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User Centric Media

First International Conference, UCMedia 2009, Venice, Italy, December 9-11, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

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Table of contents (47 papers)

  1. UcMedia 2009 - Session 5: Interactive TV

    1. Content Personalization System Based on User Profiling for Mobile Broadcasting Television

      • Silvia Uribe, Iago Fernández-Cedrón, Federico Álvarez, José Manuel Menéndez, José Luis Núñez
      Pages 119-126
    2. WiMAX TV: Possibilities and Challenges

      • Omneya Issa, Wei Li, Hong Liu
      Pages 127-136
    3. Personalized Semantic News: Combining Semantics and Television

      • Roberto Borgotallo, Roberto Del Pero, Alberto Messina, Fulvio Negro, Luca Vignaroli, Lora Aroyo et al.
      Pages 137-140
    4. Service and Content Metadata Systems in Interactive TV Domains

      • Mark Guelbahar, Josip Zoric
      Pages 141-150
  2. UcMedia 2009 - Session 6: Content Delivery

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Efficient Scalable Video Streaming over P2P Network

      • Stefano Asioli, Naeem Ramzan, Ebroul Izquierdo
      Pages 153-160
    3. Rate Adaptation Techniques for WebTV

      • Hugo Santos, Rui Santos Cruz, Mário Serafim Nunes
      Pages 161-168
    4. An Adaptive Control System for Interactive Virtual Environment Content Delivery to Handheld Devices

      • Gianluca Paravati, Andrea Sanna, Fabrizio Lamberti, Luigi Ciminiera
      Pages 169-178
  3. UcMedia 2009 - Session 7: Security, Surveillance and Legal Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179
    2. VirtualLife: Secure Identity Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems

      • Dan Bogdanov, Ilja Livenson
      Pages 181-188
    3. Overview of the Legal Issues in Virtual Worlds

      • Gerald Spindler, Katharina Anton, Jan Wehage
      Pages 189-198
    4. Selective Motion Estimation for Surveillance Videos

      • Muhammad Akram, Naeem Ramzan, Ebroul Izquierdo
      Pages 199-206
  4. PerMeD 2009 - Session 1

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 207-207
    2. Personalization of Media Delivery in Seamless Content Delivery Networks

      • Marta Alvargonzález, Laura Arnaiz, Lara García, Faustino Sanchez, Theodore Zahariadis, Federico Álvarez
      Pages 209-213
    3. Shopping Assistant

      • Bernd Klasen, Alexander Vinzl, Takeshi Martinez
      Pages 214-217
    4. Streaming Content Wars: Download and Play Strikes Back

      • Charalampos Patrikakis, Nikos Papaoulakis, Chryssanthi Stefanoudaki, Mário Nunes
      Pages 218-226
    5. A Personalized HTTP Adaptive Streaming WebTV

      • Rui Santos Cruz, Mário Serafim Nunes, João Espadanal Gonçalves
      Pages 227-233
  5. PerMeD 2009 - Session 2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235
    2. Scalable IPTV Delivery to Home via VPN

      • Shuai Qu, Jonas Lindqvist
      Pages 237-246
    3. Location-Aware and User-Centric Touristic Media

      • Michael Weber, Alexandru Stan, George Ioannidis
      Pages 247-254

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About this book

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference, UCMedia 2009, which was held on 9-11 December 2009 at Hotel Novotel Venezia Mestre Castellana in Venice, Italy. The conference`s focus was on forms and production, delivery, access, discovery and consumption of user centric media. After a thorough review process of the papers received, 23 were accepted from open call for the main conference and 20 papers for the workshops.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Informatics and Telematics Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thermi-Thessaloniki, Greece

    Petros Daras

  • CREATE-NET, Trento, Italia

    Oscar Mayora Ibarra

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