Abstract Recommender Systems (RSs) are software tools and techniques providing
suggestions of relevant items to users. These systems have received increasing attention …

Custom electronic program guides are disclosed. An example method includes collecting
identifying information associated with media using at least one of a microphone or camera …

One aspect of this invention allows for the updating of a user interface reflecting the past
experiences of a user. For instance, if a user has previously determined that the jazz …

In this paper we propose a novel user model for personalized recommendation in domains,
where items are described by multiple characteristics (eg, metadata attributes) and users' …

The activity of Social-TV viewers has grown considerably in the last few years—viewers are
no longer passive elements. The Web has socially empowered the viewers in many new …

The expansion of TV channels in digital era is resulting in a soaring number of program
contents available to viewers. The advent of Personal Digital Recorder makes users face …

With the steadily increasing amount of digital multimedia content, the user will be more and
more overstrained. This applies to content being permanently available like videos of online …

Part 5 of the MPEG-7 standard specifies Multimedia Description Schemes (MDS); that is, the
format multimedia content models should conform to in order to ensure interoperability …

MPEG-7 is the leading standard for multimedia metadata creation, providing a vast array of
description tools. Nevertheless, there exists a disparity between the content models and …

MPEG-7 is an XML-based standard that provides tools for creating rich and structured
multimedia content metadata. However, only an extremely limited range of preferences can …