This talk reviews the recent achievements and future developments in the area of visual data representation with special emphasis on the most relevant standardisation projects. Reference will be made to the MPEG-4, H.26L, JPEG 2000 and MPEG-7 ongoing activities. Moreover this talk will discuss the research topics and trends which should deserve major attention after the recent and emerging milestones in terms of visual data representation technology and standards.
Speaker: Prof. Fernando Pereira
Instituto Superior Técnico
Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal
When: Monday, 2nd July 2001, 14:00 - 15:30
Where: HS C, University of Klagenfurt
Fernando Pereira was born in Vermelha, Portugal in October 1962. He
was graduated in Electrical and Computers Engineering by Instituto
Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, in
1985. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and
Computers Engineering from IST, in 1988 and 1991, respectively. He is
currently Professor at the Electrical and Computers Engineering
Department of IST. He is responsible for the participation of IST in
many national and international research projects. He is a member of
the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing: Image Communication
Journal and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and
Systems for Video Technology. He is a member of the Scientific
Committee of several international conferences. He is the author of
more than one hundred papers. He has participated in the work of
ISO/MPEG for many years, acting as the head of the Portuguese
delegation, and chairing many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and
MPEG-7 standards. His current areas of interest are video analysis,
processing, description and representation, and interactive multimedia
services.