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End-User Requirements with Respect to 3D Services Ref. Ares(2012)41277 - 13/01/2012 SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME ICT-1-1.5 Networked Media Specific Targeted Research Project SARACEN (FP7-248474) Socially Aware, collaboRative, scAlable Coding mEdia distributioN D2.1e End – User Requirements with respect to 3D services Due date of deliverable: 30-09-2011 Actual submission date: 13-01-2012 Start date of project: 01-01-2010 Duration: 36 months FP7-248474 Document Code: D2.1e End–User Requirements with respect to 3D services_v6.0 SARACEN Summary of the document Code: D2.1e End - User requirements with respect to 3D services v6.0 Last modification: 13/01/2012 State: Final ATOS, ICCS, INOV, PRIME-TEL, KOC, QMUL, KENDRA, CTVC, Participant Partner(s): NTV, AGH Author(s): Charalampos Patrikakis (ICCS), David Salama (ATOS), Stuart Porter (CTVC), Nikolaos Papaoulakis (ICCS), Sipsas Platon (ICCS), Chrysanthi Stefanoudaki (ICCS), Irene Schmidt (ATOS), Elena Garrido (ATOS), Antonio Gómez-Muriana (ATOS), Belén Gallego (ATOS), Diego Esteban (ATOS), Haris Neophytou (NTV), Giannis Chrysostomou (NTV), Neofytos Gerosavva (NTV), Dora Christofi (PrimeTel) Georgios Dimosthenous (PrimeTel), Klokie Grossfeld (Kendra), Naeem Ramzan (QMUL), Mario Nunes (INOV), Rui Cruz (INOV), Michał Grega (AGH) Audience: public restricted internal This document is deliverable D2.1 End-user Requirements. In this Abstract: document we define the end-user requirements related to the SARACEN platform, as well as the methods used for the captur- ing of these requirements. The document also contains a brief analysis of the stakeholders of the project. Keywords: User requirements Stakeholders’ analysis Questionnaire References: See corresponding section at the end of the deliverable. © SARACEN Consortium 2011 Page 2 / 139 FP7-248474 Document Code: D2.1e End–User Requirements with respect to 3D services_v6.0 SARACEN Change history Version Date Changed by Changes made number TOC with responsibilities included and Ch. Z. Patrikakis, Ch. 1.1 22/3/2010 first version of deliverable presented to all Stefanoudaki partners 1.2 07/03/2010 David Salama Section 3, ToC update + content 1.3 09/04/2010 Stuart Porter Section 3 content 1.4 26/05/2010 Ch. Stefanoudaki Abstract, section 4 1.5 01/06/2010 Ch. Stefanoudaki Addition on content in several sections 1.6 07/06/2010 Ch. Stefanoudaki, P. Sipsas Section 4 1.7 18/06/2010 Klokie Grossfeld Content to section 3 1.8 18/06/2010 Irene Schmidt Updates on the section 3 Haris Neophytou, Giannis Chry- 1.9 21/06/2010 Update Section 3 and 6 sostomou, Neofytos Gerosavva 2.0 23/06/2010 Neofytos Gerosavva Update Section 4 Dora Christofi, Georgios Di- 2.1 24/06/2010 Section 5.3 mosthenous 2.2 29/06/2010 Ch. Stefanoudaki Changes accepted, further elaboration Inclusion of experts‘ feedback and more 2.3 19/07/2010 Ch. Patrikakis elaborate conclusions. Ch. Patrikakis, Ch. Stefanou- 2.4 20/07/2010 Revisions and addition of conclusions. daki 2.5 23/07/2010 M. Nunes Editorial revisions 2.6 25/07/2010 Ch. Patrikakis Further editorial revisions Ch. Patrikakis, Ch. Stefanou- Addition of sections by ATOS and edito- 2.7 10/08/2010 daki, B. Gallego, A. Gómez rial revisions A. Gómez, E. Garrido, Updates to Section 4 and editorial revi- 2.8 18/08/2010 H.Neofytou sions Minor updates and acceptance of revi- 2.9 18/08/2010 Ch. Z. Patrikakis sions from previous editions Sections 4.5 and 4.6 and some minor 3.0 20/08/2010 A. Gómez, K. Grossfeld changes. Final proofing modifications and release 3.1 24/08/2010 Ch. Patrikakis, N. Papaoulakis of final version for Quality Control. 3.2 17/9/2010 S. Porter Quality Control Ch. Patrikakis, Ch. 4.0 20/9/2010 Final version for submission Stefanoudaki, Irene Schmidt 5.0 14/07/2011 M. Grega Deliverable extended by references to the © SARACEN Consortium 2011 Page 3 / 139 FP7-248474 Document Code: D2.1e End–User Requirements with respect to 3D services_v6.0 SARACEN 3D content D. Juszka Added a paragraph about 3DTV broad- 5.1 01/08.2011 M. Grega casters Added internal experts questionnaire re- 5.2 17/08/2011 M. Grega sults regarding 3D technology 5.3 19/08/2011 M. Grega Added an updated wordlet Summary of the document and some mi- 5.4 22/08/2011 M. Grega nor corrections, references 5.5 10/09/2011 M. Grega Corrections after ICCS review 5.6 27/09/2011 D. Juszka Corrections after ICCS review 5.7 28/09/2011 M. Grega Formatting clean up Format Quality Assurance. Final version 6.0 13/01/2012 Diego Esteban for submitting © SARACEN Consortium 2011 Page 4 / 139 FP7-248474 Document Code: D2.1e End–User Requirements with respect to 3D services_v6.0 SARACEN Table of Contents 1 Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 10 1.1 Scope ................................................................................................................................................ 10 1.2 Audience ........................................................................................................................................... 10 1.3 Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 10 1.4 Structure ............................................................................................................................................ 10 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 User requirements analysis phases .................................................................................................. 12 2.2 Extracting End-user Requirements for SARACEN ........................................................................... 12 2.3 Data collection methodologies used ................................................................................................. 13 3 Summary report on core project technologies ......................................................................................... 14 3.1 Peer to Peer networks (P2P) ............................................................................................................ 14 3.2 Scalable Video Coding (SVC) ........................................................................................................... 14 3.3 Scalable Extension of H.264/AVC .................................................................................................... 15 3.4 Wavelet-based Scalable Video Coding ............................................................................................. 15 3.5 DCCP ................................................................................................................................................ 16 3.6 3DTV and 3D Video .......................................................................................................................... 16 4 SARACEN Stakeholders .......................................................................................................................... 18 4.1 Content producers ............................................................................................................................. 19 4.1.1 Broadcasters .............................................................................................................................. 19 4.1.2 UGC service providers ............................................................................................................... 20 4.1.3 Special interest groups or organisations ................................................................................... 21 4.1.4 Video artist ................................................................................................................................. 21 4.2 Content aggregators ......................................................................................................................... 22 4.2.1 WebTV providers ....................................................................................................................... 22 4.2.2 IPTV providers ........................................................................................................................... 23 4.2.3 Broadcast TV aggregators ......................................................................................................... 23 4.3 Social networks ................................................................................................................................. 27 4.4 Internet Content Distributions, infrastructures and services ............................................................. 29 4.4.1 Transcoding hardware vendors or transcoding services ........................................................... 29 4.4.2 Storage services and redundancy ............................................................................................. 29 4.4.3 CDNs ......................................................................................................................................... 30 4.4.4 ISP ............................................................................................................................................. 31 4.4.5 Telecom ..................................................................................................................................... 33 4.5 Prosumers (Content producers and/or consumers) .......................................................................... 33 4.5.1 Education ..................................................................................................................................
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