Digital Television

Within the EU-project DIOMEDES (Distribution of Multi-view Entertainment using content aware DElivery Systems) there are different ways for distribution of 3D-content. DIOMEDES will focus on a content delivery concept that provides stereoscopic video (two views, one per eye) via DVB-T2 and enhancements towards multiview via Peer-to-Peer (P2P) to present multi-view coded video at the user’s home. So the viewer has the impression to walk around the shown object. Within the project different scenarios will be illuminated dependently on the availability of DVB-T2 and/or Peer-to-Peer at the user’s home.

In this project, the IRT is concentrating on the DVB-T2 transmission and the visual attention modeling for identification of important image elements/ regions.

Official Homepage of DIOMEDES

Under the coordination of Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg, HBB-NEXT addresses a next generation of Hybrid Broadcast Broadband solutions building upon successful standards like HbbTV. The project seeks to facilitate the convergence of the broadcasting and Internet worlds by researching user-centric technologies for enriching the TV-viewing experience with aspects of social networking, multiple-device access, group-tailored content recommendations, as well as the seamless and time-synchronous mixing of broadcast content and complementary Internet content. The project results should contribute to an even wider acceptance of HbbTV and will also be a basis for according standard updates. IRT, as one of the nine project partners, acts as scientific coordinator and will lead the information exchange towards standards bodies.

Further information at: http://www.hbb-next.eu

NoTube demonstrates a new generation of Web services for context dependent and personalized selection and presentation of TV content. NoTube shifts digital entertainment from a single-TV viewer activity to a community-based experience by sharing preferences. NoTube realizes distributed personalization in an interactive and multi-device environment, enabling TV entertainment anywhere and anytime with the ubiquitous Web.

The work in the project is steered by three visionary use cases, namely personalized semantic news, personalized TV guide with adaptive advertising and Internet TV in the Social Web.

The NoTube platform will be a Semantic Web infrastructure providing integrated content from broadcast, Web channels and social networks, as well as integrated functionality for Web service-based metadata exchange, user and context modelling, and personalised presentation generation.

Official Homepage of NoTube

The project QLectives (Quality Collectives) aims to combine social networks, peer production and peer systems. The objective is to design and develop a platform of a next-generation self-organising socially intelligent information system. Quality Collectives makes use of technical and genre-specific descriptive metadata, user behaviour and ratings by users. The project is based on the two pillars “QScience” and ”QMedia”. In “QMedia”, an interactive peer-to-peer media system (including live streaming) will be developed and tested, that provides fully distributed social filtering and recommendations for quality (think of social television 2.0). With “QScience” a distributed platform for scientists will be created allowing them to locate or form new communities and to perform quality reviewings, which are transparent and promote quality (think of Slashdot for any particular discipline or sub-discipline).

The main focus of IRT’s work in QLectives is on “QMedia”, namely the design of an appropriate underlying metadata model, as well as the development and the testing of self-learning filter algorithms in order to obtain and retain highest quality metadata.. The resulting quality of metadata, being essential for a high-quality rating and recommendation system, will be evaluated in the living lab.

Official Homepage of QLectives

The project iNEM4U (Interactive Networked Experiences in Multimedia for You) develops a service infrastructure that enables users to share integrated multimedia experiences in networked environments. In iNEM4U, these experiences involve seamless combinations of multimedia content and value-added services from different domains of technology, such as the Web (i.e. YouTube), in-home consumer electronics (DLNA/UPnP), mobile telecommunication networks (i.e. IMS), and interactive digital TV (i.e. DVB-IP). This results in much richer multimedia experiences than are possible today, for instance in terms of level of interactivity, ease of use, social connectedness and availability of community aspects. From a business perspective, the iNEM4U infrastructure allows different providers to establish cross-domain business collaborations so that they can collaboratively provide iNEM4U experiences. 

Official Homepage of iNEM4U

IRT collaborates in the European research project P2P-NEXT (Peer-To-Peer Broadcasting) aiming to shape “next generation” internet TV based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technology.

Further information on P2P-Broadcasting