DISCOVER WORKSHOP

“Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding”

November 6, 2007

 

The DISCOVER workshop will be held at the IST Congress Center:

www.img.lx.it.pt/pcs2007/venue.htm

 

Workshop Programme

 

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8:30     Welcome and Presentation of the DISCOVER Project

            Luis Torres, UPC, Spain, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

 

Session I: Distributed Source Coding

Session chair: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal.

 

8:50     Distributed Video Coding: An Overview

Speaker: Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University, USA.

 

9:30     Distributed Joint Source-Channel Coding

Speaker: Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware, USA.

 

10:00   Distributed Source Coding with Unsupervised Statistical Learning

Speaker: David Varodayan, Stanford University, USA.

 

 

Coffee Break (10:30– 10:50)

 

 

10:50   On Source and Channel Codes for Distributed Source Coding

Speaker: Christine Guillemot, INRIA, France, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

 

11:20   Distributed Source Coding for Secure Fingerprint Biometrics

Speaker: Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, MERL, USA.

 

 

 

Session II: Distributed Monoview Video Coding

Session chair: Joern Osterman, University of Hannover, Germany

 

11:50   Side Information and the Correlation Channel in DVC

Speaker:  Inald Lagendijk, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands.

 

12:20   DISCOVER Monoview Video Codec

            Speaker: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

 

 

Lunch Break (12:50-14:30)

 

 

14:30   Error Resilience Assessment of the DISCOVER Codec

Speaker: Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

 

15:00   Distributed Video Coding Applications for Scalable and Flexible Decoding

Speaker: Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, University of Southern California, USA.

 

15:30   Distributed Video Coding: A Technique or a Toolbox?

Speaker: Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA.

 

 

Coffee Break (16:00– 16:20)

 

Session III: Distributed Multiview Video Coding

Session chair: Luis Torres, UPC, Spain

 

16:20   Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor Networks

Speaker: Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College, UK.

 

16:50   A Geometrical Framework for Distributed Coding of Multiview Images

Speaker: Ivana Tosic and Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland.

 

17:20   Fusion and DISCOVER Multiview Approach

Speaker: Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

 

 

17.50   End of the workshop

 

 

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