AVATecH — automated annotation through audio and video analysis

Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Oliver Schreer, Stefano Masneri, Daniel Schneider, Sebastian Tschöpel


Abstract
In different fields of the humanities annotations of multimodal resources are a necessary component of the research workflow. Examples include linguistics, psychology, anthropology, etc. However, creation of those annotations is a very laborious task, which can take 50 to 100 times the length of the annotated media, or more. This can be significantly improved by applying innovative audio and video processing algorithms, which analyze the recordings and provide automated annotations. This is the aim of the AVATecH project, which is a collaboration of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) and the Fraunhofer institutes HHI and IAIS. In this paper we present a set of results of automated annotation together with an evaluation of their quality.
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L12-1137
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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209–214
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/303_Paper.pdf
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Przemyslaw Lenkiewicz, Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, Oliver Schreer, Stefano Masneri, Daniel Schneider, and Sebastian Tschöpel. 2012. AVATecH — automated annotation through audio and video analysis. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 209–214, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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AVATecH — automated annotation through audio and video analysis (Lenkiewicz et al., LREC 2012)
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