Interactive Video on WWW: Beyond VCR-like Interfaces
Arun Katkere
Jennifer Schlenzig
Amarnath Gupta
Ramesh Jain
Visual Computing Laboratory
University of California, San Diego
Outline
- Content-based interactions
- MPI Video
- MPI Video on the WWW
- Current State
- Future research
Six Blind Men
Each perspective provides only a limited perception of reality.
Wow, it is an elephant!
Global Perspective. View-independent interactivity.
Most Multimedia systems are currently glorified communication systems.
Semantics in Information Systems
- Most information systems lack semantics.
- Web has strong `links' but no semantic associations.
- Content-based retrieval is essential in many contexts.
- Users are usually interested in particular
- objects
- events
- relationships
The Visual Web
As bandwidth increases (for example, through the deployment of cable modems)
WWW accessible video will increase.
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ParisCam |
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Today, interactive video on the web is
a VCR interface which allows forward, reverse, play, etc.
The visual web lacks an information system perspective.
Television and Video
- Television follows the broadcast model.
- George Gilder's Life After Television: Telecosm.
- Interactivity in Video and TV.
- Channel surfing.
- Pay per view.
- Electronic commerce: home shopping.
MPI Video Architecture
