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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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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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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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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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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