VidTrans09 – Annual Technical Conference and Exposition
February 10 – 12, 2009
Los Angeles, California

“Advancing Video Technologies: Innovative Options for Video Transport”

Final Program

(as of 2/5/2009)

Tuesday February 10, 2009

8:30AM Session 1 Starts

1. Update of SMPTE Task Force on 3D to the Home
   Bill Zou - DTS
   
   
2. Impairments for multiple JPEG2000 encoding/decoding for Television
   Helge Stephansen - T-VIPS
   
   
3. Optimal JPEG 2000 Rate Allocation for Contribution
   François-Olivier Devaux - intoPIX
   
   10:00AM BREAK, 30 Minutes in Exhibit Hall
   
   Exhibits Open 10:00AM – 7:00PM
   
   
4. Reducing Channel Change Times in IPTV with Real-Time Transport Protocol
   Ali C. Begen - Cisco
   
   
5. Enabling Advanced Video Across a Home Network
   William Simmelink – Coppergate Communications
   
   
6. VSF Awards Ceremony
   Derek Smith, VSF President - Pathfire
   
   11:45AM Get-Together Luncheon in Exhibit Hall

1:15PM Session 2 Starts

1. FEC for VBR streams : challenges & solutions
   Mary-Luc Champel -Thomson Grass Valley /Sean McCarthy- Motorola
   
   
2. Cop3vbr Activity Group Work Review
   Carl Ostrom – System Resource
   
   
3. End-to-end video quality: The impact of different combinations and order of compression algorithms.
   Chin Chye Koh - VPG
   
   2:30PM BREAK, 30 Minutes in Exhibit Hall
   
   
4. Seeing is Believing- Implementation of a Broadcast Operations Support System (OSS) for the Management of Converging Entertainment/Media and Telecommunications Networks.
   Donald Stalter - Dimetis, GmbH
   
   
5. Timing and Synchronization in the 21st Century
   Paul Briscoe - Harris
   
   
6. HBRAV – JPEG2K & Uncompressed Activity Group Work Review
   John Dale - Media Links
   
   4:30PM Session Adjourn
   
   “Tuesday Reception – Exhibit Hall 5:00-7:00PM”
   
   

Wednesday February 11, 2009

8:30AM Session 3 Starts

1. 3-D, Digital Cinema, and Beyond
   Michael Karagosian - MKPE Consulting
   
   
2. The Mainstream Shift of Online Content
   Bill Wohnoutka - Level 3
   
   
3. a] Quality of Experience Activity Group Work Review
   Pierre Costa - AT&T
   
   b] EBU update on VCIP
   Mathias Coinchon - EBU
   
   10:00AM BREAK, 30 Minutes in Bayview Room Foyer
   
   Exhibits Open 11:45AM – 6:00PM
   
   
4. Media Transport in an IP centric world
   Per Lindgren - Net Insight
   
   
5. Why submarine cable is used and how it compares to satellites.
   Joseph Hilt - Hibernia Atlantic
   
   11:45AM Get-Together Luncheon in Exhibit Hall
   
   

1:15PM Session 4 Starts

1. Measuring and Monitoring IP Packet Jitter on Variable Bit Rate Multimedia Flows
   Jim Welch – IneoQuest Technologies
   
   
2. Ensuring Quality of Experience
   Steve Liu - Mixed Signals
   
   
3. Wireless Video Transport Using Unlicensed Microwave Bands
   Wes Simpson - Telcom Product Consulting
   
   2:30PM BREAK, 30 Minutes in Exhibit Hall


3:00PM “Migration from ATM to IP - Deployment of Video over IP Services”

Panel Discussion:


Jim Hopkins Fox	Ryan Korte Vyvx	John Mailhot Harris	Dan Miner DIRECTV



4:30PM Session Adjourn

“Refreshments – Exhibit Hall 4:30-6:00PM”

Thursday February 12, 2009

8:30AM Session 5 Starts

1. How Big Ten Network Universities perform file transfers of HD contribution content over I2 for use in their nightly telecast.
   Mike Wilken – Big Ten Network
   
   
2. A Biological Framework for Video Processing
   Sean McCarthy - Motorola
   
   
3. Standards Based FEC for IPTV
   Marshall Eubanks – American Free TV
   
   10:00AM Meeting Adjourn to DIRECTV Tour
   
   
4. Tour of DIRECTV's Los Angeles Broadcast Center (Approx 45minutes per group)
   Chris Homer - DIRECTV