The document summarizes the mission and structure of the Future Media & Imaging Research Department. The department aims to become a center of excellence for media research and applications through collaborations with industry and academic partners. It is organized into four research units focused on media representation, video/image content analysis, quantitative tomographic imaging, and metadata-based content adaptation. The units will conduct research across the full media life cycle from capturing to visualization and address issues like complexity, forensics, and large amounts of metadata.

1. Future Media & Imaging
processing, analysis, transfer & applications
Peter Schelkens
UGent-MMLab, UGent-IPI, UGent-Medisip
VUB-ETRO
UA-Visielab
IBBT, 03/05/2011, Brussels

2. Application and technology trends
• Multimedia should become many-media
• Expanding range of modalities, e.g. future media
systems will include 3D support
• Contextualization: the 'Internet of Things'
• Strong need for services to manage (and disseminate)
enormous amounts of (meta)data efficiently;
• Green ICT: future services should have
a minimal ecological footprint
• Evolution to flexible, many-core processors,
reconfigurable processing, optical/quantum
and biological or biologically-inspired processing
requiring multi/interdisciplinary research

3. Mission statement
The Future Media & Imaging Research Department
will contribute to the realization of the overall IBBT mission,
as its aim is to become a Center of Excellence for media
research and applications.
We shall not live on an island - our goal is to improve
existing media applications and to develop new ones,
together with a wide variety of partners.
(industrial partners going from SMEs to multinationals,
publicly-funded and privately-owned actors, academic and
R&D partners, ...)

4. Structure department
From applications to research units
Future Media and Imaging Research Department
Research Units
4Media VICA QUANTI CALS
Media Video and Quantitative Metadata-
Representation, Image Content Tomographic based Content
Transmission, Analysis Imaging Adaptation &
Visualization Senses for
and Forensics Likeable
Systems
TV, Multimedia Entertainment, Gaming
Application Domains
Global Content Management
Multimedia Communication
Media Production
Biomedical Imaging
Public Safety, Surveillance, Smart Environments
Adrian Aleksandra Jan Sijbers Erik
Munteanu Pizurica Mannens
MMLab-IPI MMLab-IPI-Medisip- IPI-Medisip MMLab-Medisip
-ETRO Visielab-ETRO -Visielab -ETRO

5. Research focus - 4Media
Editing
Transmission
Representation
Capturing
Visualization
Complexity Image
Forensics
Complete life cycle management of media objects,
including all stages from capturing to representation while addressing E2E
issues such as complexity and image forensics

6. Research focus - VICA
Focus on content analysis and improvement: restoration and resolution
enhancement, 3D video improvement, multi-modal/sensor biomedical
signal/image analysis, multi-camera video analysis

7. Research focus - QuanTI
• Multimodal imaging
• functional imaging: PET/SPECT/fMRI
• structural imaging: CT/MRI
• biomedical signals: EEG. MEG
• Preclinical molecular imaging
• Biomedical Image/Signal Processing

8. Research focus - CALS
Metadata oceans... new metadata modeling, collection, consumption,
and interpretation technology is required in order to make it
useful for content adaptation or even likeable systems
Immersive technology (mixing real and virtual worlds, e.g. for gaming)

9. Collaboration between
departments
Multimedia Transmission
Future
Internet
Multimedia Security,
Legal Aspects
Security
Other IBBT Research Departments
Biomedical Signal Processing
Future Media and Imaging Department
(cpaturing, analysis,
e-Health
representation,
communnication & visualization)
User & Usability Research,
Business Modelling,
Digital
Society
Regulatory Aspects

10. Conclusion
Struggling
with content?
One address: IBBT-FMI
http://media-creativity.com/?p=1506