Although Customer-to-Customer (C2C) business model has been around for years, second-hand markets of digital contents over the Internet are unpopular. A key factor to the success ...
Being part of a larger research program, this paper focuses on the impacts of so-called 'Digital Video Recorders' (DVRs) on the video content services industry. First, i...
In this paper, we describe an interface for browsing and skipping digital video content in a consumer setting; that is, sitting and watching television from a couch using a standa...
Steven M. Drucker, Asta Glatzer, Steven De Mar, Cu...
In this paper we present a prototype system to enrich audiovisual contents with annotations, which exploits existing technologies for automatic extraction of metadata (such as OCR...
Giuseppe Amato, Paolo Bolettieri, Franca Debole, F...
In this paper, we first propose a novel Public License Infrastructure (PLI) that uses cryptographic threshold secret sharing schemes to provide decentralized public license service...