The first ACM Mobile Video Workshop

As director of the HP Labs Mobile and Media Systems Lab and as a player, captain, and former coach of team sports, I'll share some thoughts on mobile & media experiences and technology; on managing research, collaborations, and technology transfers; and on management and career tips I've picked up along the way. Please do comment on new and old posts, as I'd love to hear your thoughts and experiences on these topics!

	» Susie's home page
	» HP Blogging Code of Conduct

» Previous Post » Next Post

» The first ACM Mobile Video Workshop

I was just in Augsburg, Germany to give a keynote talk at the first ACM Mobile Video Workshop in the ACM Multimedia 2007 conference. The workshop chairs were Professor Eckehard Steinbach of the Technische Universität München and Professor Chang Wen Chen of the Florida Institute of Technology. It was a single-track workshop with interesting talks by researchers in academia and industry.

There were three keynote talks:

Industrial Perspectives on Mobile Video by Minoru Etoh of NTT DoCoMo in Yokosuka Japan
Mobile Video Transmission by Thomas Wiegand of Heinrich-Herz-Institut in Berlin, Germany
Mobile and Media Experience and Technologies by Susie Wee of HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, USA

Etoh-san gave some great insights into the future of 3G and 4G mobile networks. He provided the operator's perspective on what is likely or unlikely to be implemented in future mobile networks. He gave researchers hints on what areas to do research given the real-world constraints of operators.

Thomas provided an overview of the H.264/AVC video coding standard and the evolution of the Scalable Video Coding standard (SVC). He also spoke about some recent research he is doing on multi-dimensional layered FEC. He also reminded us about how the H.264/AVC standard was just a theoreticians dream 10 years ago, but now is planned for deployment in nearly every video system in world.

I spoke about the importance of coupling technology with experience design, and I described a number of HP Labs projects including Halo, Conversa, and Mediascapes and briefly talked about the JPSEC standard. I also showed the ever-popular Roku video that shows what we see as the future of Mediascapes.

I had plenty of time for questions at the end of my talk, and there were some very good questions ranging from technologies to experiences. The last question was from a researcher asking for tips on technology transfer, and during the rest of the day a few other researchers wanted follow-up discussions on technology transfer and how to have impact with their research. I was quite pleased to see the research community so interested learning more about this.

There were also many interesting talks in the session given by researchers who submitted their recent work. Lots of good ideas are percolating for next-generation video systems.

Eckehard and Chang Wen closed the session with a few words about the useful interchange between industry and academia, and once again reminded us of how research moves from theory to practice. Many of the participants agreed that this was a useful workshop.

Did you attend the Mobile Video workshop?
What did you think of the workshop and the various topics that were presented?

Please feel free to leave a URL with your comments.

Posted by Susie Wee on Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:52 PM

Permalink | Trackbacks (0) | Comments(0)