SkyMedia at ICME2011

SkyMedia consortium has presented the publication  “Skymedia – Uav-Based Capturing of HD/3D Content with WSN Augmentation for Immersive Media Experiences” showing the novel multimedia end-to-end architecture that can provide unique immersive media experiences to audience during live events in the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2011) held in Barcelona, Spain from July 11 to 15, 2011.

The presentation has been accepted in the Workshop on Hot Topics in Multimedia Delivery (HotMD 2011) in the track of Multimedia-Aware Networking.

ICME is considered one of the most important conference in the field of multimedia sponsored by four IEEE societies since 2000. It serves as a forum to promote the exchange of the latest advances in multimedia technologies, systems, and applications from both the research and development perspectives of the circuits and systems, communications, computer, and signal processing communities.

SkyMedia and Nimbus at PROTEC 2011

SkyMedia project activities were presented at the PROTEC 2011 event in Turin on June 30, 2011, within a conference session on light UAVs as enabling technologies for public protection and security.

The SkyMedia presentation focused on how the enabling technologies deployed within the SkyMedia project in the entertainment field can be used to deliver public protection and security applications as well. In particular, they allow to:

• Perform low cost aerial captures, silently and safely;
• monitor the most critical terrain areas through the use of sensor networks, using the UAV as a relay; 
• collect and process in a centralized manner all multimedia data collected on field; 
• interact with citizens directly on their mobile phones, enabling prompt alerts and signaling of important events; 
• interact with citizens using simple touchscreen interfaces deployed in strategically placed points of presence.

The Nimbus Metaplano

FogScreen on discover magazine

David H. Freedman has dedicated an article on the section Future Tech of the Discover magazine to FogScreen. Read it!

Turin Marathon visit

SkyMedia consortium partners visited Turin marathon race premises, where the live demonstration will take place on November 2012.

The visit has been really fruitful in order arrange the logistics of the final demonstration event.

SkyMedia meets Turin Marathon

On May 26 Turin Marathon participated to one of the Progress Meetings of the EU-funded project SkyMedia, coordinated by Mavigex. Eight Partner companies coming from six different countries (Italy, Portugal, France, Hungary, Greece, and Finland).


The event has been also reported by one of the most important Italian newspaper, La Stampa. Read here the article (in Italian).

SkyMedia paper accepted at ICME HotMD 2011

The SkyMedia paper "Skymedia – UAV-Based Capturing Of HD/3D Content with WSN Augmentation for Immersive Media Experiences" has been accepted at the ICME 2011 conference, which will be held in Barcelona, Spain, from July 11 to 15.


The paper will be presented at the special session HotMD2011 of the workshop WoMAN'11 - Workshop on Multimedia-Aware Networking 2011.

Turin Marathon Meeting

SkyMedia representatives met Turin Marathon organizers in Turin on Dec 13, 2010 to discuss joint technology demonstrations during the next events.
Turin Marathon S.r.l. (Turin, Italy) is a service company managing and organizing events including marathons, concerts and music events. In particular, Turin Marathon S.r.l. sent an official Letter of Interest to the SkyMedia project expressing their availability for hosting one or more project technology demonstrations, and as such it is currently the strongest candidate for the hosting of the project final public demonstration. SkyMedia will empower the audience to interact with the live scene, enabling multiple user roles and providing an immersive media experience demonstration to the users attending the event.