A Framework for a Context-Based Hybrid Content Radio

Abstract

Welcome to The Best of IET and IBC 2015-16. This is the seventh volume of an annual joint publication between the Institution of Engineering and Technology and IBC.The IET is a formal member of the IBC's partnership board but, beyond this, it has a long-standing and close relationship with the organisation, through which they together encourage and promote professional excellence in the field of media technology. Nowhere is this relationship more strongly reflected than in the pages of this publication, which celebrates the very best technical media papers from this year's IBC Proceedings and the IET's flagship journal, Electronics Letters.This year, our editorial takes a look at the exciting technology on show in IBC's Future Zone -an area of exhibition space where the world's most hi-tech media companies and research organisations proudly demonstrate their very latest concepts and experimental technologies. Here, you can not only see tomorrow's media but you have the opportunity to experience it personally, leaving impressions that will remain with you long after you have left Amsterdam.We then present nine papers chosen as the best contributions to IBC2015 by the IBC Technical Papers Committee and the executive team of the IET Multimedia Communications Network. These include the overall winner of IBC's award for the Best Conference Paper, 'A Display-independent High Dynamic Range Television System' and papers representing other hot topics of 2015: UHDTV (Ultra High Definition Television), HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), second screen applications, 4G broadcasting, MPEG DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) technologies, hybrid content radio and some remarkable new results in on-screen subtitling.We are also pleased to present personal interviews with individuals whose significant work appears in this volume. First, Andrew Cotton and Tim Borer of the BBC, authors of IBC2015's Best Conference Paper, who discuss their work on HDR. Find out where their inventive ideas come from, how they combine both psychology and engineering in their work and what the most memorable parts of their project have been.We then interview IBC's Best Young Professionals: Raphaël Guénon and François Manciet. Both researchers in their mid20s whose work has revealed some fascinating conclusions about second-screen media applications. Get a glimpse of their personal worlds. Find out: what motivates them to work in this area, whether they use second screens themselves and what they think about the future of immersive media.From Electronics Letters this year we include a selection of media-related papers which have been published since IBC2014. Electronics Letters has a very broad scope, covering the whole range of electronics-related research and the papers chosen this year are those which we believe will have the greatest impact on media technology as well as the greatest potential for expanding service provision with existing infrastructures.The IBC papers printed here represent the best of almost 300 synopses submitted to us ...

Multimedia Analytics Challenges and Opportunities for Creating Interactive Radio Content

“…Content adaptation through personalization can take many forms in a radio consumption context. A straightforward personalization example is to exploit the listener's preferences and profile information to curate a tailored stream of radio items (e.g., a personalized playlist of relevant recent news items as they have been discussed on radio [35,33]). A more advanced approach would be to replace specific songs in the radio broadcast (using hybrid radio technologies [2]) in accordance with the musical taste of the listener.…”

“…Adjusting content duration Consumers often have a limited time slot to fill when they turn to the catch-up consumption of radio content (e.g., while commuting). A specialized form of radio personalization therefore revolves around content duration adaptation [33]. The goal of such adaptation approaches is to tell a story that is as complete and as compelling as possible, within a certain time limit.…”

Leveraging MPEG-21 user description for interoperable recommender systems

“…Pandora, Spotify and Deezer are some of the most popular services that provide streaming contents fully customized on listener preferences. Hybrid content radio (HCR, see [5]) aims at making broadcast radio more flexible, allowing to replace part of the broadcast audio content with personalized audio from the Internet. HCR manages all the 'intermediate scenarios ' where the broadcaster provides a linear programming and, on the other side, recommends enriching and context-based online content.…”