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Victor had own presentation in VideoFunet conference in Tampereella 10-11 May 2007. Presentation slides(PowerPoint 800kB)

Victor

VICTOR is a Web-based multi-user video annotation tool which allows adding time sensitive comments to practically any web video clip. The main idea behind VICTOR is to provide user-friendly and easily accessible tool to enrich web video usage with text comments and references to other media contents. Video clips are either uploaded to VICTOR server with web browser or they are linked from other servers, from normal web servers or from streaming media servers. All major streaming formats are supported: Flash Video, Quicktime, RealMedia and WindowsMedia. To view and annotate videos in VICTOR user needs only web browser and suitable media player.

In addition to annotation VICTOR is intended to be used as an exercise platform. Teachers can produce exercises related to provided video content. Students answer to questions by marking video clip with timed comments and then return their answers to teacher. VICTOR includes also evaluation tools.

Video commenting view from Victor

Demo and availability

Demo server is located in address: http://victor.ee.tut.fi/demo/.
At the moment there is no common demo user account, so please request a personal account from Pasi Häkkinen

English flash animations about Victor usage will be made available soon. At the moment, demostration animations are only in Finnish.

Victor is freely available for Finnish universities and other institutions of higher education, but Victor is not Open Source software. If you are interested in Victor, please contact us.

Contact information

Pasi Häkkinen
Researcher
Tampere University of Technology / Hypermedia Laboratory
Tel: +358 3 3115 3681
Mobile: +358 40 849 0171
Email: pasi.hakkinen@tut.fi