Interesting Concept in Online Video
There is a company called Hot Potato that is playing around with different ways to present video, etc. online and make it more easily searchable.
For example, here is a documentary about pet overpopulation (David Duchovny is in it; pretty interesting); as you can see the text of the video is displayed with each scene (although for now it doesn't change as the video progresses, and yes the video is a little crappy in quality as this is just a proof of concept). So Google will be able to find specific phrases, quotes, etc. and users can actually start viewing at the exact scene that that phrase is mentioned.
This could be pretty interesting for fact-checking, etc; imagine being able to search all of a pundit's shows for their stance on specific issues and how those changed over time. Or watching the exact scene where your favorite movie quote was mentioned.
Disclaimer: SilverKey wrote this Proof of Concept for them so I am a little biased I guess; it is still cool to check out though.
For example, here is a documentary about pet overpopulation (David Duchovny is in it; pretty interesting); as you can see the text of the video is displayed with each scene (although for now it doesn't change as the video progresses, and yes the video is a little crappy in quality as this is just a proof of concept). So Google will be able to find specific phrases, quotes, etc. and users can actually start viewing at the exact scene that that phrase is mentioned.
This could be pretty interesting for fact-checking, etc; imagine being able to search all of a pundit's shows for their stance on specific issues and how those changed over time. Or watching the exact scene where your favorite movie quote was mentioned.
Disclaimer: SilverKey wrote this Proof of Concept for them so I am a little biased I guess; it is still cool to check out though.
posted by AdamB at 12:12 AM
3 Comments:
It's a combination of Jay Leno's Street Quiz, Jay Walking, and Animal Planet's new show "DOG CATCHERS."
Miguel Gonzalez takes the dog catching pretty seriously.
The video quality is good for the web, but how exactly is the text being created? Sounds like it would take a million monkeys on a million typewriters - oh wait, that's the internet anyway.
3:51 PM
The text isn't generated by the video automatically. The system takes the Timecode Continuity Script (an output of the tv/movie production process) as an input to get this text.
6:08 PM
Sometime around when Youtube/ Google was hit by all these lawsuits, there was a story about a firm that had the technology to search words from the audio in video and sound files.
word specific video searching is an interesting concept - but also has potentially worrying applications... as with all scientific developments, I guess...
6:30 AM
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