Mechanism to validate and compare inter-device/destination media synchronization solutions adopted in multi-screen scenarios

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Keywords:

computer vision, multimedia synchronization, OCR, image recognition

Abstract

Simultaneous consumption of related content in one (or multiple) devices (i.e., multi-screen scenarios) is commonplace. To provide a satisfactory Quality of Experience (QoE) in this type of scenarios it is necessary to adopt synchronization mechanisms to keep the involved content playout processes in a synchronized state. Most of those mechanisms are software-based and usually perform some estimations, at runtime, of the playout latency. Therefore, the accuracy of the measured synchronization level can be difficult to evaluate or assess. In this work, a computer vision-based mechanism to evaluate the achieved accuracy in multi-screen scenarios is proposed. Thus, the accuracy level which is obtained through the synchronization mechanisms implemented in those systems or applications can be assessed at the end point of the content presentation. Additionally, in order to show the utility of the proposed mechanism, some evaluations have been conducted for a common use case, a videowall, in which accurate synchronization is a requirement.

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Author Biographies

Dani Marfil, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Dani Marfil was born in Gandia (Spain) and studied Informatics Technical Engineering BSc degree (2011), Telecommunications BSc degree (2015) and Telecommunication Technologies, Systems and Networks MSc (2016) in Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV, Spain). He is a PhD student and an assistant researcher and developer in the Immersive Interactive Media R&D Group. His main topics of interest are communication networks, code developing and media synchronization. He is the author of one book chapter and several research and conference papers.

Fernando Boronat, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Fernando Boronat (M’93–SM’11) is the head of the Immersive Interactive Media R&D Group (http://iim.webs.upv.es) at the Gandia Campus of the UPV, Spain. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the UPV in 1994 and 2014, respectively. After working for several Spanish telecommunication companies, he moved back to the UPV in 1996. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in its Communications Department. His main research topics of interest are immersive and interactive media systems and applications, mulsemedia and media synchronization. He is the author of two books, several book chapters, an IETF RFC and more than 100 research papers in relevant journals and conferences. He edited a book on Media Synchronization (Springer, 2018) and is involved in several IPCs of national and international refereed journals and conferences, and serves as a reviewer for highly-respected journals. He is member of IEEE (M’93–SM’11) and ACM (M’15). Contact him at fboronat@dcom.upv.es

Jair Lopez, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Jair Lopez was born in La Paz, Bolivia. He received his B.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Systems, Sound and Image from the UPV, in 2019. He is currently studying the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications Systems and Networks. His main topics of interest are communication networks and multimedia systems.

Bernardino Roig, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

Bernardino Roig received his PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (2001) and currently, he is a professor at the Universitat Politècnica de València (2008-present). His research area focuses on computational methods applied to conservative problems, acoustic and piezoelectric processes, and also in digital image and video processing, more specifically, in image filtering and video synchronization using fuzzy metrics and numerical tools.

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Published

2021-06-01

How to Cite

Marfil, D., Boronat, F., Lopez, J., & Roig, B. (2021). Mechanism to validate and compare inter-device/destination media synchronization solutions adopted in multi-screen scenarios. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 19(3), 369–377. Retrieved from https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/3374