Program Overview

Time

Title

Speaker

Speaker’s institution

8:45–9:00

Opening and welcome

9:00–9:45

The road and role of MPEG multimedia standards

Leonardo Chiariglione (MPEG Convenor)

Multimedia, Telecom Italia Lab, Italy

9:45–10:30

MPEG-21 – The Multimedia Framework

Ian Burnett

Univ. of Wollongong, Australia

10:30–11:00

Coffee break

11:00–11:45

MPEG-4 – Media Objects and Scenes

Fernando Pereira

Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

11:45–12:30

MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard

John R. Smith

IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A.

12:30–14:00

 Lunch break

14:00–14:45

Innovative multimedia applications

Klaus Illgner, Jörg Heuer

Siemens AG, CT IC 2, München, Germany

14:45–15:30

Experiences of the application of MPEG-7

Werner Haas, Herwig Rehatschek, Michael Zufferey

Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

15:30–16:00

Coffee break

16:00–17:00

The use of MPEG in an Adaptive Distributed Multimedia System

László Böszörményi, Hermann Hellwagner, Harald Kosch

Inst. for Information Technology, Univ. Klagenfurt, Austria

17:00 –

Closing session with open discussion