The "Workshop on Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding" (free
registration at http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html) will be
organized in conjunction with the 26th Picture Coding Symposium
(PCS'2007) -  http://www.pcs2007.org  - to be held in Lisbon, Portugal,
next November 2007.


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Workshop on Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding
6 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal
http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html

Picture Coding Symposium - PCS'2007
7-9 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal
Paper submission deadline: 10 June 2007
http://www.pcs2007.org
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DISCOVER WORKSHOP - "Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding"
Date: 6 November 2007
Venue: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal (together with
       PCS'2007)

Programme

8:30 Welcome and Presentation of the DISCOVER Project
     Luis Torres, UPC, Spain, on behalf of the DISCOVER project.

Session I: Distributed Source Coding
           Session chair: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal.

8:50  Distributed Source Coding: An Overview
      Speaker: Zixiang Xiong, Texas A&M University, USA.
9:30  Distributed Joint Source-Channel Coding
      Speaker: Javier Garcia-Frias, University of Delaware, USA.
10:00 Distributed Source Coding with Unsupervised Statistical Learning
      Speaker: David Varodayan, Stanford University, USA.

Coffee Break (10:30– 10:50)

10:50 On Source and Channel Codes for Distributed Source Coding
      Speaker: Christine Guillemot, INRIA, France, on behalf of the
              DISCOVER project.
11:20 Distributed Source Coding for Secure Fingerprint Biometrics
      Speaker: Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories,
              MERL, USA.

Session II: Distributed Monoview Video Coding
           Session chair: Joern Osterman, University of Hannover, Germany

11:50 Side Information and the Correlation Channel in DVC
      Speaker: Inald Lagendijk, Technical University of Delft, The
              Netherlands.
12:20 DISCOVER Monoview Video Codec
      Speaker: Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal, on behalf of the
              DISCOVER project.

Lunch Break (12:50-14:30)

14:30 Error Resilience Assessment of the DISCOVER Codec
      Speaker: Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy, on
             behalf of the DISCOVER project.
15:00 Distributed Video Coding Applications for Scalable and Flexible
      Decoding
      Speaker: Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, University of Southern
              California, USA.
15:30 Distributed Video Coding: A Technique or a Toolbox?
      Speaker: Edward Delp, Purdue University, USA.

Coffee Break (16:00– 16:20)

Session III: Distributed Multiview Video Coding
             Session chair: Luis Torres, UPC, Spain

16:20 Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor
      Networks
      Speaker: Pier Luigi Dragotti, Imperial College, UK.
16:50 A Geometrical Framework for Distributed Coding of Multiview Images
      Speaker: Ivana Tosic and Pascal Frossard, EPFL, Switzerland.
17:20 Fusion and DISCOVER Multiview Approach
      Speaker: Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland, on behalf of the
              DISCOVER project.

17.50 End of the workshop