The French company Kinomai will present its K-Navigator range of software solutions for smart digital video navigation at the 2003 International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) to be held at the RAI Exhibition and Congress Center in Amsterdam, September 12-16 (Booth 10.449). A specialist in real time video and audio analysis, Kinomai has already gained a solid reputation as a leader in generating meta-data for broadcast automation requirements. K-Navigator is ideal for archivists, television newsroom journalists, broadcast technicians and program managers at broadcasting companies, video editors, subtitlers and other post-production technicians, and editors at media monitoring companies. It also promises better control to end-users of personal video recorders.

With its K-Navigator line of software solutions, Kinomai is applying its proven know-how in real time meta-data generation to the needs of digital video navigation. The solutions are based on a two-level approach: audio and video key properties are computed on the fly from the incoming audiovisual stream and identify meaningful events (change of shot, appearance of a pre-learned image, change of background sound, applause, etc.). Successively, and at any given moment, "broadcast grammars" are used in conjunction with the computed multimedia properties to generate a table of contents of the incoming video. As an example, a television news broadcast will be automatically broken down into segments corresponding to the different news items it contains. Similarly, a tennis match will be broken down into played points and the most dramatic points will be identified. For a talk show, interviews will be segmented and highlighted. A movie feature will be broken down into chapters, offering navigational capabilities similar to those of a DVD.

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