R. L. Lagendijk
Besides application and technological choices and developments in the SMASH project, the functionalities of visual search and copy protection play an important role. To realize these functionalities, the project has built upon state-of-the-art techniques, and has defined three key topics that have been worked out in more detail, namely:
The multimedia database will play a central role, as it will be filled upon recording time with many different types of information about the recorded data, while it will be consulted by applications (running on a settop box or PC) at the time the user wishes to access his data. In the project's continuation, work will concentrate on further development of watermarking techniques and clustering procedures of key frames, and the implementation of the MMDB and key frame extraction for use in real-time. Several of the results from this work will be brought into application (user and field) trial, either in full functionality or in scaled-down functionality, depending on the precise objectives of these trials.