FLAME: A Generic Framework for Content-based Flash Retrieval

FlashTM is undergoing an explosive growth and has become a prevailing media format on the Web. Unfortunately, no research effort has been dedicated to the retrieval of Flash movies based on content, which is essential to the utilization of the enormous Flash resource. In this paper, we conduct a close investigation of Flash movies and reveal that a typical movie is semantically characterized by means of its heterogeneous media components, the dynamic effects of the components, and the user interactions involved. As the first endeavor in the area of content-based Flash retrieval (CBFR), we propose a generic framework termed as FLAME (FLash Access and Management Environment) to address the representation, indexing, and retrieval of Flash movies at different levels of details, including (1) object level, which describes the heterogeneous media components in a movie, (2) event level, which depicts the movie’s dynamic effects, and (3) interaction level, which models the relationships between user behaviors and the consequential events.