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Next Generation Video: Expanding and Unifying the Multi-Screen World
March 20, 2013
The Digital Media SIG Presents…
Everyone is familiar with Moore’s Law which states that semiconductor processors double in performance every couple of years. In the video coding area, a derivative of Moore’s Law has emerged. MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are vintage early 90’s, while MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) was finalized in 2003. And now with the MPEG/ITU-T High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard and Google’s VP9, both being finalized in 2013, video compression efficiency appears to be doubling roughly every 10 years. In order to fill up all the new mobile SmartPhone and tablet screens, as well as eventually moving us into the spectacular world of 4K and 8K “Ultra HDTV,” every bit of this efficiency will be needed.
How do video engineers continue to dramatically improve video compression technology? What will be the market adoption curve for content and service providers to leverage these new techniques? How will 3D, Scalable Video and Ultra HDTV be enabled? What are some of the other important applications these new standards will give rise to?
Come join our experts as we discuss these important questions and many others.
Walt Husak
Director of Image Technologies, Dolby Labs, Inc.
Dr. Ajay Luthra
Vice President, Fellow in Advanced Technology Group, Motorola Mobility
Director, Qualcomm Snapdragon Processor Product Management, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Naresh Soni
CTO, InterDigital
Mr. Naresh H. Soni has been the Chief Technology Officer of InterDigital, Inc., since December 2009, and serves as its Chair of Technical Advisory Council. Mr. Soni served as Vice President of Strategic Engineering at InterDigital, Inc. from July 21, 2009 to December 2009. Mr. Soni oversees technology strategy and roadmap, manage university and industry relationships, and provide guidance on merger and acquisition opportunities as well as new research and development initiatives. He served as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of R&D of Streamezzo S.A. He has more than two decades of high technology experience. Mr. Soni founded Exemplar Technologies. He served as the Chief Technology Officer for Streamezzo. Mr. Soni’s previous experience includes research and innovation-focused positions at STMicroelectronics AT&T Bell Labs, and IBM, as well as the position of Vice President of Computing Architecture Research Lab at Nokia. He has served on the board of University of California San Diego (UCSD) Center for Wireless Communications and is currently on the advisory board of the UCSD school of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Mr. Soni holds several patents, has authored technical papers and has given keynotes at conferences in the areas of communications and computing. Mr. Soni earned his Master of Science in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
SIG CO-CHAIRS:
Vinay Sathe, Perkins Coie, LLP
Marc Tayer, President, MediaTech Insights
Dan Sweeney, Vice President, Sales & Marketing, Solekai Systems Corp.
Naresh Soni, CTO, InterDigital Communications, LLC
DATE:
March 20th, 2013
TIME:
5:30PM Registration/Networking/Refreshments
6:00PM Program Begins
7:30PM Program Ends
LOCATION:
3398 Carmel Mountain Road
San Diego, CA 92121
COST:
Pre-Registration:(Please pre-register by noon on 3/19/13)
$10.00 – CommNexus Sponsor
$20.00 – Non-Sponsor
FREE – Mentor Sponsor
At the Door:
$20.00 – CommNexus Sponsor
$30.00 – Non-Sponsor
FREE – Mentor Sponsor
Students, Military & Press: FREE