Annotating Video at NFL Films
Related to today’s lecture on multimedia information retrieval, last year Wired magazine featured a short article on NFL Films’ efforts to annotate its video collection. Started in 1962, NFL Films has 10,000 canisters of 16mm film – 110 terabytes of data. NFL films uses a structured, manual tagging system – team, date, yardage, etc. It also uses a free-form tagging system, where loggers can enter a highlight’s nickname, such as ‘The Catch” with Joe Montana and Dwight Clark. It’s a quick read:
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/magazine/15-10/ps_nfl
Michael M Said,
December 24, 2008 @ 3:58 pm
Cool – There will only be a few clips tagged with “drop kick.” Here is the last one we may ever see… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnywZ81hNN8