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X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" --Apple-Mail=_FE93971D-18C4-4756-AC95-D95A7A04FB5B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I was at CRL from 1989 to 1994. I sent an inquiry to our informal = mailing list. We had written an audio server along the lines of the X server = (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-93-8.pdf) and Tom = Levergood wrote an application called Store24 to keep a rolling 24 = history of WBUR (local NPR station). We thought about using speech = recognition to build a searchable index for it. The next idea was to do the same thing for Video, perhaps using the = closed captioning feed to develop the index. Dave Wecker (now at = Microsoft Research) reports working on extracting data from NPR news = streams and it would find the appropriate audio or video clip. He=E2=80=99= s not sure he published that. Jim Gettys cites = http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-99-2.pdf (Indexing = Multimedia for the Internet) and notes that all the DEC techreports are = hidden away at http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/ = . Choose =E2=80=9CBrowse by year=E2=80= =9D and select Compaq/DEC -Larry > On 2019, Jan 31, at 9:42 AM, Clem Cole wrote: >=20 > I'm not sure if the old DEC CRL tech reports are still around. At = one time before the Compaq-tion, some folks at CRL and the folks at = Boston Public Library and WGBH were working with video and trying to = extract all sorts of text from it. I do not remember how successful = they were, but there might be some hints in their tech reports. I'll = ask around and see if I can turn anything up. Part of the problem I = have is I that don't remember who was doing that work, but some of my = friends might. >=20 > Clem > =E1=90=A7 >=20 > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 2:16 AM Alec Muffett > wrote: > Has anyone ever attempted to OCR a video, perhaps by breaking into = frames and then aggregating the results, using multiple frames to = correct each other? >=20 > On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, 19:51 Richard Salz wrote: > Some folks are trying to figure out how to get AberMud source online = and working; see = https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1056823314272960512 = >=20 > Sample code at = https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larsbrinkhoff/abermud/master/abermud1/te= xt/timelock.b = >=20 >=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail=_FE93971D-18C4-4756-AC95-D95A7A04FB5B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 I = was at CRL from 1989 to 1994.  I sent an inquiry to our informal = mailing list.

We had = written an audio server along the lines of the X server (http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-93-8.pdf) = and Tom Levergood wrote an application called Store24 to keep a rolling = 24 history of WBUR (local NPR station).  We thought about using = speech recognition to build a searchable index for it.

The next idea was to do = the same thing for Video, perhaps using the closed captioning feed to = develop the index.  Dave Wecker (now at Microsoft Research) reports = working on extracting data from NPR news streams and it would find the = appropriate audio or video clip.  He=E2=80=99s not sure he = published that.

Jim Gettys cites http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-99-2.pdf = (Indexing Multimedia for the Internet) and notes that all the DEC = techreports are hidden away at http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/. Choose =E2=80=9CBrowse = by year=E2=80=9D and select Compaq/DEC

-Larry

On 2019, = Jan 31, at 9:42 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

I'm not sure if the old = DEC CRL tech reports are still around.   At one time before = the Compaq-tion, some folks at CRL and the folks at Boston Public = Library and WGBH were working with video and trying to extract all sorts = of text from it.   I do not remember how successful they were, = but there might be some hints in their tech reports.  I'll ask = around and see if I can turn anything up.  Part of the problem I = have is I that don't remember who was doing that work, but some of = my friends might.

Clem
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On Thu, Jan = 31, 2019 at 2:16 AM Alec Muffett <alec.muffett@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone ever attempted to OCR a video, perhaps by breaking = into frames and then aggregating the results, using multiple frames to = correct each other?

On Wed, 30 Jan 2019, = 19:51 Richard Salz <rich.salz@gmail.com wrote:
Some folks are trying = to figure out how to get AberMud source online and working; see https://twitter.com/larsbrinkhoff/status/1056823314272960512

Sample code at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/larsbrinkhoff/abermud/master/= abermud1/text/timelock.b




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