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ITU Journal: ICT Discoveries, Vol. 3(1), June 2020

Editor-in-Chief’s message

This latest special issue of the ITU journal offers unique
insight into the state of art in multimedia, and more
interestingly the insight that forecasts an exciting future
of highly immersive media experiences.

The 13 published papers address topics including the
latest developments in video and image coding and
resulting prospects for new media experiences; advances
in immersive media in sports and education; the growing
influence of machine learning; and the accessibility of
immersive media to persons with disabilities.

We are also fortunate to welcome a paper telling the story
behind the development of the first JPEG image
compression standard, a success story very much at the
origin of contemporary multimedia coding.
I express my gratitude to all of our authors for their valuable contributions to this special issue.

I would like to thank ITU Secretary-General Houlin Zhao for entrusting me with the role of ITU Journal
Editor-in-Chief. I would also like to thank Chaesub Lee, Director of the ITU Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau, for the support that I have received from his bureau, in particular the ITU
Journal’s editorial team.
I am also grateful to the many reviewers that ensured an efficient review process, in particular our Guest
Editors, Gary Sullivan, Microsoft; Yan Ye, Alibaba; Jens-Rainer Ohm, RWTH Aachen University; and
Lu Yu, Zhejiang University.
For their continued support to the ITU Journal, I would like to thank our Associate Editors, Rajkumar
Buyya, University of Melbourne; Jun Kyun Choi, Korea Advanced Institute of Technology; Xiaolin Fu,
University of Oxford; Mostafa Hashem Sherif; as well as our Outreach Chairman, Stephen Ibaraki.
The ITU Journal is a prime example of how ITU and academia can work together towards a shared goal,
through research and publication. This collaborative effort is of mutual benefit to ITU and academia,
offering research communities the chance to influence the decisions of thought leaders in the public and
private sector.

We are glad to announce that we are expanding this collaboration with the introduction of a new
international journal co-published by Tsinghua University Press and ITU.

Titled Intelligent and Converged Networks, the journal draws its name from the accelerating
convergence of different fields of communication technology and the growing influence of artificial
intelligence and machine learning.

Jian Song
Tsinghua University
China

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