IBM’s ‘Marvel’ To Scour Net For Video, Audio

Researchers at IBM are attempting to create a search engine, code-named Marvel, that will retrieve video and/or audio clips that for the most part can’t easily be retrieved today on the Internet.

Marvel is designed to automatically categorize (and subsequently retrieve) clips using modifiers like “outdoor,” “indoor,” “cityscape” or “engine noise” that describe the action in the clip.

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