ITEE seminar: Ronald Schroeter, 10.00AM, Thu 06 Nov 2003

Collaborative Video Annotation and Discussion Tools for High-bandwidth Networks

Speaker: Ronald Schroeter, ITEE

When: 10.00AM, Thursday 06 Nov 2003

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)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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