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MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks

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SUMMARY

Distributed video coding (DVC) is a technology used to compress video codes. Appling the DVC approach to developing the architecture for visual sensor networks can provide significant benefits and efficiencies over and above existing architectures. This project will advance the state-of-the-art by developing competitive multi-view DVC solutions for visual sensor networks.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Fully exploiting the potential of the multi-view distributed video coding paradigm through producing techniques for the creation of high quality side information
  • Combining predictive coding techniques – to exploit the temporal correlation – with distributed coding techniques – to exploit the Inter-view correlation – in order to obtain improved rate-distortion (RD) performance.

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LINK: http://www.it.pt/project_detail_p.asp?ID=1570

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EFRAIM

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The EFRAIM project aims to identify and develop distributed network solutions for media distribution. The developed solutions will be robust, scalable, cost efficient and above all energy efficient, without sacrificing quality of service. Collaboration with a consortium of content owners, producers, distributors, vendors, operators and researchers will be key in ensuring that the identified solutions will be technically relevant and commercially attractive.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a Swedish ecosystem for future media distribution which can locate synergies and efficiencies so as to ensure optimal performance and quality of service for end-users
  • Developing robust, scalable, cost efficient and energy efficient distributed network solutions
  • Analysing proposed solutions in terms of total energy consumption for the media delivery, user behaviour and quality of service

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LINK: https://www.acreo.se/efraim

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4TELL Research Group

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 8, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The 4TELL Research Group is focused on designing innovative solutions to enhance the ubiquity, convergence, optimisation and security of the communication networks of the future.

The group’s mission is to contribute to the development of a real IP multimedia world of services through researching the next generation of ubiquitous and converged network and service infrastructures for communication, computing and media. This entails addressing the evolution from today’s large legacy infrastructures towards the new infrastructures by striking a balance between backward compatibility requirements and the need to explore disruptive architectures to build the future internet, mobile, broadband, broadcasting and associated service infrastructures.

The group is currently involved in European-wide collaboration on 9 different FP7 projects.

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SOLUTIONS

  • The team has developed solutions in many, diverse areas of their research domain including:
    • Radio Resource Management
    • Cooperative Strategies for Energy Efficiency
    • Cognitive Radio Networks
    • Localization based Wireless Communications
    • Media Independent Handover and Security

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LINK: http://www.av.it.pt/4TELL/index.html

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Multimedia and Wireless Communication Systems Group

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

 

The Multimedia and Wireless Communication Systems (MMWCS) Research Group was founded in 2009 to stimulate and promote research in the areas of multimedia and wireless communication systems and applications. The work covered by the group includes:

  • Resilient Multimedia Transmission
  • Multiview Video Coding
  • Distributed Video Coding
  • Video Surveillance and Behavioural Analysis
  • Image and Video Authentication
  • Image and Video Processing
  • Quality of Service and Experience
  • Intelligent Wireless Network Transmission
  • Location Estimation
  • Energy Efficient Transmission and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Resource Management and Congestion Control in Wireless Networks
  • Infrastractureless Peer-to-Peer Solutions
  • Indoor and Outdoor Radio Propagation Modeling
  • Network Modeling and Simulation

The Group is part of the faculty of engineering at the University of Malta.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Applying an SOM neural network to increase the lifetime of battery-operated wireless sensor networks
  • Modelling of the wireless propagation characteristics inside aircraft
  • Improving video-coding efficiency and execution

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LINK: http://www.eng.um.edu.mt/mmwcs/index.html

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Media Networks Laboratory

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 7, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The Media Networks Laboratory is a part of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”. The lab conducts research at the leading edge of next-generation network media provision. The team is currently working in collaboration with other researchers on several projects:

  • GERYON: providing a unified answer to the problems that system integrators must face when interconnecting different emergency networks
  • SAVASA: creating a video archive search platform that allows authorised users to perform semantic queries over different, remote and non-interoperable video archives
  • PERSEUS: integrating existing operational maritime surveillance systems into a European Maritime surveillance system of systems, enhancing them with innovative capabilities which can directly address key challenges

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SOLUTIONS

  • The lab’s research and applications provide solutions in many areas such as:
    • Next Generation, Media-oriented Network Architectures based on Technology Convergence
    • IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and IMS-based management of multimedia services
    • Media Networks Performance Assessment via Active and Passive Measurements
    • Digital Video Broadcasting platforms (DVB-T/T2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-H) for Broadcast and Interactive Services
    • Cross-layer Optimisation in Satellite-based Multimedia Platforms
    • Video Quality Assessment Methods and Prediction Techniques
    • Video Codec Performance Analysis and Comparison
    • Quality of Experience, Network- and Perceived-Quality of Service correlation and End-to-end QoS mechanisms
    • Video Streaming Optimisation over Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
    • Experimental Computing Cloud infrastructures and Cloud/Network integration

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LINK: http://www.medianetlab.gr/rd-projects/

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Next Media (Tivit)

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The production and consumption of media is undergoing radical transformation. The digitalisation of production, distribution and consumption of media as well as the growing penetration of broadband access and mobile Internet has allowed for the distribution of increasingly rich media content to a variety of terminals.

The Next Media research project aims to generate innovative solutions for the media sector through developing new business models, concepts and technology. The main objective of the project is to renew the business environment of the media sector by breaking through the limits of media content and changing the way it is created, configured, serviced and consumed.

This endeavour takes advantage of the current transition towards co-creation, interactivity and independence of time and place. The diversity of terminals and devices in consumers’ everyday life is increasing and the significance of mobility is emphasized.
Next Media has the support of the whole Finnish media industry. The individual component firms have together created a strategy for the media sector and are committed to research and development activities consistent with Next Media objectives

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SOLUTIONS

  • Engaging media services and enabling technologies that support co-creation and participation as well as monetising media experiences in real and virtual environment along six generic themes:
    1. media access,
    2. production tools,
    3. personalisation,
    4. social interaction,
    5. media use
    6. business models & concepts
  • Serving the major needs of the media users:
    • news & information,
    • education & learning,
    • entertainment & games
    • community media

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LINK: http://www.nextmedia.fi/

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Multimedia Transfer Collaborative Environment

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The Multimedia project is building an environment for user communications and multimedia content sharing on high throughput optical networks and the middleware layer. The project focus primarily on the research, development, and quality of rich multimedia services (audio, video, text, and presence) using standard signaling protocols (H.323, SIP), services (MCU), web conferences, streaming, and their relation to the whole environment.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Creating a multipoint, wide area transmission of compressed and uncompressed HD and post-HD video
  • Designing the operation of multimedia transfers with a standard signalling infrastructure
  • Realising synchronous and asynchronous transfers without standard signaling infrastructure

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LINK: http://www.cesnet.cz/research/multimedia/?lang=en

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MediaID

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

This project seeks to improve Quality of Service for Belgian media users through allowing them to register a ‘Media ID’ free of charge, and use this unique identification for all online services provided by participating companies. The will be able to log into a news website transparently and seamlessly, so that certain elements (like discussion forums, subscription-only articles, or previously purchased articles and media) are unlocked automatically each time the website is visited.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Collaborating with industry partners to create a universal, pan-Belgian media ID
  • Developing a regional ecosystem of media providers

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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/research/overview-projects/p/detail/media-id

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Beamer

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The BEAMER project focuses on developing information retrieval technologies through using machine learning techniques. The project will confine the scope of its research to the Flemish written press, through the processes developed will have a wide range of applications across the spectrum of media content.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Furthering knowledge in the field of smart information extraction applications for newspaper content
  • Collaborating with industry partners to identify pertinent use cases
  • Creating a representative corpus of reference data

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LINK: http://www.iminds.be/en/research/overview-projects/p/detail/beamer-2

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NGVB

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The Next-Generation Video Browsing project aims to translate results from previous research on video browsing and 3D search interfaces to the expanding domain of modern mobile devices and answer several new research questions. The project focuses on video browsing with modern tablet computers which provide high computing power, new interaction features, and communication functions that enable completely new use scenarios for video browsing.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Investigating the use of ThumbBrowser technology as an application for mobile video browsing
  • Evaluating Interactive Search with Modern Video Players
  • Developing mobile video browsing with 3d Filmstrip technology

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LINK: http://ngvb.net/

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Preventing Hubness in Music Information Retrieval

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Hubs are data points which persistently appear, unwanted, in the nearest neighbor lists of other data points. This effect is particularly problematic in similarity search algorithms, as the same objects are found over and over again. But it has also adverse effects for the many machine learning algorithms that make use of distance information.

The hubness problem has gained particular attention in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR) which is the interdisciplinary science of extracting information from music. The main goal of this project is to conduct an in-depth study of the hubness problem in the context of MIR with the aim of finding ways to avoid or at least attenuate its adverse effects.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Discovering and delineating parameters of audio similarity which are less prone to hubness
  • Transforming audio similarity spaces thereby avoiding the asymmetries that lead to hubness
  • Considering audio similarity spaces as nearest neighbor graphs and using graph theoretic results to avoid hub nodes

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LINK: http://www.ofai.at/research/impml/projects/hubology.html

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Department of Telecooperation

Posted by www.cefims.eu on August 6, 2013   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

The concept of “telecooperation” refers to the fusion of computer science, telecommunications and multimedia. The Department of Telecooperation at Johannes Kepler University focuses on the development and evaluation of applications and services that enable us to bridge the gap in time and space in our working and living environments.

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SOLUTIONS

  • The Department has 3 main research domains, within which research is conducted into more specific fields:
    • Distributed and mobile computing: Grid Computing, Internet Computing, Sensor Networks, Wireless Networks, Ubiquitous Web Applications, Mobile Computing, Mobile Communications, Mobile Multimedia, and Agent-based Computing,
    • Media and interaction: Intelligent Systems, Customization, Personalization, Mobile Information Management, Cooperation and Coordination Paradigms, Non-standard HCI, and Multimedia.
    • Modeling and Evaluation: Model-Driven Engineering, Performance Evaluation of Networks, Applications and Services, Conceptual Modeling Languages, Network Traffic Characterization and Process Simulation, Semantic Modeling Languages, and Usability.

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LINK: http://www.tk.jku.at/

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Gen6

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

Gen6 is the Spanish IPv6 platform tasked with promoting the adaption of the IPv6 protocol. The platform will lead the charge in adapting current state network infrastructures to the IPv6 protocol. Collaboration with multiple public and private organsiations will be a key fact of the platform’s activity. The platform will also use it’s web portal www.ipv6.es to promote the use of the IPv6 protocol in wider society.

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SOLUTIONS

  • Adapting the state’s network infrastructure to use IPv6 protocol
  • Disseminating knowledge of the IPv6 protocol
  • Providing a reference for other public and private projects based on IPv6.

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LINK: www.ipv6.es

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HeerlenLive

Posted by www.cefims.eu on June 6, 2011   |   Comments Off

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SUMMARY

HeerlenLive seeks to put the citizen in the centre of the city media landscape. The project has developed a free wifi network,urban screen network, walk-in studio, content distribution platform and other services for Heerlen citizens based on a broadband network. The aim is to stimulate creative engagement with the media amongst the city’s population.

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KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS

  • Developing a more culturally attractive city centre
  • Catalysing innovation and cooperation between citezens
  • Fostering local economic development

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LINK: www.heerlenlive.nl

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NDIX

Posted by www.cefims.eu on January 3, 2011   |   No Comments

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SUMMARY

NDIX an open platform which seeks to facilitate competition, innovation and the development of new digital services by offering unlimited and secure connectivity between content suppliers and end-users.

As a result, NDIX aims to:

  • Boost competition between suppliers of existing services (like Internet, telephony and hosting/backup)
  • Facilitate the development of new services (for learning, security, healthcare, public services, in the cultural, social, entertainment and creative sectors)
  • Promote investment in new broadband infrastructures.

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KEY OUTPUTS/RESULTS

  • Offering flexible and concurrent use of  many different services
  • Creating a critical mass of users for new service development
  • Stimulating innovation

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LINK: www.ndix.net

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