Peer to peer media management for augmented reality

Abstract

Immersion into rich multimedia is now the norm in today's Internet. Combining multiple streams of textual, audio and media data from a variety of sensors and sources, allow the presentation of a world that is almost “real”. Users equipped with portable and wearable devices can become consumers and contributors to an augmented reality. In this paper we describe a general software architecture for an augmented reality immersion network based on crowd sourced media gathering and distribution. We describe a prototypical implementation with cloud and mobile components to establish a secure sharing network, to coordinate and to synchronize the media streams. Joining the content sharing network is subject to peer-to-peer trust management to protect the content and the participants.