The objective of SkyMedia project is to explore, design and demonstrate a novel multimedia end-to-end architecture that can provide unique immersive media experiences to audiences during live events. Innovative 3D coding methods, on which VITEC Multimedia is mainly implied, and advanced transcoding methods will enable to provide and adapt multimedia content to different distribution networks and rendering methods. Unique, interactive walk-through mid-air screens will materialize high-res 3D pseudo-holographic scenes. All technologies will come together to form a very advanced multimedia service platform.

MediaMap is a European project currently running under the CELTIC programme umbrella. MediaMap aims at promoting new collaborative audiovisual production services using the network as a federative channel. The project includes new concepts using semantics and ontology elements adapted to the audiovisual world in order to create a high level contextual search engine and a new audiovisual web portal. VITEC Multimedia builds a new interactive networking camcorder, with an ingest platform and a camera mate, in order to create new writing methods.

 

HDTVNext is a European project currently running under the ITEA2 programme umbrella. The HDTVNext project aims at investigating and developing the next generation of High Definition TV. VITEC Multimedia is developing a VML-based platform that might allow customers to encode HDTV live content and to provide format conversion tools between JPEG2000 and MPEG-AVC HP in order to initiate the convergence between Digital Cinema and HDTV.

 DRM Solution NG is a European project currently running under the CELTIC programme umbrella. DRM Solution NG aims at building a DRM solution based on the SIM card for mobile devices, oriented to convergent networks through IMS services and supporting different DRM technologies. VITEC Multimedia provides real-time MPEG advanced audio and video encoding technologies, develops multiplexed audiovisual content into PDCF format and audiovisual content encryption/decryption compliant with the OMA DRM v2.0 specifications.

In order to answer to the European Directive about the improvement of the access to public transports by handicapped persons, the French National Railways has launched a research project that has been labelled by the Sustainable Town and Mobility Competitiveness Cluster. A mechatronic system, enabling to fill the gap between the passenger car and the railway platform, will be controlled by an embedded smart camera developed for this purpose by VITEC Multimedia

 

 

 

SUIT is a European research project that will explore several techniques in the context of the universal interactive television and network convergence. The project will consider an end-to-end chain composed of a playout, last mile networks, and terminals of different computational and display capacities. It will make use of the most recent technologies like MPEG-4 SVC and MPEG-21 DIA.VITEC Multimedia will develop a real-time platform that enables to encode and decode scalable AVC/H.264 video streams starting from handheld up to high definition formats.

 

 

French PREDIT initiative for innovation in terrestrial transport has launched a research program named SARI (Road Automated Surveillance for drivers and road managers Information) in which VITEC Multimedia will experiment a new driver system information based on automated road traffic analysis with the help smart video surveillance sensors and dynamic road signs. The objective is to show that a driver can be informed by road infrastructure about the current situation when approaching a risky area.

ARCHIPEG is a research and development project labelled by the French RIAM research initiative for audiovisual and multimedia. Its main objective is to design and develop a modular, programmable, evolutionary and scalable processing architecture enabling to implement advanced video coders for HDTV and D-Cinema. The ARCHIPEG project enabled VITEC Multimedia to boost developments on its VP3-70 HD multiprocessor platform.