APSIPA U.S. Local Chapter will organize a panel discussion on “The Future of Video Coding” at 6:00 – 7:00 pm PDT, April 24, 2021

This panel brings together the world’s leading experts in video coding to discuss “The Future of Video Coding”. Speakers are leaders from the various video coding fields, ranging from video coding standards, visual quality, deep learning approaches, screen content coding, reinforcement learning, rate-control, video coding for machines, and more. The panel will discuss and debate on different future issues, including but not limited to, the role for the academia, the trend and role of deep-based coding, the impact of visual quality, and emerging areas.

Speakers:

Gary J. Sullivan, Video and Image Technology Architect, AI and Research Group Microsoft Corporation, U.S.A Chair/Co-Chair, ITU-T VCEG & ISO/IEC MPEG JVT, JCT, JVET for H.264/AVC, HEVC/H.265, & VVC/H.266
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37284694200)
C.-C. Jay Kuo, William H. Hogue Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Southern California, U.S.A
(https://viterbi.usc.edu/directory/faculty/Kuo/Chung-Chieh)
Dong Xu, Chair in Computer Engineering and ARC Future Fellow, School of Electrical & Information Engineering The University of Sydney, Australia
(https://www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/about/our-people/academic-staff/dong-xu.html)
Shan Liu, Tencent Distinguished Scientist and General Manager Tencent Media Lab, U.S.A
(https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37085463183)
Hsueh-Ming Hang, Professor, Department of Electronics Engineering National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(https://mcube.nctu.edu.tw/~hmhang/)
Wen-Hsiao Peng, Professor, Computer Science Department National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
(https://sites.google.com/g2.nctu.edu.tw/wpeng/biography?authuser=0)
Jiaying Liu, Associate Professor and Boya Young Fellow, Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology Peking University, China
(http://www.wict.pku.edu.cn/struct/people/liujiaying.html)

Moderator:

Nam Ling, Wilmot J. Nicholson Family Chair Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science & Engineering Santa Clara University, U.S.A
(https://www.scu.edu/engineering/faculty/ling-nam/)

Zoom meeting information:

Join Zoom Meeting: https://usc.zoom.us/j/95111301928?pwd=alNVYzZZY2xMT0FXeVY4R1VxR1dnQT09
Meeting ID: 951 1130 1928
Passcode: 614169