{"title":"Improving JPEG baseline compression","authors":"J. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559410","url":null,"abstract":"The original JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) still image data compression standard (ITU-T T.81 - ISO 10918:1 ) was frozen in the early 90psilas. It had several parts, but most users are only aware of the Baseline mode. This widely used standard was the effort of a joint committee sponsored by ISO/IEC and ITU-T (formerly CCITT). The original committee JPEG committee moved on and created several more joint and non-joint standards. The ITU-T parent was receptive to building enhancements onto the first JPEG standard. The first ITU-only upgrade (T.851) came out in September 2005. It added an additional (fee-free) arithmetic coder, extended the allowed DCT input precision, and created an alternative baseline coder. This talk will review JPEG baseline and show the compression improvements made possible (without a quality change) by using the arithmetic coder in T.851. The original JPEG baseline is lossly convertible into and out of this new standard.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133154890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design and implementation of a remotely controllable UPS outlet system","authors":"Chia-Hung Lien, Jen-Chieh Lin, Ying-Wen Bai","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559536","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we describe a remotely controllable UPS outlet system for home power management that we have developed. Our system can also control the UPS outlet system of different families by means of GPRS technology of a GSM module. The controllable UPS outlet (CUPSO) integrates multiple AC power sockets, a UPS and a low- power microcontroller into a power outlet to switch the power of the sockets On/Off, to protect a sudden loss of the AC power supply and to measure the power consumption of plugged-in electric home appliances. Using Bluetooth, our wireless system can control the home electric appliances without any new wiring. The remote control also provides the user with the ability to turn home appliances on or off by means of the Internet, and the GSM channel linked to the home server is able to receive the necessary SMS (short message service) to turn the home electric appliances on or off anytime and anywhere.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133384698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing landscape of multimedia SoC design","authors":"S. Dutta","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559413","url":null,"abstract":"The world of multimedia System-on-a-Chip (SoC) design is a complex multi-dimensional space defined by many axes. The talk explores a number of these axes. Starting with the market dynamics that continue to shape the digital revolution and its products, we take a close look at the current design trends - both high- and low-level - for multimedia IPs, ICs, and systems. Then, after validating our observation(s) in terms of several well-known multimedia platforms of today, we identify the future requirements and conclude on future designs.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129491312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal networks and Multimedia rendering","authors":"M. Botteck, B. Steinke, K. Muller, J. Hermann","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559523","url":null,"abstract":"Advanced Multimedia functionalities become an increasingly important element of future mobile devices. The related content however needs to be reproduced on suitable displays. Streaming the video or graphics in \"raw\" bitmap form will consume enormous bandwidth with respective power consumption and hardware problems. This article presents an approach to render the objects to be displayed inside the remote display itself; hence, compact descriptions of the content will be sent across a local or personal network. Experiments with a mobile device and the IP based X. 11 protocol stack show encouraging results in terms of bandwidth requirements and display quality.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"91 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131209891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hardware architecture for real-time HD(1920×1080@60fps) H.264/AVC intra prediction","authors":"S. Park, Jae Hun Lee","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559505","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a hardware architecture for a real time H.264/AVC intra predictor generator that can support 1920times1080@60fps. The proposed hardware architecture can generate 16 intra predictors for all 4 times 4 and 16 times 16 intra prediction modes in one clock, in comparison, previous implementations could only generate 4 predictors.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127634827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video architecture and real-time lighting technology for tangible teleconference","authors":"Sae-woon Ryu, Sang-Hwa Lee, Jong-Il Park","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559509","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a video architecture and real-time lighting technology for tangible teleconference. The tangible teleconference is to homogenize virtually the lighting environments of remote users in the video conference. To realize the tangible teleconference, the paper proposes a video architecture which consists of color texture, specular reflection component, and lighting environment map of each user. The environment map is obtained by sampling the lighting sources on mirror ball image. And the proposed video architecture is implemented by GPU-based programming, and is optimized at GPU hardware for realtime operation. According to the simulations, the proposed video architecture and GPU-based rendering relight objects in real-time. The objects are rendered by the specular reflections and homogeneous environments of users. The proposed system enables the users to immerse video conference just as they are in the same environment.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116008562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. López-Nores, J. Pazos-Arias, J. García-Duque, Y. Blanco-Ferndndez, M. Ramos-Cabrer
{"title":"Introducing smart packaging in residential networks to prevent medicine misuse","authors":"M. López-Nores, J. Pazos-Arias, J. García-Duque, Y. Blanco-Ferndndez, M. Ramos-Cabrer","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559570","url":null,"abstract":"The misuse of medicines, often due to forgetfulness or lack of information about drugs and interactions, impinges heavily on the well-being of people and the economies of health systems. Technology can help alleviate the problem by providing assistance to monitor medicine intake, issue reminders and deliver medical advice. We present a system that accomplishes these tasks by harnessing recent advances in smart packaging and residential networks. This combination yields a medicine manager with great precision in drug monitoring, plus unprecedented capabilities to reach the users and provide them with valuable information.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127281726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Shirazi, J. Cosmas, K. Krishnapillai, R. Di Bari, J. Gledhill, M. Bard, D. Bradshaw
{"title":"Evaluating existing set-top boxes versus transmit diversity schemes","authors":"H. Shirazi, J. Cosmas, K. Krishnapillai, R. Di Bari, J. Gledhill, M. Bard, D. Bradshaw","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559436","url":null,"abstract":"Transmit diversity is a technique that exploits the nature of fading due to multipaths and that potentially incurs delay and pre- and post-echoes into the received signals. There is some concern that early set-top boxes would not be compliant in this respect. Also, introduction of such techniques that would degrade reception for in-service equipments would have an important impact, which should be evaluated. This paper presents a measurement campaign to establish whether the in-service DVB-T receivers are compatible with transmit diversity schemes and also to evaluate the possible diversity loss in the line-of-sight fixed receptions.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127513946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time sharing system for in-home electric appliances using Simple Network Time Protocol","authors":"Y. Uesugi, T. Nonaka, T. Hase","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559502","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a small SNTP server to set the correct time for in-home electric appliances. In-home electric appliances obtain the correct time through the Internet by using SNTP. The proposed method was implemented in a verification system with an embedded microprocessor, RTOS and the small resources of 1.8 MB which are assumed to be required for consumer use and was verified. As a result, the correct time was provided with a precision within 1 ms for an SNTP server, and the RTC was able to set it.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125827618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Directory-less indoor positioning for WLAN infrastructures extended abstract","authors":"Karl-Heinz Krempels, Martin Krebs","doi":"10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559559","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISCE.2008.4559559","url":null,"abstract":"Existing positioning approaches do not provide the required positioning accuracy for navigation systems in indoor environments. Novel approaches are based on pseudolites (pseudo satellites) which try to emulate GPS (Global Positioning System) satellites. Thus, conventional GPS receivers could be used, but the infrastructure becomes very expensive. Other approaches are based on tagged WLAN access points or GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) base stations with a central tag directory. When a user wants to determine its position, he queries the central server for the geo coordinate of its current access point or base station. Finally, the server delivers the corresponding coordinate. In this paper we present a directory-less approach based on broadcasted geo tags for positioning in existing WLAN infrastructures.","PeriodicalId":378486,"journal":{"name":"2008 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116666787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}