WITID 2006

January 16-18, 2006

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Overview:

With the advances in IT-infrastructure and multimedia technology, searching the media for the content of interest is becoming more important than ever. The main aims of MPEG 7 are to set standards for finding contents, purely based on multimedia content (video/image, sound) while MPEG21 sets a much wider picture of how multimedia content can be defined as digital objects and transported over the network. E-commerce technology and several electronic transactions, are small subsets of MPEG21 goals. Others services that can also benefit from handling multimedia content, is the News room, where TV broadcasters, can automatically find their programs on a vast amount of multimedia servers to be broadcasted / edited and prepared almost on line.

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1. Compression of audio and video for storage and networking

2. Segmentation of compressed video

3. Searching the media by multimedia content

4. Shape, Colour, Texture, Motion, as the prime search components

5. Video watermarking and its application to E-commerce, broadcasting and networking

6. Video News room and archives

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Managers of multimedia industry and multimedia researchers

Presenter’s Biography:

Professor Mohammad Ghanbari has the chair of Video Networking at the university of Essex. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IEE. He has published more than 110 Journal papers, presented 220 conference papers, authored 4 books, and has registered for 11 International patents. He has been associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and Guest editor to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and systems for Video Technology