Einar Meyerson Uriarte (male) has a degree in telematics engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He works as a Project Engineer in the Media Unit of the i2CAT Foundation. His work focuses on the implementation of multiplatform applications that offer interactive and immersive experiences, within the framework of national and international projects. He has wide experience in the development of web-based platforms and applications.

Isaac Fraile Vila (male) has a degree in telematics engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and a master’s degree in Multimedia Applications from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He works as a Project Engineer in the Media Unit of the i2CAT Foundation. His work focuses on the implementation of multiplatform applications that offer interactive and immersive experiences, within the framework of national and international projects. He also carries out research work on new techniques for distributing and synchronizing multimedia content over heterogeneous scenarios. He has wide experience in the development of web-based platforms and applications.

Marc Martos is a R&D Engineer at i2Cat Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) and a non-profit developer in emerging independent videogame studios. He received a Engineer’s Degree in Interactive Digital Content at the ENTI University, assigned center of the University of Barcelona (UB, Spain). His topics of interest include Artificial Intelligence, Low-Level Programming, Software Engineering and Interactive and Immersive Content. Between 2014 and 2019, he has worked as Systems & Applications Administrator for DAMM S.A. He is currently involved in the EU H2020 project VR-Together.

Gianluca Cernigliaro is a Senior R&D Engineer at i2Cat Foundation (Barcelona, Spain). He received his B.S. and M.E. degrees in telecommunication engineering from the Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) and his Postgraduate Master Degree in Telecommunication Systems and Technologies from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM, Madrid, Spain). Between 2008 and 2013, he has been a member of the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, Image Processing Group (UPM). In 2013 he joined Valeo (Tuam, Ireland), working on Computer Vision based Advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) until february 2016. After, between February 2016 and February 2018, he has worked as Senior Researcher for 8i (www.8i.com, Wellington, New Zealand), focusing on Point Cloud Compression. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Madrid, Spain. His research interests include multi-view video coding, 3D video coding, Point Cloud Compression and Computer Vision. He is currently involved in the EU H2020 project VR-Together.

Dr. Mario Montagud is a Researcher at i2CAT Foundation (Barcelona, Spain) and a Part-Time Professor at the University of Valencia (Spain). He received a PhD degree in Telecommunications (Cum Laude Distinction) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) in 2015. His topics of interest include Computer Networks, Interactive and Immersive Media, Media Synchronization and Quality of Experience (QoE). Mario is (co-) author of over 80 scientific and teaching publications and has contributed to standardization. He is member of the Editorial Board of international journals, has been member of the Organization Committee of the many international workshops and conferences, and lead editor of “MediaSync: Handbook on Multimedia Synchronization” (Springer, 2018). He is currently involved in three EU H2020 projects: VR-Together, ImAc and 5G-Picture.

Mr. Sergi Fernández is a computer scientist and holds a Master in Artificial Intelligence by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) since July 2007. Since May 2008, he has given support to the coordination of i2CAT’s Media & Internet Unit and led i2CAT’s involvement in different national and European projects. Since July 2012, he is the director of the Media & Internet Unit of i2CAT. Sergi has co-authored several articles in the field of Interactive and Immersive TV, being especially active in the recent past and he has also coordinated different European FP7 projects like TV-Ring (2013-2016) and ImmersiaTV (2016-2018). He is currently Project Coordinator of two H2020 projects in the field of Interactive and Immersive TV: VR-Together (2017-2020), and ImAc (2017-2020).