A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NON-LINEAR ACCESS OF MULTIMEDIA DATA FROM A MULTIMEDIA COLLECTION

摘要

The present invention proposes a system and method for segmenting a multimedia document into physical or logical, spatial and temporal segments. Accordingly, the Proposed method creates a content based description of each multimedia document segment by automated, semi-automated or manual means. The description can be in terms of textual annotations, either provided by a user or machine generated, extracted media features, or a combination of the above. Also, the present invention integrates the retrieved multimedia document segments, and other document segments that are semantically linked to these document segments, into a complete presentation that can be interactively and non-linearly navigated.