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Microsoft and Nokia to deliver video compression tutorials at GSPX 2005

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, July 25, 2005

Global Technology Conferences, Inc. has announced the Video Compression Tutorials for GSPx 2005. GSPx 2005, the pervasive signal processing event, will take place October 24-27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in California.

"Video compression technology is evolving at a rapid pace," said Dr. Amnon Aliphas, GSPx conference chair. "GSPx 2005 will provide attendees with direct insight into this field and help position them to win in the new marketplaces being created."

Dr. Sridhar Srinivasan, Development Leader of Windows Media Codecs Group for Microsoft, will lead the four-module tutorial on VC-1. Srinivasan has contributed to the architecture, design and implementation of the WMV9 codec and is involved in the standardization of the VC- bitstream format. The four-module tutorial will cover:

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1. Introduction to VC-1

2. Implementation of the VC-1 decoder

3. Getting the most out of the VC-1 format (implementation of encoder)

4. VC-1 systems

Dr. Marta Karczewicz will lead a tutorial on the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC coder. The tutorial will provide attendees with the history of the MPEG-4 AVC standard and a comparison to previous standards. It will also cover new video coding layer elements, system integration, error resilience, MPEG-4 AVC payload and file formats, new standardization initiatives such as SVC (Scalable Video Coder) and more.

Karczewicz, Senior Research Manager at Nokia Research Center, is actively participating in work on MPEG-4 AVC and SVC standards within Joint Video Team (JVT) of ISO/IEC MPEG and ITU-T VCEG. She has 13 patents in the area of Information Technology and has authored or co-authored over 20 publications, receiving EURASIP's 1997 Award for the Best Paper of the Year.

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Microsoft and Nokia to deliver video compression tutorials at GSPX 2005

EDP Weekly's IT Monitor, July 25, 2005

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