A video personalization and summarization system is designed and implemented to dynamically generate a personalized video summary. The personalization system adopts the three-tier server-middleware-client architecture in order to select, adapt,
and deliver rich media content to the user. The server stores the content sources along with their corresponding MPEG-7 metadata descriptions. These semantic metadata are provided through the use of our VideoAnnEx MPEG-7 Video Annotation
Tool. When the user initiates a request for content, the client communicates the user request and usage environment descriptions to the middleware. The middleware is powered by the personalization engine and the content adaptation engine.
Our personalization engine includes the VideoSue Summarization on Usage Environment engine that selects the optimal set of desired contents according to user preferences. Afterwards, the adaptation engine performs the required transformations and compositions of the selected contents for the specific usage environment using our VideoEd Editing and Composition Tool. Finally, a personalization and summarization system is demonstrated on the IBM Websphere Portal Server for PCs and pervasive devices.
By: Belle L. Tseng, Ching-Yung Lin, John R. Smith
Published in: Proceedings of 2002 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing. Piscataway, NJ, , IEEE. , no. 424-7 in 2002
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