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UniS represents MUSCADE at ICME 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:02:00 +0000

Anil Fernando of University of Surrey represented MUSCADE at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2012) in Melbourne, Australia on 09-13 July 2011. IEEE ICME has been the flagship multimedia conference sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities and attracts more than 1,000 delegates all around the world. Fernando was invited to deliver a tutorial on “Network Coding for Efficient Multimedia Content Delivery”. The work reported in the tutorial was resulted from the University of Surrey’s contributions to the MUSCADE project.

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Holografika and Fraunhofer HHI together represented MUSCADE at SIGGRAPH Emerging Technologies, showing the 4-camera rig, real-time depth estimation and MVD4 content generation, and rendering on a multiview and a large-scale light-field display. Synthetic pre-rendered content (from the open source movie Big Buck Bunny) has also been shown on the light-field display.

The Holografika and Fraunhofer HHI team with the large-scale light-field display in the background

Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer HHI presenting the 4 camera rig and the output of the real-time MVD4 creation

UniS demonstrates MUSCADE technologies for Korean broadcasters

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:54:00 +0000

Researchers from I-Lab Multimedia Communication Research group, University of Surrey demonstrated MUSCADE technologies to a set of representatives from four major Korean broadcasting companies, namely Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) and Educational Broadcasting System (EBS). This event took place on the 24th July 2012 to witness state-of-the-art 3D contents and broadcasting research activities performed at University of Surrey. I-Lab researchers overviewed MUSCADE project and their overall contribution towards the future of the 3D media broadcasting technologies. Subsequently, University of Surrey’s contributions to MUSCADE project, especially the WiMAX/WLAN transmission and test bed, audio codecs and audio-visual QoE, were demonstrated.

MUSCADE at IBC 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:51:00 +0000

The MUSCADE project was presented at this year’s IBC in Amsterdam’s convention center RAI. An MVD2 based real-time capable 3D production workflow was demonstrated at the Fraunhofer booth in Hall 8 B80 covering all important topics from real-time 3D acquisition, over real-time depth-estimation, MVD2 encoding, transmission, decoding, and virtual view rendering. “The MVD2 demonstrator addresses a hot topic in the today’s 3D production chain and plays a key role in the MUSCADE exploitation plan”, says Frederik Zilly, project manager at HHI and work package leader within the MUSCADE consortium. Moreover, the project was presented within a talk given by Frederik Zilly within the EBU session “Prepare Today, Prosper Tomorrow: Future-Proofing for Broadcasters”. Fore more details, please follow this link or this link.

MUSCADE Consortium Member Fraunhofer HHI wins IBC2012's Best Conference Paper Award

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:33:00 +0000

A team of MUSCADE researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications Heinrich Hertz Institute won the award for the technical paper, which best communicates cutting edge research. The authors, Christian Riechert, Frederik Zilly, Peter Kauff, Jens Güther and Ralf Schäfer, described the core work on auto-stereoscopic television: 3D without glasses in their paper. State-of-the-art auto-stereoscopic displays require five, ten or even more channels to create the impression of depth for viewers at different viewing angles. These views have to be created at the receiver from the incoming two channel stereoscopic 3D signal. This award-wining paper describes a flexible solution for achieving required number of views, and how they could be implemented in a relatively low-cost chip for mass production.

From left to Right: Frederik Zilly, Christian Riechert (both Fraunhofer HHI), and Nicolas Lodge (IBC 2012 Technical Papers Committee Chairman) at the IBC 2012 award ceremony.

Special Session on Multiview Content Creation at 3DTV-CON 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:03:00 +0000

MUSCADE and Reverie EU projects lead a dedicated special session on multi-view content creation at this year’s 3DTV Conference in Zurich, Switzerland. The special session covered all relevant topics from 3D capture, depth map generation, depth based mixing, coding/transmission, to 3D playout and Depth Image Based Rendering, according to the special session chair Frederik Zilly from Fraunhofer HHI. Six talks have been given during the special session addressing all different parts of the MUSCADE 3D content creation chain. Among the presenters were three different partners from the MUSCADE consortium. The special session was held on Tuesday, 16th of October from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 pm. Please following this link for more details.

MUSCADE progress meeting @ Berlin on 3-4 July 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 15:52:00 +0000

MUSCADE progress meeting will be held on 3-4 July 2012 at HHI premises in Berlin.

MUSCADE @ Dimension 3

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:58:00 +0000

MUSCADE innovations have been presented at Dimension 3 conference on Thursday 14 June 2012. For details please follow this link.

MUSCADE @ Siggraph 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:45:00 +0000

MUSCADE will be demonstrated at Siggraph 2012 Emerging Technologies Campus. For details, please follow this link.

MUSCADE @ Girls’ Day 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:39:00 +0000

Holografika participated in the Girls’ Day 2012, organised in Hungary for the first time. Among other technology companies and universities, Holografika introduced technologies developed during the last couple of years under MUSCADE and the other EU projects, which the company has actively contributed to. Details will be available in April-June 2012 issue of the MUSCADE newsletter.

MUSCADE @ SCTE’s 2012 Balkan Broadband Conference and Exhibition

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0000

The SCTE’s 2012 Balkan Broadband Conference and Exhibition offered and opportunity to disseminate the MUSCADE project results for the international participants: investors, operators, technicians, installers, exhibitors coming mainly from the Western Balkan market. It was held in Belgrade (Serbia) on 29 March 2012, supported by the Cable Operators Association of Serbia. Holografika represented MUSCADE at this event.

Eurosport Broadcasts Live Major Sporting Events in 3D via ASTRA 19.2 Degrees East

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:21:00 +0000

MUSCADE partner SES (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG) announces that Eurosport Group will deliver live 3D broadcasts of two major sporting events in the summer across Europe via the ASTRA Satellite System. The French Open and the London 2012 Olympic Games will be broadcasted LIVE on Eurosport 3D from the ASTRA 19.2 degrees East orbital position. For details follow this link.

MUSCADE Partners won “MPEG Call for Proposals on 3D Video Coding Technology”

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:34:00 +0000

End of 2011 MPEG has orga-nized formal and independent subjective tests in context of the “MPEG Call for Proposals on 3D Video Coding Technology”. 4 out of 11 proposals were rated best with a subjectively better performance than the others over all bit rates and test se-quences. Three of these four winners have been submitted by MUSCADE partner Fraunhofer HHI (see blue, green and red dots in Fig. 1), one of them in collaboration with MUSCADE partner Disney Research Zurich (see blue dot HHI+DRZ) and have been rated as the three best overall proposals.

More details on these standard contributions are available in January-March 2012 issue of the MUSCADE newsletter.

MUSCADE at the 8th FP7 Networked Media Concertation meeting

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:00 +0000

Astrium attended the 8th FP7 Networked Media Concertation Meeting in Brussels on 13-14 December 2011. During the meeting of the 3D Immersive Interactive Media cluster, a presentation of MUSCADE was made to share the latest project outcomes with other FP7 projects. Details of the meeting and presentations can be found on the Commission Website.

MUSCADE @ INIT Autumn School on 3D Imaging Technologies

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:46:00 +0000

Péter Tamás Kovács was one of the lecturers at the INIT Autumn School on 3D Imaging Technologies, organized by Institute of New Imaging Technologies (INIT) of the University Jaume I of Castellón, taken place October 3-7, 2011 in Benicàssim, Spain.

For more details, visit http://init.uji.es/school2011/

Fraunhofer HHI launches 3D Innovation Center in Berlin

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:27:00 +0000

A 3D Innovation Center (3DIC) is inaugurated by Fraunhofer HHI on 5 September 2011. The Berlin 3D Innovation Center offers the whole cast of actors a platform and a pre-competitive environ-ment where they can exchange views and opinions, build con-tacts, put their products and sys-tems to the test and present them jointly to a diversity of target audiences.

For more details, visit http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/en/3d-innovation-center-berlin/ and http://www.3d-innovationcenter.de

MUSCADE 2nd year review meeting @ TI on 28-29 March 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:01:00 +0000

MUSCADE 2nd year review meeting was held on Thursday 28 and Friday 29 of March 2012 at Telecom Italia, Torino, Italy.

MUSCADE @ 3D Stereo MEDIA conferenceconference, Liège, Belgium on 5-9 December 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:58:00 +0000

Frederik Zilly of Fraunhofer In-stitute for Telecommunications, Berlin, Germany delivered a talk about MVD4 generation in the context of the MUSCADE project at the 3D Stereo MEDIA conference held in Liège, Bel-gium on 5-9 December 2011.
Details: http://www.3dstereomedia.eu/

MUSCADE MS5&6 meeting @ SES TechCom on 18-19 Jan 2012

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:37:00 +0000

MUSCADE MS5&6 meeting was held on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 of January 2012 at SES TechCom, Betzdorf, Luxembourg.

MUSCADE @IBC 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9-13 September 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 11:35:00 +0000

The MUSCADE European consortium will be present at the IBC Exhibition 2011. Two demonstrations will be on display, showing the project's latest developments in terms of multiview 3D content creation and rendering techniques.

More info on this event is available at http://www.muscade.eu/

2nd MUSCADE Workshop, London, UK, 23-24 June 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:02:00 +0000

In second year of the project, the MUSCADE Consortium organised the 2nd Workshop on 3D Multimedia under the leadership of University of Surrey. The 2-day workshop hosted 14 speakers and a keynote speaker, to present their vision and the results of their work related to the topics addressed by the project. In addition, project partners set up a number of interesting demonstrations to show their up-to-date MUSCADE results during the organised event...

More info on this workshop is available at http://www.muscade.eu/

MUSCADE MS3 Meeting on 21-22 June 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:01:00 +0000

The MUSCADE Milestone 3 meeting took place at I-Lab, University of Surrey in Guildford, UK on 21-22 June 2011 with representatives from the consortium parties...

MUSCADE was @Dimension 3 2011, La Plaine Saint Denis, France, 24-26 May 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:48:00 +0000

MUSCADE was represented by Astrium at this event, which featured 3 days of conferences, workshop and exhibitions. During the session entitled "The future of 3D in 12 months, 5 years, 10 years", the latest MUSCADE outcomes in terms of content creation, transmission and rendering have been presented to a wide audience.

further info availble from: http://www.dimension3-expo.com/

ANNOUNCEMENT: Workshop on 3D Technology and Human Factors, EBU, Geneva, Switzerland, 6-7 October 2011

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:46:00 +0000

With the 3D workshop on “3D technology and human factors”, which will be held at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on 6th & 7th October 2011, the EBU invite you to get involved and demonstrate real human reactions on Stereo 3D (S3D). Therefore, presenters will consider S3D with a medical aspect and will give you advices on several critical aspects of human factors in 3DTV and live production. S3D basics, use cases as well as recommendations and the Human Visual System related aspects will be the main areas of interest at this workshop. While doing so, EBU also wish to create an open environment (through this workshop) for you to provide information and answer your questions about health issues while watching 3DTV.

The registration for this event is not yet open, however further information can be obtained from the EBU website (http://tech.ebu.ch/events/s3d_technology_workshop) and/or by contacting Yvonne Thomas (thomas@ebu.ch).

MUSCADE was @IEEE 3DTV-CON 2011, Antalya, Turkey, 16-18 May 2011...

noreply@blogger.com (MUSCADE) — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 17:40:00 +0000

UNIS and Holografika represented MUSCADE during this event with two research paper presentations. The first paper described the parts of the work performed in the MUSCADE 3D visual renderer, whilst the second extended the standardised Video Quality Metric (VQM) model to consider ambient illumination context in the video quality prediction of 3D video contents.

The conference info is available from: http://www.3dtv-con.org/3dtv-con-11/d2/