A Platform for Facilitating Video-based Cooking Communication by MultimediaTechnologies

“Video-based cooking communication” enables people to share the cooking experiences in their home kitchen. Multimedia technologies will facilitate such communication over the Internet. We propose a multimedia processing platform that supports multi-point video communication and provides several functions to easily access raw video and audio. In this system, we can build and test multimedia processing modules as plug-ins to facilitate the communication. We evaluated this system for actual video-based cooking communication in real kitchens, analyzed the conversation during cooking to present the effects of our system. We also present preliminary experiments and discussions how multimedia technologies can facilitate the cooking communication.