DRUID
Multimedia Indexing & Retrieval on the basis of Image Processing & Language and Speech TechnologySummary
DRUID aims at the development of tools for the indexing and retrieval of multimedia content. The research will advance existing insights and deploy the potential synergy between technologies from various expertise domains: language & speech technology, image processing and database technology. In terms of the objects to be made available for retrieval, the project will cover continuous objects containing text and/or speech elements (e.g. video and audio fragments), as well as static objects, ranging from paper documents and textually annotated images, to web pages. Both fundamental research, as well as prototyping, tools testing and usability studies are part of the work plan.
- Spoken document retrieval demo
- Spoken document retrieval demo 2 (restricted access)
- Language identification demo
- Automatic text classification demo (restricted access)
Project Duration and Funding
DRUID is a project within the scientific program of the Telematica Instituut. This institute is co-funded by the Dutch government and a number of industrial partners with the aim to advance state of the art in the area of ICT. DRUID started in 1998 and ran until the end of 2001. A prologation was given for a small part of the project for 2002 and 2003.Project Partners
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Contact Information
Project co-ordinator: Prof. Dr. F.M.G. de Jong tel +31 53 4893740Address: University of Twente, PO BOX 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
Last modified April 2001 by Thijs Westerveld