We are developing a cooking navigation system, which helps even a novice user to cook several recipes in parallel without failure, while improving an advanced user's skill further. To realize this, the system optimizes the cooking procedure considering ...

Keywords: assistance to human activities, cooking

The dramatic growth in the amount of multimedia data in recent years has caused techniques for analyzing those data to become increasingly important. To make use of information contained in multimedia data to the fullest extent, attention has been focused ...

Keywords: association, cooking video, textbook, video block, video indexing

This paper presents a method to delineate visually important segments from cooking videos ,which is expectedto be a core technique for cooking video indexing. Visualinformation is exceptionally important in cooking videos, sinceit represents essential ...

We propose an attribute based news video indexing method. Semantic attributes of both text and image are analyzed, and correspondences within each attribute is considered when indexing, to ensure correspondences between indices and image contents. In ...

We have been handling video with supplementary documents, such as cooking programs, and are working on integration of such media. Through the integration, many applications will become possible, for example, reconstruction of multimedia data that supplement ...

Reflecting the demand for recycling and retrieval of video, we are proposing an automatic indexing system for news video that considers correspondences between textual indices and image contents. In this paper, we focus on the background image content ...

We propose a method to create process flow graphs automatically from textbooks for cooking programs. This is realized by understanding context by narrowing down the domain to cooking, and making use of domain specific constraints and knowledge. Since ...

Keywords: cookbooks, domain specific dictionary, preparation steps, structural analysis