Collaborative Video Annotation and Discussion Tools for High-bandwidth Networks
Speaker: Ronald Schroeter, ITEE
When: 2003-11-06 10:00:00
Venue: DSTC boardroom, Level 7 GP South
Host: Dr Jane Hunter, DSTC
Abstract:A number of research groups and software companies have developed
stand-alone digital annotation tools for textual documents, web
pages, images, audio and video resources. Annotations are the
subjective comments, notes, explanations or external remarks that
can be attached to a document or a selected part of a document
without actually modifying the document. When a user retrieves a
document, they can also download the annotations attached to it from
an annotation server to view their peer's opinions and perspectives
on the particular document or to add, edit or update their own
annotations. The ability to do this collaboratively and in real time
during group discussions is of great interest to the educational,
medical, scientific, cultural, defense and media communities. But it
is extremely challenging technically and demands significant
bandwidth, particularly for video documents. This seminar will
describe a unique prototype application being developed for use over
the Australian GrangeNet broadband research network, which combines
videoconferencing over access grid nodes with collaborative,
real-time sharing of an application which enables the segmentation,
indexing, browsing, annotation and discussion of high quality
(MPEG-2) video content between multiple groups at remote locations.
Biography:(biography unavailable)
Type: MPhil. confirmation
Contact:Dr Jane Hunter, DSTC, seminar host (jane@dstc.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)