The 15th international symposium on wireless personal multimedia communications (WPMC2012) was held in Taipei, Taiwan on 24-27 September 2012.
The original official WEB aite of WPMC2012 has already been closed.
This site is quoted from the YRP WEB site with some modifications;
http://www.yrp.co.jp/en/event/event-archive/wpmc2012en/index.html
Overview
The International Conference on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications 2012 was held in Taipei, Taiwan, on September 24-27, 2012, under the co-sponsorship of National Taiwan University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and YRP R&D Promotion Committee, Japan.
The WPMC Symposia series was inaugurated in 1998 at Yokosuka Research Park, Japan, as a forum for enabling collaboration in the field of wireless multimedia communications. Over the years WPMC has been held in various countries in the world and has established itself as a unique global symposium dedicated to wireless multimedia convergence.
WPMC 2012 was held under the theme of “Autonomous Communication & Networking for Promoting Human Living.” In total, 266 papers were submitted, out of which 154 were accepted, and 244 people from 19 countries and regions had registered for participation. The program consisted of 11 keynote speeches, 4 tutorials, about 20 technical sessions, 8 invited sessions, 2 panel discussions, and one workshop. Various kinds of research results on advanced technologies and latest topics were presented, and the symposium venue was filled with lively discussions during the whole period.
Opening Ceremony
In the Opening Session on Sept. 25, firstly, welcome addresses were given by Prof. Dr. Kwang-Chen Chen, Distinguished Professor and Director, Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, and then, Mr. Chang San-cheng, Minister without Portfolio , Executive Yuan, gave the guest speech. Then, welcome remarks of Dr. Hiroshi Kumagai, Vice President of NICT, and Prof. Dr. Mitsutoshi Hatori, Chairman of YRP R&D Promotion Committee, were given followed by the Keynote Speech of Professor Dr. Vincent Poor , Princeton University, U.S.A.
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Mr. Chang San-cheng,
Minister without Portfolio , Executive Yuan |
Prof. Dr. Chen Kwang-Chen,
National Taiwan University |
Dr. Hiroshi Kumagai,
Vice President, NICT |
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A scene from the symposium |
Prof. Dr. Mitsutoshi Hatori,
Chairman, YRP R&D Promotion Committee |
WPMC2012 Best Paper Award Winners |
- Chang-Hung Hsieh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Yu-Yu Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Chih-Chieh Yang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Shih-Lung Chao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
- Hung-Yu Wei (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Online Dictionary Learning Based Intra-Frame Video Coding Via Sparse Representation
- Yipeng Sun (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
- Mai Xu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
- Xiaoming Tao (Tsinghua University, P.R. China)
- Jianhua Lu (Tsinghua University, P.R. China
Effect of Data Aggregation in M2M Networks
- Shin-Yeh Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
- Sok-Ian Sou (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
- Meng-Hsun Tsai (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Bio-inspired Time Synchronization Protocol for Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
- Aravind Kailas (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA)
- Nadine Pari (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
- Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil)
- Photo Gallery