Welcome Message

Welcome to Lisboa for the Eighth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, QoMEX 2016!

The 8th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2016) will be held in June 2016, in Lisbon, Portugal. It will bring together leading experts from academia and industry interested in the evaluation of multimedia quality and user experience. QoMEX 2016 will address theory and applications of measuring the quality of user experiences, based on both objective and subjective psychophysiological measures. The program will include presentations of novel research theories, applications and results in lecture, poster and plenary sessions, as well as special sessions organized by internationally recognized experts in the area.

We expect you to enjoy your stay in Lisboa – our city, our old monuments and also the new architecture, the food, the friendly people, the flavors, tastes and smells of the most western part of Europe. And, of course, we expect you make the most of QoMEX 2016 – the sessions and the breaks, the talks by the ‘big names’ and the papers of young and enthusiastic students, the discussions in the panels and also in the corridors. We expect this will be an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and strengthen the links with other practitioners and researchers.

An exciting and with high technical quality program has been prepared. There are three outstanding invited talks:

Perceptual Coding: Hype or Hope?, by C.-C. Jay Kuo, University of Southern California, USA
Thinking Big: The 5 Senses, by Marianna Obrist, University of Sussex, UK
Quality of Experience in Haptic Communication, by Eckehard Steinbach, Technical University of Munich, Germany

To stimulate lively discussions involving all workshop participants, the program includes a discussion panel:

QoE: from Academia to Industry, where are we?, with Ian Burnett (moderator), University of Technology Sydney; Sebastian Möller, TU Berlin; Anna Ukhanova, Google Switzerland; Christian Timmerer, Alpen-Adria-Universität; and José Pascoal, NOS

There will be two Personal Experience Testimony sessions, presenting the professional path of well recognized experts in QoE from a personal perspective, highlighting achievements, challenges, doubts, failures, etc.

“Quality research”: From academia to industry and back again, by Amy Reibman, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Back to my future as a researcher !, by Touradj Ebrahimi, EPFL, Switzerland

We would like to thank all of those who have contributed to the success of the workshop: paper authors, invited speakers, panel members, personal testimony speakers and session chairpersons, who accepted the invitation to be here. We also thank the members of the Steering Committee and Technical Program Committee, who provided the necessary
expertise and performed an excellent work in shaping the conference from the technical point of view.

On behalf of the QoMEX 2016 Organizing Committee, you are warmly welcomed to join us and we hope all of you will enjoy this conference in Lisboa.

The Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee

General Chair

Fernando Pereira, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL

Technical Program Chairs

Klaus Diepold, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, GERMANY
Paula Queluz, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL
Ulrich Reiter, TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE KÖLN, GERMANY

Special Session Chairs

C.C. Jay Kuo, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, USA
Martín Varela, VALTION TEKNILLINEN TUTKIMUSKESKUS, FINLAND
António Pinheiro, UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR, PORTUGAL

Finance Chair

Paulo Correia, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL

Publications Chair

Karel Fliegel, CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC

Awards Chairs

Lina Karam, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
Weisi Lin, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE

Web Chairs

Tomás Brandão, IT, ISCTE-IUL, PORTUGAL
João Ascenso, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL

Local Arrangements

Catarina Brites, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL
Henrique Oliveira, IT, INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE BEJA, PORTUGAL
Paulo Nunes, IT, ISCTE-IUL, PORTUGAL

Publicity

Ian Burnett, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Stefan Winkler, ADVANCED DIGITAL SCIENCES CENTER, SINGAPORE
Anthony Vetro, MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, USA
Eduardo Silva, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Christian Timmerer, ALPEN-ADRIA-UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA

Steering Committee

Loretta Anania, EUROPEAN COMISSION, BELGIUM
Ian Burnett, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
Patrick Le Callet, IRCCYN, UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES, FRANCE
Touradj Ebrahimi, ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND Khaled El-Maleh, QUALCOMM, USA
Albert Gauthier, EUROPEAN COMISSION, LUXEMBOURG
Lina Karam, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
Sebastian Moeller, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, GERMANY
Fernando Pereira, IT, UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, PORTUGAL
Andrew Perkis, NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NORWAY Amy Reibman, PURDUE UNIVERSITY, USA
Peter Schelkens, ETRO-VUB, BELGIUM
Athanassios Skodras, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, GREECE
Christian Timmerer, ALPEN-ADRIA-UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA
Stefan Winkler, ADVANCED DIGITAL SCIENCES CENTER, SINGAPORE

Technical Program Committee

Jan-Niklas Antons, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, GERMANY
Marcus Barkowsky, UNIVERSITY OF NANTES, FRANCE
Vittorio Baroncini, FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI, ITALY
Søren Bech, BANG &OLUFSEN, DENMARK
Benjamin Belmudez, CREUNA AARHUS, GERMANY
Fernando Boronat Seguí, UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, SPAIN
Adam Borowiak, NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NORWAY
Tomás Brandão, ISCTE/IUL-IT, PORTUGAL
Kjell Brunnström, ACREO, SWEDEN
Ian Burnett, RMIT UNIVERSITY, AUSTRALIA
Pablo Cesar,CWI, THE NETHERLANDS
Damon Chandler, OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA
Kuan-Ta Chen, ACADEMIA SINICA, TAIWAN
Lai-Tee Cheok, SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE
Ngai-Man Cheung, SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN, SINGAPORE
Philip Corriveau, INTEL, USA
Varuna De Silva, APICAL, UNITED KINGDOM
Nikolaos Deligiannis, VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, BELGIUM
Frederic Dufaux, TELECOM PARISTECH, FRANCE
Ragnhild Eg, WESTERDALS OSLO ACT, NORWAY
Sebastian Egger, AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, AUSTRIA
Mohamad Eid, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Hisham Elshaer, VODAFONE GROUP R&D, UNITED KINGDOM
Ulrich Engelke, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION (CSIRO), AUSTRALIA
Tiago Falk, INRS-EMT, CANADA
Yuming Fang, JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS, P.R. CHINA
Mylene Farias, UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA, BRAZIL
Reuben Farrugia, UNIVERSITY OF MALTA, MALTA
Bruno Fazenda, UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD, UK
Karel Fliegel, CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
Søren Forchhammer, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK, DENMARK
Narciso García, UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID, SPAIN
Marie-Neige Garcia, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, GERMANY
George Ghinea, BRUNEL UNIVERSITY LONDON, UK
Abdelwahab Hamam, IMMERSION, CANADA
Andrew Hines, TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, IRELAND
Yuukou Horita, UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA, JAPAN
Tobias Hoßfeld, UNIVERSITY DUISBURG-ESSEN, GERMANY
Quan Huynh-Thu, CANON, AUSTRALIA
Lucjan Janowski, AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, POLAND
Satu Jumisko-Pyykkö, EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, NETHERLANDS
Christian Keimel, INSTITUT FÜR RUNDFUNKTECHNIK, GERMANY
Sarah Kepplinger, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ILMENAU, GERMANY
Jari Korhonen, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK, DENMARK
Dragan Kukolj, UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD, SERBIA
Chaker Larabi, UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS, FRANCE
Patrick Le Callet, IRCCYN, FRANCE
Olivier Le Meur, UNIVERSITY OF RENNES 1, FRANCE
Pierre Lebreton, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ILMENAU, GERMANY
Chulhee Lee, SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KOREA
Mikolaj Leszczuk, AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, POLAND
Weisi Lin, NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY, SINGAPORE
Hantao Liu, CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM
Maria Martini, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM
Sebastian Möller, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN, GERMANY
Anush Moorthy, QUALCOMM, USA
Matteo Naccari, BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, UNITED KINGDOM
King Ngan, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG, P.R. CHINA
Peter Pocta, UNIVERSITY OF ZILINA, SLOVAKIA
Manuela Pereira, UNIVERSIDADE DA BEIRA INTERIOR, PORTUGAL
Andrew Perkis, NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NORWAY
Matthieu Perreira-Da-Silva, IRCCYN – UNIVERSITY OF NANTES, FRANCE
Antonio Pinheiro, UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR, PORTUGAL
Alexander Raake, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ILMENAU, GERMANY
Judith Redi, DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, THE NETHERLANDS
Amy Reibman, UNIVERSITY OF PURDUE, USA
Thomas Richter, UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART, GERMANY
Christian Ritz, UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA
Raimund Schatz, FTW TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH CENTER VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Peter Schelkens, ETRO – VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL, BELGIUM
Nadja Schinkel-Bielefeld, AUDIOLABS-IIS, GERMANY
Eduardo Silva, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Athanassios Skodras, UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, GREECE
Lea Skorin-Kapov, UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, CROATIA
Janto Skowronek, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ILMENAU, GERMANY
Dominik Strohmeier, MOZILLA, GERMANY
Nitin Suresh, APPLE, USA
Armin Taghipour, FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER UNIVERSITÄT ERLANGEN-NÜRNBERG, GERMANY
Christian Timmerer, ALPEN-ADRIA-UNIVERSITÄT KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA
Martin Varela, VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND, FINLAND
Katarzyna Wac, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Stephan Werner, TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ILMENAU, GERMANY
Stefan Winkler, ADVANCED DIGITAL SCIENCES CENTER, SINGAPORE
Wieslaw Woszczyk, MCGILL UNIVERSITY, CANADA
Jinjian Wu, XIDIAN UNIVERSITY, CHINA
Nick Zacharov, DELTA, DENMARK
Guangtao Zhai, SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY, P.R. CHINA
Thomas Zinner, UNIVERSITÄT WÜRZBURG, GERMANY