TV-Anytime Metadata Authoring Tool

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TV-Anytime Metadata Authoring Tool
Jung Won Kang Digital Broadcasting Research
Division ETRI
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OUTLINE

• Overview
• Features Functions
• Applications
• Demonstrations

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Overview

• Purpose of TVA metadata authoring tool
• To create and edit metadata compliant to the
  metadata specification of the TV Anytime Forum
  (Phase 1)
• To visualize the structural and semantic aspects
  of metadata effectively
• By incorporating XML and media handling
  technology
• To support various kinds of inter-operations
  between metadata and related content
• Providing convenient environments to users

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Features Functions

• Based on the normative metadata specification of
  TV Anytime Forum
• Visualization of XML-based metadata
• To visualize the content of metadata in an
  effective way and support editing on the
  visualized sheet
• Pure text
• Template-based visualization
• Tree-style visualization
• Reusability
• To load existing metadata to the memory device
  after parsing/validation and output the edited
  metadata in XML format
• Media handling capacity
• To support basic VCR functions
• play, pause, fast-forward, and random access

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Features Functions

• Automation
• To be equipped with some automation tools for
  authoring segment metadata (e.g. shot boundary
  detection, keyframe extraction, metadata
  fragmentation, compression)
• Real-time auditing
• To audit user interaction in real-time
• Compression
• To save results into a valid XML document or
  encode as BiM stream
• Archiving system
• To store and search the authored metadata in the
  archive

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Features Functions

• Metadata Visualization - Pure text

Basic VCR functions
Keyframes in shots
Three-types of metadata visualization
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Features Functions

• Metadata Visualization - Template-based
  visualization

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Features Functions

• Metadata Visualization Tree-style
  visualization

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Applications

• Generating and editing tool of metadata related
  to broadcasting program
• To provide search and browsing based on EPG
• Contents browser based on metadata
• Broadcasting contents archiving system of huge
  volume

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Demonstration

• TV-Anytime Metadata Authoring Tool