Nowadays, numerous journals and conferences have published articles related to context-
aware systems, indicating many researchers' interest. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to …

In this paper, we report recent research activities under the integrated project, Live Staging
of Media Events (LIVE), which is funded under European Framework-6 Programme, and …

The advances in IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) technology enable a new user-centric
and interactive TV model, in which context-awareness is promising in making the user's …

In this paper, we propose an architecture which supports metadata extraction by exploring
interaction mechanisms among users and content. The interaction activity addressed in this …

Nowadays, networks can be accessed by multiple devices with different characteristics.
Some of these characteristics, such as low processing power and memory capability, restrict …

The literature reports many efforts toward supporting video annotation. In this paper, we
present a peer-to-peer model for the exchange of context information and user annotations …

With the development of content-based multimedia services, the personalization task has
become increasingly important. There is a need for semantic information knowledge …

Peer-level annotation stands for the enrichment of content by any user, who acts as author,
being able to make annotations, using, for instance, handwriting or speech recognition …

The convergence of the internet infrastructures with the wireless networks and mobile
devices has inspired the development of global ubiquitous networking platforms. The …

Scientific research is producing and consuming large volumes of multimedia data at an ever
growing rate. Data annotations are used, among others, to provide context information and …