A collective discrimination of moments and segments as an exploitation of the Watch-and-Comment concept

  • Authors:
  • Giliard Brito de Freitas;Maria da Graça C. Pimentel;Cesar Augusto C. Teixeira

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. Federal de São Carlos, Brasil;Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil;Univ. Federal de São Carlos, Brasil

  • Venue:
  • WebMedia '09 Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Digital TV provides greater interaction between content/service and the viewer. Besides interacting with resident applications, the possibility of access services external to the set-top box expands the range for interactive applications. This paper explores the Watch-and-Comment (WaC) paradigm and proposes its specialization for the collective discrimination of moments and segments of continuous media, for use in applications such as: selection, voting, exclusion, classification, evaluation, among others. As a proof of concept, we developed a prototype of software that extends the middleware Ginga to support the collective discrimination of moments and segments of continuous media in digital TV. The prototype supports multiple devices and uses the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol to discover services.