Program of the 3rd European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EUMOB) 2009

The program for the 3rd European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EUMOB) 2009, co-located with MobiMedia 2009, is available here (PDF).

EUMOB will be held on Wednesday, 9th of September after the keynote given by Dr. Martin Hahn, EU Commission and Dr. Bart van Caenegem, EU Commission

The updated, detailed program* of EUMOB is as follows:

• 12:00-12:20: Opening
  
• 12:20-12:40: Optimisation of Multimedia over wireless IP links via X-layer design: an end-to-end transmission chain simulator by Catherine Lamy-Bergot (THALES Communications), Gábor Jeney (BME Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Gábor Feher (BME Budapest University of Technology and Economics), Gianmarco Panza (Cefriel), Matteo Mazzotti (CNIT), Esa Piri (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Tiia Sutinen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Janne Vehkaperä (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland), Roberta Fracchia (THALES Communications), Peter Amon (Siemens Corporate Technology)
• 12:40-13:00: Distributed video coding with decoder-driven skip by Jurgen Slowack (Ghent University - IBBT), Jozef Skorupa (Ghent University - IBBT), Stefaan Mys (Ghent University - IBBT), Peter Lambert (Ghent University - IBBT), Christos Grecos (University of the West of Scotland), Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University - IBBT)

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

• 14:00-14:20: Priority-based Transmission Scheduling for Delivery of Scalable Video Coding over Mobile Channels by Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer HHI and Technische Universität Berlin), Yago Sanchez de la Fuente (Fraunhofer HHI), Cornelius Hellge (Technische Universität Berlin), Thomas Schierl (Fraunhofer HHI)
• 14:20-14:40: Adapted IPTV Service within novel IMS Architecture by Daniel Negru (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux), Julien Arnaud (CNRS-LaBRI University of Bordeaux), Julien Pauty (Viotech Communications), Mamadou Sidibe (Viotech Communications), Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR Demokritos, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications)
• 14:40-15:00: Personalized adaptation and presentation of annotated videos for mobile applications by Sarah De Bruyne (Ghent University - IBBT - MMLab), Jan De Cock (Ghent University - IBBT - MMLab), Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University - IBBT - MMLab), Peter Hosten (RWTH Aachen University), Mark Asbach (RWTH Aachen University), Mathias Wien (RWTH Aachen University), Cyril Concolato (TELECOM ParisTech)
• 15:00-15:20: Evaluation of an Information Service for enhanced Multiaccess Media Delivery by Jukka Makela (Technical research centre of Finland), Markus Luoto (Technical research centre of Finland), Tiia Sutinen (Technical research centre of Finland), Kostas Pentikousis (Technical research centre of Finland)

15:20-15:40: Coffee break (tentative)

• 15:40-16:00: Transformation Techniques for Future Video Coding by Stijn Notebaert (Ghent University -- IBBT), Kenneth Vermeirsch (Ghent University -- IBBT), Jan De Cock (Ghent University -- IBBT), Rik Van de Walle (Ghent University -- IBBT), Peter Lambert (Ghent University -- IBBT)
• 16:00- 16:20: Unequal loss protection and multiple description coding: a performance comparison by Tammam Tillo (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering - Xi‘an Jiaotong-Liverpool University), Enrico Baccaglini (Dipartimento di Elettronica - Politecnico di Torino), Gabriella Olmo (Affiliation: Dipartimento di Elettronica - Politecnico di Torino)
• 16:20-16:40: An Experimental Approach of Video Quality Level Dependence on Video Content Dynamics by Daniel Negru (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux), Harilaos Koumaras (Business College of Athens, Computer Science Department), Julien Arnaud (CNRS-LaBRI, University of Bordeaux), Anastasios Kourtis (NCSR Demokritos Inst. of Informatics and Telecom)
• 16:40-17:00: Enhanced vertical handover based on 802.21 framework for real-time video streaming by Ilias Politis (University of Patras), Michail Tsagaropoulos (University of Patras), Tasos Dagiuklas (TEI of Messolonghi), Stavros Kotsopoulos (University of Patras)

* ... the exact time slots are subject to changes.

EUMOB2009: Deadline Extension and Special Issue in Int'l Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP)

Due to numerous requests we'll have a deadline extension for EUMOB2009 with the following important dates now:

• Paper Submission: June 12, 2009
• Review Results: June 10, 2009
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: July 24, 2009

Furthermore, selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the Special Issue on Mobile Media Delivery of the Springer's International Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP).

The updated CfP is online available in PDF and TXT format.

3rd European Symposium on Mobile Media Delivery (EUMOB) 2009

in conjunction with MobiMedia 2009
7-9 September, 2009, Kingston University, UK

http://www.mobimedia.org/eumob2009.shtml

The delivery of multimedia content to every mobile handset on every mobile network, anytime and anywhere is still a major challenge. Several European research projects from the FP6 and the FP7 programme are addressing the challenges of mobile media delivery. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of mobile media delivery, projects from the mobile and wireless area, from the networked media area as well as from the content technologies area, not neglecting security and experimental facilities, are dealing with mobile media delivery.

One of the goals of the symposium is to allow exchange of ideas and interaction among the different European Projects on the topic in question, with a special focus on recently started FP7 projects. European technology platforms are also invited to present their views in the area.

Besides these projects, other research work about mobile media delivery is carried out in academia, research institutes and industrial companies. EUMOB 2009 will give researchers the opportunity to present their latest results on this topic. Researchers active in FP6 and FP7 research projects as well as other leading international researchers are invited to participate and share their latest findings.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished contributions dealing with topics on mobile media delivery, including, but not limited to:

• Architectures for mobile media delivery
• Mobile media delivery over next generation systems
• Peer-to-peer networks for mobile media delivery
• Solutions for optimized media delivery and transport over heterogeneous networks
• Quality of Service/Experience issues and solutions, including video quality assessment methods
• Network convergence for media delivery
• Media adaptation to networks and devices
• Cross-layer communication for mobile media delivery
• (Scalable) source coding for mobile media
• Source/channel coding and joint optimizations
• Efficient usage of radio and spectrum resources
• Mobile media delivery to multiple users
• Interactive mobile broadcast and Mobile TV
• Security and protection for mobile media delivery
• Content-aware and context-aware mobile media delivery
• Standards for mobile media delivery
• Health, transport and environment applications

Important Dates

• Paper Submission: May 31, 2009
• Review Results: June 26, 2009
• Submission of Camera-ready Papers: July 23, 2009

Submissions should be full-length papers of up to 5 pages (including all figures and references) formatted according to ACM publication template. Papers will be accepted only by electronic submission through the ASSYST system and the instructions can be found at http://www.mobimedia.org/eumob2009.shtml. Accepted papers will be published in Springer LNICST (Lecture Notes of ICST) and will be made available in ACM Digital Library.

Chairs
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Jyrki Huusko, VTT, Finland

Program Committee (tentative)
Werner Bailer, Joanneum Research, Austria
Susanne Boll, OFFIS e.V., Germany
Giovanni Cordara, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy
Jaime Delgado, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Harilaos Koumaras, Demokritos, Greece
Keith Mitchell, University of Lancaster, UK
Daniel Négru, University of Bordeaux I, France
Gabriella Olmo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Fernando Pereira, IST Lisbon, Portugal
Thomas Sikora, TU Berlin, Germany
Martin Stiemerling, NEC, Germany
Mathias Wien, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University / IBBT, Belgium

EIMS paper @ EUMOB'08 and panel discussion

At this year's EUMOB'08¹⁾ I've presented a paper entitled "An Integrated Management Supervisor for End-to-End Management of Heterogeneous Contents, Networks, and Terminals enabling Quality of Service" on behalf of the ENTHRONE consortium. This approach is based on open standards (mostly MPEG-7/-21) which provides a interoperable solution to the UMA problem.
Additionally, I participated in a panel session related to "Mobile media delivery: research trends and emerging applications" chaired by Catherine Lamy-Bergot (THALES Communications) where we discussed the following questions:

• Multimedia applications in future mobile Internet: what content for what applications?
• Perceived Quality of Service for multimedia content over bandwidth constraint and error prone channels: is an objective criterion realistic?
• Cross-layer optimization: a buzz or a real breakthrough?
• Mobile media delivery: the new grail for telecommunication operators?
• The insertion of digital right management (DRM) tools in mobile delivery: yet another brake to activity or a futile struggle against pirates?

It seems that cross-layer optimizations are a big issue for huge companies who have structured their organization according to the ISO/OSI layer, i.e., different groups working on transport, network, or MAC layer issues. Well, this would require that companies have to re-structure themselves but that's what they always do, so what's the problem? ;-) Anyway, in this context I've been pointed to the eMobility platform which introduces the concept of the Mediation Bus, a module/layer/whatsoever that is between the application and networking layers (from transport downwards) but also interacts with all the layers and also allows for backwards compatibility. Is this the first step towards a single communication layer (below the application layer)?

Finally, I learned from today's keynote that gaming (incl. virtual worlds) content overtook cinema/movie content and, thus, gaming content will become the dominating type of content of the future Internet. This is a trend also recognized by MPEG which started standardization efforts for enabling information exchange between virtual worlds but also between virtual worlds and the real world.

¹⁾ Two year's ago at the first edition of EUMOB a colleague of mine presented a paper on behalf of a previous project.