in the video haystack.