Stratagraph
(1991-1992)

Thomas G. Aguierre Smith
Designer

Glorianna Davenport
Research Supervisor

A tool for video which enables a videographer to attach a richly layered set of contextual annotations to the video stream. The annotations aid human and machine retrieval of video content.

The stratification system was implemented on a DECstation 5000 UNIX workstation in Motif. Partial support for development was provided by British Telecom, Pioneer Corporation and Asahi Broadcasting.

Aguierre Smith T (1992).
If you could see what I mean.
MIT MS Thesis.
Aguierre Smith T; Davenport G (1992).
The Stratification System: A Design Environment for Random Access Video
Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video. Third International Workshop Proceedings.
Springer-Verlag. 1993, pp.250-61. Berlin, Germany.

Aguierre Smith T (1991).
Parsing Movies in Context
USENIX Technical Conference and Exhibition: Multimedia - For Now & the Future, Summer Proceedings.