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	Multi-Device User Interface creation (K. Luyten – UHasselt)
	The User Interface Markup Language has been created several years ago, but it did not make it as a widely accepted standard. With the diversity of end-user devices the demand for technologies and tools for flexible user interface design still increases. The UIML Technical Committee has been extending the language and building tools that can support designers to create flexible and reusable designs, even across platforms. In this talk we take a look at the current evolutions and implementations related to the UIML language.
14:50	Department of Electronics and Informatics (ETRO - VUB) (P. Schelkens – VUBrussel)
	ETRO has a long tradition as it concerns multimedia research and has several research groups active in this domain. Research encompasses application domains such as digital television, audiovisual archives, video surveillance, computer aided diagnosis and eHealth, humanitarian demining and 3D audiovisual systems. ETRO was recently recognised by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel as one its three IOF-poles (Industrieel OnderzoeksFonds). This talk will give an overview of the research activities within this group.
15:30	Break + Coffee
16:00	RESUME: A scalable, wavelet-based video system (M. Christiaens – UGent)
	In the RESUME project we develop a scalable, wavelet-based video codec. Scalable video can be decoded at different frame rates, resolutions and image quality. If a reduced quality level is desired, superfluous fragments can easily be omitted from the video stream. This talk will present and overview of the complete RESUME system consisting of a video stream server, a negotiation framework, an operating system and a hardware accelerated decoder. We will go into a little more detail regarding the challenges of implementing a scalable video decoder on an FPGA platform. Finally, if time permits, we will give a live demonstration of the system.
16:40	Mobile Multimedia (G. Vanhomwegen – Alcatel)
	With the rapid rise of new mobile broadband networks, and thanks to new mobile handset capabilities, we have now entered in an era of completely new Television experience. In contrast to the usual TV broadcasting, the mobile networks offer a direct link between the TV server and the viewing device, which leads to multiple possibilities on interactivity and a highly individual user experience. Therefore the watching behavior on a mobile device now differs a lot from that on a regular broadcast TV. Alcatel Mobile interactive TV offers an end-to-end architecture, that ranges from the clients in the handsets, to the server environment with provisioning, rating and content management. As part of this architecture, Alcatel further explains the tools that are used to encode and ingest live and on-demand TV channels and clips as elements of one major mobile multimedia service, than comprises both TV and music offerings.
17:20	Community activities and upcoming events.
17:40	Drink