Partners and attendees stressed that the structure of the debates, promoted by UPF, helped to generate fascinating discussion about the characteristics of the post-production industry, and the challenges of improving it via the use of intelligent metadata.
For one day, Universitat Pompeu Fabra became the ideal place to talk about metadata and the future of [...]

The European FP7 Project iMP presents a one-day workshop on:
The Death of Linear Post-production
How intelligent metadata handling is changing the world of film

Wed 30th June 2010 10am

Room 309, Edifici Tanger, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.
Directions: Calle Tanger 122-140, 08018 Barcelona. Map.
Registration: Please contact alun.evans@upf.edu
Keynote speaker: Wolfgang Lempp (Filmlight)
Winner of four academy awards this year.
Abstract: [...]

FilmLight team to receive Scientific and Technical Awards at 82nd Annual Academy Awards.
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Author: John Usher, Audio Group, Barcelona Media – Innovation Centre.
Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Abstract: Determining the onset time of reflections in an acoustic impulse response (IR) has ap-plications for both subjective and physical acoustics problems. Although computationally simple, a first-order energetic analysis of the IR can lead to false-positive identification of reflections. [...]

The 3rd Technical Meeting will be held at DTS Europe Ltd, Twyford, UK. 19 to 21 January 2010.  This meeting will consolidate the first year’s work of the project.