Consultation Workshop

Future R&D Challenges on Networked

Media Systems
Welcome and Context
Luis Rodrguez-Rosell
Director a.i Converged Networks & Services
Head of Unit Networked Media Systems
DG-INFSO
Brussels, 19th of January 2010

EU R&D on Networked Media

The current project portfolio and clusters

Media Delivery Platforms and Content Delivery

Networks: High quality TV via P2P; Digital Cinema,
Next generation of P2P; IPTV and VoIP over IMS;
Seamless content delivery; Scalable video coding

User Centric Media: Shared interactive

3D Media: Mobile 3D TV over DVB-H; Digital

Multimedia Search: P2P search; P2P tagged

experiences; Community content (including cocreation); Dynamic personalisation and interaction;

Seamless integration of UGC and professional
content; Real-time context-aware media streaming;
New forms of mobile music; Networked games
environments; Interactive multimedia experiences

Cinema; Content generation and delivery of 3D

digital TV; Spatial sound and vision; Feeling of
physical presence

media; Multimedia content analysis; Automated

annotation; Mixed-media queries; Data fusion;
Location-based; Retrieval of 3D objects; Direct
Search

The Work Programme 2009-2010:

what was called for

Content-aware Networks and Network-aware Applications

User generated content/social networks, Enriched media
experiences (at the Extended Home, contentandcontextaware,

personalised,socialmedia,realtime).OptimalQoE.Usersasproducers,
consumers,managersofcontent.

3DMediaInternet
Mass distribution, real time delivery and rendering,
representation, augmented worlds.

NetworkedSearchandRetrieval
Large scale distributed MM content, interaction, dynamic
adaptation to context and application, personalised search

ImmersiveMediaExperiencesbeyondHDTVandElectronicCinema
NextgenerationMMandcinema:higherQoE(framerates,contrast

range,colour,resolution,spacialisedsound,3D,innovative
3D/multiviewpointcoding)

Upcoming R&D on Networked Media and

3D Internet (1/2)

Content-aware Networks and Network-aware Applications:

Networked Media ecosystem
Content-centric network architecture
P2P architecture for User Generated Content
Network-controlled adaptive content delivery

OptimizationofbandwidthofHDSDIPTVandInternetTVstreaming
Collaborative,social,contextawareandscalablemediadistribution
Optimizationofcontentsourceselectionanddistribution(user
preferences,networkstate
Compressionanddeliveryofmultiviewvideoandmultichannelaudio
EuropeanreferencearchitectureforFutureMediaInternet
ContributionofNetworkedMediacommunitytoWebstandards

Upcoming R&D on Networked Media and

3D Internet (2/2)
3DMediaInternet&ImmersiveMediaExperiences
New paradigms for realistic 3D communication over the
Internet Virtual instantaneous transportation of people
Real time interaction between humans and virtual humans
Immersive and interactive TV (live events, ultra-high
resolution panoramas)
3D display and transmission of multi-view signals
New forms for the creation and delivery of live media
content (automatic capturing of the events in 3D, realistic,
interactive and immersive play-back)
Virtual Centre of Excellence

NetworkedSearchandRetrieval
Open platform for multimedia and multimodal content
indexing, sharing, search and retrieval
Use of events as the primary means to organise and index
media: experiential, new social networking (event-based
communities), personalised, automated media search and
content retrieval
European coordination action

Future Research

Preparatory work for the Work Programme 2011-2012 in

Networked Media Systems

Public consultation (closed 19th December 2009)

Workshop on future R&D challenges in Networked Media

Systems based on the results of the public consultation;
Topical Workshops
Immersive media experiences
Broadcast driven Media in the Future Internet

Convergence Internet/Broadcasting+ / The Future of Digital Broadcasting

Other Workshops (3D, User Centric Media)

NEM Strategic R&D Agenda (vers. 7, Sept 2009)

Future Internet (R&D agenda, Public Private
Partnership - PPP)

R&D Challenge in ICT (Long-term issues): Future Media & 3D Internet

PPP: Linking technologies with applications: Smarter Infrastructures (smart
health, smart energy, smart living); service architectures; user-centric
open innovation schemes, closer to the market.