NICTA Join Hands with Microsoft Research Asia to Develop Online Video Search

              NICTA (National Information and Communications 
Technology Australia) is collaborating with Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) to enhance technology to improve the performance of online video search engines. This is the first such project between Microsoft Research Asia and NICTA which is being highlighted in all search engine news.

               Dr Jian Zhang, project leader at NICTA said “We want to find the best way for computers to sort and recognise actions in videos”. This project of Online Video Search is basically launched with the objective that search engines can convey more perfect and faster results.

               Most of the search engines support keyword search for video based content, this results into many irrelevant and unwanted videos, but the one's which are related videos are dumped below and doesn’t exist in the main frame.

The major idea of this project is to algorithmically target 'action words' from titles instead of keyword based searches.

                Shipeng Li, MSRA Group Manager of Media Computing at Microsoft Asia, said: "I believe this research collaboration will result in real progress in the area of large-scale database search based on human action recognition.