Schedule

Wednesday, June 8
8:00

Bus shuttle from Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nürnberg to Erlangen:
Bus leaves punctual at 8:15
8:30 Registration
8:45 Tutorial I
Markus Kampmann: Standards for Adaptive HTTP Streaming		 Registration
10:15 Coffee Break
10:30

Tutorial II
Niko Färber: High-Definition Audio for Group-to-Group Communication
12:00 Lunch
13:00

Opening Ceremony
13:15 PLENARY I
Dr. Wenjun Zhang: The Outlook of Next Generation Television System
14:00 Coffee Break
14:15 Session 1A:
Signal Processing for Transmission		 Session 1B:
Channel Modeling and Simulation		 Session 1C:
Video Coding
and Processing
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Session 2A:
Signal Processing for Transmission		 Session 2B:
Display Technology, Mobile Portable and Handheld		 Session 2C:
Performance
Evaluation
18:15 Short Break
18:30 Barbecue
21:30

Bus shuttle to Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nürnberg

Thursday, June 9
8:15

Bus shuttle from Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nürnberg. Bus leaves punctual at 8:15
9:00 Announcements and TPC Report
9:15

PLENARY II:
Prof. Heinz Gerhäuser: Lessons Learned - A Difficult Transition from Analog to Digital Broadcasting
Dr. Bernhard Grill: Unified Speach/Audio Coding
10:45 Coffe break
11:15 Session 3A:
Signal Processing for Transmission		 Session 3B:
Networking
and QoS		 Session 3C:
Video Coding
and Processing
13:00  Lunch
14:00 Poster Presentation Coffee break
15:30 Session 4A:
Signal Processing for Transmission		 Session 4B:
Propagation & Coverage,
Traffic & Performance Monitoring		 Session 4C:
Field Trials
and Test Results
17:15

17:15 Bus shuttle from Fraunhofer IIS to Grand Hotel Nürnberg

(Approximately 30 minutes walk from Grand Hotel accross the historic center of Nuremberg to the Kaiserburg. Steep incline on the last 200 meters.)

18:30 Bus shuttle from Hotel Tennloher Hof, Erlangen to Kaiserburg
19:00

Social Event: Kaiserburg
- Mayor’s speech
- Committee speech
- Best Poster & Best Paper Award
23:00

Bus shuttle to Grand Hotel, Nuremberg and Hotel Tennenloher Hof, Erlangen

Friday, June 10
8:15

Bus shuttle from Grand Hotel, Nuremberg: Bus leaves punctual at 8:15
9:00 Announcements
9:15

PLENARY III:
Ulrich H. Reimers: The future of terrestrial broadcast: dynamic and hybrid
10:00 Short break
10:15 Session 5A:
Channel coding,
Modulation and Multiplexing		 Session 5B:
IPTV and Internet TV		 Session 5C:
Video Coding
and Processing
12:00  Lunch
13:00 Session 6A:
Channel coding,
Modulation and Multiplexing		 Session 6B:
Objective and Subjective Evaluation Techniques		 Session 6C:
DVT and Broadband
Multimedia Systems,
Service Deployments
14:45 Coffe break and Farewell
15:00

Bus shuttle to Le Méridien Grand Hotel Nürnberg

Session 1A: Signal Processing for Transmission - Wednesday, June 8 14:15
Open-Loop Unitary Precoding for Parallel Interference Cancellation in MIMO Systems
On Channel Estimation Method Using Time Domain Sequences in MIMO Systems
A Simplified MMSE Detection for Iterative Receivers in Multiple Antenna Systems
On Single Carrier MIMO Time Domain Equalization for Gbits High Frequency Band

Session 1B: Channel Modeling and Simulation - Wednesday, June 8 14:15
Lightweight IPTV Transport Option for Wireless Broadband Access
Radio channel models laboratory comparative study for the L-band DAB/DMB system
QoS Prediction for Mobile Satellite Broadcasting with Angle Diversity Based on Measurements
Photogrammetric Satellite Service Prediction – Correlation of RF Measurements and Image Data

Session 1C: Video Coding and Processing - Wednesday, June 8 14:15
Skin-tone Macroblock Detection For Video Coding
Inter-Intra frame Segmentation using colour and motion for Region of Interest Coding of Video
Motion-based Competitive Spatio-Temporal technique with Multi-Frame References for efficient H.264/AVC Motion Information Prediction
Improved Adaptive Arithmetic Coding Based on Optimal Segmentation of Code Symbols for Lossless Motion Vector Coding

Session 2A: Video Coding and Processing - Wednesday, June 8 16:30
Performance Evaluation of 4x2 MIMO Schemes for Mobile Broadcasting
Field experiments on dual-polarized MIMO transmission with ultra-multilevel OFDM signals toward digital terrestrial broadcasting for the next generation
A Power Efficient Framing Structure for a Next Generation Mobile Broadcast System
A Novel Dual-Polarized Transceiver in Layered SFBC-OFDM Broadcasting Systems

Session 2B: Display Technology, Mobile Portable and Handheld - Wednesday, June 8 16:30
Design and Implementation of DCAS User Terminal
On The Design of An Online Live Lecture Broadcast System Optimized for Mobile Usage
Spatio-Temporal Regularization Featuring Novel Temporal Priors and Multiple Reference Motion Estimation
MediaMTool: Multimedia Content Management Tool

Session 2C: Performance Evaluation - Wednesday, June 8 16:30
SFN Gain in Broadcast Networks
A Hybrid Metric for Digital Video Quality Assessment
Performance evaluation of DQOAS algorithm in case of applications generating VoIP and video streaming when a new QoS prioritization scheme for LTE is used
Performance of the DVB-T2 System in a Single Frequency Network: Analysis of the Distributed Alamouti Scheme

Session 3A: Signal Processing for Transmission - Thursday, June 9 11:15
On the reuse of DVB-T transmitter infrastructure for DVB-T2
DVB-T2 Performance in Presence of Multipath Laboratory Tests
Novel ICI Suppressing Receiver for High-Mobility DVB-T2 Reception with Large FFT Modes
Iterative Rake Structural Decision Feedback Equalization in Linear Single Frequency Network of Chinese High Speed Railway Television System

Session 3B: Networking and QoS - Thursday, June 9 11:15
Dynamic Frequency Selection for Next Generation Hierarchical Wireless Home Area...
WiMAX In-Network QoS Dependencies: Application Requests and Network Capabilities
A Slow Start Exponential and Linear Function-based Energy Saving MAC-layer...
Study of Network Performance with Application to Adapting HTTP Streaming

Session 3C: Video Coding and Processing - Thursday, June 9 11:15
Audio and visual attention models applied to 2D and 3D audio-visual content
Channel Division based on Foreground Segmentation in Multi-view Distributed Video Coding
Comparison between H.264/AVC Intra Transrating Schemes Based on Frequency Position and Frequency Level Selectivity
A Power Efficient Implementation of an RVC Encoder on a Many-Core Platform

Session 4A: Signal Processing for Transmission - Thursday, June 9 15:30
Cyclic Prefix Reconstruction for Single-Carrier Systems with Frequency-Domain Equalization
Equalization Digital On-Channel Repeater with a Feedback Interference Canceller for the ATSC Terrestrial DTV System
Low complexity implementation of channel estimation and equalization for TDS-OFDM system
On Approaching to Generic Channel Equalization Techniques for OFDM Based Systems in Time Variant Channels

Session 4B: Propagation & Coverage, Traffic & Performance Monitoring - Thursday, June 9 15:30
Resource Block Embedding: Towards High Throughput Broadband Multimedia Wireless Networks
Software Tool for the Analysis of Potential Impact of Wind Farms on Telecommunications Services
Minimizing mean client serving time and broadcast schedule cost in wireless push systems
Optimizing Point-to-Multipoint transmissions in High Speed Packet Access Networks

Session 4C: Field Trials and Test Results - Thursday, June 9 15:30
ISDBT-b Field Trials and Coverage Measurements with Gap-Filler in Suburban Environments
Field Measurements for ISDB-TB in the VHF Band
Extensive Penetration loss Measurements of HDTV Reception for Portable Indoor Reception in Singapore
Performance evaluation procedure for mobile DVB-T2 reception in urban environments

Session 5A: Channel coding, Modulation and Multiplexing - Friday, June 10 10:15
Transmit Antenna Switching: a Novel MIMO Scheme for OFDM Broadcasting Systems
Additional Data Transmission Scheme for the ATSC Terrestrial DTV Systems Based on a Low Rate Systematic Irregular Repeat-Accumulate Code
BB-iFEC for Next Generation Handheld DVB-NGH
A Software-Based Real-Time DVB-C2 Receiver

Session 5B: IPTV and Internet TV - Friday, June 10 10:15
Enhanced prioritization for video streaming over wireless home networks with IEEE 802.11e
Dynamic Stream and Display Control for Energy Efficient Video Streaming
Seamless Delivery Network Switching in Dynamic Broadcast - Terminal Aspects
Real-time Subtitle Synchronization in Live Television Programs

Session 5C: Video Coding and Processing - Friday, June 10 10:15
Flexible Complexity Control Based on Intra Frame Mode Decision in Distributed Video Coding
Quantizer design for correlation noise in distributed video coding
Super Resolution Video by Using Classified Multi-Filter Up-Sampling Algorithm
Performance Evaluation of H.264/MPEG4 Scalable Video Coding Depending on Spatial Resolution

Session 6A: Channel coding, Modulation and Multiplexing - Friday, June 10 13:00
Improving the Performance of Digital Radio Mondiale Plus (DRM+) by LDPC Channel Coding
High Efficiency Broadband Transmission with LDPC Codes over GF(2s)
Low Decoding Complexity STBC Design for Turbo Coded Broadcast Transmission
Improvement of HDTV mobile reception performance for ISDB-T using iterative decoding 8-branch space diversity technology

Session 6B: DVT and Broadband Multimedia Systems, Service Deployments - Friday, June 10 13:00
A Local Broadcast Network to Assist a Global Navigation Satellite System
Overview of ISDB-Tmm Services and Technologies
Heuristic Optimization of DVB-T/H SFN Coverage Unsing PSO and SA Algorithms
A Novel Broadband Communication System for Aircraft In-Flight Entertainment Applications

Session 6C: Objective and Subjective Evaluation Techniques - Friday, June 10 13:00
Evaluation of video quality metrics on transmission distortions in H.264 coded videos
Reduced Reference Image Quality Assessment using Principal Component Analysis
Quantifying QoE of Mobile Video Consumption in a Real-Life Setting Drawing on Objective and Subjective Parameters
Determining Image Quality Requirements for Recognition Tasks in Generalized Public Safety Video Applications: Definitions, Testing, Standardization, and Current Trends