VidTrans09 – Annual Technical Conference and Exposition - Los Angeles, California, USA

Photos from the VidTrans09 Conference held in Los Angeles on February 10-12, 2009

“Advancing Video Technologies: Innovative Options for Video Transport”
Conference Program & Presentations

• Attendance List (pdf, 31k)
  
  

Tuesday February 10, 2009
Session 1

1. Update of SMPTE Task Force on 3D to the Home (pdf, 83k)
   Bill Zou - DTS
   
   

2. Impairments for multiple JPEG2000 encoding/decoding for Television (pdf, 480k)
   Helge Stephansen - T-VIPS
   
   

3. Optimal JPEG 2000 Rate Allocation for Contribution (pdf, 1.14Mb)
   François-Olivier Devaux - intoPIX
   
   

4. Reducing Channel Change Times in IPTV with Real-Time Transport Protocol (pdf, 625k)
   Ali C. Begen - Cisco
   
   

5. Enabling Advanced Video Across a Home Network (pdf, 913k)
   William Simmelink – Coppergate Communications
   
   

6. VSF Awards Ceremony
   Derek Smith, VSF President - Pathfire
   
   

Session 2

1. FEC for VBR streams : challenges & solutions (pdf, 389k)
   Mary-Luc Champel -Thomson Grass Valley /Sean McCarthy- Motorola
   
   

2. Cop3vbr Activity Group Work Review (pdf, 353k)
   Carl Ostrom – System Resource
   
   

3. End-to-end video quality: The impact of different combinations and order of compression algorithms. (pdf, 2.06Mb)
   Chin Chye Koh - VPG
   
   

4. Seeing is Believing- Implementation of a Broadcast Operations Support System (OSS) for the Management of Converging Entertainment/Media and Telecommunications Networks. (pdf, 1.99Mb)
   Donald Stalter - Dimetis, GmbH
   
   

5. Timing and Synchronization in the 21st Century (pdf, 305k)
   Paul Briscoe - Harris
   
   

6. HBRAV – JPEG2K & Uncompressed Activity Group Work Review (pdf, 732k)
   John Dale - Media Links
   
   

Wednesday February 11, 2009
Session 3

1. 3-D, Digital Cinema, and Beyond (pdf, 2.46Mb)
   Michael Karagosian - MKPE Consulting
   
   

2. The Mainstream Shift of Online Content (pdf, 1.12Mb)
   Bill Wohnoutka - Level 3
   
   

3. a] Quality of Experience Activity Group Work Review (pdf, 275k)
   Pierre Costa - AT&T
   
   

3. b] EBU update on VCIP (pdf, 265k)
   Mathias Coinchon - EBU
   
   

4. Media Transport in an IP centric world (pdf, 520k)
   Per Lindgren - Net Insight
   
   

5. Why submarine cable is used and how it compares to satellites. (pdf, 1.26Mb)
   Joseph Hilt - Hibernia Atlantic
   
   

Session 4

1. Measuring and Monitoring IP Packet Jitter on Variable Bit Rate Multimedia Flows (pdf, 599k)
   Jim Welch – IneoQuest Technologies
   
   

2. Ensuring Quality of Experience (pdf, 419k)
   Steve Liu - Mixed Signals
   
   

3. Wireless Video Transport Using Unlicensed Microwave Bands (pdf, 742k)
   Wes Simpson - Telcom Product Consulting
   
   

Panel Discussion: "Migration from ATM to IP - Deployment of Video over IP Services"

• ATM-IP? (pdf, 211k)
  Pierre Costa - AT&T
  
  

• IP Transport 2 Case Studies (pdf, 288k)
  Jim Hopkins - Fox
  
  

• Ryan Korte - Vyvx
  
  
  

• Evolution of a Technology (pdf, 20k)
  John Mailhot - Harris
  
  

• ATM to IP Conversion (pdf, 222k)
  Dan Miner - DIRECTV
  
  

Thursday February 12, 2009
Session 5

1. How Big Ten Network Universities perform file transfers of HD contribution content over I2 for use in their nightly telecast. (pdf, 1.07Mb)
   Mike Wilken – Big Ten Network
   
   

2. A Biological Framework for Video Processing (pdf, 1.65Mb)
   Sean McCarthy - Motorola
   
   

3. Standards Based FEC for IPTV (pdf, 52k)
   Marshall Eubanks – American Free TV
   
   

4. Tour of DIRECTV's Los Angeles Broadcast Center
   Chris Homer - DIRECTV