Content Aware Coding for Mobile TV
What is CACMTV?
The project Content Aware Coding for Mobile TV was initiated in March 2009. It deals with technical and dramaturgical aspects of mobile television broadcasting. Involved with the project are two departments of the University of Vienna. For a detailed project description and the research aspects, see Research. If you like to find out more about the team members, please click here.
The project is funded by the WWTF Austria.
Latest News
June 27th, 2012
The Made for Mobile Database is now officially made available online. Please visit the link for more.
May 6th, 2011
An article about the CACMTV project was posted at the Medienportal of the University. It is available in German.
March 3rd, 2011
Shelley Buchinger will receive a doc.award for her PhD thesis at the Dies Academicus on March 14th, 2011. Find additional information here:
- Dies Academicus - Invitation (PDF, german)
- Dies Academicus - Detailed awards programme (PDF, german)
March 2rd, 2011
In our research efforts in mobile multimedia quality, we have developed the SubjectivePlayer for Android, a video player supporting the assessment of subjective quality, made for testing on the go. While the app is still in development, it is released as an open source project and thus open for contributions. The source code is available under the GPL v2 license. For more informations, check out the project's homepage at Google Code, where you can find downloads and an extensive manual.
February 25th, 2011
Shelley Buchinger will host the QoEMCS workshop at the EuroITV 2011 - more details can be found in our "Events" section.
February 24th, 2011
Personal news: Shelley Buchinger has also been designated as deputy leader of a working group in QualiNet, a European network on Quality of Experience in Multimedia Systems and Services (COST IC 1003 programme). In March, Dr. Buchinger will also receive one of the doc.awards 2010.
February 16th, 2011
In December, we presented a short abstract at the Third Euro-NF IA.7.5 Workshop on Socio-Economic Issues of Networks of the Future in Gent, Belgium.
Currently, we are focusing on preparing the video content we have created for further experiments and new publications.
Moreover, the project has been extended for another year, which will allow the team to work continuously towards new publications and research results.
November 5th, 2010
Our content production phase is finished. A database of made-for-mobile videos has been created with professional support from our partners. This material will be made available for the scientific community when first experiments are finished. Have a first look at the videos here.
June 30th, 2010
A poster on the topic of Channel Switching Times has been presented at the QoMEX workshop 2010. Also, two papers were presented at the EuroITV conference. Currently, the stage of content production is almost finished. In the near future, subjective tests will be performed in order to analyze perceived video quality in mobile television.
More News...
February 26th, 2010
We submitted papers for the EuroITV2010 and the QoMEX2010, covering the topics of a peer to peer mobile television recovery system and the acceptance of channel switching delays in mobile TV.
November 5th, 2009
Our VPQM '10 submission with the topic "Slider vs. Glove" has been accepted.
September 9th, 2009
We submitted an extended abstract for the VPQM '10, which will take place in Scottsdale, Arizona on January 13-15th.
September 7th, 2009
There is now a gallery for the Slider vs. Glove experiment which can be found here.
June 24th, 2009: Launch of the new homepage
We are going online. A framework for a homepage was built and we are starting to upload content.