About PCS

Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) is an international forum devoted specifically to advancements in visual data coding. Since 1969, PCS has provided the meeting place for the visual coding community: industry, research, academia and users.

The 26^th PCS was held in Lisbon, Portugal, on 7-9 November 2007. The day before, 6^th of November, a Workshop on Recent Advances in Distributed Video Coding was organized (free registration).

The 16^th International Packet Video Workshop was held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 12-13 November 2007.

Proceedings

PCS'2007 proceedings are available from the EURASIP Open Library.

Invited speakers

H.264/AVC and its Extensions: How Close is this Family?
by Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

From Picture Coding to Image Understanding: Finding the Object of Interest
by Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

DCT, Wavelets and X-lets: The Quest for Image Representation, Approximation and Compression
by Martin Vetterli, EPFL, Switzerland and UC Berkeley, USA

Efficient Representation of Sound Images: Recent Developments in Parametric Coding of Spatial Audio
by Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Erlangen, Germany

Panels

Video Content Protection: Does it Really Matter?
Chaired by Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA

Distributed Video Coding: Trends and Challenges
Chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

Multimedia: a World of Possibilities or just a Buzzword ?
Chaired by Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Abstract book

The abstract book for PCS'2007 is available, in PDF format.

The initial part of the abstract book contains useful information about the venue, hotels, social events, among others.

Contact Information

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