Jerry Foss
Senior Lecturer
School of Computing and Digital Technology - DMT
- Email:
- jeremy.foss@bcu.ac.uk
- Phone:
- 0121 331 7416
Jeremy Foss is a Chartered Engineer and a senior lecturer in Broadcast Engineering at Birmingham City University, UK. He developed the university's successful broadcast engineering BEng and MSc programmes. Prior to his academic role he had thirty years' experience in research and development in telecommunications, including work on virtual environments, mobile network development, intelligent agents and as solutions architect for IPTV multi-play solutions. He is situated in the DMT Lab, where his research interests include in-video personalisation and interactive media for broadcast media, with specific interest in object based media placements, metadata, profiling, production and playout architectures. He also works on low latency real-time networks as well as on the integration and convergence of VR/AR with broadcast media. He is a member of IST/37, the UK membership of the MPEG committee (now SC29).
Current Activity
Jerry teaches on the following courses:
Jerry has been working with several European institutions and organisations and has a number of published papers in these areas. He is also a guest lecturer at other European universities.
Areas of Expertise
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Broadcast Engineering
- Media distribution and playout networks
- broadband xDSL / OTT / IPTV
- Cable TV
- Satellite TV
- Mobile
- Broadcast workflow technologies
- Commercial media value chain platforms, smart contracts, etc
- MPEG and other industry standards
- Broadcast metadata
- Object based media
- Low latency media transport
- TV / AR / VR convergence
Qualifications
- HND Leicester Polytechnic, 1975
- Chartered Engineer (via The IET)
Memberships
- Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology
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The Internet Society
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SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers)
Research
Jerry has 30 years' experience in telecommunications research and development. His research interests include personalised interactive networked video, media services and distribution architectures.
The services addressed include the video processing for distribution; end-user profiling; brokerage platforms for commercial media brokerage (specifically agent-based architectures); metadata and media workflow processes; production tools adaptation of media for personalisation and interaction.
His interests lie in the commercial applications and implementations of these services, especially in the fields of education, entertainment and advertising.
He is also interested in virtual environments and their applications to construction, especially for building information modelling, and application to learning environments.
Publications
DataTV 2019: 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television (J D Foss, L Nixon, B Shirley, B Philipp, B Malheiro, V Mezaris, S Kepplinger, A Ulisses); DataTV 2019: 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television, Manchester, June 2019
Stream Recommendation using Individual Hyper-Parameters (B Veloso, B Malheiro, J Foss); DataTV 2019: 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television, Manchester 2019
MPEG Intellectual Property Rights Ontologies for Media Trading and Personalization (P Kudumakis, T Wilmering, M Sandler, J D Foss); DataTV 2019: 1st International Workshop on Data-Driven Personalisation of Television, Manchester 2019
Personalised Dynamic Viewer Profiling for Streamed Data (B Veloso, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo, J Foss, J Gama); Trends and Advances in Information Systems and Technologies, 2018. In WorldCIST'18 2018, Ed. Rocha Á., Adeli H., Reis L.P., Costanzo S., Springer International Publishing, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ISBN 978-3-319-77711-5, Vol. 746, 501-510. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-3-319-77712-2_47.
Improving On-line Genre-based Viewer Profiling. Veloso B, University of Vigo, Spain; INESC TEC, Portugal; Malheiro B, ISEP/Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal, INESC TEC, Portugal; Burguillo J B, University of Vigo, Spain; Foss J, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom. TVX2017 Workshop on In-Programme Personalisation for Broadcast (IPP4B). Hilversum, Netherlands 2017
In-Programme Personalisation for Broadcast: IPP4B (Workshop Summary). Foss J, Birmingham City University. UK; Shirley B, University of Salford. UK; Malheiro B, ISEP/IPP - Polytechnic of Porto & INESC TEC, Portugal; Kepplinger K, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology, Germany; Ulisses A, MOG Technologies, Portugal; Armstrong M, BBC R&D, London, UK. TVX2017 Workshop on In-Programme Personalisation for Broadcast (IPP4B). Hilversum, Netherlands 2017
Personalised Fading for Stream Data (B Veloso, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo, J Foss) Proceedings of the Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2017), ACM, Marrakesh, Marrocos, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4503-4486-9. 870-872. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1145/3019612.3019868.
Object-Media: From Personalisation To A Seamless TV/VR Convergence. Jeremy Foss, Birmingham City University, UK; Alexandre Ulisses, MOG Technologies, Portugal; Nicolas Monnoyer, Big Bad Wolf, Belgium. IBC Futurzone presentation, Amsterdam 2016
Product Placement Platform for Personalised Advertising (B Veloso, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo, J Foss); New European Media (NEM) Summit 2016, Porto, Portugal, 2016.
B2B Platform for Media Content Personalisation (B Malheiro, J D Foss, J C Burguillo-Rial); MUSST: Workshop on Multi-User Services for Social TV, EuroITV 2013, Como, Italy; June 2013
Roadmap for a Comprehensive Evaluation Approach on QoE of Interactive and Personalized TV (J Liebetrau, S Kepplinger, A Cristea, J D Foss);1st International Workshop on Interactive Content Consumption at EuroITV 2013, Como, Italy; June 2013
Flexilink: A Unified Low Latency Network Architecture for Multichannel Live Audio; (Y.Wang, J.Grant, J D Foss);133rd AES Convention, San Francisco; October 2012
Poster: Personalisation of Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); Futurezone, IBC2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 2012
Personalisation of Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); EuroITV, Berlin, Germany, July 2012
Personalised Placement in Networked Video (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); MutliA-Pro, Lyon, France, March 2012
Negotiation Platform for Personalised Advertising (L V de Sousa, B Malheiro, J D Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2012
Dynamic Personalisation of Media Content (J D Foss, B Malheiro, J C Burguillo-Rial); Semantic Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), Vigo, Spain, December 2011
Issues for Mixed Reality Multi-National Universities (J.D.Foss); Media Education Summit, Birmingham UK, September 2010
Object-Based Media: Quantum Information ("A Head In The Cloud") (J.D.Foss); article in publication "The New Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow's World & What It Means To Us?, (ed K Cooper) for the 2010 British Science Festival.
A Proposal For Media Brokerage (B.Malheiro, J.D.Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2010
Lessons From Learning In Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); British Journal of Educational Technology (Blackwell), Vol 40 No 3, p556-560; May 2009
LiVE - Learning in Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss); ECUMICT, Gent, Belgium, March 2008
Dynamic Intelligent Intermediation (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, December 2005
Beyond MultiPlay (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, February 2005
From Triple Play To The Global Jukebox (J.D.Foss); invited presentation to BBC Technology Forum, July 2004
Service Brokerage, Dynamic Virtual ASP's and the Info-Climate (J.D.Foss); Networks2000, Toronto, September 2000.
Brokerage In An Information Economy (J.D.Foss, Kulwinder Garcha, Phil Turner, Nick Jennings); INET2000, Yokohama, Japan; July 2000.
Brokering Automated Enterprises (J.D.Foss); INET'99, San Jose, California, USA; June 1999.
Information Brokerage for Online Automated Enterprises (J.D.Foss); Computing and Control Engineering Journal (vol 10, no.1); (IEE); February 1999
Brokering the Info-Underworld (2); chapter in BT Engineering Journal, Summer 1998.
Brokering the Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss); FITCE UK (Federation of Telecommunications Engineers of the European Community); London, August 1998.
Intermediation and Information Brokerage (J.D.Foss), ISSLS'98, Venice, Italy, March 1998.
Brokers and Intermediaries in the Info-Underworld (2) (J.D.Foss); Colloquium on Information Overload, IEE, London, December 1997.
Brokers and Intermediaries in the Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss); ISS'97, Toronto, ON, Canada, September 1997.
Brokering the Info-Underworld; chapter in book "Agent Technology" - eds (N.Jennings & M.Wooldridge), Springer, 1998.
Brokering the Info-Underworld (J.D.Foss); UNICOM seminar, "Real World Applications of Intelligent Agents", Heathrow, UK, June 1996
Agents In Information Brokering Services (J.D.Foss); UNICOM seminar, "Business Applications of Intelligent Agents", London, UK, November 1995.
Information Services and Group Activities in a National Information Infrastructure (J.D.Foss); Fifth IEE conference on Telecommunications (ICT'95), Brighton, UK, March 1995.
The Global Information Trading Environment (J.D.Foss, E.Ackroyd, B.C.M.Atkin); ISSLS'93, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September 1993
Information Trading In Distributed Virtual Environments (J.D.Foss, E.Ackroyd, B.C.M.Atkin); IEE colloquium "Using Virtual Worlds", London, May 1993.
Links and Social Media
- Homepage: jdfoss.com
- Twitter @jerrydf
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdfoss/