The MIRACLE video search engine
David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Behzad Shahraray · 2006
This paper presents some of the searching and browsing features of the MIRACLE Video Search Engine. The rapid increase in the generation and dissemination of information and entertainment in video form has created a need for video search engines that facilitate finding and browsing relevant information. MIRACLE is an ongoing project at AT&T Labs aimed at addressing this need. This video search engine combines existing metadata with content-based information that is automatically extracted from the media components, or is obtained from other sources, to achieve this goal. A Web-based user interface provides browsing mechanisms that take advantage of the user’s perceptual abilities to refine the search results. The MIRACLE search engine currently operates on an archive of more than 32,000 hours of video that have been collected and automatically indexed over a ten year period.