IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting
Preliminary Program
(Subject to Change)
Wednesday, 28 March 2007    
       
Room:  W102a&b      
Continental Breakfast 8:20 - 8:50 am    
Plenary session 1 8:50 - 10:05 am    
  Opening Remarks Tom Gurley/Brett Jenkins Symposium Chairs
  From IPTV to IP Multimedia…the Next Generation of Communications and Entertainment Nash Parker Director, Strategic Alliances in Alcatel-Lucent
  Experience in the Deployment of Mobile TV & IPTV Technologies Jean Macher Director of Product Management for Video Network Solutions, Grass Valley/Thomson
Coffee Break 9:50 - 10:05 am    
AM: Mobile TV 1 10:20 -12:00 noon    
  Session Chair Peter Siebert Siemens AG
  The Development of an Emergency  Alert System for National Disasters Utilizing Mobile Multimedia Devices Carolyn Taylor Motorola Mobile Devices Business
  Field Test Results for the FLO™ Physical Layer Ashok Mantravadi  Qualcomm Incorporated
  Dynamic Modular Application Middleware for Mobile Broadcast Devices Philipp Steckel Braunschweig Technical University
  Solution for Application and Transport Layer Inconsistency during Adaptive Multimedia Streaming Edward Casey Dublin City University
Keynote Luncheon   Room W105 a&b 12:00 - 2:00 pm    
    Kay Johansson Chief Technology Officer, MobiTV
PM: IPTV 1 2:00 - 3:40 pm    
  Session Chair David C. Gibbon AT&T Labs
  ITU-IPTV Focus Group - A Status Report Wei Li Communications Research Centre CA
  Wireless IPTV Development Platform Jukka-Pekka Laulajainen VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
  Ensuring QoS and QoE in IPTV Service Delivery Vandana Upadhyay Co-Chair, QoS Metrics Task Force, ATIS IPTV Interoperability Forum
  Oma Bcast as Enabler for a Horizontal IPTV Architecture and Fixed-Mobile Convergence Harald Fuchs Fraunhofer IIS
Coffee Break 3:40 - 4:00 pm    
       
Room:  W101b      
AM: Content Protection & Watermarking 10:20 -12:00 noon    
  Session Chair Jonathan Loo Brunel University
  Protection of DVB Systems by Trusted Computing Nicolai Kuntze Fraunhofer Institute
  Fingerprinting on Compressed Digital Video Chee Sun Won Dongguk Univ
  Robust Hidden Markov Model Based Video Watermarking in the Wavelet Domain Ersin Elbasi The City University of New York
  Robust Image Watermarking Based on Affine Invariant Point Detection and Zernike Moments Bing Ouyang Texas Instruments
Keynote Luncheon   Room W105 a&b 12:00 - 2:00 pm    
    Kay Johansson Chief Technology Officer, MobiTV
PM: Transmission Technology 2:00 - 3:40 pm    
  Session Chair Peter Unger Braunschweig Technical University
  OFDM Carrier-by-Carrier Bit Error Rate Measuring System Kohei Kambara Japan Broadcasting Corp
  A Hybrid Domain Block Equalizer for ATSC Systems under Distributed Transmission Environment Xianbin Wang Communications Research Centre CA
  Measurements, Processing functions and Laboratory test-bench Experiments for Evaluating Diversity in Broadcast Network Raffaele Di Bari Brunel University
  Design of the Channel Estimation Algorithm for Advanced Terrestrial DMB System Sung-Hoon Kim ETRI
Coffee Break 3:40 - 4:00 pm    
     
       
Wednesday, 28 March 2007    
       
Room W103a      
Poster Session:           4:00 pm - 6:00 pm    
DTV Systems Session Chair Fujio Yamada Mackenzie Presbyterian University
  Modeling Approaches to Multiband Service Delivery in DOCSIS 3.0 - An Architecture Perspective Mary Looney Cork Institute of Technology
  Assessment of ATSC Return Links for Broadband Multimedia Datacasting Applications Wei Li Communications Research Centre CA
  A New Technique to Increase the Proxy Caching Performance in VoD Systems Abbas Javadtalab Sharif University of Technology
  Seamless IPTV Channel Control Algorithm over DOCSIS CATV Networks Dai-Boong Lee Pohang University of Science & Technology
  Design of IP Set-Top-Box—An Overview Yu Li IBM China Research Lab
Field Trial & Testing Session Chair Xianbin Wang Communications Research Centre CA
  Digital Radio Mondiale Field Trials in Brasilia for Local Radio Coverage Using the 26 MHz Band Ivan Pena Bilbao Engineering College
  Realization and Evaluation on Datacasting of Printable Data Linked with Broadcast Program in Japan Tadashi Miyosawa Seiko Epson Corp.
  DVB-H Field Trials: Studying Radio Channel Characteristics Heidi Himmanen University of Turku
Transmission Technology Session Chair Pablo Angueira Bilbao Engineering College
  Channel Estimation for an Echo Canceller in DVB-T/H Networks Karim M. Nasr Brunel University
  A Robust 8-VSB System Based on LDPC Codes for Digital TV Broadcasting Ying Y. Tai Ikanos Communications
  On the Investigation of DVB-H Network Coverage with the Application of Transmit Diversity  Yue Zhang Brunel University
  Scalable Media Content Transmission over a Fading Channel using an Adaptive Rate Control Strategy Yongheng Liu University College Dublin
  A Hybrid Channel Model for UWB Indoor Multimedia Applications Karim Nasr Brunel University
Multimedia Processing Session Chair Sung-Hoon Kim ETRI
  A Modified Closed-Loop MPEG-2 to VC1 Transcoder Ravin Sachdeva STMicroelectronics
  Clustering-based Object Detection for Low-resolution Video Streaming Luca Superiori Vienna University of Technology
  Fast Intermode Decision of Scalable Video Coding using Statistical Hypothesis Testing Bumshik Lee Korea Broadcast System
  Real-Time Markerless and Model Free Reconstruction of 3D Face Surface Data From Stereo Image Pair Sabri Gurbuz NICT Cognitive Information Science Labs
  Robust Noise Suppression Algorithm with Kalman Filter for White and Colored Disturbance Nari Tanabe Tokyo University of Science
       
Room W103b      
Evening Reception 6:00 - 8:00 pm    
       
       
Thursday, 29 March 2007    
       
Room:  W102 a&b      
Continental Breakfast 8:20 - 8:50 am    
Plenary session 2   8:50 - 9:50 am    
  Session Chair Yiyan Wu Communications Research Ctr CA
  Networking Support for Immersive Collaborative Applications Michael Needham Motorola Labs
  Towards Future ATSC Mobile/Handheld Services, introduction of ATSC proposal Mike Simon Rohde & Schwarz
Coffee Break 9:50 - 10:05 am    
AM: Field Trial & Testing 10:05 am - 12:10 pm    
  Session Chair Pablo Angueira Bilbao Engineering College
  Trial of Application Service for Wireless Ubiquitous Network Moo Wan Kim Tokyo Univ of Information Sciences
  Mobile Reception Analysis of Simulcast (DRM-AM) Services in the Medium Wave Band Unai Gil Bilbao Engineering College
  A Canadian Perspective on T-DMB - Field Trial Results Pascal Marcoux CBC Technology
  Evaluation and Validation of the Performance of a DVB-H Network David Plets Ghent University
  Measurements and Analysis of a WiMAX Field Trial at 3.5 GHz in an Urban Environment Joachim Hauck, Alvaro Valcarce University of Applied Sciences
Keynote Luncheon   Room W105 a&b 12:10 - 2:00 pm    
    Kari Lehtinen Vice President Handsets,          Modeo LLC
PM: Mobile TV 2 2:00 - 3:40 pm    
  Session Chair William Meintel IEEE BTS
  Handheld Reception Field Tests Results for the Brazilian Digital TV System Fujio Yamada Mackenzie Presbyterian University
  Simulations of PSI/SI Transmission in DVB-H Systems Tero Jokela University of Turku
  Performance Analysis of Mobile Video Telephony over CDMA EVDO Rev. A Kashyap K. R. Kambhatla University of Southern Callifornia
  Efficient Distribution for DVB-H Single Frequency Networks Roland Schaller Udcast
Coffee Break 3:40 - 4:00 pm    
PM: IPTV 2 4:00 - 5:15 pm    
  Session Co-Chairs Jinyun Zhang           Wei Li Mitsubshi Electric Research Labs    Communications Research Ctr CA
  Challenges of HDTV in IPTV Networks Peter Siebert  Siemens AG
  Video Content Personalization for IPTV Services David C. Gibbon AT&T Labs
   IPTV Channel Control Algorithm Statistically Guaranteeing Channel Zapping Time with High Network Utilization Hwangjun Song Pohang University of Science & Technology
       
Room: 101b      
AM: Video Coding & Processing 10:05 am - 12:10 pm    
  Session Chair John Cosmas Brunel University
  B-Frame Transcoding in H.264 to MPEG-2 Transcoders Hari Kalva Florida Atlantic University
  The Role of Video Coding and Processing and Particularly Professional Broadcast Encoders in Next-Generation Television Services Sean McCarthy Modulus Video
  Motion-JPEG2000 Stream Scaling for Multi-Resolution Video Transmission Michael Lee CSIRO ICT Centre
  An Optimal Extraction Scheme of Scalable Video Coding Bitstream Yongjun Chang Korea Broadcast System
  Multiple Frame Motion Compensated Interpolation for Frame Rate Up-Conversion Jonathan Loo Brunel University
Keynote Luncheon   Room W105 a&b 12:10 - 2:00 pm    
    Kari Lehtinen Vice President Handsets,          Modeo LLC
PM: DTV Systems 2:00 - 3:40 pm    
  Session Chair Phillipp Steckel Braunschweig Technical University
  On the Mobile Reception Performance of the Chinese Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) Standard Jintao Wang, Jian Song Tsinghua University
  Comments on Chinese DTTB Standard Guan Yunfeng, Liang Weigiang Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  Coverage Estimation for Localized Service Areas in Single Frequency Networks Peter Unger Braunschweig Technical University
  Congestion and Travel Time Information Service via Terrestrial Digital Multimedia Broadcasting Sang Woon Lee Yonsei University
Coffee Break 3:40 - 4:00 pm    
PM: Channel Coding 4:00 - 5:15 pm    
  Session Chair Demin Wang Communications Research Ctr CA
  Forward Error Correction and Autonomous Flow Scheduling for IP Video Quality-of-Service Steven Chen Rivulet Communications Inc
  Evaluation of the Performance of a Hybrid Error Correction Scheme for DVB Services over IEEE 802.11a Guoping Tan Saarland University
  Improving Error Burst Tolerance at the DVB-H Link Layer Heidi Himmanen University of Turku