HD Video over IP: Fasten Your Seat Belts!

ResearchChannel has made significant progress in interactive technologies with High Defintion TV. The project has been successfully demonstrated at various venues including Supercomputing and the JGNII conference. Come here about the architecture, lessons learned and the next steps from bring high-quality interactive technologies around.

Egon Verharen, Chair of the European working group on HD, will highlight some of the HD projects done, ongoing and forthcoming in Europe, including those at SURFnet.

We are working on both compressed and uncompressed HD over IP now. With KISTI (actually with Dr. Byeon), we are planning some modified version of uncompressed HD video over IP stuff over Korea's GLORIAD connection to outside. We need collaboration with RC (BigVideo) and others for video transmissions.

In this presentation, it will be outlined the i2CAT projects, in progress, related to high quality video transmission over IP, as the proposal of a SIP framework to solve the signaling of high quality video transmission over IP, or the efforts to compile the work done by HD over IP working groups around the world.

Kathleen McMonigal is the General Manager for the ResearchChannel and Director for the University of Washington's Streaming Media, Video and TV Technology organization. Her responsibilities have included leading the organization experiments in broadcast quality video distribution over IP from the first MPEG-2 Video-On-Demand to High Defintion TV. ResearchChannel continues to explore HD over IP interactive technologies with global partners to bring the best quality video and audio around the world. Jesus Alcober is an associate professor at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. He received a PhD degree in telecommunications from the UPC in 1997 and his M.S. degree in telecomunications in 1993. From 2002, he is the manager of the mediaCAT, the video and videoconference platform of i2CAT Foundation. Jongwon Kim has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication at Kwang-Ju Institute of Science & Technology (K-JIST) since 2001; his research has focussed on networked media systems and protocols including multimedia signal processing and communications. He has co-authored around 150 technical publications in international/domestic journals and conferences. Dr. Kim is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, SPIE, KICS and IEEK. He leads the Access Grid Working Group ofGrid Forum Korea (GFK), HDTV Task Force of the Advanced Network Forum (ANF), and the HDTV Working Group of the Asia-Pacific Advance Network (APAN). Bob Riddle is a technologist on assignment to the Internet2 Applications Group. He has most recently been evaluating, exploring, & demonstrating high-quality, interactive, video services deployed across Internet2 contributing to the Access Grid, RtpTV, H.323 communities. Egon Verharen is innovation manager at the Advanced Services Department at SURFnet, the Dutch national research network, where he oversees SURFnet's projects on digital videoconferencing and -streaming. He is chair of the TERENA (European education and research networks association) taskforce on voice, video and collaboration (TF-VVC) and coordinates European efforts with those in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States> He is a member of the ViDe (Video Development initiative) steering committee, and was chair of Vidmid-vc, the VIDe/Internet2 Middleware initiative workgroup on videoconferencing middleware, and was a member of the Internet2 Commons management team. Egon serves on the Internet2 Application Strategy Council and DFN's (German researchnetwork) technical advisory board and gives regularly presentations and advice to other education and research networks on videoconferencing and streaming. Formerly an assistant professor on Information technology at Tiburg University, where he received his PhD on research on intelligent agents, Egon joined SURFnet in 1997 where he has been working on the development of advanced internet applications and services.Michael Wellings is the Chief Engineer for the ResearchChannel consortium, which in addition to providing programming via the Internet also supports a 7x24 broadcast stream nationwide. Mr Wellings directly contributes to the ResearchChannel goals of content creation and manipulation processes to test materials for analog and digital broadcast and on-demand multimedia offerings and creates experiments with new methods of distribution and interaction on a global basis. Michael pioneered efforts in MPEG-2 high-quality on-demand video distribution and was the chief broadcast architect for High Definition Television over IP networks with streams ranging up to 200mbps. Mr. Wellings is also the Chief Engineer for the University of Washington's cable television channels, UWTV and uw2.tv, and radio station, KCMU.