NEM Strategic Research Agenda The joint view of the NEM community

ICT Networked Media – Consultation Workshop

Brussels, 19 January 2010 Vali Lalioti & Ralf Neudel

Supported by the FP7-ICT CSA “FutureNEM”

NEM Technology Platform · http://www.nem-initiative.org

NEM mission

• Accelerate the pace of innovation

• Make the convergence between the audiovisual sector and the telecom sector happen

• Place the European industry at the forefront of the information era

NEM is an industry-led initiative with 750+members from more than 30 countries and the mission to:

NEM Members

Academia /TechnologyCentre

Broadcasters

Consumer electronicsmanufacturers

Financial organisations

ProfessionalelectronicsmanufacturersRegulatorybodies/organisations

Service providers

Telecom operators

Others

Academia

Broadcasters

Consumer electronics

Financial organisations

Electronicmanufacturers

Regulatory bodies

Serviceproviders

Others

Telecom Operators

NEM in figures

• NEM topics and companies address a €600Bn market

• NEM investment plan forecast over 2007-2013 : €3.5Bn

• NEM scope involves 1.5 million job in Europe

• 1.5 million additional jobs are expected to be created by 2015 within NEM’s scope

A European growth boosterA European growth booster

NEM Strategic Research Agenda Focus of the SRA

• The NEM SRA is……a comprehensive yet concise document describing the

constant state of change in the NEM research domain

… reflecting the common view of the NEM community focussing on future research and development activities

…establishing a roadmap towards the realisation of the NEM Vision

• Latest revision was published in Sep 2009

Today’s consultation workshop Focus topics

Innovative technologies, systems and architectures for the Future Media Internet, including:a) Ubiquitous multimedia networking

b) Multimedia search and retrieval

c) Immersive experiences in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality environments

d) Innovative applications (e.g. entertainment, gaming, etc.)

e) Personal environments including extended home and social networks

f) Multi-technology integration and convergence of broadcasting, content provision, telecommunications, consumer electronics and Future Internet

g) Other innovative research ideas at the crossroads of networking and media

NEM Strategic Research Agenda Structure and ongoing survey within NEM

Consolidated list of

“30 most important Networked Media research challenges”

Survey:

“Which specific research topics do require additional public support for collaborative research undertakings?”

Current* survey results 6 out of 30 topics identified as “top priority”

1) User satisfaction and quality of experience

2) Home and extended home networks

3) Network architecture

4) Intelligent delivery

5) Representation of content

6) Tools for content creation and manipulation

* Status 18 January – 70 participants from 56 individual institutions

underlined: topics which should be considered although they are not explicitly mentioned in the list of today’s focus topics

Current survey results Second group of most important topics

7) Quality of service

8) Security, privacy and trust

9) Social networking and media sharing

10) Power management technologies - energy saving

11) Automated semantic annotation

12) New forms of content

13) Contextual awareness

14) Effective recommendation systems

Current survey results Remaining topics relevant to NEM

15) User-system interaction

16) Value web

17) Personalisation and profiling

18) Identity management and AAA

19) Assisted Living

20) Spectrum economy

21) User number measurement and user behaviour logging

22) Authentic, true-to-original media reproduction

23) Federated services

24) Rights management

25) Virtual reality

26) Location

27) Multimedia Middleware

28) Overcoming human language barriers

29) Federated virtual devices

30) Charging and payment

Thank You

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