Smart Media

Media-related projects tackle the challenges owing to the rapidly changing media landscape and international competition, and to do this in close collaboration with the media sector - traditional media (newspapers and weeklies), the audiovisual media (radio and TV) and the gaming sector.

Some example projects:

• Solid4Media ICON project (2023-2027)

  This project explores the potential of Solid technology in the media domain. The aim is to investigate and validate the migration of user media profiles to a Solid-based infrastructure, offering both existing and new media services. The project proposal focuses on three key use cases identified by Flemish media stakeholders: (i) personalized recommendations, (ii) trust through transparency and consent control, and (iii) targeted advertising. By practically implementing the Solid infrastructure, the technical feasibility and scalability are examined. The project aims to determine the concrete value this can provide for existing and new media services, from both a business and end-user perspective.

• MECaNO - Media Contribution Network Optimization (iMinds ICON project, 2014-2015)

  The goal of this project is to provide both a technical and techno-economic optimal solution for the transmission of large file-based media files over (existing) IP-based network infrastructure, tailored to the quality and timing requirements of current and future media process flows in Flanders. The techno-economic work focuses on cost and business modeling of the media network with quality constraints. Want to learn more about our work? Check out our [poster]!

• OMUS - Optimizing MUltimedia Service delivery (iMinds ICON project, 2010-2012)

  The objective of OMUS is to optimize video delivery with respect to quality (QoS, QoE) in (possibly interactive) video services and real-time conferencing in large meeting rooms (e.g. parliaments) including remote participation. The techno-economic work included network planning and dimensioning, cost-benefit evaluation of services and value network evaluation for service delivery.