Office Blogger

Berna Erol and Jonathan J. Hull

Ricoh Innovations Inc., California Research Center
2282 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025-7054
berna_erol@rii.ricoh.com  hull@rii.ricoh.com

Abstract

The Office Blogger (OBlog) is an experimental prototype of a multimedia appliance that allows an office worker to easily record events, conversations, meetings, pictures and documents, and helps create blog entries from that data. OBlog employs a novel image classification algorithm and automatic post processing to make the information about images more accessible to users. The OBlog system uses an "always-on" design that makes it convenient to use and it's packaged as a stand-alone system to remove any computational burden from a user's PC. Results show that the image classification algorithm achieves over 90% recall on five image categories commonly encountered by office workers.

Categories and Subject Descriptors

H.3.4 [Information Systems]: Information storage and retrieval - systems and software.

General Terms

Algorithms, design, experimentation.

Keywords

Blog, multimedia, memory appliance, continuous capture.