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Computer Science Colloquium
| Category | Lecture |
| Date | Tuesday, September 4, 2007 |
| Time | 11:00 am |
| Location | GS 906 |
| Details | Light refreshments served in the 9th floor atrium at 10:45 AM. |
| Speaker | Kobus Barnard, Alon Efrat, Sandiway Fong |
| Affiliation | Department of Computer Science |
The SLIC Video Browsing System Project description and future plans
The SLIC the (Semantically Linked Instructional Content) project aims to assist students and scholars to efficiently browse and seek segments of interest in educational videos of lectures and talks. In particular, it focuses on lectures that use slides, where the content of the slides file gives valuable hints as to how to break the video into meaningful parts (segments), and how to enable students to access these segments. In this way, a student who is seeking a specific topic in the video of a lecture(s) can first find the relevant slide(s), and start watching the video only from the segment(s) where this slide was used. Using similar ideas, the system has the potential to improve significantly the understandability of the video, improve its quality, and increase the overall effectiveness of the learning process. Additionally, the system has promise for assisting students with disabilities and bilingual students to access the video.
During the talk we (Kobus Barnard, Alon Efrat and Sandiway Fong) will present the system, explain the algorithms that were developed for the system, demonstrate its usability and discuss the vast potential and the separate research project and challenges that the system poses.
The project was developed with Arnon Amir (IBM Almaden), Joe Chitwood (KUAT), Quanfu Fan, Ming Lin, Ranjini Swaminathan, Mohan Tanniru, Juhani Torkkola, and Andrew Winslow.