Key research themes
1. How can crowdsourcing and user participation enhance the authoring and production quality of multisensory and user-generated video content?
This theme investigates approaches leveraging crowdsourcing and community involvement to enrich video content authoring, specifically focusing on multisensory effects and user-generated video. It emphasizes the subjective nature of authoring such content, where diverse user perceptions are valuable for producing coherent and validated sensory metadata or video annotations. This research area matters as it aims to democratize content creation, improve crowdsourced metadata quality, and supplement traditional expert-driven workflows, enhancing overall user experience and scalability of video production.
2. What are the critical technical and perceptual factors impacting the quality and personalization of user-generated and multi-camera video production?
This theme centers on studies addressing quality determinants and personalized production approaches in user-generated video contexts and multi-camera environments. It includes investigations into the effects of camera quality, shaking, occlusions, re-encoding, and alignment on perceived video quality, as well as computational frameworks for personalized video editing and autonomous multi-sensor based summarization. Understanding these factors is vital for enhancing user experience, efficient video coding, and scalable video personalization in diverse applications.
3. How can academic and institutional contexts utilize user-generated video for participatory knowledge creation and fostering public discourse?
This theme explores the role of user-generated video within public and academic institutions to support community engagement, knowledge co-creation, and democratic discourse. Research examines public libraries’ potentials and challenges in adopting user-generated videos as digital services, the transformative possibilities of online videos in enabling a virtual public sphere, and how participatory video can evolve to reflect changing technological and social landscapes. These studies inform how institutions can harness user-generated video to enhance cultural exchange and civic participation.