Informedia Digital Library Explained

The Informedia Digital Library is an ongoing research program at Carnegie Mellon University to build search engines and information visualization technology for many types of media.^{[1] [2]}

The program has carried out research on spoken document retrieval, video information retrieval, video segmentation, face recognition, and cross-language information retrieval.

The Lycos search engine was an early product of the Informedia Digital Library Project.

The project is led by Howard Wactlar. Researchers on the project have included: Michael Mauldin, Alex Hauptmann, Michael Christel, Michael Witbrock, Raj Reddy, Takeo Kanade and Scott Stevens.

Further reading

• Xiuqi Li and Borko Furht. "DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES".
• Howard D. Wactlar (1996). "Intelligent Access to Digital Video: Informedmia Project".

Notes and References

1. http://www.informedia.cs.cmu.edu/ the Informedia initiatives
2. Alexander G. Hauptmann (1997). "Artificial Intelligence Techniques in the Interface to a Digital Video Library" . Proceedings of the CHI-97 Computer-Human Interface Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 1997.