The Programme
We are entering the era where gigabit bandwidth will be available to every home.  Even mobile devices will have access to large bandwidth on the move.  This opens up myriad services covering digital voice, video and data, transforming the way television service is delivered to us. 

Welcome to the IPTV era.  With it, we can access global entertainment channels at anytime, anywhere.  The services will be personalized to meet your preferences and you can interact with the program you are watching in real-time. Such development is still at an early stage and thus the potential growth of IPTV is tremendous.

The Next Generation Content for IPTV program aims to develop enabling content manipulation technologies to support IPTV trials in Singaporeand enable new IPTV applications and services to be provided worldwide. 

The key focus will be in interactivity and personalization.  It builds upon the various technical excellences available at the Institute for Infocomm Research and serves as a melting pot where these and other related cross disciplinary technologies can be fused in innovative ways to realize its vision of an interactive personalized TV.

Key Competencies

• Scalable audio-video coding and delivery
• Content understanding in video
• Multilingual messaging & language translation
• Multimedia content search, indexing & retrieval
• Digital media security
• Biometrics
• Ultra-high-speed optical fibre & wireless transmission system (ONFIG)

Intellectual Capital
Significant Patents

• G. Feng, D. Wu, F. Pan, Z. Li, K.P. Lim, R. Yu, “A Method and an Apparatus for Controlling the Rate of a Video Sequence; A Video Encoding Device,” Singapore Patent No. 111337.
• H.L. Ong and S.L.,J. Ng, "A Method of Visualizing Clusters of Large Collections of Text Documents," Singapore Patent No. 96317 [WO 02/31697].
• A.H. Tan, H.L. Ong, H. Pan and S.L.,J. Ng, "Method and System for Personalized Information Management," Singapore Patent No. 103544 [WO 03/042777].
• T.P. Chen and W.Y. Yau, “Distributed processing in authentication”; Singapore Patent No. 110357.
• W.Y. Yau, K.A. Toh, and X.D. Jiang, “A method and a device for computer based determination of a total minutiae template from a plurality of partial minutiae templates and a computer readable medium”, Singapore Patent No. 92214, 31 July 2006.

Publications

• L.Y. Duan, M. Xu, Q. Tian, and C.S. Xu, “A unified framework for semantic shot classification in sports video”, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 7(6): 1066-1083, 2005.
• L.Y. Duan, J.Q. Wang, Y.T. Zheng, J.S. Jin, and H.Q. Lu, "Digesting commercial clips from TV streams", to appear in IEEE Multimedia, 2007. An earlier version was published in ACM Multimedia 2006, pp. 210-210 and selected as a candidate for Best Paper Award.
• L.P. Yang and D.H. Ji, "Document re-ranking by term distribution and maximal marginal relevance for Chinese Information Retrieval", Information Processing and Management, 43(2): 315-326, 2007.
• K.A. Toh, W.Y. Yau, and X. Jiang, “A reduced multivariate polynomials model for multi-modal biometrics and classifiers fusion”, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (Special Issue on Image- and Video-Based Biometrics), 14(2): 224-233, 2003.
• S. Gao, W. Wu, C.H. Lee, and T.S. Chua, “A maximal figure-of-merit (MFoM) learning approach to robust classifier design for text categorization”, ACM Trans. on Information Systems, 24(4): 190-218, 2006.

Significant Projects/Collaborations

• Collaboration with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland on “Situated Scalable Multimedia Content Management and Delivery for Heterogeneous Mobile Systems”
• SLS Flagship Project on the development of MPEG-4 SLS Starter Development Kit (SDK) systems on various computing platforms
• Best reported performance on MUC co-reference corpus, and best reported performance with relation extraction on ACE corpus, 2005