Open Seminar
imec, 29 oktober 2008
In this 4th year of operation the MuMe-community organises an open seminar to present and discuss recent evolutions of multimedia techniques.
Attendence to this workshop is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. To register please send your coordinates to: info@mume-community.com
| 13:30 | Registration + Welcome/Coffee |
| 14:00 | Presentation of the MuMe-community and introduction to the seminar Paul Six – MuMe-community coordinator |
| 14:15 | Scoop: a virtual modeling solution Robbie De Sutter – VRT-Medialab |
| The media industry uses a specific engineering process to create drama productions. During preproduction, script editing is used to create a textual representation of the product. Nevertheless, the majority of the creative decisions are taken during the production phase. Audiovisual engineering has not yet been optimized by advanced techniques such as virtual modeling, which could render a fairly exact model of the finished product and bring forward the phase of trial-and-error from the production to the preproduction phase. VRT-medialab, in collaboration with IBBT, developed Scoop: a virtual modeling solution fitted to the specific requirements of drama production. Scoop saves on cost and direct labor, decreases production leadtimes, and enables new creative opportunities. It is based on 3D models of the scenes and actors; features synthetic audio, character animation and virtual capturing. As such, the director can intuitively prepare the final assembly of a script-based production. Simultaneously, the previsualization and the storyboard are automatically generated using a virtually captured synthetic scene. Additionally, all preproduction data is available in a structured format, which enables further processing, such as automating log reports, rough-cut editing, and remastering. | |
| 14:45 | Requirements for supporting high-quality anthropocentric communication services Danny De Vleeschauwer – Alcatel-Lucent |
| The Internet has become the most important medium over which people access information and communicate with eachother. While the information was initially accessed via text-based webpages, later enhanced with pictures, nowadays many webpages contain embedded video. Similarly the person-to-person communications were first text-based and non-interactive (e.g., email), but gradually they became more interactive and audio- and video-based (e.g., voice over IP and packet-based videoconferencing). Moreover the quality of the multimedia components increases, e.g., from mono over stereo to surround sound and image sequences of ever increasing resolution possibly also containing depth information, requiring more sophisticated end devices. While on the one hand the quality of the information increases, the codecs with which the multimedia is compressed improve as well. This presentation will determine the requirements for the end devices and estimate the bit rates needed for supporting future high-quality multimedia services. | |
| 15:15 | Multimedia Standards de dato 2008 Peter Schelkens – VUB-ETRO lab |
| Digital media technology has conquered both consumer and professional markets along a steep adoption curve. The list of applications is endless: digital television, digital cinema, digital (reflex) cameras, mobile phones, medical applications … This penetration would have been less fast and vast, and a significantly larger market fragmentation in terms of technologies would have existed, if for example ISO/IEC and ITU-T standardization bodies would not have had a clairvoyant strategy in terms of preparing the necessary key technology standards in order to support future envisaged standards. In this presentation, we will summarize the major successes of those organizations and have a look at the future and examine whether the past strategies are still a guarantee for future success. | |
| 15:45 | Break |
| Coffee | |
| 16:15 | Overview and comparison of platforms for implementing multimedia applications Geert Nuyttens – Barco |
| TBC. | |
| 16:45 | Multitouch interaction Kris Luyten – Expertise Centre for Digital Media - IBBT, Hasselt University |
| Multitouch interaction is a new interaction paradigm that gets a great deal of attention by the major players in the ICT field. Microsoft and Apple both have shown that we will soon have multitouch enabled platforms available in varying sizes on the consumer market. This will unlock many possibilities that could not be accomplished by traditional single point interaction, such as more natural interaction with your software through gestures and simultaneous interaction on a shared display. However, using multiple touch-points as a new interaction paradigm to interact with next-generation display technologies has not been explored in its full extend yet, mainly because of the unavailability or costs of the required hardware platforms. In this talk we will present the ongoing work to create interactive "post-WIMP" applications that use multi-touch interaction as their main input modality. | |
| 17:15 | A user-centered design process for videogames Stef Desmet – GroepT - eMedialab |
| The research of the eMedialab is focusing on serious games. Not the AAA games with astonishing graphics and huge development budget, but smaller games with use in training, education… targeted towards a specific audience. The design process puts the “user” at a central place to guarantee that the final product fulfills his needs: ethnographic observation, participatory design and playability testing are keywords in this iterative and incremental process. Given the limited amount of resources available for the final implementation we look to rapid prototyping tools like Virtools to develop the game. Current realizations cover the student projects SBox Petanque (for senior citizens), Sidewalk Saver (for sensitization about the use of public space) and the IWT-TETRA research project eTreasure (for knowledge exchange between grandparents and grandchildren). | |
| 17:45..19:00 | Close + Networking Drink |
| Date | Hour | Location | Street | City |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 oktober 2008 | 14 - 18 | imec | Kapeldreef 75 | Leuven |
