Liang-Jie Zhang, Lurng-Kuo Liu, D. Xie, James S. Lipscomb, Qun Zhou
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Abstract
TV program rating provides television programmers and commercial advertisers an estimate of audience size and composition and are a barometer of peoples' viewing habits. We introduce a digital TV commerce solution powered by HotMedia TV. We propose a method and system for TV audience estimates and program rating using a per-object-granularity tracking mechanism for interactive TV content tracking. The major components of the proposed tracking architecture are an interactive TV content creation tool, a tracking information delivery framework, an interactive TV content receiver and tracking servers. Our mechanism enables a broadcast station or a rating agency to automatically perform tracking functions in real time, based on viewer's action as well as on the content of audiovisual programming.