Abstract
(Englisch)
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With the growth of the fixed, wireless and mobile Internets, the convergence process of information technology, communications and media faces new challenges. ISIS proposes to solve one key issue: procure a technology to provide scalable, seamless multimedia services. Today's state of the art in the area of scalable content for multi-devices and multi-networks delivery systems has validated the technical feasibility and the business perspectives of such technology, but it remains mainly limited to text-based data. To extend existing concepts to support richer media types (e.g. streamed audio, video, 2D&3D graphics) the project proposes to specify, design and develop a complete platform for scalable multimedia content creation, management, delivery and consumption. This will allow improvement of quality and usability of multimedia information.
Objectives:
The goal of ISIS is to design, implement and validate a multimedia framework that allows for audio-visual content to be created once and adapted to a wide range of service scenarios by customisation to different transport characteristics and end device capabilities as well as personalization to end-user preferences. The transport mechanisms envisaged are those of the fixed, wireless and mobile Internets. The end-devices include the variety of personal computers and handheld terminals connected to these networks. To this end, the following objectives will be pursued:
1-Development of tools for coding, managing, delivering &playing back scalable audio, video & graphics contents;
2-Integration in a consistent end-to-end production, delivery and consumption chain;
3-Validation &demonstration of scalability functionality through prototype application.
Work description:
A three phase approach will be adopted for the development of the project. These phases will be coordinated by a work package on Project Management. In a first phase, the project will produce a global system specification defining the various building blocks to be developed and integrated in order to achieve the targeted functionality of scalable multimedia content production, management, delivery and consumption. In a second phase, the project will develop the various components of this system:
- Content representation tools for scalable audio, video and graphics;
- Content customisation and personalization framework;
- Content consumption tools on hand held devices.
In a final phase, the project will integrate all these components and validate the resulting end-to-end platform with a sample application that will illustrate the ISIS technology in a meaningful scenario. ISIS will develop and contribute to a wide range of innovative technologies including novel scalable representation techniques for audio, video and graphics data. A complete integrated content customisation and personalization framework, which will optimise the perceived user quality of service of the streamed multimedia content, will be specified and implemented. New ways of end-to-end quality of service provisioning for fixed and mobile networks and terminals will be provided. ISIS will therefore make a strong contribution to the technology convergence process. The project will also make many contributions to Standardization Bodies in these areas.
Milestones:
The first three months of the project will be devoted to the specification of the system. After twelve months a preliminary version of the major system components will be implemented. After sixteen months, all components will be implemented, tested and integrated into the end-to-end platform. The final two months will be dedicated to the fine-tuning of the demonstrator, as well as to testing a prototype application so as to demonstrate a complete end-to-end value chain for scalable services.
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