Interactive video is increasingly becoming a more and more dominant feature of our media platforms. Especially due to the popular YouTube annotations framework, integrating graphical annotations in a video has become very fashionable these days. However, the current options are limited to a few...

In this paper a modular authoring system for interactive videos is introduced. The system enables the author to edit the video and add annotations like images, text, hyperlinks to defined scenes or the whole video. It provides a video cutting tool to define scenes, a scene graph to realize...

Recently, the information community has seen the emergence of user-centric media applications, which are characterized by the central position given to the user. To fulfill the user-centric promise, it is necessary to understand and model the actions of the users of the system. This position...