Abstract of the talk: This talk will dicuss baiscs of multimedia
communications systems and methods, with emphasis on video compression
and communications. Relevant international standards and standardization
processes will be also be discussed.

Ye-Kui Wang received his PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from
the Graduate School at Beijing, University of Science and Technology of
China, Beijing, China. He is currently a Member of Research Staff in
Nokia Research Center,Tampere, Finland. His research interests include
video coding and transport, particularly doing those in an error resilient
and scalable manner.

Dr. Wang has been an active contributor to different standardization
organizations, including ITU-T VCEG, ISO/IEC MPEG, JVT, 3GPP SA4, IETF
and AVS. He has acted as an editor for several (draft) standard
specifications, including ITU-T Rec. H.271, and the MPEG file format and
the IETF RTP payload format for the scalable video coding (SVC)
standard. He has also been a chair of the special session of Scalable
Video Transport in the 15th International Packet Video Workshop (2006).
He has co-authored about 200 technical standardization contributions and
about 30 academic papers. In addition, Dr. Wang has co-invented over 60
issued and pending patents in the fields of multimedia coding, transport
and application systems.