PV 2012 - 2012 19th International Packet Video Workshop (PV)

The 2012 International Packet Video Workshop (PV 2012) is devoted to presenting technological advancements and innovations in video and multimedia transmission over packet networks, in particular wireless and Internet networks. The workshop provides a unique venue for people from the media coding and networking fields to meet, interact, and exchange ideas. Its charter is to promote the research and development in emerging video streaming and multimedia networking. PV 2012 will be held in Munich, Germany, on May 10-11, 2012. As in previous years, the workshop will be a single-track event and welcomes paper submissions from both cutting edge research and business and consumer applications.

Regular Sessions
Prospective authors are invited to submit an electronic version of full papers, in PDF format, up to 6 printed pages in length (double column). At least one author should register for the workshop at full rate for the inclusion of the paper in the PV 2012 proceedings. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the workshop. Topics of interest include:

Media streaming over Internet/wireless networks
Interactive video applications
Large scale multimedia processing and distribution via cloud computing
Peer-to-Peer systems
Multimedia stream mining
Network coding for multimedia communications
Multi-terminal media communications
Quality assessment for multimedia communication
Cross-layer optimization of multimedia systems
Scalable coding and delivery
Error resilient video coding and transport
Error concealment and post-processing
Telecollaboration and telepresence
Speech, audio, image, graphics, video and text coding for network communication
Standards for multimedia communication and related issues
Multimedia processing and distribution in online communities
Animation, virtual reality and 3D imaging over network
Network gaming and graphical communication
Security, privacy, and protection for multimedia delivery
Distributed multimedia database and digital library
Network economics for multimedia application
Communication aspects of mobile augmented reality and media search
Special Sessions
Prospective authors are also invited to submit papers to the special sessions:

1) Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

Organizer: Thomas Stockhammer Nomor Research, Germany

2) Streaming of 3D content

Organizers: Gene Cheung National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Bruno Macchiavello University of Brasilia, Brazil

3) QoE-driven media delivery

Organizer: Maria Martini Kingston University, UK

4) Cloud-based media delivery

Organizers: Yonggang Wen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Xiaoqing Zhu Cisco, USA

5) IPTV: Contribution, Distribution and Consumption of Entertainment-Grade Video

Organizer: Ali Begen Cisco, Canada

6) Video coding, transmission and rendering for high-quality video conferencing and telepresence

Organizers: Frank Hartung FH Aachen, Germany

Per Fröjdh Ericsson Research, Sweden

Mathias Wien RWTH Aachen, Germany
Important Dates

Paper submissions December 15, 2011

Notification of acceptance February 29, 2012

Camera-ready paper submissions March 30, 2012