TY - JOUR AU - Pastra, Katerina AU - Piperidis, Stelios PY - 2007 DA - 2007// TI - Video Search: New Challenges in the Pervasive Digital Video Era JO - JVRB - Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting VL - 3(2006) IS - 11 KW - Interactive TV AB - The explosion of multimedia digital content and the development of technologies that go beyond traditional broadcast and TV have rendered access to such content important for all end-users of these technologies. While originally developed for providing access to multimedia digital libraries, video search technologies assume now a more demanding role. In this paper, we attempt to shed light onto this new role of video search technologies, looking at the rapid developmentsin the related market, the lessons learned from state of art video search prototypes developed mainly in the digital libraries context and the new technological challenges that have risen. We focus on one of the latter, i.e., the development of cross-media decision mechanisms, drawing examples from REVEAL THIS, an FP6 project on the retrieval of video and language for the home user. We argue, that efficient video search holds a key to the usability of the new ”pervasive digital video” technologies and that it should involve cross-media decision mechanisms. SN - 1860-2037 UR - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-6-10736 DO - 10.20385/1860-2037/3.2006.11 ID - pastra2007 ER -