Enhancing the functionality of interactive TV with content-based multimedia analysis
Ferguson, Paul, Gurrin, CathalORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702, Lee, HyowonORCID: 0000-0003-4395-7702, Sav, Sorin Vasile, Smeaton, Alan F.ORCID: 0000-0003-1028-8389 and O'Connor, Noel E.ORCID: 0000-0002-4033-9135
(2009)
Enhancing the functionality of interactive TV with content-based multimedia analysis.
In: CBTV 2009 - Workshop on Content-Based Audio/Video Analysis for Novel TV Services, 14-16 December, 2009, San Diego, California, USA.
ISBN 978-1-4244-5231-6
In this paper we describe how content-based analysis techniques can be used to provide much greater functionality to the users of an interactive TV (iTV) device. We describe several content-based multimedia analysis techniques and how some of these can be exploited in the iTV domain, resulting in the provision of a set of powerful functions for iTV users. To validate our ideas, we introduce an iTV application we developed which incorporates some of these techniques into a simple set of user features, in order to demonstrate the usefulness of content-based techniques for iTV. The contribution of this paper is not to provide an in-depth discussion on each of the individual content-based techniques, but rather to show how many of these powerful technologies can be incorporated into an interactive TV system.