1. 1 ECHO - European Chronicles On-line Pasquale Savino I.E.I. - C.N.R. Via Alfieri, 1 - 56127 Pisa E-mail: savino@iei.pi.cnr.it http://www.iei.pi.cnr.it/People/Savino.html ECHO Web-site: http://pc-erato2.iei.pi.cnr.it/echo/

2. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR zStarting date: February 1, 2000 zDuration: 30 months zTotal effort: 475.8 p/m Project Figures

3. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Make possible to access and search by content over the net, large and inter- operating audio visual archives. yManagement of historical documentaries yDefinition and adoption of an appropriate metadata format ySupport of multiple languages yIntegration of manual and automatic indexing yCreation of automatic video summaries yValidation through testbeds of documentary film archives Project Objectives

4. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR ECHO System Overview Digital Compression L L i i b b r r a a r r y y C C r r e e a a t t i i o o n n Offline Speech Recognition Image Extraction Natural Language Interpretation Indexed Transcript Segmented Compressed Audio/Video Indexed Video Database Segmentation Video Metadata L L i i b b r r a a r r y y E E x x p p l l o o r r a a t t i i o o n n Requested Video Segment Interactive Story Selection Online Semantic-expansion Translation Indexed Transcript Segmented Compressed Audio/Video Indexed Video Database User Request

5. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Content providers Istituto Luce (I) Institut National de lAudiovisuel (F) Stichting Nederlands Audiovisueel Archief (NL) Memoriav (CH) The Partners Project coordination IEI-CNR (I)

6. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Industrial partners Tecmath (D) Media Site (GR) Eurospider Information Technology (CH) The Partners (cont.) Research institutions IEI-CNR (I) Istituto Trentino di Cultura (I) Centre National de la Recherce Scientifique (F) University of Mannheim (D) Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

7. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR zUser requirements collection and analysis zContent selection and preparation zMetadata format definition and acquisition zSystem architecture design and detailed specification zSystem development and test zSystem Evaluation zField Trials Project Activities

8. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Content Providers Industrial Partners Industrial Partners Research Institutions Research Institutions System Architecture System Development Speech RecognitionVideo Summaries Advanced indexing & search User RequirementsField trials Content selection Partners roles

9. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Project Milestones zPhase 1 yCollection and analysis of user requirements yCollection analysis and selection yFilm metadata model definition ySystem Functionality and Global Architecture Completed by September 2000

10. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Project Milestones zPhase 2 ySpecification and development of ECHO first prototype xAutomatic indexing of documentary films xAdaptation and integration of four speech recognition engines for mono-lingual content-based indexing and retrieval. Completed by April 2001

11. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Project Milestones zPhase 3 ySpecification and development of the ECHO final prototype. xMetadata editor xIndexing of the complete ECHO collection xRetrieval based on audio transcripts and metadata xInteroperability of digital film collection. xAutomatic film summary. Completed by December 2001

12. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Project Milestones zPhase 4 yEvaluation yValidation yDissemination Completed by August 2002

13. Vienna, 30 June 2000ECHO – European CHronicles On LineP. Savino – IEI-CNR Some key technical issues zMetadata format zInteroperability zIntegration of automatic and manual indexing zAutomatic speech recognition of old documentary material zCross Language Retrieval zAutomatic abstracting zImage understanding for face, text and object recognition