Monday 5 September 2011

8:00

9:00

Registration

9:00

9:30

Opening remarks

9:30

10:30

Keynote speech 1: Immersive Future Media Technologies: Sensory Experience

by Christian Timmerer

10:30

11:00

coffee break

11:00

12:40

Session 1: Quality of Experience

Chair: Tasos Dagiuklas

11:00

11:20

Tackling the sheer scale of subjective QoE

Vlado Menkovski, Georgios Exarchakos, and Antonio Liotta (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

11:20

11:40

On the quality assessment of H.264/AVC video under seamless handoffs

Ilias Politis, Tasos Dagiuklas and Lampros Dounis (Dept. Of Telecommunication Systems and Networks, TEI of Mesolonghi, Greece)

11:40

12:00

Reduced-Reference Image Quality Assessment based on Edge Preservation

Maria G. Martini (WMN Research Group, Kingston University London, UK), Barbara Villarini, and Federico Fiorucci (DIEI, University of Perugia, Italy)

12:00

12:20

On measuring the perceptual quality of video streams over lossy wireless networks

Ilias Politis, Michail Tsagkaropoulos, Tasos Dagiuklas and Lampros Dounis (Department Of Telecommunications Systems and Networks,  TEI of Messolonghi, Greece )

12:20

12:40

The Correlation Dimension – A Video Quality Measure –

Bogdan Budescu, Alexandru Caliman and Mihai Ivanovici (Department of Electronics and Computers, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Transilvania University, Romania)

12:40

13:40

lunch

13:40

15:00

Session 2: Dynamic spectrum access wireless networks in the TV white spaces

Chair: Maurizio Murroni

13:40

14:00

TV White Spaces Exploitation for Signal Distribution

Mauro Fadda, Maurizio Murroni, Vlad Popescu (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,  University of Cagliari, Italy)  and Vlad Cristian Stoianovici (Department of Electronics and Computers,  University of Transilvania, Romania)

14:00

14:20

A Spectrum Sensing Algorithm for White Spaces Detection Validated in Real Environments

Irati Lazaro, Maurizio Murroni, Iratxe Redondo, Mikel Sanchez and Manuel Velez (Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria de Bilbao, Spain)

14:20

14:40

Cooperative Spectrum Sensing for Geo-Location Databases

Mauro Fadda, Maurizio Murroni, Vlad Popescu (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy) and Vlad Cristian Stoianovici (Department of Electronics and Computers, University of Transilvania, Romania)

14:40

15:00

Spectrum Occupancy and Hidden Node Margins for Cognitive Radio Applications in the UHF band

M.Alonso, I.Lazaro, P.Angueira, M.Velez, J. Morgade (Bilbao Faculty of Engineering.UPV/EHU, Spain), M.Murroni (DIEE University of Cagliari, Italy), M. Sanchez, P.Prieto (Telecom unit. Tecnalia Research Centre, Spain)

15:00

15:30

coffee break

15:30

17:30

Session 3: Media Streaming

Chair: Luigi Atzori

15:30

15:50

Delay Model for Super-Frame Based Resource Reservation in Distributed Wireless Networks

Xiaobo Yu, Pirabakaran Navaratnam, and Klaus Moessner (University of Surrey, UK)

15:50

16:10

A method for Detection/Deletion via Network Coding for Unequal Error Protection of Scalable Video over Error-Prone Networks

Michele Sanna, Ebroul Izquierdo (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London, UK)

16:10

16:30

Multiple Description Coded Video Streaming with Multipath Transport in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Yuanyuan Xu and Ce Zhu (School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

16:30

16:50

Mobile Multipath Cooperative Network for Real-Time Streaming

Viji Raveendran, Phanikumar Bhamidipati, Xun Luo and Xiaolong Huang (Qualcomm Inc., California, USA)

16:50

17:10

Multi-Stream Rate Adaptation using Scalable Video Coding with Medium Grain Scalability

Sergio Cicalo, Abdul Haseeb, and Velio Tralli (Engineering Department of University of Ferrara (ENDIF), Italy)

17:10

17:30

The Role of Log Entries in the Quality Control of Video Distribution

Ismo Hakala, Sanna Laine, Mikko Myllymaki and Jari Penttila (University of Jyvaskyla, Kokkola University Consortium Chydenius, Finland)

20:30

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Banquet

Tuesday 6 September 2011

9:00

10:00

Keynote speech 2: Multimedia over Vanets

by Giovanni Pau

10:00

11:00

Session 4: Mobile Visual Search

Chair: Jaime Delgado

10:00

10:20

MPEG standardization on Visual Search

Giovanni Cordara (Telecom Italia)

10:20

10:40

Automatic Object Classification and Image Retrieval by Sobel edge detection and Latent Semantic methods

Vesna Zeljkovic (School of Engineering & Computing Sciences, New York Institute of Technology)  and Pavel Praks (Dept. Of Applied Mathematics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)

10:40

11:00

Standards for Query Formalization in Mobile Visual Search

Ruben Tous and Jaime Delgado (UPC BarcelonaTech, Barcelona, Spain)

11:00

11:30

coffee break

11:30

12:50

Session 5: Image processing and transmission

Chair: Daniele Giusto

11:30

11:50

Optimal Interleaving for Robust Wireless JPEG 2000 Images and Video Transmission

Daniel Pascual Biosca and Max Agueh (LACSC - ECE Paris, France)

11:50

12:10

Interactive image viewing in mobile devices based on JPEG XR

Bernardetta Saba, Cristian Perra, and Daniele Giusto (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy)

12:10

12:30

Image preprocessing, Illumination Compensation and Normalization for Face Recognition Using Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT-II), Periodic Haar piecewise Linear Transform (PHL) and Periodic Haar piecewise Linear Transform (PWL) in Logarithm Domain

Tomasz Marcin Orzechowski, Andrzej Dziech, Tomasz Lukanko (Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland), and Tomasz Rusc (Institute of Physics, The Jan Kochanowski University of Humanities and Sciences, Poland)

12:30

12:50

Objective evaluation of WebP image compression efficiency

Maurizio Pintus, Giaime Ginesu, Luigi Atzori, Daniele D. Giusto (Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Italy)

12:50

13:50

lunch

13:50

14:50

Session 6: Multimedia in HMI - Human Machine Interaction

Chair: Antonio Solinas

13:50

14:10

3D Wide Baseline Correspondences using Depth-maps

Marco Marcon, Eliana Frigerio, Augusto Sarti, and Stefano Tubaro (Politecnico di Milano - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, ITALY)

14:10

14:30

ASTUTE Artemis project

Antonio Solinas

14:30

14:50

Invited - speech TBC

speaker TBC

14:50

16:10

Session 7: Mobile Applications

Chair: Giovanni Cordara

14:50

15:10

Implementing Mobile Applications with the MIPAMS Content Management Platform

Xavier Maronas, Silvia Llorente, Eva Rodriguez and Jaime Delgado (Departament di Arquitectura de Computadors (DAC), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya)

15:10

15:30

Virtual Device: Media Service Fitness, Selection and Composition considering Composition Interactivity and Synchronization

Niall Murray, Brian Lee, Karunakar A K, Yuansong Qiao, Enda Fallon (Software Research Institute, Athlone Institute of Technology,  Ireland)

15:30

15:50

Location Based Abstraction of User Generated Mobile Videos

Onni Ojutkangas, Johannes Peltola, and Sari Jarvinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland)

15:50

16:10

Modeling of Network Connectivity in Multi-Homed Hybrid Ad Hoc Networks

Michele Nitti, Luigi Atzori (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - University of Cagliari, Italy)

16:10

16:40

coffee break

16:40

17:40

Panel on Quality of Experience

Giovanni Cordara, Jaime Delgado, Pablo Angueira, Giovanni Pau

Wedsneday 7 September 2011

9:00

11:00

Tutorial 1: The future of Terrestrial Broadcasting in Europe

by Pablo Angueira

11:00

11:20

coffee break

11:20

13:20

Tutorial 2: Cognitive Radio Applications for Wireless Multimedia - Technology and Testbed

by Vlad Popescu

13:20

14:20

lunch