Personalising Multi Video Streams and Camera Views for Live Events

An innovative Internet streaming video player, we call ePlayer, that supports personalised camera switching for live events has been researched, developed and evaluated. The main novelty of the system is that in dispensing the available bandwidth amongst multiple input video streams it can automatically coordinate and preserve the video quality across multiple live video streams. An additional novelty of the system is that it supports automatic camera switching based upon an individual user´s preferences. The experimental results indicate that the system is able to effectively allocate a contested bandwidth resource amongst multiple streams and is able to infer a user´s camera switching preferences via dynamically predicting a user´s switching intervals amongst multiple cameras.