Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2851739
D. Tkachenko
10 IEEE ConsumEr ElECtronICs magazInE ^ january 2019 T he International Symposium on Consumer Technologies (ISCT) 2018 took place in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 11–12 May 2018. This gathering is the established forum for innovative research in all CE technology areas. It is the second-oldest conference in the history of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CE Society), originating as the IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) in 1997 in Singapore. Since 1997, ISCE has been held in many countries around the world, its tenth-year celebration taking place in St. Petersburg in 2006. This year, the conference returned to St. Petersburg with a new name that expands its scope. The symposium was opened by ISCT 2018 General Chair Dmitry Vavilov. Then the keynote on “Multimedia Innovation and the Role of the Consumer” was delivered by Martin Salter. The conference’s main program included eight sessions with various topics concerning consumer technologies and an additional two-day track on digital information technologies, with student papers organized by the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television. At the end of the first day, Pablo Angueira of the University of the Basque Country delivered the lecture “The Future of Broadcast Television.” This was followed by the ISCT 2018 welcome reception on a boat cruise along the River Neva and its numerous channels through St. Petersburg. The second day of the symposium ended with a roundtable devoted to education in the consumer technologies area, which was chaired by Vyacheslav Nesterov. It also included the closing ceremony, where the best students who had taken part in the student paper contest received awards, provided by the sponsors, of free trips to the International Broadcasting Convention 2018 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Several special events were held in conjunction with ISCT 2018 at the St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television, including a workshop, “Actual Technologies: TV and Theater,” and a seminar, “FaceReader: Reading Emotions on the Image of a Person’s Face.” Konstantin Glasman and his team prepared videos of key ISCT 2018 events, The International Symposium on Consumer Technologies 2018
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2867965
W. Almuhtadi
D uring my more than 24 years of IEEE service, I have been actively engaged as a volunteer serving IEEE Members with a proven record of accomplishments serving in several posts throughout all IEEE levels (Institute, Region, Society, Section, Chapter, Affinity Group, and Student Branch). It is a great honor and privilege (with a great responsibility) for me to serve as the 20th president of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CESoc). In 2019, the CESoc will celebrate its 36th anniversary (or 43rd anniversary, since it was first part of the IEEE Broadcast, Cable, and CESoc). I will succeed and benefit from the great efforts and achievements of my predecessor presidents, Board of Governors (BoG) and committee members, volunteer leaders, members, and staff during the past 35 years. Therefore, I would like to thank them, and I profoundly appreciate their devotion and service to the CESoc. Also, I would especially like to thank my immediate predecessor, Past-President Sharon Peng, for her great leadership of the CESoc and outstanding services during her tenure (2015–2018). I would also like to thank senior Past-Presidents Stefan Mozar (2013–2014) and Stephen Dukes (2010–2012) for their exemplary service and leadership to the Society. The CE industry has experienced constant growth as a result of the dynamics and continuous advancement and rapid changes of CE technology and the global demand for smart devices and systems, such as augmented reality with mobile computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, smart TV, smartphones, games, autonomous cars, smart cities, etc. All of these rapid and dynamic changes have an impact on our CESoc, and we must strive to be the premier technical association in the CE industry and work toward the advancement of the theory and practice of electronic engineering. Unfortunately, the CESoc has recently faced many challenges: decrease in membership, conference revenue losses, decrease in CESoc Chapter activities, and lack of engagement with industry. To ensure the CESoc remains the leading technical, practical, and multidisciplinary society in CE, I, along with the CESoc BoG and dedicated volunteers, will tackle and solve these challenges by focusing and working on the following areas: Increase VIsIbIlIty and Value of the cesoc ▼ Increase prominence and visibility of the CESoc within industry and academia, other societies, and professional organizations and among the media, as the voice for technical professionals who can enhance understanding of CE technology for societal betterment ▼ position the CESoc to provide technical leadership in response to the needs of a rapidly changing industry ▼ increase CESoc participation and service to humanity.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2867974
B. Frankston
I recently discovered FFMPEG. In itself, it’s not that special—another program for processing video. The significance comes from the context. I had just written a simple video server in JavaScript and discovered that I needed to convert the videos to formats that the browsers understood with different formats being required for different browsers. The first step was to find a program that could do the conversion. In fact, there are many for purchase and for free. I happened across FFMPEG when I wanted to add an automatic thumbnail feature to my site. I found the FFMPEG library and then discovered the command- line interface (CLI). I realized I could write simple command files to assist me in the conversions. Text commands using the keyboard have advantages over graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in making the actions more explicit. The command lines can be captured in files to be replayed later.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2867964
S. Mohanty
elcome to the first 2019 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. We had a successful 2018, publishing six issues for the first time. The magazine has reached its readers more frequently with the latest technical trends as well as activities and news from the IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine has an impressive impact factor of 1.434 as determined by Clarivate Analytics (formerly IP Science of Thomson Reuters). It has improved by 24.3% from the impact factor of 1.153 last year. I would like to thank the CE Society president and vice president of publications for their support. This issue is dedicated to foodquality monitoring. You may recall the January 2018 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine focused on smart health care. The various aspects of smart health care include healthy living, assisted living, remote health care, stress management, and automatic health monitors. Good food is one of the most basic requirements for healthy living and a high quality of life in modern society. Ensuring the quality of food should be an integral part of both smart health care and smart agriculture. Smart agriculture can handle food supply chain security, combating counterfeits (including seeds, organics, and vegetables), reduction of spoilage, enhancement of consumer knowledge and safety, and efficient food recall. Ensuring food quality at the source end through smart agriculture and the consumer end through smart health care serves as double assurance before food is consumed. Food can naturally decompose or become contaminated due to storage that exceeds its projected life span. Food can also be purposefully adulterated. Thus, requiring accurate and portable mechanisms to verify the quality of food products is vital before consumption for a healthy lifestyle.
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2851740
S. Mohanty
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2851742
Sharon Peng
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Pub Date : 2018-11-01DOI: 10.1109/MCE.2018.2851758
B. Frankston
^ IEEE ConsumEr ElECtronICs magazInE 55 N etwork neutrality is an im portant issue. We must not allow transport owners to limit our ability to communicate. But, net neutrality in itself positions the Internet as a telecommunications service. We need to step back and recognize that the Internet itself is part of a larger shift wrought by software. I thought about this more when I found myself in my hospital room (after knee surgery) unable to open and close the shades by myself. Yet I could control the lights in my house! It wasn’t simply that I had built a one-off special case; rather, I had carefully architected my home-lighting control implementation to minimize the interdependencies while taking advantage of existing technologies. For example, to the extent that I could, I avoided depending on the accidental properties of silos, such as Zigbee. I normalized any transport to simple packets. This is how the Internet works; it normalizes the underlying infrastructure to Internet protocol (IP), so I don’t care if a particular segment is ATM or cellular. I can use the same technique as in tunneling IP through Bluetooth using the general serial protocols. Software has given us the ability to stitch things together. In designing and redesigning applications, we have also gained an understanding of the importance of dynamic architectural boundaries that minimize coupling or entanglement. Thus, with an IP connection, I could insert shims (also known as work-arounds, as long as they preserve the architectural integrity), such as NATs, or treat the entire telecom system as a simple link. I can normalize this by overlaying my own IP connection on top of what I find, including existing IP connections (as we do with VPNs). This allows us to implement and then evolve systems as we improve our understanding. In the telecom paradigm, I would have to rely on the network to assure a path as a virtual wire from my phone to a device in my house. But in the new paradigm, we have relationships that are abstract. We can represent the relationship as [ , ], a b where a is the app element and b is the device or virtual device. It need not involve a physical wire. The network connection is not a layer but simply one resource I can use. It does require thinking differently and discovering what is possible rather than adhering to rigid requirements. Though I avoid depending on a provider’s promises, I may be limited by policies that second-guess what I’m doing. This is why neutrality is an important principle. That includes not doing me favors by secondguessing my needs and thus working at cross-purposes as I innovate outside their design point. A better term is net indifference, because the intermediaries don’t know my intent and thus can’t play favorites. More important is that it means that paywalls and security barriers may make it impossible for my application to work. I had to manually intervene to use the hospital’s Wi-Fi connection. I can do that in simple cases,
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