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Workshop Session Tentative Agenda


When: 9 am to 5:30 pm, Saturday, 25 April 2009

Where: Westin Maui – Whaler Room

Fee: No additional fee. Open to JPEG, MPEG and SC-29 members.

9 - 10:30 JPEG2000 Suite of Standards and Current Applications (Bernard Brower, ITT Space Systems)

Mr. Brower will describe the technology and background of the different parts of the JPEG 2000 standard. He will also discuss the markets and applications currently using JPEG 2000. Specifically, Mr. Brower will discuss applications in Digital Cinema, Remote Sensing, Medical Imaging, and Document Imaging.

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:15 Is Standardization Equipped to Deal with Convergence? (Leonardo Chiariglione, CEDEO.net)

11:15 - 12:45 AVC: Technology and Applications (Ajay Luthra, Motorola)

AVC is revolutionizing modern day digital video communications. Economically, the most successful application of this standard has been in the distribution of video for digital TV. Today, it is getting commonly used for the delivery of digital TV over a wide range of channels and has spawned many new markets in this arena. In this presentation, after providing an overview of the technology behind the AVC standard, we will cover how it is used in the digital TV space, what are the problems, issues and challenges associated with it, and what new applications related to digital TV may emerge in the future.

12:45 - 2:15 Lunch (on own)

2:15 - 3:40 MPEG Surround - Integrating recent advances in audio compression (Schuyler Quackenbush, Audio Research Labs)

MPEG Surround exploits how humans perceive sound in space to achieve compression of a multi-channel audio program. This talk will present the architecture of the MPEG Surround encoder and decoder and give an overview of how the individual tools operate. Particular attention will be given to the perceptual mechanisms that permit MPEG Surround to achieve its significant level of compression. An MPEG Surround signal compression system is additionally composed of a mono or stereo audio coder, which is often a High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coder (HE-AAC).

The talk will also review how the entire signal chain of HE-AAC and MPEG Surround exploits the perceptual mechanisms of simultaneous masking, high-frequency acuity and sound source localization to achieve a powerful multi-channel audio compression system.

3:45 - 4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 Digital Rights Management: Technology and Applications (Xin Wang, Contentguard)

With advances in coding efficiency, delivery channel bandwidth and variety and portable storage capacity, downloading and streaming of multimedia content to play, edit, share and redistribute have become relatively seamless and effortless. A challenge faced in the multimedia industry is how to support and govern the use and distribution of multimedia content in proper manners, in order to create practical yet profitable business models for content and service providers, and at the same time to bring easiness and convenience in accessing premium and user-generated content to consumers using a variety of terminal devices. Digital rights management (DRM), a unified approach to specifying, interpreting, enforcing and managing digital rights throughout the entire life cycle of digital assets, has been developed to provide effective and desirable technologies to meet this challenge. This tutorial gives an overview of digital rights management (DRM), in terms of its key technologies and applications, as well as related standard activities.