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Campus View: An Innovative Location and Context-Aware Video Sharing Application on Smart Phone

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Mobile devices have steadily gained acceptance as a multimedia platform, not only that, one of the most valuable pieces of contextual information for an intelligent mobile application is the user’s location. The university campus is an interesting application environment for location-based and context-aware mobile services: wherever the students are, they are eager to announce to others and want to know what happens in the university campus, even alumni always care about the latest in his or her campus. The Campus View, what is described in this article, is a smart-phone based context and location-aware video sharing mobile application implemented on Android 2.1. It first gives a full panorama to one Chinese university campus, which will provide a campus overview and variations to alumni and potential students. Different from Street-view of Google which was only created once and demands not to drive anywhere more than once, our campus panorama is timely updated by our DIYed Street-view camera. What’s more, the application users inside the campus can use it to recode the latest happenstance and then upload the video short with Geo-information to the server. The recoded video short will be further shared as a H. 264 stream attached to a specific panorama. This paper presents the development framework of Campus View application and an evaluation of key framework components to assess their consumption of mobile device’s resources.

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Zhang, L., Liu, Y., Zhan, X. et al. Campus View: An Innovative Location and Context-Aware Video Sharing Application on Smart Phone. Wireless Pers Commun 66, 493–509 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-012-0737-9

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