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Workshop Program

All presentations take place in room ‘Rector Vermeylen’ on the second floor.

Day 1: Tuesday, March 6, 2012

TimeTopicSpeaker
09:30 - 10:00Registration 
10:00 - 10:15Welcome and introductionWout Joseph and Luc Martens
Session chair: Luc Martens
10:15 - 11:00Future of Broadcasting and the Future InternetJohn Cosmas (Brunel University, UK)
11:00 - 11:45Local Event BroadcastingHugo Gauderis & Dominique Lievyns (Norkring, Belgium)
11:45 - 12:00Coffee break
12:00 - 12:45Challenges in Planning Mobile Broadcast NetworksPablo Angueira (UPV/EHU, Spain)
12:45 - 14:15Lunch
Session chair: David Plets
14:15 - 15:00Error Correction Codes for Next Generation Spectrum Green Mobile DTV SystemsBo Rong (CRC Canada)
15:00 - 15:45New Technical Developments in DVB-T2 and DVB-NGHPeter Moss (BBC, UK)
15:45 - 16:00Coffee break
16:00 - 16:45Explorative TelevisionPhilippe Bekaert, Peter Quax (UHasselt, Belgium)
16:45 - 17:00Information on social event
 
18:30 - ??Social event: guided round trip on canals in historic city centre, followed by dinner

 

Day 2: Wednesday, March 7, 2012

TimeTopicSpeaker
10:00 - 10:15IntroductionWout Joseph and Luc Martens
Session chair: Luc Martens
10:15 - 11:00Future of Broadcast Television: EuropeLieven Vermaele (EBU, Switzerland)
11:00 - 11:45Future of Broadcast Television - Super Hi-Vision: A future TV system conveying an enhanced sense of reality and presenceEisuke Nakasu (NHK, Japan)
11:45 - 12:00Coffee break
12:00 - 12:45Future of Broadcast: North AmericaWilliam T. Hayes (Iowa Public Television, US)
12:45 - 14:15Lunch
Session chair: Wout Joseph
14:15 - 15:00Using Adaptive Solutions in the Context of Multimedia BroadcastingGabriel-Miro Muntean (Dublin City University, Ireland)
15:00 - 15:453DTV and UHDTV: Battle of the Giants?David Wood (EBU, Switzerland)
15:45 - 16:00Closing speech