Sharing Multimedia Knowledge

The goal of the meeting is to have interactive sessions:

• Discussing recent evolutions of multimedia techniques.
• Discussing operational issues of the community.
• Discussing upcoming activities.

The full agenda is shown below.

13:30	Registration + Welcome/Coffee
14:00	Overview of the community status
14:10	JPEG2000 Status Report (P. Schelkens – VUB)
	In this presentation, the basic concepts of JPEG2000 will be shortly explained. However, the main focus will be on the new JPEG2000 parts: JPSEC, JPIP, JP3D and JPWL. These parts cover extensions for security and wireless applications, interactive protocols and volumetric encoding.
14:50	Latest developments in MPEG video Coding (I.Moccagatta - IMEC)
	The video activity in MPEG is currently focused on the Scalable Video Coding (SVC), that will be standardized as an amendment to MPEG-4 Part 10 AVC/ITU-T H.264. This presentation will give an overview on the status of SVC and on future directions of the MPEG Video and ITU-T SG16 Q.6 activities. In addition, a brief review of the status ofAVC/H.264 deployment and market acceptance, including potential competitors, will be provided.
15:30	Break + Coffee
16:00	Multimedia activities of ESAT/PSI (L.Van Eycken - K.U.Leuven)
	In this presentation an overview will be given of the multimedia research done in the K.U.Leuven Center for Processing Speech and Images (PSI). Selected applications will illustrate the use of multimedia standards, success stories as well as problem cases.
16:40	Standards for next generation gaming (F.Lete - Larian Studios)
	In their continuing quest for bringing better entertainment to the masses, game developers have to deal with a large quantity of multimedia assets. These range from 3D meshes, textures, and animations to sound and video files. Since this is a field where consumer technology is often pushed beyond its limits and where game engines have to operate within tight constraints, game developers are regularly forced to create their own custom formats. Needless to say this has significantly hindered standardization of tools and technology exchange. With the age of next generation gaming approaching, the need for standards has never been so high and there is some momentum within the industry to converge to common standards. This talk will give an overview of the multimedia needs within the games industry, what standards are being looked at, and where things might be heading in the future.
17:20	Community activities and upcoming events.
17:40	Drink