Yovisto
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Yovisto is an academic video search engine specialized in academic content.
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Yovisto provides access to more than 7800 videos of academic lectures and scientific conferences being organized in more than 400 lecture series covering the entire spectrum of academic research. Among the more than 1100 speakers are numerous famous people such as Nobel Prize
winners, and artists.
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as an ESF/BMWi (European Social Fund
/German Government) funded project (called "Osotis") with the objective to develop a video search engine for academic lecture recordings.
Yovisto search engine technology is the foundation of the multimedia processing system REPLAY
at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), and as such also part of the international Opencast Community project Matterhorn.
In March 2009 yovisto relocated from FSU Jena to Hasso Plattner Institute
in Potsdam/Germany to become a research platform for semantic multimedia technologies.
Overview
Yovisto's search index is based on the combination of automated content based video analysis with user generated collaborative annotation (collaborative tagging, discussions, and comments). In difference to traditional video search engines, Yovisto enables pinpoint access within video data by providing fine-granular, time-dependent metadata. For each video resource, users may author additional wiki-pages to enrich the video content with complementary (searchable) information. Yovisto metadata can be exported into the standardized and interchangeable metadata description framework MPEG-7MPEG-7
MPEG-7 is a multimedia content description standard. It was standardized in ISO/IEC 15938 . This description will be associated with the content itself, to allow fast and efficient searching for material that is of interest to the user. MPEG-7 is formally called Multimedia Content Description...
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Yovisto provides access to more than 7800 videos of academic lectures and scientific conferences being organized in more than 400 lecture series covering the entire spectrum of academic research. Among the more than 1100 speakers are numerous famous people such as Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winners, and artists.
History
Yovisto started in 2006 at Friedrich-Schiller-University of JenaJena
Jena is a university city in central Germany on the river Saale. It has a population of approx. 103,000 and is the second largest city in the federal state of Thuringia, after Erfurt.-History:Jena was first mentioned in an 1182 document...
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
as an ESF/BMWi (European Social Fund
European Social Fund
The European Social Fund is the European Union’s main financial instrument for supporting employment in the Member States as well as promoting economic and social cohesion. ESF spending amounts to around 10% of the EU’s total budget....
/German Government) funded project (called "Osotis") with the objective to develop a video search engine for academic lecture recordings.
Yovisto search engine technology is the foundation of the multimedia processing system REPLAY
REPLAY (software)
-Background:REPLAY was developed as the future Multimedia Portal of ETH Zurich within the scope of the ICT strategy 2006-2009 and got branded „REPLAY“ in 2007...
at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich (ETH Zürich), and as such also part of the international Opencast Community project Matterhorn.
In March 2009 yovisto relocated from FSU Jena to Hasso Plattner Institute
Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute ', or HPI, is a German information technology college, affiliated to the University of Potsdam and located in Potsdam-Babelsberg near Berlin. It was founded in 1998 and is the first, and still the only, entirely privately-funded college in Germany...
in Potsdam/Germany to become a research platform for semantic multimedia technologies.