Content related to "Interactive-television"

(1) Paper ICEC 2007: A Novel System for Interactive Live TV

In this work we describe our vision of next generation live iTV formats, which consist of a broadcast bouquet of meaningfully interwoven and cross-referencing parallel sub-channels covering a single live event in multi-view or even several concurring live events. At the same time these sub-channels have to serve a diversity of consumer interests and moods. To achieve this future live broadcasting production teams will need both, artistic and conceptual patterns to create such live formats, as well as a maximum technological support to realise such shows in real-time. We describe our developed foundational components of the envisaged system, which according to our approach consist of a set of live staging concepts, a framework for the management of intelligent media assets and a recommender system. Furthermore we argue for the integration of knowledge and sophistication achieved by live audio-visual artists, namely Video Jockeys, who hence participated in our first live staging tests. We conclude with a short description of our next step, the integration of instant consumer feedback, to complete the system for the upcoming field trial during the 2008 Olympics.

(1) Public Video iTV Technology (Deliverable 3.7)

This report tries to identify the companies, markets and environments surrounding the iTV industry. The report classifies the main actors depending on the nature of their product or service technology. In addition to the short description of each technology area, this document also includes chapter subdivisions analysing the possible implications of technology for the LIVE project.

(1) Socioeconomic Impact Report (Deliverable 3.8)

In this first socioeconomic report, we aim to pull together the general insights into a future progressive study of LIVE’s socioeconomical impact aspects. To this end, the report provides an initial introduction to the socioeconomic aspects of the project, including an overview of iTV technology from a consumer’s point of view. Furthermore there is a short section describing the use of iTV in society to learn about the needs and patterns that trigger audience increase and iTV services consumption.

(1) An end to interactive television production? Just the opposite

All stories have one beginning, one middle and one end. But with MECiTV’s interactive television (iTV) authoring platform, producers can easily create programmes in which viewers choose how the story unravels and ends.

(1) Future Live iTV Production: Challenges and Opportunities

Paper presented at the AXMEDIS 2006: Second International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution, December 13 - 15, 2006, Leeds, UK. Proceedings pp. 325-328. Today's TV broadcasting companies are highly professionalized in the production of linear TV formats. Workflows and technologies for these linear formats are reliable, the production personnel is highly skilled and we can trust in well-known viewing habits of the consumers. The key issue of this paper is: how do we enable such a broadcasting working environment to produce by far more variable, multi-perspective or interactive TV formats? We are especially interested in formats entailing a multitude of live audiovisual material like for example sport events or elections, which shall be transformed into an interactive TV event for the consumer at home. This paper is not concerned with the variety of technical problems the interactive TV paradigm leads to, but with questions of future tools and practices on the producers' side, levels of consumer personalization and the respective consumer interfaces to make digital content accessible.

(1) Technology Market Watch (Deliverable 3.3)

This document provides an overview of the existing technologies relevant to the LIVE project and especially to the future exploitation of the overall LIVE’s platform and other project results. Since the LIVE project is related to advance interactive content that relays on interactive digital television infrastructure, and in order to provide the full potential of the solutions that currently are under research, this document focuses on the study of interactive digital television.

(1) Interactive Digital Television (Deliverable 3.4)

This document provides an overview of the Interactive Digital Television market including a short background introduction and synopsis of interactive features. The different sections in which the document is divided cover the different types of existing services and solutions as well as market trends; aiming to introduce the LIVE project to the current market depiction.

(1) Semantic-based Realization of Novel iTV Formats for the Broadcasting of Media Events (Full Paper)

Broadcasting of media events is a real-time action demanding reliable just in time decisions based on the current content of incoming video streams and the availability of background material. Novel iTV formats for broadcasting this type of event thus demand monitoring of multiple streams and background material. Due to the potentially large amount of streams and other available material, manual monitoring is likely to fail on the long term. We therefore developed an indexing pipeline based on semantic technologies that enables real-time analysis of broadcasted streams and reliable content recommendations of streams and background material based on formal machine understandable descriptions of content. Our approach enables real-time interpretation of broadcasted streams and thus establishes a bridge over the “Semantic Gap” in video analysis.

(1) Knowledge Acquisition from Multimedia Content

Proceedings of the First International Workshop, KAMC 2007 Genova, Italy, December 5, 2007. In recent years significant advances have been made in the area of automatic ex- traction of low-level features from audiovisual content. However, little progress has been achieved in the identification of high-level semantic features or the effective combination of semantic features derived from different modalities. Knowledge acquisition is becoming a key-enabling factor of the above tasks towards more scalable and reliable solutions, and thus its automation is becoming critical. As the deployment of knowledge enhances the robustness of extraction while on the other hand the continuous extraction of semantic information can enrich this knowledge, synergistic approaches that combine multimedia extraction and knowledge evolution in a bootstrapping common framework introduce new opportunities in semantic multimedia applications. Integration with additional sources of information, e.g. by using human annotation tools or real-time event services, may further simplify and disambiguate semantic multimedia information systems. Moreover, adaptation to a particular domain, for example to sports events, such as the Olympic games, is essential in order to reduce the complexity of multimedia analysis. In this context, unified modelling and representation of multimedia and domain-specific knowledge, ontology evolution, and standard and non-standard inference services for multimodal semantic knowledge fusion, form cutting edge technologies. The aim of this workshop is to intensify the exchange of ideas between the different research communities involved which range from multimedia analysis to reasoning with ontologies. The submitted contributions published in these proceedings therefore reflect current research in this area: the topics range from multimedia classification based on textual information, content based shot classification, feature extraction to image classification based on ontologies. The submitted papers cover different application domains, i.e. broadcasted news or legal documents. We would like to thank all members of the program committee for supporting us in the reviewing process, the organizers of the main conference SAMT 2007 to which this workshop was co-located - especially Yannis Avrithis, Michela Spagnuolu and Francesco Robbiano - for their kind support throughout the organizational process.We also would like to thank the authors for their willingness to revise their initial submissions based on the reviewers comments. Finally we would like to thank our invited speakers, Fabio Ciravegna and Alan Smeaton for their willingness to give a talk at our workshop.

(1) Paper eChallenges 2007: Next Generation Live iTV Formats and Aesthetics: A Joint Scientific and Artistic Approach

In this work we describe our vision of next generation live iTV formats, which consist of a broadcast bouquet of meaningfully interwoven and cross-referencing parallel sub-channels covering a single live event in multi-view or even several concurring live events. At the same time these sub-channels have to serve a diversity of consumer interests and moods. To achieve this future live broadcasting production teams will need both, artistic and conceptual patterns to create such live formats, as well as a maximum technological support to realise such shows in real-time. We describe our developed foundational components of the envisaged system, which according to our approach consist of a set of live staging concepts, a framework for the management of intelligent media assets and a recommender system. Furthermore we argue for the integration of knowledge and sophistication achieved by live audio-visual artists, namely Video Jockeys, who hence participated in our first live staging tests. We conclude with a short description of our next step, the integration of instant consumer feedback, to complete the system for the upcoming field trial during the 2008 Olympics.

(1) D3.15 Technology Market Watch Update1

This is the update of the Technology market watch report. This report provides an updated vision of the Media Streaming industry, which is used to support the technical developments that are being carried out in the project. Nevertheless, the most relevant use of this report is in the exploitation tasks and especially in the development of the business plan.

(1) OCGen - MHP Object carousel generator

OCGen is a software tool generating MHP-compliant object carousels from a given directory structure. Object carousels are used to transmit MHP related data (application code and resources) to a compliant receiver. The tool creates a single or multi PID MPEG-2 transport stream ready for multiplexing with audio and video streams. Please note, that the documentation of the software is only available in German.

(1) An Analysis of New Feedback Methods for Parallel Multi-Stream Productions

In this work we explore the usage of novel real-time feedback tools in the context of a new iTV production process, developed within the scope of the research project LIVE. The exploration is based on analysis of log-files, observations and interviews captured during a field trial at the Austrian broadcaster ORF. We work out characteristic usage patterns, as well as the broadcaster's and end user's acceptance. In doing so, we give an insight into the possibilities of feedback tools with regard to parallel multi-stream productions.