Informedia Digital Library

The Informedia Digital Library is an ongoing research programme at Carnegie Mellon University to build search engine and information visualisation technology for documents many types of media.

The programme has done research on Spoken Document Retrieval, Video Information Retrieval, Video Segmentation, face recognition, Cross language Information Retrieval.

The Lycos Web Search Engine was an early product of the Informedia Digital Library Project.

The project is led by Howard Wactlar. Researchers on the project have included: Michael Mauldin, Alex Hauptmann, Michael Christel, Michael Witbrock, Raj Reddy, Takeo Kanade and Scott Stevens (computer scientist).