EuroITV 2011 is over!
As you all know by now, EuroITV 2012 conference will be held in Berlin, Germany: so please spread the good news. http://www.euroitv2012.org/
We had 3 great days in Lisbon - June 29, 30 and July 1st - , for the presentation and discussion of high quality scientific papers, as well as workshop, tutorials, demos and posters. EuroITV 2011 attracted about 200 participants from such diverse countries as Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and USA.
NEW! EuroITV 2011 - videos of the keynote speakers and thematic sessions
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About the distinguished winners of EuroITV 2011 – here they are:
Best Paper Award - EuroITV 2011:
“iFelt: Accessing Movies Through Our Emotions”, by Eva Oliveira, Pedro Martins & Teresa Chambel (Portugal)
Other Best Paper nominees:
•“Television Audience Research in the Age of Convergence: Challenges and Difficulties”, by Nele Simons (Belgium)
•“Audiovisual Consumption as the Interplay of Objects, Texts and Contexts “, by Cédric Courtois, Pieter Verdegem & Lieven De Marez (Belgium/ Sweden)
•“Audience measurement and digitalisation: digital TV and Internet”, by Iris Jennes & Jo Pierson (Belgium)
•“Recording and Delivery of HbbTV Applications “, Jean-Claude Dufourd, Stéphane Thomas, Cyril Concolato (France)
“Textual authoring of interactive Digital TV applications”, by Roberto Gerson Azevedo, Carlos De Salles Soares Neto, Mario Meireles Teixeira, Rodrigo Costa Mesquista Santos & Thiago Alencar Gomes (Brazil)
Best Phd Award - EuroITV 2011:
"Subjective Quality Assessment of Free Viewpoint Video Objects", by Sara Kepplinger (Germany)
Other Best PhD nominees:
"Allocation Algorithms for Interactive TV Advertisements", by Ron Adany (Israel)
"Video Access and Interaction Based on Emotions", by Eva Oliveira (Portugal)
"Collaboration in Broadcast Media and Content", by Sabine Bachmayer (Austria)
Finally, the EuroITV 2011 Grand Challenge Competition Organizing Committee & Invited Jury Board have decided to nominate three winners:
1st place: "Leanback TV Navigation Using Hand Gestures", by Benny Bing (Magic Hand LLC, USA)
http://mymagichand.com
2nd place: "Video-Based Recombination For New Media Stories", by Alberto Piacenza, Fabrizio Guerrini, Nicola Adami, Riccardo Leonardi (Department of Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Italy) & Jonathan Teutenberg, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza (School of Computing, Teesside University, UK)
http://iris.scm.tees.ac.uk/
3rd place: "Astro First", by ASTRO (Malaysia)
http://www.astro.com.my/astrofirst/
See you all in EuroITV 2012, in Berlin!
EuroITV 2011 Adjunct Proceedings
Download here - EUROITV 2011 ADJUNCT PROCEEDINGS (PDF)
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EuroITV 2011 Programme
Check the EuroITV 2011 programme, for each day:
June 29 (Wednesday): pre-conference: workshops, tutorials and doctoral consortium, being held at ISCTE.
June 30 (Thursday): main conference, with keynote speakers, full-papers, short-papers, posters, demos and ITV in industry sessions, being held at Universidade Lusófona.
July 1 (Friday): main conference, with keynote speaker, full-papers, short-papers, posters, demos and ITV in industry sessions, plus awards, being held at Universidade Lusófona.
Conference Keynote Speakers
| Jonathan Taplin - "Long Time Coming; Has Interactive TV Finally Arrived?"  |
Fernando Pereira - "Visual Compression: the Foundational Technology for Better TV Experiences"  |
Al Kovalick - "The Media Cloud and it's Future"  |
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| Abstract: "For twenty years the possibility of a marriage between TV and the Web has been promised but not delivered. Now with the arrival of Google TV, and FIOS TV (from Verizon) a true interactive storytelling and ad platform have arrived. With these new tools, will the social network finally arrive on the Television? Taplin will talk about the future of the medium that still takes much of our leisure time." Jonathan Taplin is a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and Managing Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. Taplin's areas of specialization are in international communication management and the field of digital media entertainment. Taplin began his entertainment career in 1969 as Tour Manager for Bob Dylan and The Band. In 1973 he produced Martin Scorsese's first feature film, Mean Streets which was selected for the Cannes Film Festival - more... |
Abstract: "Digital visual compression technologies have been steadily evolving in the past 20 years with significant technological developments, impressive deployment of services and applications, and an amazing overall impact in our society. This impact is well expressed by the presence and effect in our lives of services and applications such as digital television, DVD, YouTube and Internet streaming." Fernando Pereira is a Professor at the Electrical and Computers Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/). Pereira has been participating in the MPEG standardization activities, notably as chairman of the MPEG Requirements Group and chairman of many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. His areas of interest are video analysis, coding, description and adaptation, and advanced multimedia services. - more.. |
Abstract: "Cloud computing will change the landscape of the media facility. Coverage includes review of fundamentals, business benefits, three cloud types compared, elasticity examples. Public and private clouds are contrasted. The "pay by the sip" cost models are examined using a costing calculator. Server virtualization is shown to be a key enabling technology for secure, efficient and on demand use of cloud computing resources. Compute benchmarks are provided. Examples of cloud-based media related applications are reviewed." Al Kovalick has worked in the field of hybrid AV/IT systems for the past 18 years. Previously, he was a digital systems designer and technical strategist for Hewlett-Packard. Following HP, from 1999 to 2004, he was the CTO of the Broadcast Products Division at Pinnacle Systems. Currently, he is with Avid and serves as an Enterprise Strategist and Fellow. - more... |
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Workshops for EuroITV 2011
| "Quality of Experience for Multimedia Content Sharing: Ubiquitous QoE Assessment and Support" "Interactive Digital TV in Emergent Economies" "Future Television: Making Television Personal and Social" |
Tutorials for EuroITV 2011
| "Designing and Evaluating Social Video and Television" "How to investigate the Quality of User Experience for Ubiquitous TV?" "Deploying Social TV: Content, Connectivity and Communication" |
Conference Tracks
This year's conference consists of four tracks, each with their own program committee and separate track chairs, coordinated by three overall program chairs. Full papers, short papers and posters have to be submitted in one of these tracks, to optimize the review process. If not sure, choose the track which is closest to the main topic of your submission, and of which you feel that community is most appropriate to review your work.
Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies
Track 4: Interactive Content & Arts
Conference Theme
The special theme is "Ubiquitous TV", with a focus on the redefinition of the concept of television itself, as it now refers not to a specific device, but rather a specific kind of content present almost everywhere, from the traditional TV set, to the PC, passing through the mobile phone or the screens in taxis and throughout the city, freeing television from the TV set and bringing it out of the home. Ubiquitous TV's key aspects will be considered, such as mobility, interactivity, personalization, empowerment (control, participation and UGC), and the social network mediation of communication practices.
Conference Organizing Committee
General Chairs:
- Manuel José Damásio, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
- Gustavo Cardoso, Lisbon Internet and Networks Institute, Portugal
Program Chairs:
- Célia Quico, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
- David Geerts, CUO, IBBT / K.U. Leuven, Belgium
Tutorials Chairs:
- Pablo Cesar, CWI, The Netherlands
- Jan Hess, University of Siegen, Germany
Workshop Chairs:
- Hendrik Knoche, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gunnar Harboe, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
- Martin López Nores, Universidade de Vigo, Spain
- Teresa Chambel, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Demonstration Chairs:
- George Lekakos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Short Papers & Posters Chairs:
- Jens Jensen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
- Shelley Buchinger, University of Vienna, Austria
- Marianna Obrist, University of Salzburg, Austria
iTV in Industry Chairs
- Patrick Huber, Sky Deutschland, Germany
- Rui Lopes, ISCTE, Portugal
Track Chairs:
Track 1: Human-Computer Interaction
- Jorge Abreu, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
- Lora Aroyo, Computer Science Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Track 2: Media, Social and Economic Studies
- Petter Bae Brandtzæg, SINTEF, Norway
- Wendy Van den Broeck, IBBT-SMIT, VUB, Belgium
Track 3: Systems and Enabling Technologies
- Cristian Hesselman, Novay, The Netherlands
- Marie José Monpetit, MIT – RLE, USA
Track 4: Interactive Content & Arts
- Maria Graça Pimentel, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
- Lyn Pemberton, University of Brighton, UK
EuroiTV 2011 Grand Challenge - Organizers:
- Artur Lugmayr, Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland
- Milena Szafir of Manifesto 21.TV, Brazil
Publicity Chair:
- Erika Reponen, Nokia Research Centre Tampere, Finland
- Celso Marcelo, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Local Chair:
- Carla Ales, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
EuroITV Policies and Bylaws
The EuroITV main program (the proceedings and other archival publications) is selected based on the merits of the submissions, as established by a double‐blind peer review process.EuroITV policies and practices are to comply with any rules of sponsoring or cooperating organizations that the conference is bound by. The present set of rules is believed to be in accordance with all relevant rules.
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