Intention-aware multimedia modeling for optimized Quality of Experience

Multimedia Quality of Experience (QoE) is not only a matter of Quality of Service (QoS). Network-based metrics such as delay, jitter or packet loss ratio are critical indicators for multimedia services; nevertheless, we believe that considering the expectations of all the parties in a communication scenario can help improving the overall QoE. Through the empirical examples of radio and movies production, we show that the form of a multimedia object must serve its content, i.e. the author(s)´ intentionality. We propose an intention-aware multimedia model which explicitly distinguishes form and content to grant robustness and flexibility to multimedia communications, persisting the producer(s)´ intention while adapting it to the consumer(s)´ context. Finally, this approach is studied in an immersive video-conferencing use case.