User Centric Media of the Future Internet

Having witnessed a rapid development of the digital media literacy in the modern society due to a multitude of technological advances in the low-cost photography, cinematography and 2D/3D graphic design, there is a proliferation of high quality media content generated, distributed and experienced by the end users. This phenomenon, known as the user centric media (UCM), will play a significant role in forming of rapidly approaching era of the future Internet. The aim of this paper is to present the consolidated opinion of the UCM cluster composed of representatives of ongoing FP6 & FP7 EU funded projects, under the guidance of the networked media systems unit of the information society and media directorate general of the European commission. Our goal is to identify concrete scientific challenges that will probably be the constitutional pillars of the research in the area of future media Internet (FMI), with a particular emphasis on the issues of personalized & creative media, 3D & immersive media, and future Internet communities.