Video-over-IP applications have recently attracted a large number of users on the Internet. Traditional clientserver based video streaming solutions incur expensive bandwidth provision cost on the server. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is a new paradigm to build distributed network applications. Recently, several P2P streaming systems have been deployed to provide live and on-demand video stream...

Description: In recent years, the proliferation of available video content and the popularity of the Internet have encouraged service providers to develop new ways of distributing content to clients. Increasing video scaling ratios and advanced digital signal processing techniques have led to Internet Video-on-Demand applications, but these currently lack efficiency and quality. Scalable Video ...

Video retrieval continues to be one of the most exciting research areas in the field of multimedia technology. With the advancement of sensing and tracking technologies it is possible to generate multiple personal video streams during events from different perspectives. This paper presents the first prototype of the MyView system that provides on-demand personalized video streams with multiple ...

Recommender systems help users to discover relevant items. Traditionally, recommender systems rely on both detailed knowledge of the domain and an extensive user profile. However, small numbers of users, privacy concerns, or a very specific domain limit access or availability to this information. In this work, we present an approach for recommending items based on events relevant to the target ...

It is impossible to satisfy the infinite rapid-increasing requirements with finite addition of servers and bandwidth in the traditional VOD (Video-onDemand) system. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid Grid-type architecture to resolve this problem. By taking advantage of the large storage and the powerful processing capability in current client-side devices, user host serves both as a clie...