The NEM (Networked & Electronic Media) European Technology Platform has successfully organised its fourth international conference and exhibition, entitled « NEM Summit 2011» on 27-29 September in Turin (Italy).  NEM reaffirmed its ambition to be the key independent stakeholder in the Networked Electronic Media towards Future Media Internet and a vital contributor in implementing the European Digital Agenda.

The NEM summit 2011 : the “not-to-be-missed” event for all those interested in the Future Internet

The NEM Summit, organised under the aegis of the European Commission and in close cooperation with key industrial and academic players worldwide, has become the “not-to-be-missed” annual occasion to meet key stakeholders, access up-to-date information, discover the latest trends, identify research and business opportunities, find new partners for upcoming FP7 calls, increase the visibility of projects and initiatives, and a key networking opportunity.

Beyond event sponsors, NEM Summit exhibitors also included R&D projects funded under the European Commission’s FP7 programme (or other related programmes) and addressing network and electronic media technologies and ICT at large.  After the first three successful editions, the 2011 event has featured over 300 participants (see attendee list), 50 exhibitors, and 20 artists participating in the “NEM Art Contest”.

2011 NEM Summit Statistics

The NEM Summit was the event for those interested in the Future Internet and in the fast paced evolution of the networked and electronic media industry : Immersive and Pervasive Media, Cloud Media, Social Media, User Media. The conference attracted 28 papers covering the full range of NEM areas of interest.  The quality of papers was higher than ever, and an award for best paper went to Technicolor for the paper entitled “Experimentation of Multipath HTTP Streaming over Internet“. A selection of papers from the Summit are published in Journal Computer Communications and NEM web site.

The initiative of mixing the creative Art and the NEM communities was pursued through the second edition of the NEM Sandpit and the NEM Art Contest. An award was delivered to the piece of art that makes the most innovative use of networks and media to Virva Emilia Auvinen for her work on “Isabella – The Secret Recipes” that blended real historic references into a beautifully illustrated game concept that makes history and learning come alive for children. The Summit was concluded by a NEM Art performance ‘Lighting Choreographer’ by Japanese artists from Kobe University.

NEM European Technology platform : where New Media Content and Networks meet

The September 27th twelfth General Assembly elected a new board and reassessed its ambition to be a key independent stakeholder in the networked electronic media sector; aiming at building sustainable European leadership in content production and networking technologies. Its objective is to promote an innovative European approach to the convergence of media and telecommunications towards a Future Media Internet that will enhance the lives of European citizens through a richer media experience. NEM has a 6-year track record of delivering a vision (“a new sector where contents and users meet networks”) that includes regular updates of the Strategic Research Agenda, position papers, and newsletters to the benefit of the Networked Electronic Media sector. NEM members adopted the NEM Position Paper on Future Research Directions and its contribution towards the preparation of the FP7 ICT Work Programme 2013 and the future Programme Horizon 2020 (NEM Position Paper on Future Research Directions – Opportunities for an Innovative Digital Europe) .

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2011 NEM Summit highlights videos

Resources

- Papers related to most presentations can be downloaded in the Program section of this website.

Press Review

• Torino la Repubblica.it
• Torino Wireless (The ICT Technology District in Piemonte)
• MarketWatch – “STMicroelectronics and Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Demonstrate World’s First Standard-Based 3D Adaptive Video-Streaming Software Receiver”
• Cinquew.it – “Oscilla di Andrea Santini al Nem Summit di Torino, produzione Ubik Teatro”

Download the 2011 NEM Summit Report (in pdf) here.

With the initiative of mixing the creative Art and the NEM communities, the second edition of the NEM Art Contest has been successfully organised during the NEM Summit 2011 which was held on September 27-29, 2011 at the Politecnico di Torino in Torino.

21 artworks have been selected by a jury composed of NEM Summit sponsors, European Commission representatives and artists to exhibit at the 2011 NEM Summit.

The list of jury members includes:

* Jean-Dominique Meunier (Technicolor)
* Roger Torrenti (Sigma Orionis)
* Pierre-Yves Danet (Orange)
* Bartolome Arroyo Fernandez (European Commission)
* Jovanka Adzic (Telecom Italia)
* Maria Grazie Girotto (Museo del Cinema)
* Bob Sumner (Disney)
* Rowena Goldman (BBC)

During the closing session, an award was delivered to the piece of art that makes the most innovative use of networks and media to Virva Emilia Auvinen (www.virva.biz) for her work on “Isabella – The Secret Recipes” that blended real historic references into a beautifully illustrated game concept that makes history and learning come alive for children.

Beside the winner of the 2011 edition of Art Contest, 5 other artworks below have been selected as finalists:

• Afghan War Diary

• Oscilla

• Loopjam

• Surround Video

• Virtual Maestro

We are launching a contest! The prize: none other than your complimentary pass for the 2011 NEM Summit, including access to the conference, exhibition and catering areas, as well as the Gala diner of Sept. 28.

How to enter:

1. Tweet a single reason why you recommend to join the NEM Summit. In your tweet, include a link to http://nem-summit.eu (don’t shorten the link). We are not going to judge the content of your tweet, so be creative!

2. We will pick-up a winner randomly among the participants. That’s it! If you are the winner, we will contact you so that you can claim your prize.

3. Contest duration: one week – until September 22!

Contest Rules and Restrictions:

You must be 18+ years of age. The winner will be picked-up on September 22, contacted by email or twitter and announced on the present website. The winner will benefit from a complimentary pass for the NEM Summit but will be responsible for his own travel and accommodation arrangements.

Good luck everybody. It’s time to start tweeting about why everyone shall join the NEM Summit!

The NEM initiative is pleased to announce that a workshop on autostereoscopic technology will be organised by JUMA Communication in collocation with the NEM Summit 2011 on September 29, 2011 (11:00 – 12:30) at the Politecnico di Torino in Torino (Italy).

Max Judica Cordiglia, owner of JUMA Communication, recounts the experience that his communication agency gained in the field of glasses-free 3D technology, a new technology that has yet to reach the masses.

The technical challenges with a technology still “under development”, the lack of information around its availability in the consumer market, the new applications of the autostereoscopic glasses free 3D technologies in the fields of communication, medicine and neurology.

Some experiments conducted two years ago for treatment of medical images from CT in 3D without glasses were presented to 44°SIRM (Italian Society of Medical Radiology) and have had some success. The workshop will show the results and a series of interviews with some of the experts in this field.

How important are the eyes in the vision of 3D content? Dr. Maria Elisa Scarale of the Department of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmic Koelliker of Turin explores this topic from a medical perspective.

Autostereoscopic 3D images with their impressive complexity and richness of meaning can affect the viewer more than just 2D images, they can penetrate and impress us on a deeper level that other forms of communication, arousing emotions, evoking memories, stimulating the brain in ways yet to be studied.

Dr. Emilia Costa, the owner of the First Department of Child Psychiatry and Neuroscience of the Univerity of Rome La Sapienza leads us into this fascinating world.

The technology can also make you smile! During the conference, The Mammoth comedy duo, will delight the audience with some humorous sketches.

More information about JUMA Communication, please visit website

The NEM initiative is pleased to announce that the 4th meeting of Networked Media Open Discussion Forum will be organised in collocation with the NEM Summit 2011 on Tuesday, 27 of September 2011, 9:30 – 12:30, at the Politecnico di Torino in Torino (Italy)

The proposed main themes for discussion are the following:
-      Standardization. The new upcoming regulation.
-      SMEs. How to make more effective their participation in NEM related research activities.
-      International Cooperation. Benefits and risks of Int´al Cooperation for the NEM research activities.

Agenda

• 10:00

  Opening session Chaired by Dr. Julián Seseña, President ROSE Vision, Coordinator NEM Open Forum

• Introduction of participants

• 10:10

  Open to enhancing the European Standardization Landscape

• The FutureNEM inventory of standards relevant to networked media and standardization gaps analysis, FutureNEM team

• European Commission Communication on Standardization: a strategic vision for European standards: Moving forward to enhance and accelerate the sustainable growth of the European economy by 2020, European Commission DG, FP7 research projects (ALICANTE, CNG, COAST, COMET, FASCINATE, I-SEARCH, OCEAN, OPTIMIX, OPEN MEDIA WEB, OPTIBAND, PLAYMANCER, P2P-Next, TA2), NEM Members, Standardization Organisations and Fora (ETSI, CEN-CENELEC, IETF, DVB)

• 10:55

  Open to promotion of active SME involvement in NEM

• NEM SME Activity. NEM SME Membership. Presentation of Results of the survey to SMEs. Lessons for Action, FutureNEM team

• Discussion - Debate, NEM Members, particularly SMEs

• 11:40

  Open to the world - International Cooperation

• Global NEM - NEM beyond Europe - Benefits and risks derived from the International Cooperation - Updates of the NEM position on International Cooperation, FP7 projects having ICPC partners in their Consortia, ICPC interested participants

• 12:25

  Summary and Conclusions

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Supporting documents for Networked Media Open Discussion Forum 4th Meeting can be download here:

• A strategic vision for European standards: Moving forward to enhance and accelerate the sustainable growth of the European economy by 2020
• Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council
• Updated inventory of relevant standards for the networked media field
• Report on standardization gaps and regulatory barriers

“Lighting Choreographer” has been developed  by Minoru Fujimoto, Naotaka Fujita, Tsutomu Terada, Masahiko Tsukamoto (Kobe University, Japan). It is a new LED performance system to expand the expression capability of human body. It makes light effects on the user’s body synchronized with motion and sound, focusing on the viewing point that the produced effects recursively influence the choreographer.

Although there are many approaches to computer enhanced performances where audio and/or visuals are operated based on motion information of a performer, they are too simple to control the details at his/her will in the sense of expansion of body expression. Furthermore, they do not provide a way of body expressions to exceed the limit of the physical motions, such as moving their arms at a very high speed. Thus, Minoru Fujimoto came up with the idea to expand the body expressions by interactively changing the color and the size of body parts and combining kinematics and visual effects of lights by controlling LEDs with considering characteristics of the human body.

A performer represents various kinds of the feel of material, e.g. heaviness, lightness, sharpness, pop, violence, and soft, by dancing. By adding light illumination, performers obtains three factors for body representation; motion, sounds and lights. The projects aim is to redefine the relations between the body, sounds and lights, and to enhance human expressions.

Dancers: Makoto Hirata, Shuhei Tsuchida

More information about “Lighting Choreographer” here.

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• Platinum Sponsors: MUSCADE, Politecnico di Torino, Regione Piemonte, Reply, Sisvel Technology, Technicolor and Telecom Italia.
• Gold Sponsors: Inria, Intel-Intel VCI, IRT, Juma Communication, Petamedia, RAI, ST, TA2 project, Turk Telekom and Virtual Reality & Multimedia Park.

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The NEM initiative is pleased to announce that a workshop on autostereoscopic technology will be organised by JUMA Communication in collocation with the NEM Summit 2011 on September 29, 2011 (11:00 – 12:30) at the Politecnico di Torino in Torino (Italy)

A more detailed agenda with speakers is coming soon! Stay tuned!

The NEM initiative is pleased to announce that the “Search Computing and Social Media Workshop” will be jointly organised by the projects Petamedia (Network of Excellence on Peer-to-Peer Tagged Media), Chorus+ (Audio-Visual Search Coordinated Action) and Glocal (Event-Based Retrieval of Networked Media) in collocation with the NEM Summit 2011 on September 28, 2011 (11:30 – 16:30) at the Politecnico di Torino in Torino (Italy)

The workshop about “Search Computing and Social Media” presents cutting-edge search computing solutions that have been developed to provide users with access to networked media and in particular, social multimedia. It will showcase new techniques and applications have been developed in European research laboratories and focus on those solutions that are ripe for industry application.

The opening talk presents a vision on the area of search computing entitled “Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-Economic Challenges”. Then, a selection of leading researchers will present highlights and applications from a range of areas important for search and social media search.

The afternoon session will concentrate on the “Triple Synergy”, the combination of multimedia content, user-derived annotations and the structures of peer-to-peer and social networks. The Triple Synergy is deployed in order to improve user access (including search, recommendation, browsing and discovery) to multimedia online and in social communities. Here, the PetaMedia Network of Excellence will present multimedia applications that it has developed within the framework of its field trials.

The workshop will close with a panel that takes a critical look at the future of multimedia search, and in particular investigates the question of the contribution that search computing can make to innovation within the area of social media.

Agenda

• 11:00

  Welcome & Introduction to the workshop Moderated by Martha LARSON (Delft University of Technology) and Jean-­Charles POINT (JCP-­Consult)

• 11:15

  Keynote presentation

• "Search Computing: Business Areas, Research and Socio-­Economic Challenges", Yiannis KOMPATSIARIS, Informatics and Telematics Institute, CERTH-­ITI

• "Scenarios and Technologies for Event-based Media Search", Francesco DENATALE, University of Trento

• LivingKnowledge -­ "Making content diversity an asset in search", Claudia NIEDEREE, L3S Research Center

• "I-­SEARCH: Multimodal content search engine", Amar-­Djalil MEZAOUR, Exalead

• "CUBRIK: Cube metaphor of Search", Vincenzo CROCE, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa

• 13:10

  Lunch

• 14:50

  Keynote presentation

• “Advancements in Social Media Retrieval: How did PetaMedia help?”, Alan HANJALIC, Delft University of Technology

• "SpudTV Field Trials", Sander KOELSTRA, Queen Mary, University of London

• "Off the Beatem track-Near2me travel recommender prototype", Maria  MENENDEZ, University of Trento

• "MediaEval Multimedia Benchmark Initiative: Looking back and looking forward to year five", Martha LARSON, Delft University of Technology

• 16:15

  Panel (Collecting questions)

• 16:30

  Coffee break and informal discussion

• 17:00

  Panel "Is the human factor the future of social media search?"

MUSCADE – MUltimedia SCAlable 3D for Europe, is an Integrated Project (IP), whose objective is to become the driving force in this global development, to provide key innovations, and to secure the IPRs for Europe. It is the logical successor of related projects in FP6 and FP7 Call1 that are developing important 3D technologies, but not claiming to develop the 3DTV system of the future.

MUSCADE aims to create major innovations in the fields of production equipment and tools, production, transmission and coding formats allowing technology independent adaptation to any 3D display and transmission of multiview signals while not exceeding double the data rate of monoscopic TV, and robust transmission schemes for 3DTV over all existing and future broadcast channels. The results of the project will be input to the respective standardization bodies including 3D@Home Consortium, SMPTE/TF on 3D@home, ITU-R SG6, ISO/MPEG and DVB/ES on 3D.

More information about MUSCADE project here.