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.

Invited are the technical and management professionals of the MuMe-Community member organisations.

13:30	Registration + Welcome/Coffee
14:00	Intro (P.Six - IMEC)
14:10	On the use of JPEG2000 in a real-time visualisation system (R.Dewaele - Barco)
	Starting from the requirements defined for a new platform for real-time visualisation applications, the choice for a JPEG2000 codec as a cornerstone building block is explained. We also present the practical implementation and some of the stumbling-blocks that had te be removed.
14:50	W3C and 2D web graphics: SVG (I.Herman - W3C)
	After a few words on the World Wide Web Consortium itself, the presentation concentrates on some of the interesting aspects of W3C's recommendation on Scalable Vector Graphics, SVG. Issues like filters, scripting, animation, connection to the Mobile Web, etc. will be discussed.
15:30	Break + Coffee
16:00	UPnP interoperability: working on the (dis)connected home (S.Motte - Philips)
	The CE industry has rightly recognized the opportunity created by the growing digital media collections many people are gathering on their PCs and numbers of home (wireless) networks emerging in their homes. Many CE manufacturers have developed networked digital media links, which leverage the existing IT infrastructure (i.e. wired or wireless networks) in order to bring all of this content from the PC into the living room. Thus creating a network of both CE and IT devices, interoperability becomes key, both within and outside one brand. In this presentation we will describe how Philips, together with the rest of the industry, has embraced standardization initiatives such as UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) and DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) in order to achieve this. We will give an introduction on the standards, and discuss what they do and don't cover, together with their strengts and weaknesses. We will also present the lessons learned by applying them both in a product and advanced development context, and by participating to the regular cross-industry interoperability testing events.
16:40	Interactive Digital TV: Standards and Technologies (P.Vos - Zappware)
	The availability of industry standards and mature technologies are key factors for the success of interactive digital TV deployments. This presentation will give an overview of standards and technologies that are widely used for iDTV and how these technologies are applied in an operational end-to-end digital TV setup.
17:20	Questions and Answers + upcoming events (moderator: P.Six)
17:50	Proposals for date + subjects next work meeting (moderator: P.Six)
18:00	Drink