Sharing Multimedia Knowledge

The goal of the work meetings is to have interactive sessions:

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

The full agenda of work meeting 10 is shown below.

13:30	Registration + Welcome/Coffee
14:00	Overview of the community status
14:10	Current research activities at the Multimedialab Peter Lambert – UGent
	In this presentation, an overview is given of the on-going research activities within the Multimedia Lab. This highlights some important topics in the present domain of multimedia: scalable and distributed video coding, video transcoding, multimedia content adaptation, video analysis, and metadata technologies to combine semantics and multimedia. The presentation also includes a number of demos illustrating some of the achieved results.
14:50	Video Streaming in Higher Education Erik Luyten - KULeuven
	One year ago K.U.Leuven AVNet introduced different services to incorporate multimedia in the on-line learning environment. Video communication technology is used to bring recorded video and audio to the student's desktop or handheld devices. At the same time we are evaluating similar technologies to bring moving images and sound to the lecture theater and to bring the lecture from the auditorium to the individual student's learning environment. While we try to use industry standard solutions like MPEG-4 (h.264) and (HD) videoconferencing we also experiment with video podcasting and (Adobe Connect) web conferencing solutions. In the session we'll explain the specific network setup and infrastructure at K.U.Leuven for these facilities and services.
15:30	Break + Coffee
16:00	Mobile TV, DVB-H Dirk Ossenblok – Nokia Siemens Networks
	The presentation will discuss: * An overview of technologies for multimedia delivery to mobile devices. * Business models and architecture overview for the mobile TV-broadcast technology DVB-H. * Possibilities to deliver interactive services. * The actual status in Flanders/Belgium.
16:40	Upcoming Wireless Technologies for Multimedia Bart Van Poucke – IMEC
	In recent years a number of new technologies have been developed for the wireless distribution of multimedia data. The goals were to increase throughput, distance, mobility of the receiving party as well as to balance performance and power consumption, in particular for mobile applications. In the presentation we discuss a number of current and upcoming technologies and standards for wireless communication and comment on the strengths and limitations of their use for multimedia applications.
17:20	Community activities and upcoming events.
17:40	Drink

Members please register your attendence via training@imec.be