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Subject: 	SAVE THE DATE EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing 
Webinar
Date: 	Tue, 25 May 2021 18:59:43 +0000
From: 	Angelina Wagner <angelina.wagner at springernature.com>
To: 	Angelina Wagner <Angelina.Wagner at springernature.com>

Dear attendees,

Thank you for attending our monthly EURASIP Journal on Image and Video 
Processing <https://jivp-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/> webinar 
series. New webinar videos are available online at 
https://vimeo.com/showcase/8005816 <https://vimeo.com/showcase/8005816>.

We hope you can join us on *Wednesday, June 2^nd at 12:30pm CET* for our 
next webinar on *Point Cloud Coding: Time for Learning-based 
Alternatives* with

Fernando Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa - 
Instituto de Telecomunicações!

[06:30 a.m. New-York] – [12:30 p.m. Paris] -  [11:30 Lisbon] - [6:30 
p.m. Beijing]

*To join the webinar, it is required to pre-register*. The registration 
form can be found at: https://forms.gle/LnFuaFcTm8noGh459 
<https://forms.gle/LnFuaFcTm8noGh459>

*Abstract*: Multimedia experiences play a growing role in our daily 
lives as its overwhelming presence vastly impacts many important 
application areas such as entertainment, sports, education, 
communication, art and medicine. The recent emergence of powerful 
imaging sensors is allowing to acquire much richer, faithful, realistic 
and immersive representations of the visual scenes, notably 3D visual 
representations, thus offering the users high quality experiences with 
navigation and immersion functionalities. The light information 
associated to these richer visual representations may be modelled by the 
so-called plenoptic function, which has a limited number of practical 
acquisition models; the light field and point cloud representation 
models deserve special reference. Both these representation models have 
the potential to offer the so-called 6 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) 
immersion, where different and appropriate visual information is offered 
to the user while exploiting the three rotational degrees of freedom and 
the three translational degrees of freedom, very much in the same way as 
in the real world. Since point clouds are essentially a set of points in 
the 3D space with associated features, they are naturally suitable to 
facilitate user interaction and offer a high level of immersion. 
However, since providing realistic, interactive and immersive 
experiences typically requires point clouds with a rather large number 
of points, efficient coding is critical as recognized by standardization 
groups such as MPEG and JPEG, which have been developing PC coding 
standards in the context of the JPEG Pleno and MPEG-I projects. The 
popularity of learning-based solutions for multimedia processing tasks 
has largely increased in recent years due to its impressive performance. 
In terms of coding, recent learning-based image coding solutions offer 
very promising results, even outperforming state-of-the-art image 
codecs. In this context, it is natural to extend the learning-based 
coding approach to point clouds. This type of coding approach offers 
three major benefits: i) a single efficient point cloud representation 
for both humans and machines, i.e., not only for visualization but also 
for computer vision tasks such as classification, detection and 
recognition; ii) reduced complexity resources to perform image 
processing and computer vision tasks (as already starting from 
compressed domain features); and iii) using features extracted from the 
original instead of lossy decoded images to perform computer vision 
tasks with higher accuracy. In this context, this talk will address the 
emerging developments in learning-based point cloud coding, including 
the recent decision by JPEG to develop a learning-based coding standard 
for point clouds and associated attributes, offering a single-stream, 
compact compressed domain representation, supporting advanced flexible 
data access functionalities.

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Short bio*: Fernando Pereira is currently with the Department of 
Electrical and Computers Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico and 
with Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal. He is Area Editor 
of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal and Associate 
Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, and is or 
has been member of the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing 
Magazine, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems 
for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE 
Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. In 
2013-2015, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Selected 
Topics in Signal Processing. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 
2005 and elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2008 for “contributions to 
object-based digital video representation technologies and standards”. 
He has been elected to serve on the Signal Processing Society Board of 
Governors in the capacity of Member-at-Large for a 2012 and a 2014-2016 
term. He was the SPS Vice-President for Conferences in 2018-2020. Since 
2013, he is also a EURASIP Fellow for “contributions to digital video 
representation technologies and standards”. He has been elected to serve 
on the European Signal Processing Society Board of Directors for a 
2015-2018 term. Since 2015, he is also an IET Fellow. He has been the 
MPEG Requirements Subgroup Chair from 2002 to 2007 and since February 
2016 he is the JPEG Requirements Subgroup Chair. He is/has been a member 
of the Scientific and Program Committees of many international 
conferences and workshops. He has been the General Chair of the Picture 
Coding Symposium (PCS) in 2007, the Technical Program Co-Chair of the 
Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2010 and 2016, the 
Technical Program Chair of the International Workshop on Image Analysis 
for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) in 2008 and 2012, and the 
General Chair of the International Conference on Quality of Multimedia 
Experience (QoMEX) in 2016. He has contributed more than 300 papers in 
international journals, conferences and workshops, and made several tens 
of invited talks at conferences and workshops. His areas of interest are 
visual data analysis, coding, description, adaptation, quality 
assessment and advanced multimedia services. E-mail: fp at lx.it.pt 
<mailto:fp at lx.it.pt> WWW: http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/ 
<http://www.img.lx.it.pt/~fp/>

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