RIMS: A Real-time and Intelligent Monitoring System for live-broadcasting platforms

Personal live shows on Internet streaming platforms currently are blooming as one of the most popular applications on mobile phones and especially attracting millions of young generation users. The content supervision on live streaming platforms, in which there are thousands or hundreds of show rooms for performing and chatting synchronously, is a major concern with the development of this new service. Traditional image captures and real-time content analysis experience huge difficulties such as processing delay, data overwhelming, and matching overhead. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive method to monitor real-time live stream and to identify illegal or unchartered live misbehaviors intelligently based on various proposed aspects instead of image analysis only. The proposed system called RIMS makes use of several novel indicators on show room status rather than analyzing images solely to support real-time requirements. Three detecting techniques are adopted: self-adaptive threshold-based abnormal traffic detection, sensitive Danmaku comment perception, and frame difference analysis. RIMS can detect dramatically increasing of user number in a show room, filter sensitive words in Danmaku, and capture segmentation of video scenes by frame difference analysis. We deploy our system to monitor a typical live- broadcasting platform called panda.tv, and overall accuracy of detection via three indicators reaches 90.1%. The application of RIMS can change current supervison methods on live platforms that they totally rely on real-time manual review or after the event check. The key techniques in RIMS can also be widely employed in many other mobile applications in edge computing such as video surveillance in Internet of Things and mobile short video sharing

Digital Radio Strategies in the United States: A Tale of Two Systems

This essay analyzes how, despite early interest in the Digital Audio Broadcasting standard (DAB) in the United States, an alternative in-band system (HD Radio) was developed as the approved digital radio standard

Challenges of digital innovations : a set-top box based approach

The chapter analyses the challenges of digital technology for television audience measurement systems. First, the current state of audience measurement in Belgium is described. In the Belgian case, the traditional television audience measurement system is contested by small broadcasters and challenged by the opportunities that the emergence of digital television and, more specifically, the widespread diffusion of set-top boxes provide. Second, three major challenges for traditional measurement techniques are analysed. This section deals with people’s changing viewing habits, for example on-demand and time-shifted viewing, the provision of more accurate data by set-top boxes, and the increasing interests of platform operators acting as gatekeepers to access to this data. In the final section, conclusions are made

With the Support of Listeners Like You : Lessons from U.S. Public Radio

This chapter provides an assessment of public broadcasting in the United States. It asserts that European public service broadcasting (PSB) could learn from U.S. practices that may prove to be particularly relevant in the current PSB climate

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Aereo and Internet Television: A Call to Save the Dukes (A La Carte)

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably a duck. The most recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Copyright Act employed this “duck test” when determining that Aereo, an Internet content-streaming company, violated the Copyright Act by infringing on the copyrights of television broadcast networks. The Supreme Court ruled that Aereo\u27s Internet streaming services resembled cable television transmissions too closely. Therefore, by streaming copyrighted programming to its subscribers without the cable compulsory license, Aereo violated the Transmit Clause of the 1976 Copyright Act. Subsequently, Aereo used this Supreme Court decision to obtain a compulsory license from the Copyright Office but was denied. Forced back into litigation, Aereo filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy This Issue Brief describes Aereo’s technology, the litigation that followed, and the related precedent, and concludes that the district court should have granted Aereo a Section 111 Statutory License in line with the Supreme Court’s “duck test.” It considers the implications of the Court’s preliminary injunction against Aereo’s “a la carte” TV technology, what this means for the future of similar technological innovation, and the effects on consumers and competition