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Xin Wang |
Topic : MPEG-21: Multimedia Framework Standards
Dr. Wang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tshinghua University, Beijing, China and PhD degree from University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. He is the Chief Scientist of ContentGuard, Inc., a spin-off in the year of 2000 from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, based on the Digital Rights Management (DRM) project he had been working on since 1996. He is one of the key contributors to the ContentGuard’s XrML (eXtensible rights Markup Language), which is the base for the MPEG-21 REL (Rights Expression Language) standard, and the primary author of the Contract Expression Language (CEL) for the Content Reference Forum. He has about 10 years of industry experiences on DRM, security and system architecture. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at University of Southern California, where he teaches and researches in the areas of algorithms, security, parallel and distributed computing, and computer languages. |
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Wen Gao |
Topic : Low Cost Video Coding Technology and Beyond
Wen Gao received his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1991. He joined with the Harbin Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1995, as professor, chairman of department of computer science. He joined with Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as professor from 1996 to 2005. During his career at CAS, he served as the managing director of ICT from 1998 to 1999, the vice president of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2004, the vice president of University of Science and Technology China from 2000 to 2003. He is joining with the Peking University as professor since 2006. Dr. Gao is working at the areas of multimedia, data compression, face recognition, sign language recognition and synthesis, image retrieval, multimodal interface, and bioinformatics. He is an IEEE fellow. |
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Lu Yu |
Topic: MPEG video coding activities after AVC
Professor Yu received her Ph. D. degree from Zhejiang University in 1996. She’s now the advisor for doctoral students in department of electronic and engineering in Zhejiang University, the deputy director of the department of information and communication engineering, president of state AVS group, committee member of IEEE video signal processing and VSPC, member of editorial board of Image Communication magazine. She was the president of the 15th Workshop on Packet Video assembly in 2006, the consultative committee of Picture Coding Symposium in 2007, and was selected as new century’s HANCET by ministry of education.
In 2007, she won the title of “national Information Industry Important Technique Invention Award”, and was given the first prize of “Chinese Standard Innovation and Contribution Award” by Chinese Quality Monitoring and inspection and quarantine bureau and Chinese standardization collegiums. In 2006, she was honored as “the third New Century’s Female Inventor” by State Intellectual Property Office, ACWF and state invention association. |
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Karsten Müller |
Topic: 3D Video Formats and Coding Standards
Dr. Müller received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, in 1997 and 2006 respectively. In 1993 he spent one year studying Electronics and Communication Engineering at Napier University of Edinburgh/Scotland, including a half-year working period at Integrated Communication Systems Inc. in Westwick. In 1996 he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institute (HHI) Berlin, Image Processing Department.
He has been involved in MPEG activities, standardizing the multi-view description for MPEG-7, the view-dependent multi-texturing methods for the 3D scene representation in MPEG4-AFX and contributing to the multi-view video coding process in MPEG4-MVC and 3D Video.
In recent projects he was involved in research and development of traffic surveillance systems and visualization of multiple-view video, 3D scene reconstruction, object segmentation, tracking and 3D reconstruction, 3D scene and object representation and interactive user navigation in 3D environments. Currently, he is a Project Manager for European projects in the field of 3D video technology and multimedia content description and a senior member of the IEEE (M'98-SM'07). |
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Jaeyeon Song
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Topic: Widget Technologies in the Convergence Environment
Dr. Song received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from Hong-ik University, Korea in 1995, 1997 and 2001 respectively. She joined Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd as a senior engineer in 2001. She has participated in many projects for mobile broadcast service standardization. Her research interests include mobile IPTV and interactive rich media service. She is co-chair of LASeR ad-hoc group of MPEG. |
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Euee S. Jang |
Topic : Introduction to MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding
Dr. Jang received his B.S. degree from Jeonbuk National University, Korea, and the Ph.D. degree from SUNY at Buffalo, NY. He is an Associate Professor in the Dept. of CSE, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. His research interests include image and video coding, reconfigurable video coding, and computer graphics objects. He has authored more than 150 MPEG contribution papers, more than 30 journal and conference papers, and 2 book chapters. He holds 35 patents and pending patents. Dr. Jang has received three ISO/IEC Certificates of Appreciation for his contributions to MPEG-4 development. He received the Korean Presidential Award for his contributions to MPEG standardization. |
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Minjie Xie |
Topic : MPEG Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC)
Dr. Xie received his M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke (Quebec), Canada, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a Principal Audio Expert at Huawei Technologies (USA), Acton, Massachusetts, USA, where he works on research and development of speech and audio coding and speech processing algorithms. Since 2002, he has been involved in speech and audio coding standardization activities of SDOs such as ITU-T, MPEG, and 3GPP and served as Editor of ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 and its Annexes. He was a major contributor to ITU-T Recommendation G.722.1 Annex C and Recommendation G.719. His research interests include speech and audio coding, speech processing, error concealment, vector quantization, and data compression. |
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YoungKwon Lim |
Topic : Rich Media standards in MPEG
Dr. Lim was a Bachelor of Electronics Engineering in Feb 1994, Master of Electronics Engineering majored in Telecommunications Signal Processing in Feb 1996, both in Hankuk Aerospace University, and Ph.D. Candidate from February 2002 in Hanyang University.From Jan 1996 to Aug 2000, he was a Member of Engineering Staff in ETRI, Taejon, Korea, participated various areas of MPEG-4 standardization activities and was the Software engineer for number of MPEG-4 based applications.
He was the Vice President in Business Development in net&tv Inc. Seoul, Korea since Aug 2000, participated various areas of MPEG-4/7/21 standardization activities, and severed as Project manager, Marketing director and Editor in some areas.
He was the Chairman of the AHG in various areas since 1998, and the editor of MPEG-4 Systems Amendment 1 and 2000 Edition, 4onIP framework, Usage of AVC in MPEG-4 Systems, and LASeR and SAF. He was appointed as a Chairman of MPEG Systems subgroup from 2009. |
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Miroslaw Bober |
Topic : MPEG Visual Signatures - The missing link?
Miroslaw Bober is the General Manager of Mitsubishi Electric R&D Center Europe (MERCE, UK) and the Head of Research for its Visual and Sensing Division. The Division is responsible for development and standardisation of advanced visual and sensing technologies, in particular image/video processing and analysis. Before joining Mitsubishi in 1997, Miroslaw was with University of Surrey (UK), first as a research scientist and subsequently as assistant professor and leader of the Image Communication and Multimedia Systems Group.
Miroslaw Bober received the Master of Science Degree (with distinction) from the AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland in 1990. He received M.Sc. with distinction in Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence in 1991 and the Ph.D. in 1994, both from University of Surrey, UK.
Miroslaw has been actively involved in the development of MPEG-7, chairing the MPEG-7 visual group. He has developed shape description and visual signature technologies. His broad research interests include computer vision, image processing (motion & texture analysis), video coding, and video indexing and retrieval. His publication record includes over 50 referenced publications. |
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KyuHeon Kim |
Topic : Various applications using the current MPEG technologies: Multimedia Application Format
Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK in July 1996. He has been an Associate Professor in Kyung Hee University, Korea since Feb 2006, the Chairman of “Open Hybrid TV” division in the Next Broadcasting Standard Forum, Korea since Nov 2008, and the Head of Realistic Ubiquitous IPTV Research Centre, Kyung Hee University since March 2009. From Sep 1997 to Feb 2006, he was the Head of the Interactive media processing team in Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Korea. From Dec 2001 to July 2005, he was the Korean Head of Delegates, MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11). |
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Sanghyun Joo |
Topic : Introduction to MPEG-V activities
Dr. Joo received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea in 1989 and 1994, and Ph.D. from Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, in electrical engineering in 1999, respectively. From 1994 to 1996, he worked as a research engineer in KaiTech. From 1999 to 2001, He worked as a research associate in Niigata University. After that, he joined ETRI as a senior engineer and is currently a principal member of engineering staff in digital contents division. His research interests are mainly in real and virtual world communications, mixed reality, augmented reality, etc. |
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Christian Timmerer |
Topic : MPEG-M: MPEG Extensible Middleware - Accelerating Media Business Developments
Dr. Timmerer received his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in January 2003 and his Ph.D. (Dr.techn.) in June 2006 both from the Klagenfurt University. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Ass.-Prof.) at the Dept. of Information Technology (ITEC) / Multimedia Communication. His research interests include the transport of multimedia content, multimedia adaptation in constrained and streaming environments, distributed multimedia adaptation, and Quality of Service / Quality of Experience. He has published more than 40 scientific papers in these areas and he was the general chair of WIAMIS 2008. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of IEEE Computer Science Computing Now. He has been actively participating in several EC-funded projects, notably DANAE, ENTHRONE, and P2P-Next. Furthermore, he participated in the work of ISO/MPEG for several years, notably in the area of MPEG-21, MPEG-M, and MPEG-V. Publications and MPEG contributions can be found under http://research.timmerer.com. |
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