General Chair

Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Program Committee Chairs

Hermann Hellwagner, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Fernando Pereira, IST, Portugal
Stefanos Kollias, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Special Session Chair

Jose M. Martinez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain

Industry Liaisons

Andreas Hutter, Siemens AG, Germany
Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain

Technical Program Committee

Toufik Ahmed, University of Bordeaux I, France
Kiyoharu Aizawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yannis Avrithis, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Jesus Bescos, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Susanne Boll, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Laszlo Böszörmenyi, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Christian Breiteneder, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Cyril Concolato, ENST, France
Paulo Lobato Correia, IST, Portugal
Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA
Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
Horst Eidenberger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Wolfgang Effelsberg, University of Mannheim, Germany
Moncef Gabbouj, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Christine Guillemot, IRISA/INRIA, France
Alan Hanjalic , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Paola Hobson, Motorola Labs, UK
Andreas Hutter, Siemens AG, Germany
Ebroul Izquierdo, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Aggelos K. Katsaggelos, Northwestern University, USA
Hyoung Joong Kim, Kangwon National University, Korea
Yiannis Kompatsiaris, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
Wolfgang Klas, University of Vienna, Austria
Janusz Konrad, Boston University, USA
Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany
Riccardo Leonardi, University of Brescia, Italy
Benoit Macq, Catholic Univ. of Louvain, Belgium
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Ferran Marques, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Jose M. Martinez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Dalibor Mitrovic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Milind Naphade, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Jan Nesvadba, Philips Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ioannis Patras, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Yong Man Ro, ICU, Korea
Abdul Hamid Sadka, Brunel University, UK
Philippe Salembier, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Thomas Sikora, Technical Univ. Berlin, Germany
John R. Smith, IBM T. J. Watson Research, USA
Christian Timmerer, Klagenfurt University, Austria
Murat Tekalp, Koc University, Turkey
Andreas Uhl, University of Salzburg, Austria
Rik Van de Walle, Ghent University – IBBT, Belgium
Liang Wang, University of Melbourne, Australia
Paulo Villegas, Telefonica I+D, Spain
Anthony Vetro, MERL Technology Lab, USA
Matthias Zeppelzauer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Special Session: COST292

Chairs:

• Noel E. O’Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Marzia Corvaglia, University of Brescia, Italy

Programme Subcommittee

• Selim Aksoy, Bilkent Uni., Turkey
• Michael Ansorge, EPFL, Switzerland
• Yannis Avrithis, NTUA, Greece
• Jenny Benois-Pineau, LABRI, France
• Licia Capodiferro, FUB, Italy
• Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland
• Alan Hanjalic, TU Delft, NL
• Ebroul Izquierdo, QMUL, U.K.
• Yiannis Kompatsiaris, ITI, Greece
• Riccardo Leonardi, Uni. Brescia, Italy
• Gorka Marcos Ortego, VICOMTech, Spain
• Branimir Reljin, Uni. Belgrade, Serbia
• Thomas Sikora, TU Berlin, Germany
• Walter Stechele, TU Munchen, Germany
• Paulo Villegas, Telefonica R&D, Spain

Special Session: ADVISE

Chairs:

• Toufik Ahmed, University Bordeaux 1, France
• Ingo Kofler, Klagenfurt University, Austria
• Olimpiu Negru, Thomson Broadcast & Multimedia, France

Special Session: M3R

Chair:

• Mathias Lux, Klagenfurt University, Austria

Special Session: RUSHES

Chair:

• Oliver Schreer, Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications / Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Germany

Additional Reviewers

• Nicola Adami, University of Brescia, Italy
• Peter Amon, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
• Gero Bäse, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
• Sergio Benini, University of Brescia, Italy
• Ulrich Bodenhofer, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Alexia Briassouli, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
• Ugo Ciraci, University of Brescia, Italy
• Marco Dalai, University of Brescia, Italy
• Thomas Foures, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Michael Granitzer, Know-Center Graz, Austria
• Seunghan Han, Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, Germany
• Philip Kelly, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Stephan Kopf, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Fleming Lampi, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Lyes Limam, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA), France
• Emilio Maggio, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Pierangelo Migliorati, University of Brescia, Italy
• Federica Mangiatordi, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
• Ciarán O'Conaire, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Georgios Th. Papadopoulos, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
• Giuseppe Passino, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• Philipp Sandhaus, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Ansgar Scherp, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Vassilis Solachidis, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Greece
• Marc Spaniol, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Seungji Yang, ICU, Korea