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Content-based video retrieval in historical collections of the German Broadcasting Archive

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The German Broadcasting Archive maintains the cultural heritage of radio and television broadcasts of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The uniqueness and importance of the video material fosters a large scientific interest in the video content. In this paper, we present a system for automatic video content analysis and retrieval to facilitate search in historical collections of GDR television recordings. It relies on a distributed, service-oriented architecture and includes video analysis algorithms for shot boundary detection, concept classification, person recognition, text recognition and similarity search. The combination of different search modalities allows users to obtain answers for a wide range of queries, leading to satisfactory results in short time. The performance of the system is evaluated using 2500 h of GDR television recordings.

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  1. http://www.yovisto.com.

  2. http://www.osti.gov/sciencecinema.

  3. http://av.tib.eu.

  4. http://www.jordicom.ch/tv-media/.

  5. http://wdr-mediagroup.com.

  6. http://trecvid.nist.gov.

  7. http://www.cognitec.com.

  8. http://opencv.org.

  9. https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy.

  10. http://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/.

  11. https://developer.nvidia.com/devbox.

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Acknowledgements

This work is financially supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG; Funding Programme: “Förderung herausragender Forschungsbibliotheken”; Project: “Bild- und Szenenrecherche in historischen Beständen des DDR-Fernsehens im Deutschen Rundfunkarchiv durch automatische inhaltsbasierte Videoanalyse”; CR 456/1-1, EW 134/1-1, FR 791/12-1).

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Marburg, Hans-Meerwein-Str. 6, 35032, Marburg, Germany

    Markus Mühling, Nikolaus Korfhage & Bernd Freisleben

  2. German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB), Welfengarten 1B, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Ralph Ewerth

  3. German Broadcasting Archive, Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 20, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Manja Meister, Jörg Wehling & Angelika Hörth

  4. L3S Research Center, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Appelstraße 4, 30167, Hannover, Germany

    Ralph Ewerth

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Mühling, M., Meister, M., Korfhage, N. et al. Content-based video retrieval in historical collections of the German Broadcasting Archive. Int J Digit Libr 20, 167–183 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-018-0236-z

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