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1. Metadata for Telepresence /
Video conferencing
IMTC Metadata Webinar
Dave Gibbon & Andrea Basso
May 15, 2012
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2. Enhanced Telepresence Services
• Content descriptors enhance the telepresence experience
• E.g., automated suggestion of associated personalized
relevant content
• Tablets, smartphones and cloud-based media services make
the generation of metadata more convenient and make
audiovisual communication high quality, even in the mobile
case.
• Telepresence content becomes more accessible
• Increase engagement in the teleconference
• Just-in-time participation
• Assisted ‘meeting minutes’ generation
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3. On-line Access
• On-line access
• Real-time Metadata extraction for live telepresence sessions
• Cloud computing makes it economically viable
• Dynamic summarization – use of alternative display surfaces
• Challenges
• Unstructured content
• Technical terms / vocabularies
• Highlevel features are difficult to detect
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4. Off-line Access and Consumption
Off-line access
• Indexing Telepresence content
• Summarization / keyword indexing
• Enhanced browsing
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5. Challenges
• General
• Unstructured content
• Technical terms / vocabularies
• High-level features are difficult to detect
• Lack of visual cues (e.g. for browsing sets of thumbnails)
• Privacy / Security of recordings and metadata
• On-line add additional issues
• Single pass algorithms required
• Limited computing capability
• Low-latency constraints
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