Title
Utility function for semantic video content adaptation
Abstract
The vision of Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) and Universal Multimedia Experience (UME) has driven research in the multimedia community for a long time. Implementing content adaptation frameworks to satisfy heterogeneous types of constraints is among the main requirements for UMA and UME. At the core of these frameworks lies the adaptation decision engine, which computes the appropriate adaptation plans. Though much research has already been done in this domain, the problem of semantic constraints has generally been neglected. This paper addresses the problem of selecting the optimal adaptation operation to satisfy semantic constraints while maximizing the utility of the adapted video. To this end, we define a utility function that computes a value for each possible adaptation operation. We represent our utility function using the MPEG-21 Digital Item Adaptation (DIA) tools. This facilitates the integration of semantic constraints with other types of constraints in MPEG-21 Universal Constraint Description format.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1967486.1967649
iiWAS
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimal adaptation operation,adaptation decision engine,universal multimedia experience,content adaptation framework,utility function,appropriate adaptation plan,semantic video content adaptation,semantic constraint,mpeg-21 universal constraint description,possible adaptation operation,universal multimedia access,satisfiability
Data mining,Universal multimedia access,Computer science,Decision support system,Semantic adaptation,Description format,Database,Content adaptation
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
3
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vanessa El-Khoury141.45
Nadia Bennani25613.91
David Coquil35611.12