A User-Centred System for End-to-End Secure Multimedia Content Delivery: From Content Annotation to Consumer Consumption

The paper discusses the current status of progress of the on-going EU IST BUSMAN project (Bringing User Satisfaction to Media Access Networks), which now approaches the milestone of its 2nd year running. The issues explained include the motivation and approaches behind the design of its client-server system architecture for effective data flows handling, the progress in the implementation of the proposed server system functionalities, and the advanced video processing algorithms investigated and adopted. A fully functional client-server system for video content management, search and retrieval for both professional use scenarios and customers with either fixed or wireless network connections is expected to be demonstrable by year end of 2004.