PCS'2007 Selected Presentations Available:

Invited Speakers:

• H.264/AVC and its Extensions: How Close is this Family?
  Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
   
• From Picture Coding to Image Understanding: Finding the Object of Interest
  Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
   
• DCT, Wavelets and X-lets: The Quest for Image Representation, Approximation and Compression
  Martin Vetterli, EPFL, Switzerland and UC Berkeley, USA
   
• Efficient Representation of Sound Images: Recent Developments in Parametric Coding of Spatial Audio
  Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), Erlangen, Germany
   

Best Paper Award Session:

• GENERALIZED LIFTING FOR SPARSE IMAGE REPRESENTATION AND CODING     - Best Paper Award Winner
  Julio Rolon, Philippe Salembier, Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
   
• WYNER-ZIV CODING OF STEREO IMAGES WITH UNSUPERVISED LEARNING OF DISPARITY
  David Varodayan, Yao-Chung Lin, Aditya Mavlankar, Markus Flierl, Bernd Girod, Stanford University, USA
   
• DISTRIBUTED SOURCE CODING APPLICATION TO LOW-DELAY FREE VIEWPOINT SWITCHING IN MULTIVIEW VIDEO COMPRESSION
  Ngai-Man Cheung, Antonio Ortega, Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
   
• JOINT DEPTH/TEXTURE BIT-ALLOCATION FOR MULTI-VIEW VIDEO COMPRESSION
  Yannick Morvan, Dirk Farin, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands; Peter H.N. De With, Eindhoven University of Technology / LogicaCMG, Netherlands

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