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WEDNESDAY
January 9, 2008
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T1.1
2:30 - 6:00 PM
Organizer:
Sorin Stan
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Design
of Digital Storage for the Next Decade of Consumer
Electronics
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates, U.S.A.
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Abstract
Tom Coughlin will present highlights from his
new book Essentials to Digital Storage in Consumer
Electronics as well as perspectives on the design
of digital storage in consumer products. Digital
storage is a key enabling technology driving the
growth of consumer products and this tutorial
will cover:
- the
important drivers in the consumer storage market
- the
economics of the consumer electronics market
and the impact on product cost and distribution
channels
- the
role digital storage plays in the overall consumer
experience including content creation and delivery
- projections
on the growth of personal vs. commercial storage
- the
increasing role of consumers in creating and
distributing as well as enjoying content
- how
digital storage is used in consumer products
today including DVRs, home media centers, home
network and direct attached storage, mobile
storage devices and mobile A/V players
- a
digital storage hierarchy for static and mobile
applications
- basic
concepts and rules for the design of digital
storage for static and mobile consumer applications
including memory chain design and mobile power
budget
- new
developments in digital storage technologies
and how different storage technologies can be
used together to enhance the overall consumer
experience
- how
to choose the right digital storage technology
from the storage hierarchy
- developing
requirements for network storage as well as
single device storage and requirements for all
consumer storage to become part of an overall
virtualized storage network
- the
role of in-home and remote backup, file sharing,
remote access and content synchronization in
future consumer storage scenarios
- the
impact of social networking and new entertainment
and content creation and sharing experiences
on storage growth
- a
theory for the growth of storage demand to satisfy
new content sharing and social networking requirements
- new
models for the creation of applications that
use significant digital storage to decrease
end product costs and improve performance and
reliability
Bio
Tom
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Tom is the Founder and President of Coughlin Associates.
Tom has over 30 years of experience in the data
storage industry as a working engineer and high
level technical manager. In addition to regular
technical and management consulting projects he
is the publisher of several reports covering technology
and applications for digital storage devices and
systems including storage components, capital spending
and technology trends, a series on storage and digital
entertainment including an annual report on digital
storage for consumer electronics as well as one
on digital storage for entertainment creation and
distribution and a series on system storage. He
has many published reports and articles. He has
6 patents on magnetic recording and related technologies.
Tom is the founder and organizer of the annual Storage
Visions Conference. Tom is a senior member and 2007
chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE Section
and was chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE
Consumer Electronics Society in 2006 and past chairman
of the SCV IEEE Magnetics Society more than once.
Tom is a member of the IEEE CE Society Adcom. He
is also a member of APS, AVS, IDEMA, SNIA, AAAS,
TCG and SMPTE.
Coughlin Associates
408-202-5098 (cell)
408-871-8808 (office)
408-370-4609 (fax)
tom@tomcoughlin.com
www.tomcoughlin.com
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T1.2
2:30 - 6:00 PM
Organizer:
Uwe E. Kraus
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Mobile
TV - With A Special Emphasis On DVB Systems
Ulrich Reimers
Technische Universitaet
Braunschweig, Germany
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Abstract
The tutorial will start with an introduction to
mobile TV answering the question: What can 3G
systems offer today and tomorrow and where are
their limitations. This leads to the definition
of target systems which are broadcast-based. The
next section will introduce the existing system
proposals like DVB-H, FLO, 1SEG, T-DMB, and the
Chinese proposals which still look for a final
name. These systems will described and compared
to a certain extent (here at the ISCE 2007 in
Dallas one of my researchers presented an in-depth
comparison of DVB-H / FLO concentrating on the
performance of the PHYs). I will then move on
to a more detailed analysis of DVB-H and IP Datacast
in which I will not forget to mention OMA Bcast
and the work on-going to harmonize DVB-H and T-DMB
on the higher layers. The presentation will conclude
with a section on prospects of market introduction
and a glimpse at the future: DVB-H2.
Bio
Ulrich
H. Reimers
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Ulrich H. Reimers studied communication engineering
at Technische Universitaet Braunschweig (Braunschweig
Technical University), Germany. Following research
at the university’s Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik
(Institute for Communications Technology) he joined
BTS Broadcast Television Systems in Darmstadt.
Between 1989 and 1993 he was Technical Director
of Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hamburg - one
of the major public broadcasters in Germany. Since
1993 he has been a Professor at Technische Universitaet
Braunschweig and Managing Director of the Institut
fuer Nachrichtentechnik (Institute for Communications
Technology). Prof. Reimers is chairman of the
Technical Module within the DVB Project and a
board member of Deutsche TV-Plattform (the German
institution co-ordinating the interests of all
organisations involved in TV). He is the author
of more than 100 publications, among others of
various text books on DVB.
In 1995 Prof. Reimers was awarded the Montreux
Achievement Gold Medal for his contributions to
the development of the DVB technology. In 1998
he received the IBC John Tucker Award and was
made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Television
Society of the United Kingdom. In July 1999 he
received the J. J. Thomson Medal of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (IEE). In June 2000 he
was awarded the 1st class Cross of Merit of the
Lower Saxony (Germany) Order of Merit. In October
2000 he was awarded a Diploma of Honour of the
National Association of TV and Radio Broadcasters
(HAT) of Russia. In June 2001 he was the recipient
of the Leibniz Ring and of the IEEE Masaru Ibuka
Consumer Electronics Award. In September 2002
Prof. Reimers received the IEEE Consumer Electronics
Engineering Excellence Award 2002. In May 2004
he was awarded the Richard-Theile-Medaille of
FKTG in Germany. In January 2006 he was elected
a Fellow of the IEEE. In March 2006 the International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) made Prof. Reimers
a member of their Hall of Fame. In October 2006
Prof. Reimers received the Technology Award of
the Eduard Rhein Foundation in Germany. On 17
January 2007 he was elected as 1st Vice President
of the Consumer Electronics Society of the IEEE.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich H. Reimers
Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik
{Institute for Communications Technology}
Technische Universitaet Braunschweig
{Braunschweig Technical University}
Schleinitzstrasse 22 38106
Braunschweig Germany
Tel.: +49 531 391 2480
Fax: +49 531 391 5192
E-Mail: u.reimers@tu-bs.de www:
www.ifn.ing.tu-bs.de |
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THURSDAY
January 10, 2008
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T2.1
8:30-12:00 Noon
Organizer:
Uwe E. Kraus
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Audio
& Speech Technology for Consumer Electronics - Basics,
Technical Challenges and Applications
Reinhard Moeller
Univ. of Wuppertal, Germany
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Abstract
Sound, noise and speech are more and more taking
major roles in user interaction, although on different
levels of implementation. While the idea of intelligent
talking machines that also understand a human
operator, a dream of man since 17th century, has
still some major problems, audio technology for
reproduction and communication of music content
has been well developed for decades. It has led
to the development of many types of electronic
devices starting with simple audio recording and
playing devices and later with special high fidelity
music centers. Today's music centers are portable,
using iPods or any ordinary mobile phone to store
and reproduce audio content, besides other. Communication,
storage and processing have mainly changed from
analog to digital and, in terms of audio data,
this concerns speech and sound processing as well.
A special field of research and development is
in the use of speech for interaction between man
and machine. While speech output from a talking
device, for example a car navigation system telling
the right way, is quite common, a complex speech-based
dialog between human and device is still at its
beginning. This will change in the near future
as the computing power of consumer electronics
devices is instantly growing and complex algorithms
can be implemented at low cost. This tutorial
will provide a technical introduction to audio
technology with a focus on speech technology.
It will present main concepts of acquiring, storing
and communication of audio data, along with the
corresponding mathematical elements and applications.
Concerning the speech technology, major elements
of speech input and output, especially voice and
speech recognition, voice control, speech synthesis
and speech processing, will be presented. Related
applications and utilization scenarios taken from
home environment, security and biometry as well
as design limitations will be addressed.
Bio
Reinhard Moeller |
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Dr. Möller is working in automation and process
informatics since 1981. He has led more than 100
small and medium projects in automation, multimodal
human-process-communication, graphical simulation,
visualization and hardware architectures.
Dr. Möller is working in automation and process
informatics since 1981. He has led more than 100
small and medium projects in automation, multimodal
human-process-communication, graphical simulation,
visualization and hardware architectures.
His industrial career began with Siemens as technician
in electrical energy. He received his university
diploma in electrical engineering 1981. After
graduation he worked in different companies, developing
gages for mining industries and software for process
visualization.
Since 1981 he is also free-lancing in electronics
and automation. Dr. Möller started his university
career after receiving the doctoral grade in 1986
and his venia legendi 1995. From 2006 until today
he has been apl. Professor at the Department of
Electrical, Information and Media Engineering,
University of Wuppertal, Germany.
Dr. Möller teaches graduate level classes in computer
graphics and human-computer interaction since
1987, software technology and electrical engineering
since 1994 and process informatics since 2001.
Since April 2006 he represents the whole curricula
of the chair of Automation and Process Informatics
at the University of Wuppertal where his research
activities cover disciplines like systems modelling
and technology, computer networks and database
engineering and human computer interaction.
University of Wuppertal
Faculty E
Electrical, Information, Media Engineering Automation/Process
Control Engineering
(Graphics and Simulation Group)
Rainer-Gruenter-Str. 21
42119 Wuppertal
Germany
Tel. +202-439-1042
Fax. +202-439-1944
r.moeller@computer.org
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T2.2
8:30-12:00 Noon
Organizer:
Simon Sherratt
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Introduction
to CableCARD™: History, Technology, Applications
and Future
Craig Gwydir
BitRouter, U.S.A.
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Abstract
While CableCARD technology has made bold promises
to eliminate the cable set-top box, its adoption
to date has not held up to the fanfare. Still, CableCARD
technology provides unique opportunities for consumer
electronics manufacturers and consumers alike. FCC
involvement has pushed CableCARD technology to the
forefront in 2007 because of government mandates
requiring future deployment of CableCARD enabled
set-top boxes . Will CableCARDs succeed in the consumer
marketplace? What advantages and disadvantages do
CableCARDs provide the consumer? What new capabilities
do the latest generation CableCARDs provide and
how could this impact the digital television marketplace?
How do CableCARDs affect the PC marketplace and
how are the major players positioned? How does Microsoft
Vista fit in?
This tutorial will focus on CableCARD technology
beginning with a historical background, followed
by a discussion of CableCARD technology and architecture
as it applies to previous (S-CARD) and current (M-Card)
CableCARD standards. Differences observed in real-world
testing between CableCARD headends shall be discussed.
Variations of CableCARD technology, including OCUR
and M-UDCP shall be introduced. Applications of
CableCARD including EPG and Pay-per-View will be
covered. Discussion of one-way and two-ways usage
scenarios as it relates to cable systems is provided.
Other topics covered include certification processes,
cable operators, FCC roadmaps and relations to DCAS.
Bio
Craig
Gwydir
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Craig Gwydir currently works as a Principal
Architect for BitRouter developing conditional access
solutions. He is responsible for the design, development,
certification testing and deployment of BitRouter’s
PODstack and mCARDstack CableCARD products. Due
to the lack of CableCARD test products, Craig developed
head-end solutions for testing CableCARD technology
while at BitRouter. Craig began his career designing
embedded operating systems at the IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center for use in consumer, industrial
and networking environments. While at IBM Research,
Craig received a Research Division Award for “Contributions
to X-Windows” for his application of X-Windows technology
to embedded environments. Craig worked for Microware
Systems Corporation to lead development efforts
for the Intel x86 and MIPS versions of the OS-9
embedded operating system, now deployed in the marketplace.
He has worked for Reefedge Networks in the area
of wireless network security, developing secure
Linux systems and designing secure network protocols
for memory constrained devices. Craig Gwydir received
a B.S. in Computer Science in 1989 from Polytechnic
University in New York.
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T3.1
2:30 -6:00 PM
Organizer:
Simon Sherratt
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Advances
in Video Compression
Antonio Navarro
University of Aveiro, Portugal
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Abstract
Over the last two decades, IEC (DV), ITU (H26x)
and MPEG (MPEG-x Video) have developed several compression
standards which were programmed into many consumer
devices. The recent advances in video compression,
networking and transmission technologies have placed
the user in the center of an ubiquitous access to
the video enriched information. In the context of
future video networking, all-IP and Peer-to-Peer
based, new video compression techniques like scalability,
multiple descriptive coding and distributed video
coding will play an important role in order to facilitate
the huge amount of data to be exchanged amongst
users who are now becoming content producers.
This tutorial will present the state-of-art of video
compression standards and the most recent video
coding algorithms. The tutorial will briefly review
video transportation techniques over IP and broadcasting
networks and will also discuss the key challenges,
and outline the potential applications and research
directions.
Bio
Antonio
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Antonio Navarro was born in Mozambique in 1966.
He graduated (five years first degree) in electrical
engineering from Coimbra University, Portugal in
1989 and received the MSc and PhD degrees from the
University of Coimbra, Portugal and the University
of Newcastle, UK in 1993 and 1996, respectively.
He is currently Professor at the Electronics and
Telecommunications Engineering Department at Aveiro
University, Portugal, where he lectures courses
on coding and transmission of video/TV signals at
undergraduate and graduate levels. He has supervised
more than 30 pos-graduate students. He has also
been lecturing a Multimedia Coding course in a joint
pos-graduate program with Carnegie Mellon University.
In the 2nd semester of 2004, he was on sabbatical
leave at University of Southern California-USA.
His research interests are on information theory,
optimization, rate-distortion, digital television,
video coding, video scalability and transcoding,
multiple description coding and reliable wireless
transmission of video based multimedia services.
Besides theoretical work, Prof. Navarro has supported
national and international top companies through
industrial cooperation projects. Antonio has participated
and led successfully more than 20 national and European
projects and co-authored around 100 papers, one
granted patent and one patent application. Antonio
is the Leader of SUIT, an European IST project (IST-4-028042)
in the area of multiple description scalable video
coding over DVB-T/H and WiMAX convergent networks
and is now also leading a national project involving
a highly computational efficient implementation
of an MPEG-4/AVC/H.264 scalable encoder. Furthermore,
he was the leader of several prototype developments,
as for instance, a multimode and multistandard DVB
Set-Top-Box in 2002, an MPEG-4 based audio visual
coding and transmission system over HF (Short Wave)
channels in 2004, and a distributed wireless home
multimedia platform in 2004. In 1990, in the early
years of video coding, he co-designed and implemented
an ITU-T H.261 modular solution with fourteen TMS320C30
DSPs. Antonio has a solid experience on visual coding,
networking and wireless digital transmission techniques
as well as a strong experience on designing architectures
for video processing based on DSPs (C30, C6416,
DM642) and Xilinx (Virtex) FPGAs. He is the Head
of the Digital Television and Mobile Video (DTMV)
research group at the Telecommunications Institute
(IT), a group with a long experience, about 20 years,
in researching and developing in the area of video
coding and transmission. He has set up a lab which
allows researching up to 1080p video resolutions
and 110GHz transmission frequencies. The lab is
fully equipped with DVB-T/H/RCT and MPEG equipments.
He is currently Associate Editor for IEEE Trans.
on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and
has served as a reviewer of several IEEE journals
(IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
IEEE Trans Image Processing, IEEE Trans Multimedia,
IEEE Trans Broadcasting, IEEE Trans on VLSI, IEEE
Communications Letters, IEEE Networks) and conferences.
He has actively been involved in some DVB TMs and
in some MPEG AdGs as well as acted as a consultant
to the Portuguese Frequency Regulatory Body in activities
of digital terrestrial TV. Antonio is the Organizing
Committee Chair of the 12th IEEE International Symposium
on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2008). Recently, in
2005, he received the IT Award for outstanding scientific
achievements.
Prof. Antonio Navaro, Ph.D.
Telecommunications Institute Electronics and Telecommunications
Eng. Dep.
University of Aveiro-University
Campus 3810
Aveiro-Portugal
Tel: +351 234 377900
fax: +351 234 377901
E-mail: navarro@av.it.pt
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T3.2
2:30 - 6:00 PM
Organizer:
Reinhard Moeller
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ZigBee
KF Tsang
City University of Hong Kong
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Abstract
ZigBee is the set of specs built around the
IEEE 802.15.4 wireless protocol. The 802 group
is the section of the IEEE involved in network operations
and technologies, including mid-sized networks and
local networks. Group 15 deals specifically
with wireless networking technologies. ZigBee devices
are actively limited to a through-rate of 250Kbps,
compared to Bluetooth's much larger pipeline of
1Mbps, operating on the 2.4 GHz ISM band, which
is available throughout most of the world. In the
consumer market ZigBee is being explored for everything
from linking low-power household devices such as
smoke alarms to a central housing control unit,
to centralized light controls.
The basics of the ZigBee will first be introduced
and a review of current applications as well as
future applications of ZigBee will be given. A new
concept for ZigBee application, namely LoBee and
HiBee will then be discussed. Driven by new applications,
the following issues will be discussed. The issues
are: network management, routing algorithm, QoS
control strategy and address assignment etc. Demonstrations
will be conducted and an example(s) of the next
generation ZigBee application will be discussed.
Bio
KF
Tsang
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Dr.
Tsang obtained the Ph.D. degree from the
University of Wales College of Cardiff.
He has worked in both the Hong Kong Polytechnic
and the City Polytechnic of Hong Kong as
a Research Assistant for three years since
1983. He then joined Corad Technology Ltd.
as a Product Executive for about one-and-a-half
years. In March 1988, he joined the City
University of Hong Kong as a Lecturer in
the Department of Electronic Engineering.
Dr. Tsang is now an Associate Professor.
KF has been working closely with the industry
and made significant contribution. To better
facilitate research work, the Citycom Technology
Ltd. was set up in 1997 (till date) to consolidate
his applied research. Former development
included the design and development of a
3G data decoder, strongly encrypted wireless
links for utilities, a portable GSM cellular
phone, mobile phone infrastructure, wireless
home/office automation system, security
system, pager, two-way radios including
FRS and PMR, the investigation of electromagnetic
interference … etc. KF is recently working
heavily on WiMax and ZigBee development
for numerous applications including PCMCIA,
WiMax dongle, wireless system for train
arrival/departure management, building management,
security, office/home automation… etc. As
a result of his dedications, KF was awarded
the Prize winner of the Applied Research
Excellence Award by the City University
of Hong Kong in 1997. In addition, KF won
the Certificate of Merit in both the first
Hong Kong Science & Product Innovation Competition
in 1998 and the World Chinese Invention
Exposition’98. In February 2000, KF was
awarded the EDN Asia Innovator Award. Last
but not least, in April 2000, Dr. Tsang
was awarded the Super-Wireless Application
Award in a contest organized by Ericsson.
KF has published more than eighty technical
papers. He is a reviewer for the IEEE Transaction
on Circuits and Systems, Part I, the Journal
of Solid-State Circuits and the IEEE Transaction
on Vehicular Technology. He is also an interviewer
for the IET Charter Member application.
KF is the chairman of IEEE Consumer Electronics
Society Hong Kong chapter (2007) and also
the CEO of Citycom Technology Ltd. specializing
in ZigBee and WiMax development. in a contest
organized by Ericsson.
KF has published more than eighty technical
papers. He is a reviewer for the IEEE Transaction
on Circuits and Systems, Part I, the Journal
of Solid-State Circuits and the IEEE Transaction
on Vehicular Technology. He is also an interviewer
for the IET Charter Member application.
KF is the chairman of IEEE Consumer Electronics
Society Hong Kong chapter (2007) and also
the CEO of Citycom Technology Ltd. specializing
in ZigBee and WiMax development.
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