# TV Third Eye ## Library Leaders Forum Oct 2017 https://traceypooh.github.io/library-leaders ```bash git clone https://github.com/traceypooh/library-leaders; open library-leaders/index.html ``` --- - OCR 'lower third' - chyrons - overlaid text on broadcasts - not captions or descriptive text - editorial / summarizing in nature - 4 TV channels, 24x7, ~1 min from realtime - CNN - MSNBC - Fox News - BBC News --- 
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  WHEN HE THOUGHT NIC WAS OFF
--- # bots - twitter bots - https://twitter.com/tvThirdEye - https://twitter.com/tvThirdEyeB - https://twitter.com/tvThirdEyeF - https://twitter.com/tvThirdEyeM - https://twitter.com/tvThirdEye/lists/all --- --- # API - Tab Separated Values - https://archive.org/services/third-eye.php - nice for command-line - import to google and excel spreadsheets - filtered - raw (~25MB / day) - more errors - 3rd-party filtering possible - TSV files uploaded to https://archive.org/details/third-eye --- # Chyron filtering - tesseract OCR - free; errors - simhash - groups 'nearly the same' - character flips - word off in time - look for vowels - pick 'most seen' group every minute - and tweet --- # TV AI Examples - Vox determined Puerto Rico was paid little attention by Fox News - https://vox.com/2017/10/2/16401614/fox-news-puerto-rico-charts - audio fingerprints - presented keynote paper on CSPAN floor speeches and vocal pitch (UIowa) - discovered 375K political Ads - find sound bites of speeches - Faceomatic - find appearances of US Govt officials in TV (facial recognition) --- # Where We're Going - https://archive.org/details/TVNewsKitchen - want to serve journalists, researchers, librarians & more - responsible behavior and access to data - non-consumptive use --- # The End