7th E3 Concertation Meeting

7^th E3 Concertation Meeting

Interfaces & Enhanced Services,

Signal processing & Mixed Reality

Agenda

ORBAN building, Square Frere Orban 8,

Brussels, 5-6 February 2002

Tuesday, 5 February 2002

10:30–12:30 Plenary Session:

Welcome to all new projects

Activities in 2002

IST 8^th call
Concertation Meetings
Audit 2002 – organisational aspects
Conference and exhibitions
Participation in EUChina2002 and Net@Home
Media Futures 2002 Conference
Eurographics Barcelona 30-31 May 2002
Laval Virtual 19-23 June 2002
3DPTV Padova 19-21 June 2002
FP6 preparation

Presentations of General Interest

Schedule of Future Activities

Event	Date in 2002
Concertation Meeting 1	5-6 February
IMAGINA	12-14 February
EUROGRAPHICS, Barcelona	30-31 May
3DPTV Padova	19-21 June
Laval Virtual	19-23 June
MEDIA FUTURES 2002	?
IBC2002, Amsterdam	13-19 September
IST2002, Copenhagen	4-6 November
Net@Home	?
Audit 2002	?
Concertation Meeting 2	?
Concertation Meeting 3	?

14:00 - 15:00 Plenary Working Group

MPEG4 Play(er) Boys

The objective is to present and discuss MPEG-4 implementation, interoperability, rights management and DVB-MHP liaison issues. With contributions from the projects SoNG, SAMBITS, Piste, and provisionally from external organisations such: EBU, Blaxxun, Envivio, Mobile Media, 3iVX. A general overview opened to all projects will start the session.

15:00 - 18:00 Parallel Working Groups

Interfaces and Enhanced services

Continuation of MPEG4 Play(er) Boys

Signal Processing and Mixed Reality

Project reports – Free discussion on MR issues

Projects not interested in the MPEG-4 session are invited to send their proposal for presentation/issues to be discussed to Eric.Badique@cec.eu.int

Action Lines listed above are indicative. All interested projects are welcome to participate in any of the workshops.

Wednesday, 6 February 2002

09:00–12:30 Continuation of Parallel Working Groups

(extended) Home Environments and Standardisation

Presentation from Mr. Pierre Scokaert from (OpenSugar) on OSGI

Contributions from projects

@Home, Future-Home, Spation,…

Signal Processing and Mixed Reality

VHML - Virtual Human Modelling Language tutorial/workshop

Initiated by the IST InterFace Project, the purpose of the workshop is to discuss the current state of VHML (The Virtual Human Markup Language - www.vhml.org),, to demonstrate its effectiveness and believability in creating Talking Head interfaces, and to discuss VHML’s future as a specification language.

11:00–12:30 Parallel Working Group

Sub-group on Metadata Reference Document

All interested/contributing project partners are invited to download the latest version of the document (http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka4/vision/e3-clusters.htm) and prepare comments and/or further contribution.

14:00–15:30 Concluding Plenary Session: reporting from group work