A framework for structuring multimedia archives and for browsing efficiently through multimodal links

This thesis proposes a method for indexing and browsing archives of multimedia documents, and in particular meeting recordings, using printable documents and links. Existing systems for indexing and browsing multimedia data have four main limits. First, the indexing requires high-level abstractions extracted from multimedia documents, which is still an unsolved problem for rich media such as images or videos. Second, existing systems do not take into account the correlations between multimedia documents, but manage them as isolated documents. Third, users are only weakly involved within the indexing process. Fourth, users can search specific documents, but rarely can browse an archive.