STreaming Day 2009: Genova, 21 September 2009

http://www.stday09.dibe.unige.it/technical.html

09:30 Opening


Parallel SESSION I: Implementations (chairman: M. Raggio)

09:45 "H264 Encoder SIMD implementation on xSTream architecture"
Massimo Bariani, Paolo Lambruschini, Marco Raggio
(Università degli Studi di Genova)

10:15 "On-chip Communication Infrastructures for the Integration of Video IP cores in a Multi Processor System-on-Chip"
Sergio Saponara, Luca Fanucci, Michele Casula, Marcello Coppola
(Università di Pisa/ STM)

10:45 "An Advanced Error Concealment Framework for H.264/AVC Video Sequences"
Ennio Gambi, Giorgio Rascioni, Susanna Spinsante
(Università Politecnica delle Marche)

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 "A cloud-based video game streaming system for pervasive gaming"
Audrius Jurgelionis, Francesco Bellotti, Alessandro De Gloria, Peter Eisert, Alex Shani
(Università degli Studi di Genova)

12:00 "Scalable multiple description coding of video sequences"
Lorenzo Favalli, Marco Folli
(Università degli Studi di Pavia)



Parallel SESSION II: Video Transport Techniques (chairman: F. Rovati)

09:45 "On the fly Gaussian Elimination decoding for LT codes"
Valerio Bioglio, Marco Grangetto, Rossano Gaeta, Matteo Sereno
(Università di Torino)

10:15 "Video Unequal Error Protection with Network Coding"
Nikos Thomos, Jacob Chakareski, Pascal Frossard
(EPFL)

10:45 "A Layered Piece-Picking Algorithm for Peer-to-Peer networks"
Michael Eberhard, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner
(Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt)

11:15 Coffee break

11:30 "Evaluation of Network Coding Procedures in P2P networks"
Riccardo Bernardini, Roberto Cesco Fabbro, Roberto Rinaldo
(Università di Udine)

12:00 "SEACAST: A protocol for Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming Supporting Multiple Description Coding"
Simone Zezza, Enrico Magli, Gabriella Olmo, Marco Grangetto
(Politecnico di Torino/ Università di Torino)

12:30 "Priority-based Transmission of Scalable Video Coding"
Yago Sanchez de la Fuente, Cornelius Hellge,Karsten Grüneberg, Thomas Schierl
(Fraunhofer HHI)


13:00 Lunch


SESSION III: Video Coding Techniques (chairman: D. Alfonso)

14:15 "Combined use of ToF sensors and standard cameras for 3D video acquisition"
Carlo Dal Mutto, Valeria Garro, Pietro Zanuttigh, Guido M. Cortelazzo
(Università di Padova)

14:45 "Latency Analysis for Current Multiview Video Compression"
Narciso Garcia, Pablo Carballeira, Juan Casal
(Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)

15:15 "Video Communication: Future Applications Challenges and Technical Solutions"
Thomas Wiegand
(Fraunhofer HHI / TU Berlin)

15:45 Coffee break

16:00 "Distortion Estimate for Motion-Adaptive Temporal Transforms with Noise"
Fabio Verdicchio, Yiannis Andreopoulos
(University College London)

16:30 "A semianalytical model for the quality vs. rate tradeoff in Medium Grain Scalable H.264 coders"
Michele Cesari, Lorenzo Favalli, Marco Folli
(Università di Pavia)

17:00 Panel Discussion and Best Presentation Award

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