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Project leader:
Prof.dr. Dick Bulterman (CWI)
Consortium:
CWI
Industrial partners (non-exhaustive):
Philips, Stoneroos, Telematica Instituut
Total FTE: 2.05 (heads: faculty: 4, PD 1: PhD: 1)
Key BRICKS publications:
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D.C.A. Bulterman, J. Jansen, K. Kleanthous, K. Blom, D. Benden: "AMBULANT: A Fast, Multi Platform Open Source SMIL 2.0 Player". In: ACM Multimedia 2004, NYC, Oct 2004
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D.C.A. Bulterman, Lynda Hardman:"Structured Multimedia Authoring" In: ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), February, 2005
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P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen:"An Architecture for End-User TV Content Enrichment". In: Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB), Volume: 3, Number: 9, December 2006
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P. Cesar, D.C.A. Bulterman, and A.J. Jansen: "Benefits of Structured Multimedia Documents in iDTV: The End-User Enrichment System". In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 10-13, 2006
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D.C.A. Bulterman: "User-centered control within multimedia presentations". In: Multimedia Systems Journal, November, 2006
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Project PDC3: Network Infrastructure Support for Convergent Interactive Media
The PDC3 project researches performance modelling for adaptive
applications in heterogeneous environments, application-based control
of network resources and user interface models for adaptive control.
Results include new or extended application specification languages
(such as extensions to W3Cs SMIL); new resource scheduling algorithms
and related control primitives for protocols such as RTP and RTSP; and
new interaction paradigms for multimedia applications.
Theoretical work done within the project is complemented with more
practical work carried out in the context of the AMBULANT open source
project. This provides an experimentation platform to test out new
ideas. In addition, AMBULANT plays a key role in linking the research
of the team with the standardization efforts of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C) Synchronized Multimedia Working Group (SYMM WG).
The initial period of the PDC3 project has been spent on defining an
architecture for modelling distributed control within a convergent
media infrastructure. Together with Philips and Thomson Multimedia, we
have defined a scalable home server environment in which various
personalized control devices are used to monitor and guide end-user
media consumption and enrichment. The goal of this work is to give end
users a controlling positing in media consumption by having them
directly interact with media. In complementary work, we are developing
a distributed communications architecture that allows the development
of a non-monolithic distributed media player.
Industrial cooperation
The project has good international contacts with the industrial members
of the above mentioned working group, which include Sony and Nokia as
key members. In addition, Pablo Cesar, post doc in the project, is
being paid 50% by BRICKS, and 50% by the European ITEA Project
Passepartout, in which the group cooperates with Philips Research and
Stoneroos Interactive Television.
International cooperation
We have been active on the international front through our W3C work and
with key project partners in our associated European research projects.
Our international research partners include PUC-Rio (Brasil), Brown
University (USA), the National Research Center for Persons with
Disabilities (Japan).
Highlights 2004-2006
Research highlights
During the initial period, we have leveraged the work of the BRICKS,
AMBULANT and ITEA Passepartout projects to define an architecture and
network control protocol for interactive convergent media systems. We
have published four journal articles and six conference papers based on
this work in the initial period.
Economic & societal impact
The societal impact of our work takes two directions. First, we
contribute strongly to the next version of the W3C SMIL standard (as
co-chair and technical lead of the work). Second, we work closely with
the Dutch and international accessibility community to target specific
versions of our work for the blind and the deaf. This is a long-term
goal of our research.
Future work 2007-2009
The PDC3 project has served as a catalyst for establishing the SEN5
group at CWI. We will produce at least one Ph.D. dissertation based on
our work in this period and will build on our BRICKS work with further
national and international partnerships. We expect to hire a second
post-doc for the project in 2007 and to fund a second Ph.D. student
based on BRICKS and two other existing European projects in 2007.
PDC3 Researchers funded by BRICKS
- Ishan Vaishnavi (PhD student, CWI)
Other researchers involved
- Prof.dr. Dick Bulterman (CWI/SEN5)
- Jack Jansen (CWI/SEN5)
For more information, please refer to the publications and posters of this project.
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