QoEMCS at EuroITV 2012

In the framework of the EuroITV 2012 (July 4 2012 @Berlin, Germany) the workshop of QoE for Multimedia Sharing will take place in parallel. The workshop is supported by Qualinet Cost action and I participate also in the Technical Program Committee (TPC). I believe that it is quite interesting to be supported by the QoE-related colleagues.

Conference Objective

Multimedia applications are becoming more and more part of our everyday life. With the fast development of social networks and exchange platforms, users interact with each other through multimedia content, from different places, using different platforms. In order to make these applications available and successful, all the elements involved in the chain between multimedia content production and consumption have to work together with one goal in mind : maximising the Quality of Experience on the user’s side. This global issue requires taking into account a high variability of devices, networks, users and consumption scenarios, while addressing technological constraints related to the available resources in terms of network capacities, computation power and storage. In order to gain more knowledge on the provision and assessment of Quality of User Experience, new parameters have to be considered, such as from the psychophysical and environmental context. These efforts are further justified by the emergence of new multimedia concepts and applications, such as 3DTV, Free Viewpoint TV and Mobile TV, which include complex interactions with the users and with their environment. The QoEMCS workshop has been part of the last two editions of EuroITV. The third edition will once again focus on QoE and multimedia interactions, centered around the evaluation and optimization of interactions between users across different places and platforms.

Organising Committee

Yohann Pitrey, University of Vienna (AUT), Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna (AUT), Rui Jorge Lopes, Instituto de Telecomunicações and ISCTE – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (POR) Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, Tampere University of Technology (FIN) Hans-Jürgen Zepernick, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE)

Technical Program Committee

Manora Caldera, Curtin University of Technology (AUS), Touradj Ebrahimi, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), Markus Fiedler, Blekinge Institute of Technology (SWE), Helmut Hlavacs, University of Vienna (AUT), Harilaos Koumaras, NCSR Demokritos (GR), Maulana Kusuma, Gunadarma University (ID), Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), Patrick Le Callet, Université de Nantes (FR), Andreas Mauthe, Lancaster University (UK), Maria Paula Queluz, Instituto de Telecomunicações and IST (POR), Bijan Rohani, Phybit, (SG), Burkhard Stiller, Universität Zürich (CH), Nitin Suresh, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Junyong You, NTNU (NO)

Important Dates

April 20 2012 : Paper Submission May 15 2012 : Notification of Acceptance June 15 2012 : Camera-ready Version July 4 2012 : Workshop at EuroITV in Berlin

 

3rd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing

3rd European Workshop on Visual Information Processing, EUVIP 2011,That will be held in Paris, France, 4-6 July 2011.

Web site:http://www.euvip.org

This third edition of the workshop follows up on the success achieved by theprevious i.e. VISPA 2008 and EUVIP 2010. These latter attracted prominent speakers from around the world and provided a framework for fruitful discussions on different applications of signal and image processing techniques for emerging and challenging problems. Carrying on this tradition EUVIP 2011, will offer a forum for researchers and industrials to exchange ideas and discuss the recent advances in perceptually-inspired techniques for image and video processing with application to multimedia, visual pattern recognition, surveillance, and visual information security. This event will be composed by several invited senior talks, and technical papers presentations dealing with state of the art and new advances in visual information modeling, analysis, processing and communication methods. The workshop aims to promote exchanges between established researchers as well as to provide graduate students with an opportunity to have substantive interaction with experts in the field.

Topics of particular interest to EUVIP 2011 include, but are not limited to:

Computational Vision Models Video Analysis
Image and Video Quality Assessment Visual Tracking
Image and Video Enhancement Visual Data Mining
Color Image Understanding Biometrics
Color Image Processing Perceptual Digital Watermarking
Perceptual Image& Video Retrieval Perceptual coding
Multimedia Communication Multiview Processing

Following the tradition of previous successful EUVIP workshops, a PhDstudent poster session will be organized. For further information, please go to “Student Poster Session” at http://www.euvip.org

Important Dates

Submission Deadline: 15 February 2011
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2011
Camera Ready Deadline: 15 April 2011

Paper submission:

LENGTH: You are allowed a total of 6 pages (4 miminum) for your document.This is the maximum number of pages that will be accepted, including all figures, tables, and references.

Double Blind Review: EUVIP2011 reviewing is double blind, in that authors donot know the names of the area chair/reviewers of their papers, and area chairs/reviewers do not know the names of the authors. Avoid providing information that may identify the authors in the acknowledgments (e.g., co-workers and grant IDs). Avoid providing links to websites that identify the authors. Violation of any of these guidelines will lead to rejection without review.

Please look at “paper submission link” at http://www.euvip.org

Technical Committee.

T. Aach (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
K. Abed-Meraim (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
D. Aboutajdine (Univ-Mohammed V, Morrocco)
A. Amira (Brunel University,UK)
S. Battiato (Università di Catania, Italy)
F. Battisti (University Roma Tre, Italy)
M. Bennamoun (Perth, Australia)
A. Bennaza (Sup?Com, Tunis, Tunisia)
J. Benois-Pineau (University Bordeaux, France)
B. Boashash (University of Qatar, Qatar)
A. Bouridane (Northumbria University, UK)
M. Cagnazzo (Telecom Paris Tech., France)
S. Colonnese, (Università ?La Sapienza?Roma, Italy)
F. Dufaux (EPFL, Switzerland)
I. Farup (Gjøvik University, Norway)
M. Gabbouj (TUT, Tampere, Finland)
J. Y. Hardenberg (Gjøvik University, Norway)
L. Karam (University of Arizona, USA)
D. Khalifa (Université Evry Val d’Essonne , France)
P. Le Callet (Polytech?Nantes, France)
M. Mitrea (Telecom SudParis, France)
A. Neri (University Roma Tre, Italy)
A. Ouamri (USTO, Oran, Algerira)
S. L. Phung (University of Wollongong, Australia)
T. Pun (Unversity of Geneva, Switzerland)
H. Saadane (University Poitiers, France)
A. Serir (USTHB, Algiers, Algeria)
K. Seshadrinathan (Intel Corporation in Phoenix, AZ, USA)
S. Susstrünk (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
F. H-C Tivive (University of Wollongong, Australia)
E. Viennet (Université Paris 13, France)
H.R. Wu (RMIT, Australia)

 

YouTube 3D Player

As 3D video becomes even more popular, YouTube offers a variety of 3D options to be enabled. It is very important that these techniques are added at a post-processing phase.

Here is an example and please check by double clicking on the video the rest 3D options

 

TCSVT Special Issue Video Analysis on Resource-Limited Systems

CALL FOR PAPERS
IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Special Issue on
Video Analysis on Resource-Limited Systems

Guest Editors
Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, USA
Andrea Cavallaro, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Ying Wu, Northwestern University, USA
Caifeng Shan, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Yun (Raymond) Fu, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA
Kari Pulli, Nokia Research Center (NRC) Palo Alto, USA

Schedule
Submission deadline: Dec. 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance: Jun. 15, 2011
Final manuscript due: Jun. 30, 2011
Tentative publication date: Oct. 2011

In many real-world video analytics systems, the available resource is limited. This could mean low-quality data (e.g., limited imaging resolution/sensor size/frame rate), such as video footage from surveillance cameras and videos captured by consumers via mobile or wearable cameras. Another dimension comes from limited amount of processing power, for example, on mobile camera phones. There is a huge demand for video analysis and computer vision techniques on resource-limited systems. However, although there are some existing studies, video analysis on low-quality video data or with limited computing power is still an under-explored field. The existing video analysis research mainly focuses on high-performance systems, that is, high-quality video data or powerful computing platforms. There aremany challenges when addressing video analysis on resource-limited systems. For example, how to effectively extract representative visual features from low-quality data? How to fuse mult
iple low-resolution frames for reliable recognition? How to accelerate vision algorithms for use on mobile platforms? How to mitigate degrading factors caused by the low quality data? We have to adapt the existing approaches developed for high-performance systems or find new techniques suitable for resource-limited systems.

This special issue seeks to present and highlight the latest developmentson video analysis and computer vision on resource-limited systems. Submissions that address real-world applications are especially encouraged.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to,
- Feature extraction from low-quality data
- Super-resolution
- Video stabilization
- Object detection in low-quality data
- Visual tracking on resource-limited systems
- Image recognition on mobile devices
- Face image analysis on resource-limited systems
- (Soft-)biometrics (face, body, gait, … ) in low-quality data – Gesture recognition in low-quality data
- Human activity analysis in low-quality data
- Video analysis on resource-limited platforms (UAVs, toy robots, capsuleendoscopy, …) – Energy optimization for video coding on resource-limited devices – Multiple-view analysis of low-quality data
- Low-cost smart camera networks with embedded computing
- Video analysis on low-cost non-classical cameras (e.g., omni-directional cameras)
- Real-world applications on resource-limited systems (smart environments, safety and surveillance, entertainment …) – Evaluation of video analysis algorithms on resource-limited systems

 

Special Session on Perceptual Quality Assessment in Networked Video Applications

18^th International Packet Video Workshop (PV2010)

Dec. 13-14, 2010, Hong Kong

http://www.mtrec.ust.hk/pv2010/

Special Session on Perceptual Quality Assessment in Networked Video Applications

Recent advances in video coding and wired/wireless networking have propelled many exciting networked video applications to the center stage of people’s life.  Due to the heterogeneity and dynamics of the network, such applications require dynamic adjustment of video coding parameters (including quantization, frame rate, frame size, and error resilience features) and error control mechanisms.  The decoded video may suffer from packet loss and delay jitter in addition to coding artifacts. From the perspective of the service providers, it is critical to have an effective way to measure or predict the end user satisfaction under different network conditions, and to adjust the system operating parameters accordingly. As a witness of such demand, there are ongoing standardization efforts to design hybrid quality metrics that use both bitstream information and decoded content as inputs to a video quality metric.  This special session will provide a forum for exchanging new ideas specifically important for networked video applications. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to:

• Impact of spatial and temporal resolution on video quality
• Effect of fluctuation of spatial, temporal and amplitude resolutions on the perceived quality
• Non-reference and hybrid quality metrics
• Impact of packet loss, delay jitter, and audio-visual synchronization in the quality of experience
• Quality monitoring and feedback in networked video applications
• Perceptually optimized error control
• Services oriented quality assessment (Mobile video quality assessment, Stereo and multiview video quality assessment, HDTV quality assessment …)

Prospective authors should prepare and submit the paper following the instruction for the regular papers posted on the workshop website. Papers submitted to the special session will go through a regular review process. The authors are encouraged to inform the special session organizers about their intent to submit the paper with a paper title.

Session Organizers:

Yao Wang, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, yao@poly.edu

Patrick Le Callet, IRCCyN/University of Nantes France, patrick.lecallet@univ-nantes.fr

 

ACM Workshop on p2pstreaming

ACM Workshop on Advanced Video Streaming Techniques for Peer-to-Peer Networks and Social Networking

Workshop held within ACM Multimedia, 25-29 October 2010, Firenze, Italy

http://www.p2pstreaming.eu

Peer-to-peer (P2P) is a promising technology for video streaming, and offers advantages in terms of robustness, re-configurability and scalability. In this context, social networks and social services are emerging as a potential new driver for content delivery networks. Specifically, social networks potentially provide a new level of understanding and knowledge related to the interaction between people within a virtual space. Many emerging multimedia based services and applications have started to exploit the ‘social graph’ in new ways for establishing a basis for social recommendations, filtering etc.). As yet, one unexplored area of research relates to the exploiting the social graph for informing adaptive behaviour in P2P-based multimedia systems. On the other hand, the P2P video technology is still challenging, due to the need of reducing start-time and churn-induced instability, to the asymmetry of residential broadband connections, and to high packet loss rates due to router congestion and transmission errors on the physical network, node departure from the P2P overlay, strict timing out due to real time visualization. The lack of guarantee about the actual delivery of the data may cause drops in the reproduction quality and service outages. The workshop objective is to solicit novel contributions on all aspects of P2P-based video coding, streaming, and content distribution which is informed by social networks.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
- Innovative P2P-based video streaming solutions
- P2P-based social media content distribution networks
- Advanced video coding techniques for real-time P2P applications: layered/scalable video coding, multiple description coding, distributed source coding
- Identification and design of proper metrics for performance evaluation and monitoring including Quality of Service/Experience
- Content and context analysis and modelling for P2P-based social media distribution
- Filtering and recommendation systems
- Error-resilience tools for peer-to-peer multimedia services – Rate control and bandwidth adaptation for both single streams and multiple stream multiplexing
- Cross layer optimization issues
- Protocols for peer-to-peer multimedia services
- P2P streaming prototype implementation for both live and on-demand streaming – Advertisement, payment, and cashing systems
- Applications, standards, and practical deployments

Invited Talk
Audio/visual content and metadata delivered over the open Internet using P2P-Next: some experiences from a broadcaster’s perspective
by George Wright, Head of Prototyping, BBC Research and Development

The best paper award (€300) is sponsored by RADVISION (http://www.radvision.com/).

Important Dates
- Paper submission: June 10, 2010
- Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2010
- Camera-ready submission: July 20, 2010
- Workshop date: October 29, 2010

Submission Guidelines
Papers should not exceed five pages in length, following the ACM proceedings format. Papers must be original and have not been published or under consideration for
publication elsewhere. Each paper will be reviewed by three members of the program committee, recognised for their competence in the field. Final decision about
inclusion in the workshop proceedings will be taken by the PC members exclusively
on the basis of the obtained reviews and levels of recommendation. Papers must be registered using the ACM Multimedia conference management software (http://www.edas.info/N9045).
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop’s proceedings which will be published together with the proceedings of the ACM Multimedia Conference 2010. Additionally, a special issue or an edited volume is planed based on the best papers of the workshop.

Workshop Organisers:
Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University
Pascal Frossard, EPFL
Keith Mitchell, University of Lancaster

Demonstrations
Njål Borch, NORUT, Norway

Program Committee (preliminary)
Jari Ahola, VTT, Finland
Peter Amon, Siemens, Germany
Riccardo Bernardini, Università di Udine, Italy
Njål Borch, NORUT, Norway
Giancarlo Calvagno, Università di Padova, Italy
Luca Celetto, STMicroelectronics, Italy
Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Marek Domanski, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
Kalman Graffi, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Marco Grangetto, Università di Torino, Italy
Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Ralf Klamma, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Enrico Magli, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Pierangelo Migliorati, Università di Brescia, Italy
Daniel Negru, University of Bordeaux, France
Jens-Rainer Ohm, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Jörn Ostermann, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Giovanni Pau, University of California at Los Angeles, US
Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
Roberto Rinaldo, Università di Udine, Italy
Thomas Schierl, HHI, Germany
Iraj Sodagar, Microsoft, US
Marco Tagliasacchi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tammam Tillo, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Stefano Tubaro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Theodore Zahariadis, Synelixis Solutions Ltd, Greece

 

YouTube experimentally supports HTML5 Video Player

HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. The Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG) started work on the specification in June 2004 under the name Web Applications 1.0. HTML5 is the proposed next standard for HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0 and DOM Level 2 HTML. It aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apache Pivot, and Sun JavaFX.
HTML5 introduces a number of new elements and attributes that reflect typical usage on modern Web sites. Some of them are semantic replacements for common uses of generic block (<div>) and inline (<span>) elements, for example <nav> (website navigation block) and <footer>. Other elements provide new functionality through a standardized interface, such as the <audio> and <video> elements.
YouTube supports experimentally the new HTML framework at the following address http://www.youtube.com/html5
This is an opt-in experiment for HTML5 support on YouTube. If you are using a supported browser, you can choose to use the HTML5 player instead of the Flash player for most videos. Your comments will help Youtube to improve and perfect the mixtures that is working on. It is possible to send your feedback directly to the Youtube team.

Right now Youtube HTML5 supports browsers that support both the video tag in HTML5 and the H.264 video codec.
These include:

• Google Chrome
• Apple Safari (version 4+)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame installed (Get Google Chrome Frame)

The following restrictions are currently applied on this testing framework:

• Videos with ads are not supported (they will play in the Flash player)

More information on HTML5 is also available on W3C pages (please follow this link for further reading)

 

52nd International Symposium ELMAR-2010, Zadar, Croatia

September 15-17, 2010
Zadar, Croatia

Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2010

http://www.elmar-zadar.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2010/call_for_papers/elmar2010_cfp07.pdf

TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS

IEEE Region 8
IEEE Croatia Section
IEEE Croatia Section Chapter of the Signal Processing Society IEEE Croatia Section Joint Chapter of the AP/MTT Societies
EURASIP – European Assoc. Signal, Speech and Image Processing

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXED BY

IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS

TOPICS

–> Image and Video Processing
–> Multimedia Communications
–> Speech and Audio Processing
–> Wireless Commununications
–> Telecommunications
–> Antennas and Propagation
–> Navigation Systems
–> Ship Electronic Systems
–> Power Electronics and Automation
–> Naval Architecture
–> Sea Ecology
–> Special Sessions Proposals – A special session consist
of 5-6 papers which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints

KEYNOTE TALKS

* Prof. Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK:
Telepresence, the ‘World-Wide Wait’ and ‘Green’ Radios…

* Dr. Michael M. Bronstein, Technion – Israel Institute
of Technology, Haifa, ISRAEL:
Non-rigid, non-rigid, non-rigid world

* Dr. Mikel M. Miller, AFRL Munitions Directorate,
Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA:
Got GPS? The Navigation Gap

* Dr. Panos Liatsis, City University London, UK:
3D reconstruction and stenosis quantification
in CT angiograms

SUBMISSION

Papers accepted by two reviewers will be published in
conference proceedings available at the conference and
abstracted/indexed in IEEE Xplore, INSPEC and SCOPUS
databases. More info is available here:
http://www.elmar-zadar.org/2010/paper_submission/

SCHEDULE OF IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submission of full papers: March 15, 2010
Notification of acceptance mailed out by: May 10, 2010
Submission of (final) camera-ready papers: May 20, 2010
Preliminary program available online by: June 14, 2010
Registration forms and payment deadline: June 21, 2010

GENERAL CO-CHAIRS

Ive Mustac, Tankerska plovidba, Zadar, Croatia
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, University of Zagreb, Croatia

PROGRAM CHAIR

Mislav Grgic, University of Zagreb, Croatia

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Juraj Bartolic, Croatia
David Broughton, United Kingdom
Paul Dan Cristea, Romania
Kresimir Delac, Croatia
Zarko Cucej, Slovenia
Marek Domanski, Poland
Kalman Fazekas, Hungary
Janusz Filipiak, Poland
Borko Furht, USA
Mohammed Ghanbari, United Kingdom
Mislav Grgic, Croatia
Sonja Grgic, Croatia
Yo-Sung Ho, Korea
Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof, Austria
Ismail Khalil Ibrahim, Austria
Bojan Ivancevic, Croatia
Ebroul Izquierdo, United Kingdom
Kristian Jambrosic, Croatia
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, USA
Tomislav Kos, Croatia
Murat Kunt, Switzerland
Igor Kuzle, Croatia
Panos Liatsis, United Kingdom
Rastislav Lukac, Canada
Lidija Mandic, Croatia
Gabor Matay, Hungary
Branka Medved Rogina, Croatia
Borivoj Modlic, Croatia
Marta Mrak, United Kingdom
Fernando Pereira, Portugal
Pavol Podhradsky, Slovak Republic
Ramjee Prasad, Denmark
Kamisetty R. Rao, USA
Gregor Rozinaj, Slovak Republic
Gerald Schaefer, United Kingdom
Mubarak Shah, USA
Shiguang Shan, China
Thomas Sikora, Germany
Karolj Skala, Croatia
Marian S. Stachowicz, USA
Ryszard Stasinski, Poland
Luis Torres, Spain
Frantisek Vejrazka, Czech Republic
Stamatis Voliotis, Greece
Nick Ward, United Kingdom
Krzysztof Wajda, Poland
Branka Zovko-Cihlar, Croatia

CONTACT INFORMATION

Prof. Mislav Grgic
FER, Unska 3/XII
HR-10000 Zagreb
CROATIA

Telephone: + 385 1 6129 851
Fax: + 385 1 6129 717
E-mail: elmar2010 (at) fer.hr

 

Candidate names for the next video encoding standard

The next video encoding standard is under development, so candidate names have been placed on the table for discussion.
More specifically, the finalists are:

• HVC – High-efficiency Video Coding (Note: not High-performance Video Coding? I prefer the latter)
• EPVC – Enhanced Performance Video Coding
• HEVC – High Efficiency Video Coding
• HCEV – High Coding Efficiency Video

Based on this list, an online poll has been set up at Doodle [Poll: Name of new MPEG/VCEG Standard].
Currently HVC seems to be the winner.