Portfolio: Vidipedia
- A unique suite of software which combines to deliver all the processes required to upload, annotate, manage, distribute and deliver video material in a form that is much more searchable
- Supports indexing to a highly detailed level; down to the scene or even frame
- Significantly improves quality of video search results
- Removes up-front costs of annotating video
- Provides economic case for digitising archive video
- With vidipedia – video becomes FINDABLE and therefore VALUABLE
Video is the most popular media format and with all the footage available it becomes increasingly difficult to find an efficient way to search through it.
When the Technology Strategy Board needed a team to lead their exciting new Research and Development project investigating video search and indexing, they asked Enigma to lead it. And we were delighted to oblige!
The aim was to explore and investigate human indexing of video archives with the view to develop new technology to improve online video content search and so vidipedia was born.
What’s it all about?
Video is stored centrally and multiple archives can store footage on a centralised system. Core functionality is delivered via secure web-services and interfacing with remotely hosted web applications. Complex data can be stored about specific time segments (clips) in footage. Footage can be annotated by users to provide indexed data on; personal experience, feelings, sounds, emotions, visual – with the added bonus that in the future, this could be used to produce “living histories” for archives. Users can search on this data to find specific clips within any footage. With us so far?!
Keeping human annotation at the heart of the process allowed us to obtain good quality data. We implemented systems that would follow the model of Wikipedia; supporting altruistic annotation, as well as revenue sharing for commercial services; users annotate the material in return for a share of future viewing or licensing royalties.
Who can benefit from it?
A wide variety of different video based applications can benefit from the improved searchability that Vidipedia offers; video search engines, public access portals, asset management systems, online broadcast platforms. To effectively service all application types, vidipedia is not a single "product".
We developed a system that is a whole series of flexible software components that can be configured to support specific needs of different video based applications. It's best to think of vidipedia as an "enabler." Its power is in its flexibility, therefore the opportunities to commercialise it are great and varied.
The model provides an extremely adaptable and non-prescriptive solution and enables vidipedia to service any application that can benefit from its video handling capabilities. We look forward to developing it with suitable partners, to suit their needs and to unlock the potential of vidipedia.
I want one! How do I get one? Contact us we’d be happy to talk about Vidipedia and how it can benefit your business.
The Nuts & Bolts
- Advanced video archiving
- Video player & storage
- Advanced tagging, search & index system
- Supports altruistic annotation
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Powerful Content Management System
