BUSMAN Bringing User Satisfaction to Media Access Networks

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BUSMAN (Bringing User Satisfaction to Media
Access Networks)

• Alyson Evans Simon Waddington
• Centre for Applications, Content and Services
  Research,
• Motorola Labs

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BUSMAN and Seamless Mobility
PC Consumer client
BUSMAN Server
Mobile Client
Set Top Box

• Search and retrieval of video content across
  wireless and wired IP networks
• UMTS, WiFi, broadband

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BUSMAN - In the Home
BUSMAN Server
Video camera
Home PC
TV
WiFi
STB (Home BUSMAN server)
Mobile handset

• Search and retrieval of commercial content
• Annotation and retrieval of personal content

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BUSMAN - Video Services for 3G

• Entertainment
• Sports
• Music videos
• Movie clips
• Security and surveillance
• National security
• E-commerce
• Real estate
• Directory services
• Information videos
• Tourism
• How-to-do it videos
• Education

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BUSMAN Designed for Ease of Use

• Developed to satisfy the requirements of
  consumers and professional users
• Extensive analysis of user requirements
• System user trials in football and tourism
  scenarios
• Consumers
• Easy-to-use interfaces
• Intuitive search criteria
• Rapid response times
• Professional Users
• Automatic and semi-automatic annotation tools
• Developed in collaboration with a video content
  provider
• Video watermarking for content tagging and
  Digital Rights Management

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Technical Innovations
MPEG-21
MPEG-7

• Video annotation, search and retrieval using
  MPEG-7 standard
• Automatic shot detection, key frame extraction,
  low-level description
• Semantic annotation tools based on user-defined
  dictionaries
• Automated semantic annotation tool
• Query-by-example and relevance feedback
• Watermarking for content tagging
• BUSMAN Content Tag (BCT) - Digital Item
  Identifier (DII), MPEG-21 part 3
• Binary BCT embedded in content as a watermark
  binds metadata to content
• Watermarking for compressed and source video

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BUSMAN System

• End-to-end content management

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The BUSMAN Consortium

• BUSMAN is a part funded EC 5th Framework project
• http//www.ist-busman.org