ICT 2010 News
REGISTRATION FOR ICT 2010 IS NOW OPEN
Register now for ICT 2010 - Europe's key forum for current and future research visions and trends in information and communication technologies.

EXHIBITION AND NETWORKING CALLS HUGELY SUCCESSFUL!
On 15 April, the Networking and Exhibition calls for the ICT2010 event closed. The Commission is delighted to have received so many contributions and as both calls have been oversubscribed, no further extensions have been scheduled. Thank you for helping us shape ICT2010!


YOUNG RESEARCHERS:
Following the success of the ICT-2008 experience, the ICT-2010 welcomes young researchers to attend the event either as reporters of the main sessions, exhibition "watchers", web radio animators and interviewers of the VIPs.
To apply, you are requested to fill in a form that can be obtained by contacting Tiziana.Arcarese@ec.europa.eubefore June 7th
Criteria for selection are:
• Be involved in an FP7 ICT project that will be running at the time of ICT 2010
• Be a PhD student, postdoctoral student, researcher
• Max age: 32 years old
• Have very good drafting skills in English
• Express your motivation and interest
• originality of the questions

NEM SUMMIT News

The NEM Summit is an annual Conference and Exhibition annually organised by the NEM Initiative under the aegis of the European Commission (DG Information Society and Media).
The event, both for the conference and exhibition parts, addresses ICT at large and more precisely topics related to networked and electronic media such as:
• Media-related applications and business models
• Content creation
• Networking and delivery infrastructure
• Content search and media presentation
• Technology drivers and enabling technologies
Registration is open. You can take advantage of early bird fees until July 31: register now for 320 euros excl. VAT

The NEM Summit Call for Exhibition is open. The deadline for submission has been extended till June 30th!
R&D projects funded under the FP6 / FP7 programmes of the European Commission (or other related programmes), addressing network and electronic media technologies and ICT at large are offered the opportunity to exhibit free of charge at the 2010 NEM Summit.
To apply for an exhibition area free of charge, please go here.

The European R&D project MobiThin started on January 2008. It gathers IBBT, IMEC, NEC, Deutsche Telekom, Prologue, Institut Telecom and JCP-Consult. Its industry specification group that are now formally approved by ETSI has now produced and finalized its first specifications:
- "Mobile Thin Client (MTC); Use Cases and Requirements"
- "Mobile Thin Client (MTC); Architecture"
The group has also extended its scope to apply their specifications to thin
client in general.
A new work item has been started on interface specification for mobile thin client; the work has been launched during MTC#4 meeting hold on on May 6, 2010 in Sophia Antipolis and is expected to be finalised at the end of 2010.

All presentations of the conference FROM ECONOMIC RECOVERY
TO SUSTAINABILITY (R2S), which took place in Valencia on 13-14 April, are available on the conference website. The webcasts are also available.

The 3rd Network and Information Security (NIS’10) Summer School on ‘Privacy and Security in the Future Internet’ will take place in Crete, Greece, between the 13-17 September 2010. The summer school is jointly organised by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH-ICS).

 TA2- Getting families and friends together again, virtually
A fireside chat, sharing photos with granddad, a family get-together to play Monopoly on a Sunday afternoon…  Digital media designed for the individual has hastened the demise of collective social events, but it could also enable their revival. Learn more about the TA2 project on ICT Result.

3DPHONE releases 2 videos of the project
Check it out! Video1 - Video2

SAME - Sound and Music Everywhere - won the "best paper award" at KEER 2010 the International Conference focused on "KANSEI Engineering and Emotion Research".

The PHAROS search engine allowing innovative multimedia searches by querying pictures of faces, by whistling your favorite tune, etc.) was shown at Shanghai expo and attracted media attention. 

Dr. Steffen Rendle, Christoph Freudenthaler and Prof. Dr. Dr. Lars Schmidt-Thieme (University of Hildesheim)from MyMedia project are the winners of the Best Paper Award at the prestigious WWW Conference 2010 in Raleigh, NC, USA!

The Network of Excellence 3DLife on future Media internetsubmitted a grand challenge to the ACM Multimedia 2010 and it has been one of the 7 accepted grand challenges.
The details can be found here.

INEM4U - The All-in-one Media Event on March 31st was very successful!They welcomed a total of 70 participants and received many enthusiastic reactions. This clearly shows that integrating TV, internet and mobile phone for a richer multimedia experience is a very hot topic indeed. To quote Ms. Neelie Kroes, European Commissioner for Digital Agenda: “By bringing technologies and stakeholders together, working on a better future is possible.”
You can check out the picturesand also watch the video message of Ms. Kroes.

MUSCADE - MUltimedia SCAlable 3D for Europe releases their first Newsletter. Download it here.

3DPresence project releases their 3rd Newsletter.

Call for papers for the NEM Summit 2010 is open till 21 July 2010.
The date of the NEM summit is October 13-15, has been scheduled to coincide with the launch of the FP7 ICT Work Programme 2011-2012, which contains a new series of call for proposals addressing NEMrelated R&D topics. It will be a last rendezvous before the Future Internet Public Private Partnership call deadline. The NEM summit will offer the perfect opportunity to meet partners and make final proposal preparations. Submit your paper here.

Call for papers for MMSP'10 2010 IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing.
- Notification of acceptance by: June 15, 2010
- Camera-ready paper submission by: July 15, 2010

Call for papers for the Workshop on Surreal Media and Virtual Cloning (SMVC) to be held during ACM Multimedia 2010
This workshop aims at presenting a representative sample of research work towards the creation of surreal media and realistic 3D virtual environments in which virtual humans can interact remotely. The primary objective is to present and discuss key research issues related to the generation of surreal media and 3D cooperative virtual worlds. Submission deadline is 10 June 2010.

Call for papers for the Workshop on Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks and social networking to be held within ACM Multimedia 2010
Submission deadline is 10 June 2010.

Call for papers - Special Issue on 3D-TV Horizon: Contents, Systems, and Visual Perception IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
This special issue solicits innovative papers on all fundamental aspects of 3D-TV, including contents, systems, and human visual perception. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
· Standard(s) for 3D-TV
· Human factors and perception pertinent to 3D-TV
· 3D-TV image capture
· 3D-TV content generation
· 3D-TV systems and transmission
· 3D-Video coding, analysis and processing
· 3D-TV displays
Submission deadline 15 July 2010

 The Call for Papers for the IEEE Communications Magazine targeting Future Media Internet has been published. The main topics are:

• Open content centric network architectures for scalable multimedia content delivery
• Encoding technologies for maintaining the integrity and optimise the quality of experience.
• Implementation and experimentation of future media applications e.g. virtual 3D worlds, collaborative platforms and holograms
• Content addressing and identification
• Distributed caching in the network for multimedia content
• Peer-to-peer/overlay streaming prototypes and their implementation in the Future Media Internet
• Search and retrieval of multimedia objects over distributed networks
• Context and location aware middleware for heterogeneous networks
• Innovative, adaptive and self-configuring applications
• Adaptive, polymorphic and reconfigurable systems for heterogeneous networks
• Cross-layer dynamic adaptation and end-to-end QoS issues for heterogeneous networks

Important dates:
Submission Deadline: September 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: December 15, 2010
Final Manuscript Due: January 1, 2011
Publication Date: March 1, 2011

Call for papers European Conference on Visual Media Production 10th - 11th November 2010, British Film Institute Southbank, London
CVMP 2010 is the 7th annual industry-academic conference series on media production for film, broadcast and games. Visual media production brings together expertise in video processing, computer vision, computer graphics, animation and physical simulation.
Full paper submission deadline is 21 June 2010.

ICT Research: The policy perspective - The future of media in a networked world (Click here to get your free copy!)

Networked Media Current Research, Results and Future Trends
Complement of the September 2009 edition including new projects. (Click here to get your free copy!)

Networked Media Current Research, Results and Future Trends

Cross-disciplinary Challenges and Recommendations regarding the Future of Multimedia Search Engines.

Future Internet and NGN Design requirements and principles for a            Future Media Internet

Research on Future Media Internet

All our publications can be downloaded on Cordis

25 - 27 May 2010
World Congress on Information Technology - WCIT 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

07 -09 June 2010
3DTV Conference 2010, Tampere, Finland
The conference is organized by the Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology and Tampere International Center for Signal Processing (TICSP) and sponsored by the IEEE SP/CAS Chapter in Finland. Check the technical program here

07 -09 June 2010
Future of Mobile Search @ CCTE 2010 , Ghent, Belgium
CHORUS+ workshop on Mobile Search at CTE 2010 conference in Ghent 7-9 July aims to gain insight into the EU prospects for launching new mobile search services. Ramon Compano of IPTS will present the IPTS survey results on this topic. CHORUS+ will report on the technoeconomic impact of mobile search based on EU project collaborations, national initiatives etc. The CCTE 2010 research conference attracts economists and European regulators, and is organized by prof. Jan Van Ooteghem.

09-11 June 2010
EuroITV 2010 - "web.sharing.tv.content", Tampere, Finland
EuroITV is the leading international conference for media related to video and television. EuroITV is attended by academia and professionals from all over the world to discuss latest advances and research of media technology, HCI, media studies, and the content creation community.

16 - 18 June 2010
MobileSummit 2010, Florence, Italy
Future Network and MobileSummit 2010 takes place in the Historical City of Florence, 16 - 18 June 2010. This is the nineteenth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 600 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7).

05 - 07 July 2010
CIVR 2010, Chorus+ Practionners’ day, Xi'an, China

01 - 03 eptember 2010
UCMEDIA 2010, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
This conference seeks to improve our understanding of the changing landscape of media. It has a particular focus on forms of media that are user centered and on the way they will be delivered over a Future Media Internet.

20 - 23 September 2010
CLEF 2010, Padua, Italy
The CLEF 2010 conference is the continuation of the popular CLEF campaigns and workshops that have run for the past ten years (2000-2009). CLEF 2010 will cover a broad range of issues from the fields of multilingual and multimodal information access evaluation.

22 - 24 September 2010
3rd EU-Japan Symposium on the "Future Internet and Next Generation Networks", Tampere, Finland

27 - 29 September 2010
ICT 2010, Brussels Expo, Belgium
This bi-annual event has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT.

04 - 06 October 2010
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2010), Saint-Malo, France
MMSP-10 is the twelfth international workshop on multimedia signal processing. The workshop is organized by the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Organized in Saint-Malo, MMSP-10 provides excellent conditions for brainstorming on, and sharing the latest advances in multimedia signal processing and technology in one of the most charming and picturesque cities in the world.

13 - 15 October 2010
NEM Summit 2010, Barcelona, Spain

25 - 27 October 2010
ACM Multimedia 2010, Firenze, Italy

ACM Multimedia 2010 is the worldwide premier multimedia conference and a key event to display scientific achievements and innovative industrial products. The Conference offers to scientists and practitioners in the area of Multimedia plenary scientific and technical sessions, tutorials, panels and discussion meetings on relevant and challenging questions for the next years horizon of multimedia

29 November - December 1 2010
INTERNET OF THINGS 2010 "IoT for a Green Planet" International Conference for Industry and Academia, Tokyo, Japan

16 - 17 December 2010
FIA Ghent, Search Break Out Session, Ghent, Belgium

The Commission adopted a Communication proposing a "Digital Agenda for Europe" on May 19, 2010. It is the first of seven flagship initiatives under the "Europe 2020 Strategy" for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

The "Digital Agenda for Europe" outlines seven priority areas for action: creating a digital Single Market, greater interoperability, boosting internet trust and security, much faster internet access, more investment in research and development, enhancing digital literacy skills and inclusion, and applying information and communications technologies to address challenges facing society like climate change and the ageing population.

In February 2010 Neelie Kroes was appointed Commissioner for Digital Agenda (previously named Commissioner for Information Society and Media).

The Networked Media Team

Head of Unit
Luis Rodríguez-Roselló

Deputy Head of Unit
Bartolomé Arroyo Fernández

Scientific Officers
Loretta Anania
Isidro Laso Ballesteros
Martin Hahn
Georgios Kaiafas
Rossella Magli
Francisco Medeiros
Ertrit Puka
Jorge Santos

Communication Officer
Rossella Magli  

Graphic Support
Alexis Vandersteen

Editors
Rossella Magli
Alexis Vandersteen

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