Abstract of Luis Rodríguez-Roselló
Trends and Future Research Priorities on Networked Media
The current media landscape is characterised by an explosion of massively distributed digital
objects, by a growing share of user generated content and an ever increasing quality of professional
content (digital cinema, ultra high de nition TV, immersive games, 3D, amongst others). This
is compounded with new consumption modes and users' demands for new services, such as
ubiquitous access on demand, social and community media, content personalisation and more
intuitive and easier methods for content creation and retrieval. This requires moving from
content to context and from a traditional broadcasting approach to personal and on-demand
media access. The above trends have a profound impact also on the infrastructure and the access
technologies required, for example content awareness and advanced methods, tools and systems
enabling more intuitive content creation and multimedia-based search for content are to become
basic elements of the future 3D Media Internet. The European Commission is spearheading
new areas of research, from basic technologies to service integration and applications. Innovative
domains, such as video or 3D object search, next generation of P2P, end to end 3D video
delivery and immersive media experiences are some of the topics that the current RD projects
are addressing. In parallel new research opportunities are being explored as they should lead to
new technology breakthroughs and business opportunities. This is the way to ensure Europe will
be able to play an important role in the future networked media world, as we are fully aware that
beyond a key technology we are addressing a major industrial and cultural challenge for Europe.
Short Biography of Luis Rodríguez-Roselló
Luis Rodríguez-Roselló holds a degree of Telecommunications Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). After some years of
professional activity as engineer at a private company and as full professor at the Faculty of Telecommunications and Engineering Madrid in
Computer Science and Control Systems, he was appointed Director of the R&D Department at the ITE (Institute for Technologies in Education) of the
Ministry of Education in Spain and later on Head of the International Department of the CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico e Industrial).
He joined the European Commission in 1989 as Head of Division in Directorate-General "Telecommunications, Information Market and
Exploitation of Research" as responsible for the R&D Programme DELTA (Developing European Learning through Technological Advance).
He also headed the Educational Multimedia Task Force of the European Commission. He was acting Director in 2003 and 2004 of Directorate
"Emerging Technologies, Infrastructures. Applications" of Directorate General Information Society. Domains of responsibility encompassed basic
research (Future and Emerging Technologies), Grid Technologies, Research Infrastructures and application areas related to eInclusion and eWork.
End 2004 he was appointed Head of the Unit “Networked Audiovisual Systems” which became "Networked Media Systems" in the current EC Framework
Programme for R&D.
