Sharing Multimedia Knowledge

 Alcatel-Lucent’s vision is to enrich people’s lives by transforming the
way the world communicates. Alcatel-Lucent provides solutions that
enable service providers, enterprises and governments worldwide, to
deliver voice, data and video communication services to end-users. As a
leader in fixed, mobile and converged broadband access, carrier and
enterprise IP technologies, applications, and services, Alcatel-Lucent
offers the end-to-end solutions that enable compelling communications
services for people at home, at work and on the move.

With 79,000 employees and operations in more than 130 countries,
Alcatel-Lucent is a local partner with global reach. The company has the
most experienced global services team in the industry, and one of the
largest Innovation and Technology organizations focused on
communications. Alcatel-Lucent achieved combined sales of Euro 18.6
billion in 2005, and is incorporated in France, with executive offices
located in Paris.

 For more information, visit Alcatel on the Internet

Company URL: www.alcatel.be

Atos Origin is an international information technology services company. Its business is turning client vision into results through the application of consulting, systems integration and managed operations. The company's annual revenues are EUR 5.5 billion and it employs over 47,000 people in 40 countries. Atos Origin is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic Games and has a client base of international blue-chip companies across all sectors. Atos Origin is quoted on the Paris Eurolist Market and trades as Atos Origin, Atos Consulting, Atos Euronext Market Solutions and Atos Worldline. For more information, please visit the company's website at www.atosorigin.com

Company URL: www.atosorigin.com

Barco is a world leader in professional markets, in which it offers display and visualization solutions. Based upon in-depth market knowledge, the company
designs and develops solutions for large-screen visualization, display solutions for life-critical applications, and systems for visual inspection.

Currently Barco is active in the markets of medical imaging, defense & security, traffic management, avionics, media, events, digital cinema, presentation, simulation, traffic & surveillance, utilities & process control, broadcasting and textiles & plastics.

Company URL: www.barco.com

NXP is a newly independent semiconductor company (founded by Philips) with a fifty-year history of providing engineers and designers with semiconductors and software that deliver better sensory experiences for mobile communications, consumer electronics, security applications, contactless payment and connectivity, and in-car entertainment and networking. Building on its heritage in consumer research, significant R&D investment and world-class industry partners, NXP's "vibrant media technologies" allow consumers to enjoy better sensory experiences - brilliant images, crisp clear sound and easy sharing of information in homes, cars and mobile devices.   For more information, please visit http://www.nxp.com.

Company URL: www.nxp.com

AR&D International  NV, located in Landen, is specialized in hardware and software developments for
light and video controls for professional applications.
Martin Professional in Denmark distributes our products - like Maxxyz and Maxedia - worldwide.

R&D International also develops customized controls, from design up to a CE and UL approved device.

Company URL: www.rdinternational.com

Nokia Siemens Networks is een toonaangevende wereldwijde aanbieder van communicatiediensten. Het bedrijf biedt een complete, uitgebalanceerde productportfolio van oplossingen voor mobiele en vaste netwerkinfrastructuren en voorziet met 20.000 serviceprofessionals over de hele wereld in de toenemende vraag naar diensten. Nokia Siemens Networks is een van de grootste bedrijven op het gebied van telecommunicatie-infrastructuur en is actief in 150 landen. Het hoofdkantoor is gevestigd in Espoo, Finland. De hoofdzetel van de activiteiten in Belgie is gevestigd in Herentals.

Company URL: http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com/

Rambla is webtelevision, Rambla is interactive advertising, Rambla is live and on-demand concert broadcasting, Rambla is e-learning, Rambla is film festivals and movie trailers, Rambla is business news from the heart of Europe and Burning Man video diaries from the heart of the Nevada desert.

But quintessentially Rambla is a high-speed and reliable Content Delivery Network which delivers any rich media content, regardless of audience demand and peak loads. Rambla's broad customer base includes top media companies and interactive advertising agencies delivering campaigns and projects for well-known brands like Volvo, Microsoft, Carlsberg, Intel, Grohe, Playstation, Coca Cola, Neckermann, Heineken, KBC, Proximus, ...

Company URL: www.rambla.be

Televic was originally formed in Belgium in 1946 and has an independent financial position ensuring its clients' complete confidence when placing high value on long term projects in its care. It is Televic's mission to develop and manufacture a range of high quality, superior products and solution for the audio, multimedia and communication markets, such as : hospital signalisation, conferencing systems, simultaneous translation systems, audio communication systems for transport systems and public/industrial buildings, building management systems, multimedia language learning systems.

Company URL: www.televic.com

Easics, located in Leuven, is a competence center building on a decade of digital hardware design experience combined with sound C/C++ SW practices. Projects range from highly integrated, hardware focused design architectures to highly innovative HW/SW multi-processor architectures.

Company URL: www.easics.com

OTN Systems designs, develops and markets a unique range of Fibre Optic Network Solutions for specific market segments such as metro systems, light rail systems, mines, motorways, utilities, oil & gas, railways, airports and large industrial plants. The company's innovative Open Transport Network solutions are based on the latest fiber optical technology and offers reliable, open and easy-to-use systems. The company's systems are designed to meet the needs and reliability required in the industrial environment of the market segments. OTN Systems supports all kinds of communication, including voice, data, audio, video, etc.

Company URL: www.otnsystems.com

Jabil is an electronics solutions company providing comprehensive electronics design, production and product management services to global electronics and technology companies. Jabil’s Hasselt facility delivers product design, PCB design, product validation, test solutions and fast prototyping for electronic products and provides a one-stop-shop solution to diverse industries such as consumer, industrial and medical. With more than 30 years of experience and in-depth knowledge in product development, validation and testing, Jabil’s Hasselt team provides best-in-class services for the most complex projects, with a strong focus on lowest cost, highest quality and fast market introduction. Jabil Hasselt's involvement in wireless technology is mainly in the application and integration of wireless IP. Typical products are streaming A/V applications using Wi-Fi technology (IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n), like e.g. HD IP Set Top Boxes, digital media players/servers. Other wireless technologies like Bluetooth and Zigbee have been explored. Jabil is an active member of the “Wi-Fi Alliance” and provides as such Product Validation services for Wi-Fi certification.

Company URL: www.jabil.com

dZine, an independant private company founded in 1992, has always been a pioneer in building digital signage systems and professional mobile solutions. Due to dZine’s high qualified hardware and software division, customer-made solutions with a long life span are supplied for numerous applications. Today, dZine is a profitable small giant, which employs over 40 high-graded persons. dZine, being a key player in its two markets, has already distributed over 90.000 players worldwide and it is rapidly expanding. dZine is a devoted innovative company founded on a strong dedicated team of engineers. The combination of dZine’s R&D skills and technical know-how results in solid and future proof solutions. dZine has drawn up the perfect balance between quality, performance, durability and price to serve its customers. dZine considers partnership to be a key factor. It is dZine’s business to assist its customers and partners through every step of their project. Knowledge and experience is shared with them in various stages; predesign, support, installation, after-sales-service. Over the years, dZine’s technology has proven to be the key to the customer its success.

Company URL: www.dzine.be

The Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM) is a research institute of Hasselt University (UHasselt) and has been active in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) since 1987. EDM employs a team of about 70 ICT specialists in fundamental, basic & applied research as well as contract R&D. Our research focuses on three competence areas: Computer Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction and Multimedia & Communication Technology. EDM's key objective is to be a leading research institute in multimedia, human-computer interaction, computer graphics and virtual environments.

Company URL: www.edm.luc.ac.be

Group T’s e-Media lab studies and creates optimal interactive experiences that bridge the gap between man and technology. Therefore, the e-Medialab designs and develops interactive and tangible media. The e-Medialab is synonymous to an interdisciplinary approach that forges user-centered research, technological expertise and audiovisual design into immersive experiences with intuitive user interfaces. These applications situate themselves within a multitude of different domains: e.g. digital gaming, software toys, electronic art, edutainment, infotainment, etc.

In her research projects, e-Medialab explores the possibilities that lie beyond the desktop paradigm and traditional graphical user interfaces. This objective is driven by two core concepts, i.e. rich interaction and emotional design.
More info on current research projects can be found on http://www.groupt.be/www/research/e-media/projects/

Company URL: www.groupt.be

The e-lab is the research lab of the Hogeschool Antwerpen, department Industrial Sciences and Technology (Electronics-ICT). The e-lab is actively involved in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 research, closely related with the VUB-IBBT group.  We are mainly focussing on applied research in which we try to create demonstrators for new algorithms. Our main focus at this time is:

Real-time Region of interest (ROI) coding with H.264 / MPEG-4 and Motion JPEG2000 using eye/head tracking devices (VUB-IBBT)
Distributed source coding (DSC) for video  implementation (VUB-IBBT)
Digital TV (TV) and Mhp applications (Integan)
Channel-blocking capabilities in digital video broadcasts (DVB) with RFID-tags and other RFID applications

Several other research projects are also being conducted (marginally) related to these topics. Previous research in the elab was related to wireless network (IWT-funded WLAN IDEAS project) and bipolar transistors (2 IWT-funded project in cooperation with DRIX).

Company URL: www.ha.be

IBBT, Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology, is a research institute founded by an initiative of the Flemish government, aiming at research in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in general, and the development of broadband applications in particular. 14 university research teams have a profound knowledge in the following domains:

• Networks: IP, CATV, Wireless, protocols and performance, QoS, Service platform
• Content: audio and video coding, user interface, image processing
• Terminal: Quality of Experience, user aspects, wireless access
• Regulation: media legislation, DRM, regulation issues
• User: ergonomical aspects, user surveys, economic modelling

Company URL: www.ibbt.be

IMEC is a world-leading independent research center in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. Its research focuses on the next generations of chips and systems, and on the enabling technologies for ambient intelligence. IMEC’s research bridges the gap between fundamental research at universities and technology development in industry. IMEC is headquartered in Leuven; its staff of about 1400 people includes close to 500 industrial residents and guest researchers.

Company URL: www.imec.be

VIS/Vision Systems is the research group for computer vision and image processing at the faculty Engineering Sciences of the University College Ghent. Our research group is part of KIS, an association of research groups within the Ghent University Association. Our research focusses on topics in the field of image and video processing and interpretation and on the hardware implementation of computer vision algorithms.

Company URL: www.visionsystem.hogent.be

The University of Leuven is a modern university, located within the vibrant city of Leuven in the centre of Belgium and close to Brussels, the centre of Europe. K.U.Leuven offers an ideal research and learning environment, rooted in a solid and venerable tradition but with its sights set squarely on the future.

Company URL: www.kul.be

We are an open and enthusiastic higher education institution with international orientation. As open and critical-minded people, we offer qualitative study programmes and services from a Christian perspective. We realize this in an efficient, effective and human way on our campuses in Aalst, Ghent and Sint-Niklaas.

Company URL: www.kahosl.be

Company URL: www.ugent.be

Volgende onderzoeksgroepen van de UGent nemen deel aan de MuMe-community:

PARIS: The Parallel Information Systems group at Ghent University is active in research on the hardware implementation of scalable video codecs. We focus on the implementation on reconfigurable hardware to maximally exploit the scalability in framerate, resolution and quality depending on the availability of hardware resources.

IBCN, the INTEC Broadband Communication Networks research group, is part of the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) of the Ghent University, and is one of the initial groups participating in the Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (IBBT). Established in 1992, IBCN counts approximately 90 employees. IBCN is active in fundamental, applied and contract research in the fields of broadband communication networks and distributed software for the support of advanced applications. IBCN concentrates its research in the following cutting edge domains: Multilayer IP and optical networks; Mobile networks and mobility support; Next-generation access networks; QoS in IP based networks; Videostreaming; Grid computing; Network and Service Management; Automatic configuration of home networks; Distributed software; Software Applications; Electronic healthcare.
Where possible the research is supported by experiments in an extensive test laboratory ATLANTIS (Test Lab for Advanced Network Technologies and Integrated Services), used for the evaluation of network protocols, software and applications.

Groep URL: www.ibcn.intec.ugent.be

DSP Valley is a technology networking organisation, focusing on the design of microelectronics hardware and embedded software for sound processing, digital imaging and (wireless) communication and navigation technologies, enabling modern multimedia applications. DSP Valley's networking links between the technology providers and the application developers and system integrators, in the vertical multimedia markets of consumer electronics, telematics and car infotainment, IDTV, network infrastructure and health applications.

Company URL: www.dspvalley.com

Flanders’ DRIVE is the innovation excellence pool and platform for the Flemish vehicle industry. Flanders’ DRIVE aims at strategically strengthening the product development capacity of the vehicle supplier industry in Flanders. By this means, the supplier industry will stand stronger facing up to the competition on a European and global level.

Company URL: www.flandersdrive.be

The entrepreneur ready to innovate in Flanders can count on the support of the Flemish government through IWT. IWT is the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders. The organisation is the only Flemish organisation stimulating and supporting innovation. For this purpose IWT is applying two instruments. On the one hand the organisation grants financial support to companies, research institutes, individual researchers as innovation intermediaries. On the other hand IWT offers services for innovation partnering and technology transfer, as well in Flanders www.innovatienetwerk.be, as on European level throughout the Enterprise Europe Network.

Company URL: www.iwt.be

MediaNet Vlaanderen is a discussion platform intended to tighten the contacts between the member companies and the government authorities concerning the challenges of the ICT minded media market. Medianet promotes the member companies cooperation on a non competitive basis in order to develop bothinnovative and regulation policies. The core task of Medianet as a VIS is to boost innovation among its members through an efficient presence at various levels such as technology benchmarking, definition of pilot project, research of the most adequate partner and of appropriate financing.

Company URL: www.medianetvlaanderen.be

Sirris is the collective centre of the Belgian technological industry, and . We help companies in the implementation of technological innovations, enabling them to strengthen their competitive position over the long-term. Our experts visit companies on site, offer them technological advice, launch innovation paths, and provide guidance until they reach the implementation phase. It is our aim to find concrete solutions to the real challenges facing Belgian entrepreneurs.

Company URL: www.sirris.be

Business Netwerk Café is the fastest growing flemish network organisation. Informal networks are encouraged.

Company URL: www.businessnetwerkcafe.be