Pasquale Savino

Senior Researcher

Institute of Information Science and Technology, National Research Council, Italy

Homepage: http://www.nmis.isti.cnr.it/savino/

Abstract:

Wide access to large information collections is of great importance in many aspects of everyday life. However, limitations in information and communication technologies have, so far, prevented the average person from taking much advantage of existing resources. Digital Libraries tend to
fill the gap between users and systems by providing services for the indexing, archival, management and retrieval of documents. Among other types of information, Audio/Video can be considered today as a primarily mean of communication, due to its richness in informative content and to its appeal. This implies that the development of Digital Libraries supporting Audio/Video documents is of primarily importance to enable the access to the general public as well as to professional users of a significant asset of today life.
 

This presentation illustrates the approach adopted in the ECHO (European CHronicles On line) system, to provide an effective support for indexing, retrieval and management of historical documentary films. In order to achieve an effective and inexpensive indexing and a powerful support to content-based retrieval of Audio/Video material, a specific metadata model has been defined and a combination of automatic and manual indexing has been adopted.

Biography:

Pasquale Savino is a senior researcher at the National Research Council of Italy – Institute of Information Science and Technology (CNR-ISTI). He has participated and coordinated several international research projects in the areas of multimedia processing and management: e.g. MULTOS (Multimedia Office Systems), OSMOSE (Open Standard for Multimedia Optical Storage Environments), HYTEA (HYperText Authoring), M-CUBE (Multiple Media
Multiple Communication Workstation), MIMICS (Multiparty Interactive Multimedia Conferencing Services), HERMES (Foundations of High Performance Multimedia Information Management Systems), ECHO (European Chronicles on Line), MultiMATCH (Multilingual/ Multimedia Access To Cultural Heritage).
 

His current research interests are multimedia information retrieval, multimedia content addressability and indexing, and Multimedia Content Management Systems. He has published more than 80 scientific papers in many  international journals and conferences in the areas of multimedia document retrieval and information retrieval.