Conference Program
The BMSB 2015 program booklet is available in PDF format: download.
Wednesday, June 17
- 09:00 - 10:30 Plenary Session 1 @ Refter
- Welcome to the BMSB 2015 Symposium by Wout Joseph, Conference Chair
- iMinds as pioneer in multimedia, networking, and broadcasting by Piet Verhoeve, Lead ICON iMinds - slides
- The network engineer in a box: from Engineer defined networking to Software defined networking by Lieven Vermaele, CEO & co-founder SDN Square, Belgium
- BTS and Its Members' Contributions to Future Broadcasting by Bill Hayes, Iowa Public Television/BTS president, USA
- ATSC 3.0: Next Generation Broadcast Television by Richard Chernock, ATSC TG3 chair, CSO Triveni Digital, USA - slides
- 10:30 - 11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
- 11:00 - 12:25 Parallel Technical Sessions 1-3:
- MAC & DATA @ Priorzaal
- Video Coding @ Vermeylen
- UHD & New Tech @ Refter
- 12:25 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 15:40 Parallel Technical Sessions 4-6:
- Broadcast Systems @ Vermeylen
- LDM/Cloud Txn 1 @ Refter
- 3D @ Priorzaal
- 15:40 - 15:55 Tea/Coffee Break
- 15:55 - 17:35 Parallel Technical Sessions 7-9:
- LDM/Cloud Txn 2 @ Refter
- Coverage and Networks @ Priorzaal
- HBBTV & Streaming @ Vermeylen
- 18:30 - iMinds/GOLD Social Event @ brewery Gruut:
- Guided tour, beer tasting and dinner
- First 120 registrations only!
Thursday, June 18
- 09:00 - 10:40 Plenary Session 2 @ Refter
- Challenges in delivering novel media experiences over current-generation networks by prof. Peter Quax, University of Hasselt/iMinds, Belgium
- The future role of broadcast in a world of wireless broadband by prof. Ulrich H. Reimers, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany - slides
- Broadcast at the Crossroads by Peter Siebert, DVB Project, Switzerland- slides
- 10:40 - 10:55 Tea/Coffee Break
- 10:55 - 12:35 Parallel Technical Sessions 10-12:
- LDPC @ Priorzaal
- ATSC 3.0 PHY Layer @ Refter
- MIMO & Diversity @ Vermeylen
- 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 15:40 Parallel Technical Sessions 13-15:
- Transmission & Signal Processing 1 @ Refter
- Audio Quality @ Priorzaal
- Video Quality @ Vermeylen
- 15:40 - 15:55 Tea/Coffee Break
- 15:55 - 17:35 Poster Session @ Kloostergang Noord
- 19:00 - Gala Dinner @ Oude Vismijn
Friday, June 19
- 09:00 - 10:40 Plenary Session 3 @ Refter
- Countdown to the ultimate television by Kenichi Murayama, NHK Science and Technology Laboratories, Japan - slides
- The Broadcast Experience beyond the UHDTV Horizon by David Wood, Consultant, EBU Innovation and Technology, Switzerland - slides
- 3C Broadcast Television in China by Wenjun Zhang, Chief Scientist, National Engineering Research Center, China - slides
- 10:40 - 10:55 Tea/Coffee Break
- 10:55 - 12:35 Parallel Technical Sessions 16-18:
- Transmission & Signal Processing 2 @ Refter
- Video Processing @ Vermeylen
- Wireless @ Priorzaal
- 12:35 - 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 - 15:40 Parallel Technical Sessions 19-21:
- Transmission & Signal Processing 3 @ Refter
- Wireless: LTE and Relay @ Vermeylen
- Broadcast Technolgies @ Priorzaal
- 15:40 - 15:55 Tea/Coffee Break
- 15:55 - 17:00 Plenary Session 4: Future of Broadcast TV (FOBTV) @ Refter
- 17:00 - Closing Ceremony and Photo Session