Laboratories on Architecture for Information Media Space
Building up New Relation Between Human Beings and Information
Katashi Nagao
Professor, Department of Media Science
He has worked out researches on application of retrieval, summary, translation, and editing by considering meanings contents of digital contents including multimedia. Recently he has studied “discussion mining” in which you obtain reusable knowledge out of real environment contents such as conferences or the environment including more than one person. In this study he has also experimentally made an information vehicle for an individual and conducted approach to new integration between information environment and real environment. He will continue to search for ideal relation between human beings and information through meaning integration of media information and grounding to a real environment of human lives.
Intelligent Applications Based on Multimedia information Analysis and Annotation
Shigeki Ohira
Assistant Professor, Information Technology Center
We predict that chances to utilize digital contents will be increasing as computer performance has improved and telecommunications systems have been broadband. On the other hand, our information processing activities as part of our everyday lives have limit in time and space and recognition. Therefore, it is important to create environment where men and women of all ages can get necessary amount of necessary information in necessary form. He has targeted to achieve human interface to effectively treat multimedia including speech and images. As an actual approach, he has developed annotation technology by integrating media information analysis based on signal processing technology and human recognition processing. He would like to propose high accuracy of basic speech, images, and language processing, extraction of effective meta information to make the most of human recognition functions, and intellectual application of media by means of created annotation.
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