STreaming Day 2009

Dear All,

following on the successful last years editions, we will organize also this year our annual informal retreat to discuss together our results and our vision on the next research hot topics.

This year's host will be Genoa University's D.I.B.E., the conference will be held in the beautiful 16th century Villa Cambiaso located at Via Montallegro, 1 - 16145 Genova, Italy We have set up a small event website at http://www.stday09.dibe.unige.it

Although this not a fully public event, we plan to make the event open to the academia research community, so all interested people (professors, researchers, PhD students) will be able to attend and submit papers. Toward this end, please feel free to invite academics you think might be interested in the event. They may also submit a paper, if they wish to do so. The major objective of Streaming Day is to gather all academics cooperating with AST in order to share technical views, and hopefully create new cooperation opportunities.

Paper subject may cover any aspect related to networked multimedia, including but not limited to multimedia streaming, coding, transport, signaling, open source frameworks, robust delivery, security and content protection, automatic content adaptation, multimedia information retrieval/tagging, peer-to-peer streaming, advanced video coding schemes, scalable/multiview/3D video coding and advanced architectures to support those algorithms/applications, user interfaces, networking issues and QoS, application layer FEC.
Topic's range is very wide, this could be an opportunity to hear about activities we normally do not have the time to follow. It is not strictly necessary to have unpublished content in the presentations. An overview presentation of recent key achievements of your group is also very valuable. Copies of the presentations and papers will be made available by ISBN-numbered DVD-ROM and online.

A technical committee will evaluate the proposed contributions and select the 8-10 most relevant submissions. The committee will be formed by STM's and academical technical experts. This process is intended just to leave some time for open discussion. An open discussion session will be organized to facilitate ideas sharing. The committee reserves the right to invite speakers for the conference.

Deadlines:

Paper submission: You should upload a 500-word summary by July 15th on the website http://www.stday09.dibe.unige.it/upload.html.


Paper acceptance:We'll let you know if your paper has been accepted for oral presentation by August 3rd. Your papers will anyhow be published on the DVD and online proceedings

Final paper submission: You should provide us with the final presentation and an optional accompanying paper for the event by September 1st. All contributions, even if not accepted for presentation, will be included in the proceedings DVD. You are encouraged to submit a final presentation/paper even if there will be no time to present it orally during the conference.

Participation: admission is free, but in order to plan for room and catering we kindly ask anyone interested in the conference to register on the web page http://www.stday09.dibe.unige.it/reg-form.html. There is no hard deadline for registration, but we would be grateful if you could register by September 13th. We reserve the right to deny admission to the latest registrations for logistic reasons.


Thank you for helping us making this event an interesting opportunity!

Fabrizio Rovati - fabrizio.rovati@st.com
ST Microelectronics - AST Labs, Agrate (MI), Italy
Marco Raggio - raggio@dibe.unige.it
Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (D.I.B.E.) - University of Genova

MPEG news: a report from the 88th meeting in Ka'anapali, HI, USA

MPEG-V has been renamed to Media Context & Control, a workshop on Modern Media Transport (MMT) will be held at the next meeting in London as well as an MXM Developer's Day, for High-Performance Video Coding (HVC) a Call for Evidence has been issues, and MPEG is about to start a new work item in the area of Rich Media User Interface. These are my headlines from the MPEG meeting last week at the beautiful Ka'anapali Beach.

MPEG-V, formerly known as Information Exchange with Virtual Worlds has been finally renamed to Media Context and Control. I think this is generic enough to cover everything in there now and what will come in the future. If you think this is too broad, then remember the name of MPEG-21 is just Multimedia Framework. Btw. an extended call for proposals has been issues for technolgies related to haptics & tactile, emotions, and virtual goods. For the rest, we have new working drafts for architecture, control information, sensory information, avatar information, reference software, and conformance.

At its next meeting, MPEG will host two sort of workshops which are also open to the public. The first one is related to the MPEG Extensible Middleware (MXM) and the second related to Modern Media Transport. I'm a co-organizer of the former but you'll also find me at the latter.

The Call for Evidence on High-Performance Video Coding has been issued with the following timeline

• Test sequences and AVC High Profile anchors available: 2009-04-30
• Expression of interest to participate: 2009-06-01
• Submission of contributions (descriptive document): 2009-06-22
• Decoded sequences, bitstreams and binary decoders available at London by 2009-06-27
• Evaluation of responses: July 2009 MPEG meeting (shall be attended by submitters)
• Depending on the outcome of the Call for Evidence, MPEG intents to issue a Draft Call for Proposals by the end of the July meeting

Finally, a first working draft for the MPEG Rich Media User Interface has been issued and a nice demo has been presented at the meeting in the area of widgets. More to come on this soon. However, in my view there's a strong relationship with W3C's Rich Web Client Activity which will be studied during the course of developing this standard.

If you ask yourself why I hardly ever post something about audio, the reason is very simply, I'm a video and systems guy but if you'd like me to dig into audio stuff, please let me know!

Call for Evidence on High-Performance Video Coding (HVC)

--excerpted from N10553 which can be found on http://www.chiariglione.org/MPEG/

1 Introduction

A large quantity of video material is already distributed in digital over broadcast channels, digital networks and packaged media. More and more of this material will be distributed with increased resolution and quality demand.

Technology evolution will soon make possible the capture and display of video material with a quantum leap in quality (temporal and spatial resolution, color fidelity, amplitude resolution). Networks are already finding it difficult to carry HDTV resolution and data rates economically to the end user. Therefore, further data rate increase will put additional pressure on the networks. For example:

• High-definition (HD) devices (displays and cameras) are affordable for consumer usage today, while the currently available internet and broadcast network capacity is not sufficient to transfer large amount of HD content economically. While this situation may change slowly over time, the next generation of ultra-HD (UHD) contents and devices, such as 4Kx2K displays for home cinema applications and digital cameras, are already appearing on the horizon.
• For mobile terminals, video quality using resolutions such as QCIF at low frame rates and low bit rates today is largely unacceptable. While the overall data rate will increase with the evolution of 3G/LTE and 4G networks, also the number of users increases simultaneously with their quality demand. Anticipating that lightweight HD resolutions such as 720p or even beyond will be introduced in the mobile sector to provide similar perceptual quality as for the home applications, lack of sufficient data rates as well as the prices to be paid for transmission will remain a problem for the long term.
  

MPEG has concluded that video bitrate (when current compression technology is used) will go up faster than the network infrastructure will be able to carry economically, both for wireless and wired networks. Therefore a new generation of video compression technology that has sufficiently higher compression capability than the existing AVC standard in its best configuration (the High Profile), is needed. A study has been started on the feasibility of HVC, which is mainly intended for high quality applications, in particular expecting

• Performance improvements in terms of coding efficiency at higher resolution,
• Applicability to entertainment-quality services such as HD mobile, home cinema and Ultra High Definition (UHD) TV.
  

First results that were reported to MPEG indicate that compression technology giving higher compression performance than AVC might exist for such application cases. It is therefore planned to enter a more rigorous evaluation phase, with a Call for Evidence on new high-performance video compression technology potentially followed by a formal Call for Proposals.

Companies and organizations who have developed compression technology that they believe to be better than AVC High Profile are kindly invited to bring such information to MPEG in the context of this Call for Evidence. The main purpose of a possible subsequent Call for Proposals and standards development will be to increase compression performance.

Timeline:

• Test sequences and AVC High Profile anchors available: 2009-04-30
• Expression of interest to participate: 2009-06-01
• Submission of contributions (descriptive document): 2009-06-22
• Decoded sequences, bitstreams and binary decoders available at London by 2009-06-27
• Evaluation of responses: July 2009 MPEG meeting (shall be attended by submitters)
• Depending on the outcome of the Call for Evidence, MPEG intents to issue a Draft Call for Proposals by the end of the July meeting
  

2 Test cases

Submitters are encouraged but not required to submit results for all test cases. However, submitters are required to provide results for all sequences in a given class.

2.1 Sequence formats and frame rates

Test material is progressively scanned in 4:2:0 color sampling and 8 bit per component.

The classes of video sequences are:
A) Cropped areas of size 2560x1600 taken from the following sequences (frame rates unchanged): Traffic (4096x2048/30), People on Street (3840x2160/30), Park Joy (3840x2160/50).

B) 1920x1080@24 frames per second: ParkScene, Tennis, Kimono1

C) 832x480@30 frames per second (WVGA): Mobisode 2, Keiba, Flowervase

D) Downsampled versions to half spatial resolution (416x240@30fps, WQVGA) of sequences in C)

2.2 Coding Conditions of AVC anchors
Anchors have been generated by encoding the above sequences using an AVC High Profile encoder (JM15.1) with

• QP settings: 25, 29, 33 and 37 for class A, 25, 28, 31 and 34 for class B, 25, 29, 33 and 37 for classes C, 25, 29, 33 and 37 for classes D
• GOP with an Intra picture every 24, 28 and 48 pictures for 24 fps, for 30 fps and for 50 fps sequences, respectively
• Hierarchical B pictures IbBbP coding structure
• 4 reference pictures
• RD Optimization enabled
• RDOQ enabled (fast mode)
• Weighted prediction enabled
• Fast motion estimation. (range 128x128)
  

For more precise information, refer to config files that come with the anchors.

Submissions to the call shall

• Be encoded to within +/-5 % of the target bit rates defined above
• Allow for random access at intervals not more than 1 second apart
• Not use preprocessing
• Only use postfilter if it is part of the decoding process.
  

3 Evaluation methodology

The test method most suitable when assessing video at high visual quality levels is the DSCQS test method as described in ITU-R Recommendation BT 500-11. This method is well known and properly described in the text of Recommendation BT-500, therefore this document does not includes further details on this method and its usage.
To speed up the evaluation of results of the Call for Evidence, we are considering a new effective approach to formal subjective testing of video, which is described in Annex C.

In addition, proponents are required to submit an input contribution with documentation of PSNR values (at least average of frame PSNR for each sequence and encoding point, separate for luma and chroma components, as well as Bjntegaard Delta-Rate and Delta-PSNR [1] [2] compared to the anchors) and, if possible, documentation of the compression technology. Furthermore, in addition to the decoded sequences, a binary decoder as well as bitstreams for all submitted test cases shall be brought to the MPEG July meeting, such that the results can be verified.

4 Logistics

Prospective contributors to the Call for Evidence should contact:

Prof. Dr. Jens-Rainer Ohm, chair of MPEG Video Subgroup
RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Communications Engineering
Melatener Str. 23, 52074 Aachen, Germany
Tel. +49-241-8027671, Fax. +49-241-8022196, email ohm@ient.rwth-aachen.de

Dr. Vittorio Baroncini,
Senior Researcher, Audio Video Signal Processing Area
Fondazione Ugo Bordoni
Via B. Castiglione, 59 00142 – Rome - Italy
Tel. +39-06-54802134, Fax. +39-06-54804405, email vittorio@fub.it

Expression of interest is requested by sending an email to Prof. Ohm by 2009-06-01 latest. Interested parties are kindly invited to express their intent of participation to the MPEG video chair as early as possible.

MPEG participants should upload their contributions as regular input documents. Prof. Ohm will collect contributions from outside MPEG and make them available via the MPEG document registry.

Test sequences and anchors (including configuration files used for encoding) will be made available by request by contacting one of the persons above.

[1] Gisle Bjontegaard, "Calculation of Average PSNR Differences between
RD curves", ITU-T SG16/Q6, 13th VCEG Meeting, Austin, Texas, USA, April 2001, Doc. VCEG-M33.

[2] Gisle Bjontegaard, "Improvements of the BD-PSNR model", ITU-T
SG16/Q6, 35th VCEG Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 16th - 18th July, 2008, Doc.VCEG-AI11.

Workshop on MMT (Modern Media Transport) – Call for Contributions

MPEG has been developed various technologies for multimedia transport such as MPEG-2 TS, MP4 file format, and so on. Both technologies have been widely accepted and heavily used by the various industries such as digital broadcasting, mobile phones and etc. On the other hands, the standardization organizations such as IETF, IEEE, and 3GPP have been providing various protocols to deliver multimedia contents packetized or packaged by such MPEG transport technologies. For example, several RTP payload formats have been developed to enable the streaming of media from a server to a client over IP networks. However, the development of the payload format was separate from the codec development since, traditionally, the coding and transport of media are associated with different layers of the OSI reference model. Such separation results in the current situation where the optimal streaming solution for MPEG media relies on proprietary information exchange over RTP and its associated protocols.

In order to develop standardized and efficient solutions for the transport of MPEG media, especially given the recent increase demand in the heterogeneous network environment, MPEG is gathering information on current limitations of available standards in the area of media streaming and challenges in emerging network environments.

To overcome existing limitations and face the challenges that emerging applications impose on the requirements of MMT standardization, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) plans to organize a half-day workshop in London on Wednesday (11a.m~ 5p.m) July 1 during the 89th WG11 meeting in UK.

The key intention of the workshop is to get overview state-of-art technologies as well as to require solid use cases and requirements for MMT.
This will enable MPEG to draw conclusions for the needs and chances in new transport scheme standardization.
For this purpose it is planned to invite speakers on key topics and in addition select a variety of proposed contributions.
The following topics will be considered:
Industry experience of multimedia transport

• Delivery of media over IP networks in ptp/ptmp manner
• Download and random access of MP4 files
• MPEG TS Transport between heterogeneous network
• Delivery and sharing of User created contents
  

Challenges of emerging multimedia transport environments:

• Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic for IPTV services
• Cross-layer designs to improve the Quality of Service/Experience (QoS/QoE)
• Context- and Content-Aware Networks
• Conversion between a stream and a randomly accessible file
  

The workshop will be organized by a single track of oral presentations. When planning to propose a contribution, please send a summary by 12 June 2009, including title, author(s), area(s) as from the list above and an abstract of 500 words by email to the following persons (chairmen of MPEG systems and requirements subgroups):

• Youngkwon Lim, young(at)netntv(dot)co(dot)kr
• Jörn Ostermann, ostermann(at)tnt(dot)uni-hannover(dot)de

The final detail program will be made available by 17 June 2009. Information about acceptance/rejection of the contributions will be conveyed to proponents prior to that date. Note that contributions that cannot be considered for presentation at the workshop will be reviewed during the following week at the MPEG meeting.

CfP: MPEG Extensible Middleware (MXM) Developer's Day

1st International MPEG Extensible Middleware Developer's Day (MXMDevDay) 2009
30 June, 2009, Queen Mary University London, UK

Details will appear soon at the MXM Web site under http://mxm.wg11.sc29.org/.

The purpose of this event is to share with the software developers community the state of the art and the prospects of the MPEG Extensible Middleware (MXM), a standard designed to promote the extended use of digital media content through increased interoperability and accelerated development of components, solutions and applications.

The MXM standard will promote the creation of a global market of applications, devices, and MXM components. As a result, we expect that innovative business models will be easily deployed.

The MXM developers day is particularly targeted to people:
— doing research and development of digital media architectures
— developing digital media applications and services
— developing digital media middleware
— interested in new opportunities in digital media
— developing and distributing open source software

Date & Venue
Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 9:00 – 13:00
Room 328, Francis Bancroft Building, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Programme
Session 1 (09:00-09:45): Opening, Chair: Panos Kudumakis
The MXM Vision, Leonardo Chiariglione

Session 2 (09:45-11:15): MXM Overview, Chair: Christian Timmerer
MXM Architecture, Filippo Chiariglione
MXM API, Marius Preda

Coffee Break (11:15-11:45)

Session 3 (11:45-13:00): Software Development
MXM Reference Software
Selected MXM Applications

Registration
The event is free of charge but possible attendees shall register to this event via the MXM Web Site at http://mxm.wg11.sc29.org/.

Chairs

• Filippo Chiariglione
  CEDEO.net, Italy, filippo(at)cedeo(dot)net
• Panos Kudumakis
  Queen Mary University, London, UK, panos(dot)kudumakis(at)elec(dot)qmul(dot)ac(dot)uk
• Marius Preda
  Institut TELECOM, France, Marius(dot)Preda(at)it-sudparis(dot)eu
• Christian Timmerer
  Klagenfurt University, Austria, christian(dot)timmerer(at)itec(dot)uni-klu(dot)ac(dot)at

MMNS 2009: 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services

http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns

(part of MANWEEK 2009, October 26-30)
Telecom Italia Future Centre, Venice, Italy

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Registration Deadline: May 1, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline: May 8, 2009

Publication: Springer LNCS

PDF: http://www.manweek.org/2009/download/cfp/mmns09-cfp.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management
of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services (MMNS) will
be held in October 26 - 30, 2009 at the fascinating
Telecom Italia Future Centre, in the worldwide known and
magnificent Venice, Italy, as part of the 5th International
Week on the Management of Networks and Services (Manweek 2009).

The MMNS 2009 conference will provide participants with a
high quality and intimate setting for discussion and debate.
The conference is sponsored by the International Federation
for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 6.6 on
Management of Networks and Distributed Systems, with
technical co-sponsorship by the IEEE Communications Society
and specifically the Technical Committee on Network
Operations and Management (CNOM).


SCOPE OF MMNS 2009
Since 1997, MMNS has established itself as a major conference
for research and innovation in the management of multimedia
technology and networked services. The scope of the conference
has been expanded in recent years to include management of
emerging mobile and wireless networks and their integration
with more traditional network infrastructures. The objective
of the conference is to bring together researchers and scientists
from academia and industry interested in state-of-the-art
management of converged multimedia networks and services across
heterogeneous networking infrastructures, while creating a public
venue for result dissemination and intellectual collaboration.
The convergence of existing and emerging technologies such as
broadband, mobile, and broadcast networks is considered as a
promising opportunity for existing providers to increase their
service subscriber base, so that the 4G vision and beyond becomes
a reality. An important research effort is undertaken by main
actors to face the multidimensional, in terms of transport
technology, session signaling, and QoS provisioning, heterogeneity
of Next Generation Networks (NGNs). The efficient management of
wireless and wired technologies side-by-side and of the number of
multimedia services provisioned over these integrated networks is
a key ingredient in the effort to provide cost effective,
innovative, and mass-market solutions that are likely to become a
major source of income for different stakeholders. The need to
evolve management tools, solutions, platforms and methodologies to
keep pace with emerging networks is at a critical juncture with
the proliferation of mobile and wireless systems, intelligent and
broadband networks, quadruple play convergence, and the
integration of embedded systems in different domains, from smart
homes/cities to next generation automotive systems.
The academic and industry research communities should unify forces
to address the challenges of developing and operating converged
multimedia networks and services. Inevitably, integrated management
is a key element in addressing this challenge.

The MMNS 2009 technical program committee is soliciting research
papers in the broad area of network and service management that
address new models, architectures, and technological designs to
enable multimedia and mobility proliferation in NGNs. MMNS 2009
intends to continue the success of the outstanding agendas of the
past, and will emphasize and solicit novel research in the
management of wired-wireless multimedia networks and services.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Management of multimedia streaming and real-time service delivery
Management of wireless ad-hoc/mesh networks
Management of NGN/4G networks and services
Management of Service Oriented Architectures
Management of sensor networks for enhanced multimedia provisioning
Middleware for the management of mobile multimedia services
Middleware support for seamless mobility of multimedia services
Multi-service/multiple-play over IP (voice, video, data and
mobility over IP) network management
Grid networking for multimedia
Cross-layer multimedia management
Multimedia in peer-to-peer networks
Quality of service management in multimedia and mobile networks
Planning and optimization of multimedia and mobile networks
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) operations and management
Management of service delivery platforms
Management of content distribution networking
Distributed multimedia service management
Performance evaluation of multimedia and mobile services
Wireless/mobile multimedia broadcast/multicast technologies
Novel protocols for multimedia services
Multi-point and multicast service management
Pricing, accounting, and billing for multimedia services
Management of trust and security for mobile and multimedia
networks and services
Self-* properties of multimedia and mobile networks and services
Network virtualization for network management and service provisioning
Remote over-the-air manageability in mobile networks
End-to-end management for multimedia transmission in
mobile/wireless networks
Mobile platform architecture optimizations for management services
Network manageability across heterogeneous wireless networks
Novel network architectures for mobile network management services


PAPER SUBMISSION
Paper submissions must present original and unpublished research
work or experiences. Late-breaking advances and work-in-progress
reports from ongoing research are also encouraged for submission
to MMNS 2009. Papers under review elsewhere MUST NOT be submitted
to MMNS 2009. Authors are requested to submit either long papers
or short papers (work-in-progress reports), strictly in LNCS
format (see below):

Long papers (up to 12 single-spaced single-column pages)
Short papers describing work-in-progress
(up to 6 single-spaced single-column pages)
Submissions exceeding the above mentioned paper size will not be
reviewed and will be returned to the authors. Please visit the
conference website for detailed submission instructions:

http://www.manweek.org/2009/mmns/


PROCEEDINGS
The MMNS 2009 proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For
more information regarding manuscript format please visit the
authors' instruction links at LNCS Springer. Awards will be
presented to the best paper and to the best student paper at the
conference. Furthermore, the best papers of MMNS 2009 will be
invited to be submitted as extended versions to the IEEE
Transactions on Network and Service Management - TNSM.


CO-CHAIRS
Paolo Bellavista
University of Bologna, Italy
Tom Pfeifer
TSSG, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland


IMPORTANT DATES
Paper Registration: May 1, 2009
Paper Submission: May 8, 2009
Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2009
Camera-ready Papers Due: July 18, 2009
Conference Dates: October 26-27, 2009

Note Published: W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web Integration of AccessForAll 1.0

The Ubiquitous Web Applications Working Group has published the Group Note of W3C Personalization Roadmap: Ubiquitous Web Integration of AccessForAll 1.0. This document describes an activity of integrating personalization with device context for the delivery of content materials and interface components that are customized to meet both individual personal needs and preferences and delivery context. It brings together the work of separate standards and specifications organizations and working groups, notably W3C Ubiquitous Web Applications working group, IMS Global Learning Consortium Accessibility Special Interest group, ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36 Information Technology for Learning, Education and Training: Human Diversity and Access For All working group and associated working groups in SC36. The document should be viewed as a roadmap for the work to be undertaken and includes description of the basis for the work, the organizational context, the likely technologies and a partially complete description of how the technologies fit together. Learn more about the Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity.

They probably should also include the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG) on Usage Environment Description (UED) which also provides means to describe user characteristics including accessibility information. UED has been standardized within Part 7 of MPEG-21, entitled Digital Item Adaptation (DIA). The UED Schema can be found here and just search for AuditoryImpairment or VisualImpairment.

Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation Draft Published

2009-04-07: The Efficient XML Interchange Working Group has published a Working Draft of Efficient XML Interchange Evaluation. This document presents the anticipated benefits of the EXI format 1.0 compared to XML and gzipped XML. Additionally, tests for compactness include comparison to ASN.1 PER. The points of comparison are the requirements set by the EXI Working Group charter, based on the results of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.

ATSC is considering Scalable Video Coding (SVC) as part of their Video System Characteristics

The ATSC is currently considering the adoption of Scalable Video Coding (SVC) for the ATSC Mobile DTV Candidate Standard. One can find the exact definition in Part 7 – Video System Characteristics which defines the following:

• Video processing before AVC compression followed by the source coding specification for AVC
• Video processing before SVC compression (informative) followed by the source coding specification for SVC

From the specification I'd like to quote something from p. 15:

"The SVC bit stream comprises two layers: the term “SVC base layer” is used to designate the layer that has dependency_id and quality_id values both equal to 0, and the term “SVC enhancement layer” to designate the layer that has dependency_id value higher than 0."

That is, ATSC defines one base layer and one enhancement layer. The base layer is per definition compliant to AVC as defined in AVC part of this candidate specification. The enhancement layer has some constraints defined which can be found in Table 9.3 on p. 17. Finally, it's interesting to see that an RTP packetization is defined for the SVC transport in two RTP sessions and a single RTP session.

PHAROS (The European audiovisual search platform) Summer School

PHAROS (Platform for searcH of Audiovisual Resources across Online Spaces) is glad to announce the PHAROS Summer School that will be held in Como, at the Polo Regionale of the Politecnico di Milano, on June 22-26, 2009.

PHAROS Summer School Topics

The Summer School will engage students, researchers, and practitioners in the most challenging topics of next-generation search technology, explained by top international experts in the field from both academia and industry. The addressed research areas and business scenarios include: information retrieval, signal processing, indexing and relevance computation, knowledge extraction from audiovisual data, query processing on audiovisual data, content based search, social search, development methodologies for social search-based applications, and business scenarios for audiovisual search. The Summer School will feature a training program of five full days dedicated to the hottest topics in audiovisual search, whereby the attendees will get in touch with the principles and practices of information access in rich media. Participants will also experience a close-by view of the PHAROS platform and its technological components and learn how to develop advanced audiovisual search applications in practice.

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