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The banquet featured a traditional Taiwanese miniconcert.

per year. Companies are introducing
augmented reality (AR) and virtual
reality (VR) systems and new content
at an unprecedented pace.
Jar-Ferr Yang delivered the next keynote speech, "Prospective 3-D AR/VR
Broadcasting Systems in Taiwan." AR
and VR with various and potential applications have been recognized as some of
the most attractive technologies in the
current information and communications
technology market. This keynote started
with an overview of the latest threedimensional (3-D) visualization technologies developed in the current Moving
Picture Experts Group organization.
With the centralized texture and depth
packing 3-D video formats, the research
for 3-D television broadcasting, including 3-D content production, client engine
design, and display technologies, will
first be exhibited by Hsin Yeong, a cable
company in Taiwan. With a similar packing concept, it would be possible to pack
the interactive signaling and argument
data into visual data to avoid changing
the headend system for broadcasters.
In his keynote speech, Jing-Ming Guo
of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology asked, "Can HighLevel Deep Learning Features Present
the Best Performance on Image Retrieval
Without Low-Level Features?" This
important question has been raised
because advances in artificial intelligence
have led to the ability for content-based
image retrieval to be formed as multilevel

structure with low- and high-level features involved. In this talk, the functions
and extended advantages of digital halftoning were introduced. As most of the
images are recorded in compressed
domain, the compressed domain features
are intuitively adopted to form the lowlevel features for the image retrieval.
Conversely, features generated by deep
learning can better characterize human
perception through various operations,
such as convolution and pooling, and thus
achieve effective retrieval performance.
At the end of this talk, several configurations on the feature selections were demonstrated with practical examples.
The next talk was delivered by William T. Chen on "The Power of Packaging in the Age of Consumer Electronics,"
and the final keynote, by Tihao Chiang,
was on "4K Ultra High Definition
(UHD) Multimedia Processor for LowPower Applications."
The tutorial topics were "5G Perspectives From Design Simulation, Test
and Measurement," "Considerations in
Millimeter Wave Packaging Design,"
"Advanced Packaging Technology for
Power Devices," and "Intelligent Sensor System for Different Application."
These were immediately followed by a
panel discussion moderated by Harrison Chang. The conference program
also consisted of 22 lecture sessions
and two poster sessions.
ICCE-TW served as both an excellent technical conference for exchanging

ideas and the latest technology trends
and also included splendid social programs and helped develop warm friendships that will be remembered for a long
time. Half-day city tours were available
to introduce participants to the beauty of
Taipei, along with relaxing evenings at
the welcome reception and a gala dinner,
where attendees could enjoy entertaining
performances and delicious Taiwanese
cuisine. The banquet held on the evening of 13 June 2017 at the Calla Hall,
La Marée, provided an excellent networking opportunity for participants to
exchange ideas and connect with professionals with similar technical interests.
The conference tour took participants to
the National Taiwan Museum (the oldest
museum in Taiwan), the Taipei Confucius Temple, and Dadaocheng, which
was an important trading port in the 19th
century and is now famous for local Taiwanese cuisine.
With so many exciting events offered
by ICCE-TW, we look forward to welcoming you to the IEEE 2018 ICCE-
TW conference, which will be held in
the central part of Taiwan at the National
Chung Hsing University of Taichung on
19-21 May 2018. Additional details can
be found on the conference website at
http://www.icce-tw.org/iccetw2018.

march 2018

-Yu-Cheng Fan, Pei-Jun Lee,
Yuh-Shyan Hwang, and Bernard Fong,
General Chairs, ICCE-TW 2017

IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

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