D5.2 Report On Live Human Annotation

Authors: Carsten Rosche, Christian Eckes, Felix Zielke, Matthias Aust, Richard Wages, Stefan Gruenvogel, Sven Hoffmann

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This document reports on human annotation within the LIVE project. First it gives an overview about different annotation types that are useful for the LIVE staging of media events. It then summarizes the requirements for manual annotation by collecting results from potential users, e.g. from discussions performed with broadcasters, reporters, editors and video jockeys (VJs). It defines the necessary content metadata needed within the LIVE system, gives an overview over existing tools and describes the tools developed for the LIVE project. Finally, user evaluations of the developed tools that were performed with professional users from the ORF are described at the end of the document.

LIVE Public Annual Report 2007

Authors: John Pereira, Marion Borowski

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This public annual report takes a look at some of the major activities and achievements of LIVE in 2007.

Specifications of Concepts and Professional User Interfaces for Live Staging with Consumer Feedback

Authors: Richard Wages, Stefan M. Gruenvogel, Tilen Mlakar, Torsten Kliemand

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In this document we specify concepts for Live Staging and the planning for Live Staging. In addition – where possible – procedures are defined which facilitate the development of a concrete Live Staging Concept by bringing the primarily artistic and intuitive approaches for the creation of live stories to a more formal level.

Basic Specification of the Intelligent Media Framework (D7.4)

Authors: Dietmar Glachs, Georg Guentner, Rupert Westenthaler, Tobias Buerger

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The objective of this report is to provide a synopsis of the basic specification of the Intelligent Media Framework as developed during the first iteration cycle of the LIVE project (from January 2006 to June 2007). The implementation of this specification formed the middleware of the first prototype of the LIVE production support system. The Intelligent Media Framework is introduced to be based on a combination of a classical three-tier architecture with the principles of service oriented architectures (SOA). This report is made available for and addressed to, the interested public. It presupposes some basic knowledge of software and knowledge engineering as well as some understanding of broadcasting issues. Topics covered in this report are: - An overview of the architecture of the LIVE production support system - An overview of the LIVE staging domain and the requirements of different agents in the LIVE staging process - The knowledge and the framework requirements of the Intelligent Media Framework - The knowledge model of the Intelligent Media Framework comprising the knowledge structure, the term model, the event domain model and the basic IMA model. - The architecture of the Intelligent Media Framework (system design). - Initial conclusions and an assessment of the requirements.

Description of Online and Offline Metadata Extraction out of Sports Videos

Authors: Ying Weng

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We focus on online and offline metadata extraction and annotation out of sports videos. The main benefit of our method is immediate and automatic extraction and annotation of metadata by giving semantics to combinations of heterogeneous low-level visual features. It brings new opportunities for efficient utilisation of sports video in improved ways, and is easily customized to address the characteristics. Firstly, semantic scene classification is described, including key-frames extraction, similarities determination between shots, and rule based estimation of scene boundaries. Secondly, fuzzy logic based categorizing is presented, including paradigm, Fuzzy membership function, and fuzzy feature generation and similarity measure. Thirdly, automatic sports video annotation is proposed, including robust dominant colour region detection, combined motion feature analysis. This work has been evaluated in the TRECVID 2007 competition.

Public Synopsis Market Report on Video and iTV Technologies

Authors: David Salama, Marta Sedano

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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.

Public Synopsis Market Report on Digital Interactive TV

Authors: David Salama, Marta Sedano

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This Public Synopsis on Interactive Digital Television provides an overview of the iDTV market including a short background introduction and outline 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. 

Annual LIVE Public Report 2006

Authors: Joachim Koehler

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This document gives a report on the work and the results of the first year (2006) of the project.

State of the Art Report Intelligent Media Framework

Authors: Albert J.Cruz, Christian Eckes, Felix Zielke, Georg Guentner, Gerhard Stanz,  Janez Zaletelj, Rupert Westenthaler, Tobias Buerger, Wernher Behrendt

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The integrated project “LIVE Staging of Media Events” (LIVE; FP6-27312) aims at the creation of novel intelligent content production methods and tools for interactive digital broadcasters to stage live media events in the area of sports, such as the 2008 Olympic Games. This report presents the state of the art of the concepts, technologies and standards related to one of the core subsystems developed in the LIVE project: The “Intelligent Media Framework” provides a robust framework for the creation, management and delivery of so called “Intelligent Media Assets” under real-time conditions.

Methods, Design Guidelines, Workflows for Online Staging

Authors: Jaanis Garancs, Richard Wages, Stefan Gruenvogel

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After describing the conceptual background which is necessary for the development of future live staging TV formats, this document proposes both visionary as well as first concrete methods and design guidelines for online staging. In addition considerations on the respective future workflows and the results of a first survey on suitable live video performance tools are presented.

Public Synopsis on the Basic LIVE System Architecture

Authors: Carmen Mac Williams, Dietmar Glachs, Felix Zielke, Heike Fischer,  Janez Zaletelj, Maria Schubert, Matevz Pogacnik, Oliver Lucht, Richard Wages, Rupert Westenthaler

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The goal of this public deliverable is to provide a high-level overview of the idea of the LIVE project and its basic system architecture. The description goes to the level of detail that is needed to understand the basic architecture. For more detailed descriptions, particularly of the subsystems, the reader is referred to the respective subsystem deliverables. The described first basic system architecture of this document was developed including the results of the first six months of research within the LIVE project. Derived from the basic idea of a system - whereby an interactive digital broadcaster should be able to create a non-linear multi-stream video show in real-time, which changes due the consumers’ interests - first user tests were made and analyzed at the public Austrian broadcaster ORF (Österreichischer Rund-funk). These tests resulted in a set of initial requirements (compare deliverable D9.1 “Results from the initial requirement analysis”). Based on these requirements, actors of the LIVE Sys-tem and their basic use cases were identified. This finally results in the basic system architec-ture which is briefly described in this deliverable. The target audience for this document is any person inside or outside of the LIVE project in-terested in learning about the proposed functionality and architecture of LIVE.

Public Synopsis on Initial LIVE Exploitation Plan

Authors: David Salama

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This document, Public Synopsis on Initial LIVE Exploitation Plan, is the first step to prepare the LIVE consortium for the exploitation of the project’s results. Following this aim, this document provides a first overview on exploitable results and some related market information.