Sharing Multimedia Knowledge

The goal of the work meetings is to have interactive sessions amongst the MuMe-Community members:

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

The programme of work meeting 14 is shown below.

13:30	Registration
	Welcome/Coffee
14:00	Welcome Paul Six, Coordinator MuMe Community - IMEC
	A short overview of the status of the MuMe-community will be given, the agenda of the meeting will be presented and future activities will be discussed.
14:15	Multimedia at Nokia Siemens Networks Dirk Ossenblok, Solution Consultant - Nokia Siemens Networks
	In this presentation we will provide an overview of the global and Belgian activities of Nokia Siemens Networks. We will focus on the interest of NSN in multimedia applications. We will discuss our presence both in media and entertainment and in mobile applications. The link to and our expectations from the MuMe forum will be clarified.
14:40	Multimedia applications at Jabil Christa Coenegracht, Development manager - Jabil Design Services
TBD.
15:05	The new standardisation philosophy in Belgium. Bram Thiry, Adviseur ICT Normalisatie - Agoria
	Topics discussed in this presentation are: Organisation of standardisation. The Belgian situation: NBN and Sectoral Standardisation Operators (SSO). SSO Agoria ICT. Working rules of SSO Agoria ICT. Overview of specific standardisation committees on computer graphics; image processing; coding of audio, picture and multimedia information.
15:40	Break
	Coffee
16:10	Rambla... a service-oriented approach to delivering multimedia. Jo Martens, Managing Partner – Rambla
	Rambla is a CDN services provider, specialized in handling multimedia and streaming live events. In order to satisfy diverse customer needs, Rambla has come up with a full-stack multimedia framework based on an integrated services model.
16:50	Novel user interaction technologies Gert Van Hoey, Research Engineer – Technology Center Barco
	This presentation provides an overview of new ways of interacting with displayed content and applications, beyond the traditional keyboard, mouse, and touch interfaces. Examples are eye tracking, head tracking and hand tracking. We will look into the hardware and software that enable these new interaction technologies, and discuss their applications.
17:15	Real-time 3D gesture recognition technology Thomas Petersen, Business Development Director - Softkinetic
	The Softkinetic presentation will highlight and explain our 3D gesture recognition technology, from the 3D camera image to the actual applications and give examples of client implementations. It will also touch on the evolution of the market. The examples will be illustrated by videos and screenshots .
17:40	Closing Networking drink with sandwiches

Members please register your attendance via MuMe-Community@imec.be