A Mobile Phone-Based Context-Aware Video Management Application

Overview

This paper presents a video management system comprising a video server and a mobile camera-phone application called MobiCon, which allows users to capture videos, annotate them with metadata, specify Digital Rights Management (DRM) settings, upload the videos over the cellular network, and share them with others. Once stored in the video server, users can then search their personal video collection via a web interface, and watch the video clips using a wide range of terminals. The paper describes the MobiCon architecture, compares it with related work, provides an overview of the video server, and illustrates a typical user scenario from the point of capture to video sharing and video searching.