The PCS'2007 Preliminary Program is now available at http://www.img.lx.it.pt/pcs2007/program.htm

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|               Picture Coding Symposium  -  PCS'2007
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|                7-9 November 2007, Lisbon - Portugal
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|                      http://www.pcs2007.org
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Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) is an international forum devoted
specifically to advancements in visual data coding. Since 1969, PCS
has provided the meeting place for the visual coding community:
industry, research, academia and users. The 26th PCS will be held in
Lisbon, Portugal, on 7-9 November 2007.

The day before, 6 November, a Workshop on "Recent Advances in
Distributed Video Coding" will be organized (free registration at http://www.discoverdvc.org/Workshop.html). In
this workshop, recent developments on distributed video coding will be
presented by the most prominent experts in the field.

The 16th International Packet Video Workshop will be held in Lausanne,
Switzerland, on 12-13 November 2007.



HIGHLIGHTS
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* PCS'2007 will feature as Invited Lectures:

- "H.264/AVC and its Extensions: How Close is this Family?"
  by Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA

- "From Picture Coding to Image Understanding: Finding the Object of
Interest"
  by Tsuhan Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

- "DCT, Wavelets and X-lets: The Quest for Image Representation,
Approximation and Compression"
  by Martin Vetterli, EPFL, Switzerland and UC Berkeley, USA

- "Efficient Representation of Sound Images: Recent Developments in
Parametric Coding of Spatial Audio"
  by Jürgen Herre, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS),
Erlangen, Germany


* PCS'2007 will also include three Discussion Panels:

- "Distributed Video Coding: Trends and Challenges"
  Chaired by Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

- "Multimedia: a World of Possibilities or just a Buzzword ?"
  Chaired by Alan Hanjalic, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

- "Video Content Protection: Does it Really Matter?"
  Chaired by Edward J. Delp, Purdue University, USA