User Centric Future Media Internet

Janko Calic1, Petros Daras2, Nick Achilleopoulos3, Marianna Panebarco4, Oscar Mayora5, Peter

Stollenmayer6, Doug Williams7, Tim Pennick7, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann8, Carmen Guerrero9,

Michiel Pelt10, Tim McGrath11, Eugenia Fuenmayor12, Nikolaos Papaoulakis13, Federico

Alvarez14, Elias Kalapanidas15, Alex Shani16, Jean-Yves Le Moine171 I-Lab, University of Surrey, UK; 2 CERTH/ITI,

Thessaloniki, Greece, 3Archetypon, Athens, Greece, 4Panebarco, Ravenna, Italy, 5CREATE-NET, Trento,

Italy,6EURESCOM, Heidelberg, Germany, 7BT, Ipswich, UK, 8Miralab, Geneva, Switzerland, 9Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 10Alcatel-Lucent, Grimbergen, Belgium

11DES, UK 12Barcelona Media, Barcelona, Spain 13NTUA, Athens, Greece, 14UPM, Madrid, Spain 15Systema, Athens,

Greece, 16Exent, Israel, 17JCP Consultant, Paris, France

User Centric Cluster

• Activity sparked from the IST Networked Media Unit

• Ongoing FP6 & FP7 EU funded projects

• Vision on: – Personalised and Creative Media, – 3D & Immersive Media and – Future Media Internet Communities

• I-Lab research areas- Video and Speech

coding- Multimedia analysis- HCI and user aspects

• Centre for Communication Systems Research

• Research facilities for visualisation, immersive environments, virtual collaboration and pro-audio

University of Surrey

Why?

• Explosion of the WWW followed by the Semantic Web and Web 2.0

• Its social implications• Internet-based audiovisual material

produced by professional and recently by amateur users

• Therefore, the vision that the Future Internet will be an Internet of Media is a reality.

Themes• 3D Media Internet • Content aware networks and

network aware content/applications,

• User centric search & retrieval • User Generated Content and

Interaction• Immersive media experiences

beyond HDTV, co-existence of virtual with physical worlds

• FI Communities

Work groups of UCMC• WG1:

Personalised & Creative Media

• WG2: 3D & Immersive Media

• WG3: Future Media Internet Communities

User experience

• HCI essence• New modalities• UX model• Behaviour• Application &

Role• Personalised

adaptive media

Security

• Towards Trust, Privacy, Security & Protection

• Guaranteed service availability• Misuse and related liabilities• Identification in the Online

Environment - Virtual identity card

UCM Challenges in FMI• Content aware networks and network

aware content/applications– Content Delivery– Content Service Networks– 3D data exchange and interoperation

• User generated content• FIM Collaboration/Interaction

FIM Collaboration/Interaction• Interfaces• Spatial interactive immersive audio• Supporting social communication and

interaction• Immersive media experiences

beyond HDTV• Coupling of virtual with physical

worlds• User centric search & retrieval

Economic & Social Impact• European IPR• Trends in managing copyrights• Digital rights Management• Standardization• Avoiding the digital divide• International collaboration

An ecosystem for innovation

Conclusions

• FI brings new possibilities– Bandwidth, routing, QoS, etc.

• FM got new demands – 3D, HD, immersive, etc.

• Bridge between network and content• User Centred

Acknowledgements

• The UCM cluster consists of representatives from the following FP6 & FP7 EU funded projects: – VICTORY, DIVAS, VIRTUALLIFE, SAMBA, TA2,

INTERMEDIA, CONTENT CITIZENMEDIA, MY-MEDIA, MY-E-DIRECTOR-2012, 20-20 3D MEDIA, SAME, ARENA, PLAYMANCER, CHORUS, GAMES@LARGE, VISNET II.

• The UCM members would like to thank the UCM cluster coordinator Mr. Isidro Laso Ballesteros