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Shot Boundary Task Comparison Program Installation and Run
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0-Purpose

Used for TREC 2001 Video Track's shot boundary detection task,
this program compares the system results to the shot boundary reference.

1-System Requirements

This program requires :
	- JDK 1.1.8 or later (including any version of Java 2 : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/)
	- JAXP 1.1 or later (http://java.sun.com/xml/xml_jaxp.html)

2-Installation

1. Download the tar file
2. Untar the file
The content of tar file should be : this Readme.txt, some .class files, the reference
in the Reference directory, a System directory, and ComparisonResult directory.

3-Run

Run it using the following command :
	java ComparisonManager [anySBFile.xml] -notype 

PLEASE ALWAYS USE THE -notype option to get the same type of results as
the one used in TREC. This option permits to conpare CUT with other gradual transitions.
Make sure that all required DTD's (that are in the tar file) are not removed from their location in some of the directories before runnig the programs.

The output will be in a directory corresponding to the system ID
in the ComparisonResult directory (and also in a shift0 directory but without any meaning
for this one).




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For any questions, you can contact Ramazan Taban at rtaban@nist.gov .