Challenges for Next-Generation Video Sharing Systems

Content Modelling, Social Networks, and Context Awareness

6:00 - 6:30 PM Socializing
6:30 - 7:15 PM Presentation by Pablo Cesar
7:15 - 7:30 PM Discussion
7:30 - 8:00 PM Socializing

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Talk Abstract: Media consumption is an inherently social activity, serving to communicate ideas and emotions across both small- and large-scale communities. The migration of the media experience to personal computers retains social viewing, but typically only via a non-social, strictly personal interface. As a discussion starter we survey previous efforts such as social interactive television, WebTV interfaces, and online video sharing systems. The purpose of such interactive discussion is to identify key factors for next-generation video sharing systems: content modelling, the implications and benefits of social networks, and the importance of the contextual settings of the viewer to distribute and control video material. Finally, we present an architecture and implementation for media content selection, content (re)organization, and content sharing within a user community that is heterogeneous in terms of both participants and devices. The system as well allows the user to enrich the content as a differentiated personalization activity targeted to his/her peer-group. The final goal of the session is to identify future directions for improving share experiences around media consumption.

Speaker Bio: Pablo Cesar is a postdoctoral researcher at CWI (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands) in Amsterdam. He received a Dr. Tech. degree (December 2005) from Helsinki University of Technology (Finland) and a M. Sc. degree (February 2002) from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain). Pablo Cesar has (co)authored over 40 of articles (conference papers and journal articles) about multimedia systems and infrastructures, media sharing, interactive media, multimedia content modelling, and user interaction. He is, as well, involved in standardization activities (e.g., SMIL from W3C). He is co-editor of the book "Social Interactive Television: Immersive Shared Experiences and Perspectives" and of the TOMCCAP special issue "Human-Centred Television: Directions in Interactive Digital Television Research". In addition, he was the general chair of the 5th European Interactive conference (EuroITV2007) and has given tutorials about Interactive Digital Television in prestigious conferences such as ACM Multimedia and WWW Conferences.

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