QOMEX 2009: Workshop Update

Highlights from the Technical Program:

Plenary Talks

"Innovating the Multimedia Experience"
Speaker: Mr. Dave Blakely, Senior Director, IDEO

"Haptic Design Guidelines and Tools for the Next Generation of User
Experience"
Speaker: Dr. Christophe Ramstein, Chief Technology Officer, Immersion
Corporation

"Light is a Two-Way Street: The Next 50 Years of Video"
Speaker: Dr. Bruce Flinchbaugh, Texas Instruments Fellow and Director
of the Video & Image Processing Laboratory, TI, Dallas

"Comparison of Subjective Assessment Protocols for Digital Cinema
Applications"
Speaker: Prof. Christine Fernandez-Maloigne, Professor of Signal and
Image Processing in Poitiers University, France

More details about the talks:
http://www.qomex2009.org/PlenaryTalks.asp

Panel on "Quality of Experience: Tools, Targets and Trends"
Panel Chair: Prof. Fernando Pereira, Prof. ECE, Instituto Superior
Técnico, Portugal

Panelists:
Prof. Alan Bovik, Prof. and Chair, ECE, UT Austin
Dr. Gary Sulivan, Video Architect, Microsoft and Chairman, ITU/VCEG
Prof. Sebastian Moeller, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories and Berlin
University of Technology
Dr. Stephen Winkler, Principal Technologist, Symmetricom

More details about the panel
http://www.qomex2009.org/PlenaryTalks.asp

To further enhance networking among participants, QoMEX 2009 has
created a number of social networks accessible from its website at http://www.qomex.org
. We would like to invite you to access them today, and get involved
in one or more of these social networks by introducing yourself,
presenting your interests, your ideas, results of your research in
various multimedia forms, giving your opinion and impressions,
exchanging all sorts of relevant information, asking questions,
providing answers, and in short, becoming an active members of the
growing community of Quality of Multimedia Experience. We look forward
to meeting you in our social networks even before seeing you in person
in San Diego.

Other updates on the website:
- Welcome Note from the co-chairs posted.
- Presentation preparation instructions, including the poster board
size have been added to the Paper Kit.
- The technical program schedule is now posted.