Video Annotation with Aggregate Social Network Data

The rapid growth of social media and the ubiquitous availability of audiovisual content have transformed virtually every aspect of our personal and professional lives. In Internet-based multimedia applications users with their activity (including social life) are both the source of data and the consumers of the applications, hence being involved in the creation of user-oriented business value. In this paper we present a model that blends video on demand technologies with social media into an innovative and practical distributed application to be used in situations whereby multimedia content needs to be reviewed by multiple individuals that may be geographically dispersed, and altered afterwards by other experts according to the received comments. The proposed system significantly speeds up such remote collaborations while at the same time significantly reducing their cost.