Keynote Speakers

Abstract

Mobile and Networked Video: A Challenging New Era

Recent proliferation of mobile devices with video capture capabilities has resulted in a paradigm shift trends in video coding, processing, and distribution. These mobile devices, together with numerous high end consumer video terminals, are connected to form contemporary networks of unprecedented complexity. The design principles of traditional video coding for broadcasting video over the air, or for streaming video over Internet, need to be thoroughly re-examined.
The revolutionary mobile wireless networks, coupled with overlay network concept and P2P video content distribution phenomena, present significant technical challenges for both video content distributors and video service providers in order to satisfy ever increasing demands from the consumers.
This talk will present some multi-faceted challenges for emerging mobile and networked video applications. In particular, we will examine one new approach based on distributed source coding principles to demonstrate that distributed source coding based approach is indeed promising for video encoding, decoding, and processing for various contemporary video applications.

Biography

Chang Wen Chen is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Previously, he has been Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology from 2003 to 2007. He was on the faculty of Electrical Engineering Dept. at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996, on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003. He also served as the Head of Interactive Media Group at David Sarnoff Research Labs in Princeton from 2000 to 2002, managing numerous research projects in video coding standards and wireless video communications.
Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He has been an Editor for numerous IEEE Transactions and Journals, including Proceedings of IEEE, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, and IEEE Multimedia Magazine. He has also served as Conference Chair for several major IEEE and SPIE conferences related to mobile wireless video communications and signal processing.
He received his BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE from University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He is a Fellow of IEEE and SPIE..

Abstract

Mobile Image Matching - Towards Mobile Augmented Reality

Handheld mobile devices, such as camera phones or PDAs, are expected to become ubiquitous platforms for visual search and mobile augmented reality applications. For mobile image matching, a visual data base is typically stored at a server in the network. Hence, for a visual comparison, information must be either uploaded from the mobile to the server, or downloaded from the server to the mobile. With relatively slow wireless links, the response time of the system critically depends on how much information must be transferred in both directions.
We review recent advances in mobile matching, using a "bag-of-visual-words" approach with robust feature descriptors, and show that dramatic speed-ups are possible by considering recognition and compression jointly.
We will use real-time implementations for different example applications, such as recognition of landmarks or CD cover, to show the benefit from image processing on the phone, the server, and/or both.

Biography

Bernd Girod is Professor of Electrical Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science in the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University, California.
He was Chaired Professor of Telecommunications in the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg until 1999. His research interests are in the areas of video compression, networked media systems, and image databases. He has published over 400 conference and journal papers, as well as 5 books.
Professor Girod has been involved in several startup ventures, among them Polycom (Nasdaq:PLCM), Vivo Software, 8x8 (Nasdaq: EGHT), and RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK).
He received the Engineering Doctorate from University of Hannover, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Georgia Institute of Technology. Prof. Girod is a Fellow of the IEEE and of EURASIP and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences. He received the 2002 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2004 EURASIP Technical Achievement Award, and the 2007 IEEE Multimedia Communication Best Paper Award.

Abstract

Mobile Games and Immersive Media, a chance for Europe?

Recent evaluations have shown, that there is an opportunity for mobile and online games to be a successful business in Europe. They can be seen as an important ingredient for networked immersive media. To plan the future research in this field, the Networked Media Systems Unit of the European Commission starts a consultation process on that topic. International experts are invited to disclose their views on related future research.

Biography

Martin Hahn was born very long time ago in Berlin, Germany. He is, what is called a born-and-bred Berliner, having survived the times of the wall. He studied communication technology there at the Berlin University of Technologies. After occupations at 'Daimler Benz Aero Space' and 'Hewlett Packard' he joined the Fraunhofer Research. With his research works on 'Forward Error Correction' and 'Video Image Processing' he received the Doctor degree at the 'Heinrich-Hertz-Institute for Broadband Communications'. One year ago, after being responsible for international cooperation and business development at Fraunhofer, he joined the European Commission as Seconded National Expert in the field of Networked Electronic Media. He is in charge there of the definition of the future research work programme in the field of 'Networked Immersive Media'.

Abstract

Trust and Security Research

This presentation will provide an overview of the Trust and Security research that is funded by the EU in FP7 (the ICT theme (Information and Communication Technologies)). The project portfolio contains security research on network infrastructure level as well as on application/services level, and some research projects are relevant in the context of mobile networks and the Future Internet. In particular the research that is relevant for mobile networks will be presented in more detail. The Trust and Security research area is open in the current call for proposals (call 5) of the ICT programme in FP7which will be closed on 26 October 2009.

Biography

Bart Van-Caenegem received his Master's degree in Engineering in 1995 and his Doctoral degree in 2001 both from the Faculty of Applied Sciences of Gent University, Belgium. He is currently Project Officer with the European Commission, Directorate-General Information Society and Media, where he is involved in European Research Programme Management in the Unit 'Trust and Security'. Before joining the European Commission in 2005 he has occupied several engineering and managerial positions in the mobile operator sector in the area of network engineering and security