General Information
PCS history
In recent years, the picture coding community has been meeting once every 18 months to share their most important achievements and discoveries. The long history of the PCS can be summarized by listing the previous meeting places:
1969 Cambridge, USA 1970 Raleigh, USA 1971 Lafayette, USA 1973 Los Angeles, USA 1974 Goslar, Germany 1976 Asilomar, USA 1977 Tokyo, Japan 1979 Ipswich, England 1981 Montreal, Canada 1983 Davis, USA 1984 Cesson Sevigne, France 1986 Tokyo, Japan 1987 Stockholm, Sweden 1988 Turin, Italy |
1990 Cambridge, USA 1991 Tokyo, Japan 1993 Lausanne, Switzerland 1994 Sacramento, USA 1996 Melbourne, Australia 1997 Berlin, Germany 1999 Portland, USA 2001 Seoul, Korea 2003 Saint-Malo, France 2004 San Francisco, USA 2006 Beijing, China 2007 Lisbon, Portugal 2009 Chicago, USA 2010 Nagoya, Japan |
Other events
The PCS2012 will be held in the week directly after the 100th MPEG meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.
Immediately after the PCS2012, on May 10-11, 2012 a Packet Video Workshop will take place in Munich, Germany. Munich can be easily reached from Krakow by plane. The flight takes about 90 minutes.
About Krakow
Krakow is the second largest Polish city and the former capital of Poland. Krakow is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Poland, with more than 7 million visitors each year.
Contrary to most of Polish cities it was only moderately damaged during the Second World War, preserving the most of its historical buildings. Its center keeping the charm of an old and ever important mid-European city is included on the UNESCO list of World Heritage.
Thanks to many universities and cultural establishments, Krakow is a city of great importance to Polish culture and history. The first Polish university was founded in Krakow in 1364 and is now known as Jagiellonian University (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski). Along with Warsaw, Krakow is the main cultural center of Poland, hosting many famous theaters, museums and other cultural institutions. The royal castle in Krakow - Wawel, home to many Polish kings, has been a place of burial of Polish heads of the State up to these days.
Nearby destinations
Wieliczka Salt Mine (13 km from Krakow city center) - one of the oldest companies
in the world, salt mining in this area dates back to 11 h century.
Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp
(1940-1945) (70 km from Krakow ) - the place of inprisonment and murder of
many hundreds of thousands of people during the Second World War.
Tatry mountains (106 km from Krakow) - the highest Polish mountains, a popular
tourist destination in Poland.