FilmEd - Collaborative Video Indexing, Annotation and Discussion Tools Over Broadband Networks

  • Authors:
  • Ronald Schroeter;Jane Hunter;Douglas Kosovic

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MMM '04 Proceedings of the 10th International Multimedia Modelling Conference
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A number of research groups and software companieshave developed digital annotation tools for textualdocuments, web pages, images, audio and videoresources. By annotations we mean subjectivecomments, notes, explanations or external remarks thatcan be attached to a document or a selected part of adocument without actually modifying the document.When a user retrieves a document, they can alsodownload the annotations attached to it from anannotation server to view their peer's opinions andperspectives on the particular document or to add, editor update their own annotations. The ability to do thiscollaboratively and in real time during groupdiscussions is of great interest to the educational,medical, scientific, cultural, defense and mediacommunities. But it is extremely challenging technicallyand demands significant bandwidth, particularly forvideo documents. In this paper we describe a uniqueprototype application developed over the AustralianGrangeNet broadband research network, whichcombines videoconferencing over access grid nodeswith collaborative, real-time sharing of an applicationwhich enables the indexing, browsing, annotation anddiscussion of video content between multiple groups atremote locations.