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Report from the Open Source Track @ ACM MM

November 15, 2008 on 10:16 am | | In Conference, Development, General, Multimedia, OpenSource | No Comments

Within the open source track of the ACM Multimedia conference the SIGMM  (Special Interest Group on Multimedia of the ACM) wants to provide a platform on discussing tools and code free to use in research as well as industry project. As I already blogged I had a presentation on Lire there. However all other contributors were nearly as interesting, if not even more

Marco Lohse presented a Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware (NMM), which was developed at Saarland University and is now available with dual licensing. He is also CEO of the company selling the non GPL license. The software is impressive and his demo was great. No surprise he won the prize of 700 $. (http://www.motama.com/nmm.html)

Yannick Alluse presented GpuCV, an extension of OpenCV towards CUDA and shader based computing. Important thing is that the library decides whether CPU, Shader or the GPU will be used for processing. (https://picoforge.int-evry.fr/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Gpucv/Web/)

Andreas Berger showed a framework for DVB-* transmission. It allows for inexpensive setup of for instance a DVB-T or DVB-H broadcasting service in labs or research projects. As its very generic one can compose the DVB stream fully free, so MHP, IP Data, EPG and so on are possible. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fatcaps/)

Jose San Pedro Wandelmer from the University of Sheffield presented his project FOBS, which is actually a wrapper for ffmpeg for C++ and JMF. I already knew FOBS as I have used it several times, but meeting Jose and talking to him was great. (http://fobs.sourceforge.net/)