Vannotea - A Collaborative Video Indexing , Annotation and Discussion System For Broadband.pdfVIP

Vannotea – A Collaborative Video Indexing, Annotation and Discussion System For Broadband Networks Ronald Schroeter Jane Hunter Douglas Kosovic The University of Queensland DSTC DSTC Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Brisbane, Queensland, Australia ronalds@.au jane@.au douglask@.au ABSTRACT and annotations can be shared by saving them to a server, A number of research groups and software companies but the actual annotation applications have not been have developed digital annotation tools for textual designed to be shared in real-time collaborative video- documents, web pages, images, audio and video conferencing sessions. Hence, the Vannotea system is of resources. By annotations we mean subjective comments, great interest to many communities, including the notes, explanations or external remarks that can be educational, medical, scientific, defense and media attached to a document or a selected part of a document communities, to enable collaborative online discussions without actually modifying the document. When a user about particular film or video content and real-time retrieves a document, they can also download the annotation of segments, key frames or regions within annotations attached to it f