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 NEM Summit 2011, Torino 27-29 September. The 4th edition of the NEM Summit 2011 will take place on September 27-29 in Torino, Italy.
 Register now and get involved in the major conference and exhibition in Europe devoted to networked media and ICT at large.
Over 400 delegates are expected to attend the event: ICT, scientific, technical experts, international organisations, academia, etc.
Online registration is available here.
The conference programme features more than 40 high level keynotes, experts and various co-located events. View full agenda here.
European Union Women Innovators prize
The EU Prize for Women Innovators will be awarded to three women entrepreneurs chosen among beneficiaries of funding for projects under the RTD Framework Programme (FP) or the Competitive and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP).
- 1st prize: €100 000
- 2nd prize €50 000
- 3rd prize: €25 000
The deadline for submission of applications is 20 September 2011 at 17.00 (Brussels local time). The award ceremony will take place on 5 December 2011 at the Innovation Convention organised by the European Commission in Brussels. For more information please click here.
The white paper on "Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-Economic Challenges" produced by the Multimedia Search Cluster, will be published soon. Copies will be available at the EC booth at the NEM Summit 2011.
 IBC 2011: Networked Media Systems projects to showcase latestresults!!! IBC is the leading global tradeshow for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of broadcasting media and entertainment. The exhibition and conference encompass the very latest developments in broadcasting, mobile TV, IPTV, digital signale and R&D IBC2011 takes place at the Amsterdam RAI from 8 – 13 September.
A selection of the projects funded by the Networked Media Systems Unit will showcase its latest results in the IBC exhibition area.
P2P-Next will showcase a P2P based open source content delivery platform demonstrating a complete end-to-end solution for professional HDTV and user generated content from ingest to a shared viewing experience. Latest features, such as DLNA support with second devices (iPad, iPhone, Android smartphones), social network enhanced sharing with ratings, tweets and comments will be demonstrated running on an embedded set-top-box.
NAPA-WINE will present PeerStreamer, an open source streaming framework designed to deliver high quality live TV over the Internet with almost zero capital investment.
FascinatE will showcase a system for an ultra-high resolution television service, encompassing capture, production, delivery and rendering, allowing end-users to interactively navigate around an audiovisual panorama.
2020 3D Media researches and develops novel technologies for the capture, production, distribution and display of 3D stereoscopic and immersive audiovisual content, including 3D sound, that overcome the problems and limitations of the current systems and expanding the immersiveness of the user experience. The highlights in this edition will be a prototype for an optimised trifocal rig, to capture together with the standard colour information, the depth information of an scene for HD broadcast of digital film usage, a demonstrator of a real time stereo image processor running in a FPGA, depth enhanced content browser and metadata editor and a real time feature point tracker implemented in CUDA. Also an omnidirectional video production and interactive playback system including an omindirectional multicamera rig, a non parametric image stitcher and a multi-megapixel video navigator will be exhibited.
MUSCADE (Multimedia Scalable 3D for Europe) investigates future systems beyond stereoscopic 3D.
The project will show its latest achievements in the development of a technically efficient and commercially successful 3DTV broadcast system
Furthermore, some of the Networked Media Systems projects will present papers in the conference!
The second issue of the I-SEARCH biannual electronic Newsletter is now available for download.
Call for Trainers: “HTML5 for Rich Media”
The OMWeb project, has launched a call for trainers to create and teach courses on HTML5-based “rich-media” Web content including:
- Video/audio sites based on HTML5
- Design and development of HTML5-based games
- Graphics in HTML5 (SVG, canvas)
For more information please click here.
Successful Collaboration between projects to share results and re-use software. At the ICT 2010 event in Brussels, the TA2 project was demonstrating the orchestrated communications system, which attracted the attention of a researcher who had worked on HD Viper. TA2 is an FP7 project seeking to facilitate communication and engagement between groups of people that are separated in time and space. For TA2, HD video from multiple cameras at each location, intelligently captured and presented, can play a significant role. As a baseline the project needed access to an HD video conferencing capability, with which its software could intimately integrate. Relevant software components developed by HD Viper were identified and successfully integrated with the TA2 software. This operation saved the TA2 project an estimated 3 man months of coding time! The code is now in use in TA2's experimental platforms and is a necessary component enabling the project to better understand how to improve communication and engagement between groups of people.
My e-Directoris a project funded by the Unit Networked Media Systems, designed to allow viewers to 'direct' personalised coverage of large events such as the Olympics.
Click here to know more about this success story with promising exploitation perspectives.
Networked Media Systems Concertation meetingThe 8th Networked Media Systems FP7 Concertation meeting will take place on 13-14 December 2011 at the European Commission premises in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, 1160 Brussels.
  Social Networks Overview: Current Trends and Research Challenges
This paper focuses on the research and technological measures to be adopted. It investigates online social networks as an emerging multidisciplinary research fi eld that bridges social science and multimedia computing. It refl ects the consolidated opinion of the members of the NextMEDIA project and the Future Media Networks (FMN) cluster with the collaboration with well known experts, under the guidance of the Networked Media Systems Unit of the Information Society and Media Directorate General of the European Commission.(click here to get your free copy!)
Networked Media Current Research, Results and Future Trends - The new brochure (august 2010) by the Networked Media Systems Unit. The publication presents an overview of the projects supported by the Networked Media Systems unit and sketches future trends in the field of Networked Media technologies. (Click here to get your free copy!)
All our publications can be downloaded on Cordis
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 07 - 09 September 2011
The conference "Internet and Societies: New Innovation Paths", Brussels, Belgium
The event will be opened by the Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes. The full programme can be seen here.
Within the conference, Paradiso organizes a special session on the 9th of September focussing on the role of online platforms for collective awareness and action. Participation is free of charge but the space available is limited: late registrations may not be accepted. Click here for more details.
27 - 29 September 2011
The 4th NEM Summit, organized by the NEM European Technology Platform will take place in Torino, Italy.
04 - 05 October 2011
Moving EU SMEs to Investor Readiness - ICT Venture Gate Brokerage Event, Committee of the Regions, Brussels, Belgium
The "ICT Venture Gate" project brings together ICT SMEs which have received public funding (e.g. FP6/7) and business angels and venture capitalists to encourage take-up of project proposals. Registration for the event (free of charge) is now open for private investors, entrepreneurs, and experts. For more information and registration please click here
13 - 14 October 2011
The "Exploring the Future of Enterprise Search" workshop will be held in Seville on 13 and 14 October 2011, at the premises of the IPTS. More information can be found here.
24 - 25 October 2011
Enterprise Search Europe, London, UK.
This is the first conference in Europe focusing specifically on the technologies and implementation of enterprise search. This inaugural event will play host to speakers not just from Europe but also from North America and Australia – providing an international perspective on the benefits and challenges of enterprise search implementation.
25 - 26 October 2011
The next Future Internet Assembly (FIA) will take place in Poznan, Poland.
09 November 2011
The 4th Annual ACT (Association of Commercial Television in Europe) conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium.
13 - 14 December 2011
The 8th Networked Media Systems FP7 Concertation meeting will take place on 13-14 December 2011 at the European Commission premises in Avenue de Beaulieu 25, 1160 Brussels.
16 - 20 April 2012
Real-Time Image and Video Processing (EPE115), the Square Conference Ctr., Brussels, Belgium.
The conference is part of the SPIE International Symposium on SPIE Photonics Europe,
The SPIE Real-Time Image and Video Processing ConferenceYou can submit an abstract and summary online before November 7th 2011 at: http://spie.org/epe
16 - 20 April 2012
Optics, Photonics and Digital Technologies for Multimedia Applications, the Square Conference Ctr., Brussels, Belgium. The conference is part of the SPIE International Symposium on SPIE Photonics Europe,
The aim of this conference is to create a joint forum for both research and application communities to share expertise, to solve present-day application bottlenecks and to propose new application areas. This conference has a broad scope, ranging from basic and applied research to dissemination of existing knowledge
The Networked Media Team
Acting Head of Unit
Bartolomé Arroyo Fernández
Scientific Officers
Francisco Medeiros
Loretta Anania
Isidro Laso Ballesteros
Martin Hahn
Georgios Kaiafas
Rossella Magli
Ertrit Puka
Jorge Santos
Communication Officer
Rossella Magli
Graphic Support
Andrei Bandrabur
Editors
Rossella Magli
Andrei Bandrabur
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