The Chester W Sall Memorial Awards recognize the best papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics. CST member Matthias Wählisch and co-author of the paper "A Temporally Scalable Video Codec and its Applications to a Video Conferencing System with Dynamic Network Adaption for Mobiles" was awarded the first place. The award was given and presented at the International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2013 in Las Vegas.

• Hans L. Cycon, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, Detlev Marpe, Martin Winken,
  A Temporally Scalable Video Codec and its Applications to a Video Conferencing System with Dynamic Network Adaption for Mobiles,
  IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 1408-1415, IEEE Press, August 2011.

 

The paper is available here. It presents a scalable video solution for mobiles that adapts to changing network conditions. The solution is part of the full-fledged conferencing system PlaceCam, which is developed by Daviko GmbH.