TV NEWS ANALYSIS SYSTEM FOR MULTILINGUAL BROADCAST CHANNELS

摘要

A system for identification, classification, storage, and analysis of news programs, containing an audio channel, video channel, and metadata relating to it, broadcasted/relayed on a television (TV) channel by means of a plurality of TV broadcast streams, said system comprising: - acquisition module adapted to capture said TV broadcast streams; - recording module adapted to record said captured streams on a physical storage; - news program identification module adapted to identify news programs in said stored broadcast streams; - news program clipping module adapted to separate said identified news programs from other programs; - advertisement identification module for identification of advertisements from said identified news programs; - advertisement clipping module adapted for removal of said identified advertisements; - seam detection module adapted to detect and identify seams of said news programs in order to demark individual stories in a news program; - keyword generation module adapted to generate a list of keywords; - text-keyword identification module adapted to identify said created keywords from visual text of identified said news programs; - speech-keyword identification module adapted to identify the created keywords from the speech of said identified news programs; - repeat-identification module adapted to identify similar/repeat news programs from said plurality of TV broadcast streams; - clustering module adapted to cluster said repeat news programs into one news programs, in order to avoid duplication or multiplication; - removal module adapted to remove said repeat-identified news programs; - repository adapted to store said news programs and metadata embedded in said news programs; and - logical interconnection module adapted to logically interconnecting each of said modules for determining the sequence of steps for a multilingual news video analysis system.