ARTICLE Popescu-Belis_IEEEMULTIMEDIA_2011/IDIAP Finding Information in Multimedia Records of Meetings Popescu-Belis, Andrei Lalanne, Denis Bourlard, Hervé http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/Popescu-Belis_Idiap-RR-32-2011 Related documents IEEE Multimedia 19 2 48-57 2012 http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MMUL.2011.21 URL 10.1109/MMUL.2011.21 doi This paper surveys the work carried out within two large consortia, AMI and IM2, on improving access to records of human meetings thanks to multimodal interfaces called meeting browsers. These tools help users navigate through multimedia records containing audio, video, documents and metadata, in order to obtain a general idea about what happened in a meeting or to find specific pieces of information. To explain the increasing importance of meeting browsers, the paper summarizes findings of user studies, discusses features of prototypes from AMI and IM2, and outlines a proposed evaluation protocol, providing reference scores for benchmarking. These achievements result from an iterative software process, alternating user studies, prototypes or products, and evaluation. REPORT Popescu-Belis_Idiap-RR-32-2011/IDIAP Finding Information in Multimedia Records of Meetings Popescu-Belis, Andrei Lalanne, Denis Bourlard, Hervé EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2010/Popescu-Belis_Idiap-RR-32-2011.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-32-2011 2011 Idiap August 2011 This paper overviews the work carried out within two large consortia on improving the access to records of human meetings using multimodal interfaces. The design of meeting browsers has emerged as an important goal, with both theoretical interest and practical applications. Meeting browsers are assistance tools that help humans navigate through multimedia records of meetings (audio, video, documents, and metadata), in order to obtain a general idea about what happened in a meeting or to find specific pieces of information, for discovery or verification. To explain the importance that meeting browsers have gained in time, the paper summarizes findings of user studies, discusses features of meeting browser prototypes, and outlines the main evaluation protocol proposed. Reference scores are provided for future benchmarking. These achievements in meeting browsing constitute an iterative software process, from user studies to prototypes and then to products.