East-West Digital Library Collaboration

Since 1999 Informedia has been collaborating with colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,South China University of Technology in Guangzhou, and Academia Sinica in Taiwan in developing digital video library research and application development. Informedia is a technical collaborator with the VIEW (Video over InternEt and Wireless Technologies Alliance) project at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This is a collaborative effort to build a Chinese digital video library with Informedia functionality, and to develop extensions to wireless handheld media and devices.

Conferences and Presentations

Invited Speakers at the Emerging Challenges of Mobile Media Services seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 2-3, 2002:

"Development and Evaluation of Digital Video Library Interfaces for Mobile/Handheld Devices"
Christel, M. Emerging Challenges of Mobile Media Services seminar, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, August 2-3, 2002.
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"Technical and Infrastructure Challenges to Continuous Capture and Archiving of Broadcast Audio and Video" , Wactlar, H. Invited speaker. International Conference on Digital Libraries, IT Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium, Beijing, China, July 8-12, 2002.
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"Multi-Document Summarization and Visualization in the Informedia Digital Video Library"
Wactlar, H., Invited speaker at New Information Technology 2001 Conference (NIT 2001), Tsinghua University, Beijing, May 29-31, 2001.
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"Capturing the Record of Human Experience in Video", (abstract)
Wactlar, H. APEC 2000 (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Workshop on Technology with Digital Museum. Academic Sinica, Taipei, R.O.C. December 8-9, 2000.