VISUALISE: Enhancing the spectator experience

Author

Ferre, P. ; Hill, P. ; Halls, D. ; Chung-How, J. ; Nix, A. ; Bull, D.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Bristol, Bristol

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

VISUALISE aims to enhance the spectator experience at temporally and spatially dispersed public events by providing real-time access to unfolding events via wireless IP enabled mobile phones and personal digital assistants. The VISUALISE project enhanced coverage of the World Rally Championships in South Wales (UK) in December 2007. Using consumer handheld devices, wireless technology was deployed to enable spectators to access live video feeds (including in-car footage), live timing data and live GPS information. Live multi-channel video was streamed to mobile terminals using a broadcast WiFi protocol. While this allowed many terminals to receive the service, enhanced IP encapsulation and robust video playback (including loss concealment) was required at the server and client respectively. The VISUALSIE project also developed a novel location based approach for intelligent, automatic and personalised video-feed selection.

Keywords

IP networks; consumer electronics; mobile handsets; video communication; GPS; IP encapsulation; South Wales; World Rally Championships; consumer handheld devices; live multichannel video; mobile phones; mobile terminals; personal digital assistants; personalised video-feed selection; wireless IP; wireless technology; Access protocols; Broadcasting; Feeds; Global Positioning System; Handheld computers; Mobile handsets; Personal digital assistants; Streaming media; Timing; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Electronics, 2009. ICCE '09. Digest of Technical Papers International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4701-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2559-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCE.2009.5012203

Filename

5012203