The document describes plans to establish a Future Media Lab through an international network called GraphicsMedia.net. The lab would focus on applied research in areas like new media technologies, medical imaging, and social media. It would aim to achieve scientific excellence, facilitate technology transfer, and support staff development. A business model is proposed involving government basic funding, commercialization through licensing and spin-offs, and a bootstrapping period. Metrics for success include scientific, economic, and international visibility benchmarks. Conducting a study is suggested to identify strategic research niches and develop a business concept.

1. Future Media Lab
Excellence Center for Future Media and Computational Imaging
Prof. Didier Stricker
Dr. Constantin Thiopoulos

2. GraphicsMedia.net
 GraphicsMedia.net: An International Network for the Cooperation in Applied Research in Computer
Graphics, Multimodal-Multimedia Technologies, and Visual Interactive Digital Media Technologies
 Goal: 1) To coordinate research and development 2) To identify research and market
opportunities and synergies 3) To coordinate European project strategies 4) To support
educational exchanges at university level
 Six members
 DFKI GmbH – Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH, Department
Augmented Vision
 Hasso-Plattner-Institut GmbH, Berlin
 VicomTech – Visual Interaction Communication Technologies, San Sebastian, Spain
 CCG – Computer Graphics Center, Guimarães, Portugal
 GraphiTech, Trento, Italy
 MIVTech, Panama-Stadt, Panama

3. DFKI – German Center of Artificial Intelligence
 423 Researchers
 Kaiserslautern -
Saarbrücken,
Germany
 Research areas
 Augmented Vision
 Intelligent User Interfaces
 Agents and Simulated Reality
 Knowledge Management
 Language Technology
 Robotics Innovation Center
 Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems
 Innovative Retail Laboratory
 Institute for Information Systems
 Innovative Factory Systems

4. The Augmented Vision Department investigates the
combination of capturing and rendering technologies
Internet of Things
Physical World
Virtual World
Internet of Services
© didier.stricker@dfki.de - 2011

5. Hasso-Plattner-Institut
 Postdam, Germany
 12 Professors,
50 Assistant Prof.
 Research areas
 Computer Graphics Systems
 Human Computer Interaction
 Enterprise Platform and Integration
Concepts
 Internet Technologies and Systems
 Operating Systems and Middleware
 Business Process Technology
 Software Architecture
 Information Systems
 System Engineering and Modeling
 School of Design Thinking

6. Vicomtech
 San Sebastian,Spain
 100 Researchers
 Research areas
 Digital TV & Multimedia Services
 eHealth & Biomedical Aplications
 eTourism & Cultural Heritage
 3D Animation &
Interactive Virtual Environments
 ITS & Engineering
 Human Speech &
Language Technologies

7. Graphitech
 Trento, Italy
 20 researchers
 Research areas
 3D Geo-visualisation,
Geo-visual Analytics and LBS
 Computer Graphics
 Cultural Heritage
 Digital Educational Games
 HCI and Advanced Multimodal
Interfaces
 Industrial Applications
 Shape semantics and descriptors

8. MIVTech
 Panama City,
Panama
 25 Staff member
 Application areas
 Corporate TV
 Multimedia Graphic Design
 Information Security
 Audience Measurement

9. Founding of a new institution
 The institutes VicomTech, GraphicsTech, MivTech, and CCG have been founded
by Prof. em. Encarnação (advisory board) and are successful technological
organizations
 GraphicsMedia.net is the „umbrella“ of those institutions
 GraphicsMedia.net co-founds new institutions running under the same PPP („Public-
Private-Partnership“) model as the founding members (see DFKI)
 New institutions are independent national entities
 They are part of Graphicsmedia.net
 Get consulting about the PPP models
 Coaching in the „booting phase“
 Involvement in (European) Projects
 Technology exchange
 Knowledge sharing

10. Opportunity for applied R&D
 New Media
 Convergence of media
 Videos and images based communication
 Social Computing
 Mobile Applications
 GraphicsMedia.Net offers a unique chance
 Concentrate knowledge and expertise within the network
 Long experience in technology transfer
 Fast growth!

11. Future Media Lab
 Scientific Excellence
 Reach high scientific visibility
 Excellence and worldwide presence for the organization
 Collaborate with top university and research institute world-wide
 Technology Transfer
 Link novel ideas from science with marketable ideas
 Generate a new scientific and technological asset base
 License technical assets to companies, in particular SMEs
 Involve local SME – create cluster
 Create high-tech highly innovative spin-offs
 “Personal Development and “Brain Transfer”
 Systematically furthering the skills and qualifications of staff members
 Develop the necessary scientific, technical, professional and personal skills
 “brain transfer” – the dissemination of technological know-how through individual persons
going into private companies.

12. Topic: New Media – New Computational Power
 New media
 Mobile interactive applications
 Virtual world, Augmented reality, webTV
 Video processing and analytics
 Visual analytics (large data set analysis, mining)
 Medical Imaging
 New imaging / tracking technologies & computational
sensors
 Measuring, Tracking, Monitoring, Assisting
 Social Media
 New Visual Media Technologies
 Finding, Modeling, Understanding, Protecting

13. Topic: Innovation Management
 IPR management
 Licencing of technologies to companies
 Spin – off creation and support

14. Business Model
Support from the Government:
basic funding
Commercialization & licensing:
Spin-off foundation
Licensing of technical assets
Bootstrapping period:
Bootstrapping over 3 to 5 years

15. Best practices – productivity measures
Scientific benchmark
publications in scientific journals
accepted conference papers
completed PhDs, Master theses
Economic benchmark
growth (stability)
patents or patent applications for the industrial shareholders
numbers of spin-off companies and products
numbers of generated jobs
local industrial settlements
International visibility benchmark
quantity and quality of coverage in the media

16. Impact
 Establish a hub for state-of-the-art technology development
 Attract talented and highly qualified researchers and developers
 Creation of new jobs in high-tech areas
 Close cooperation with the local industry
 Internationalization and export of the knowhow

17. How to start: a study
 Goal: find the „niche“
 Scientific and academic landscape
 Economic landscape
 Strategic goals in high-tech / innovation
 National and International positioning
 Business concept and organisational structure
 Workshops with stakeholders
 Investment plan and forecast