Research
home Our research activities include the following areas:

  • Image and video coding:

    • Lossless and near-lossless compression of color images,
    • Image and video compression,
    • Image and video coding standards (AVC/H.264, SVC, MVC, JPEG2000),
    • Scalable video coding,
    • Results of scalable codec contest: more information
    • Multiview video coding,
    • Coder modeling and bitrate control,
    • AVC/H.264, SVC, MVC codec development and optimization,
    • Video transcoding,
    • New media coding techniques.

  • Audio processing and coding more information
    • Perceptual audio coding,
    • Multichannel and spatial audio,
    • Bandwidth enhancement of compressed audio,
    • Sinusoidal modeling and applications,
    • Parametric coding for high quality audio,
    • Sound synthesis.

  • Industrial applications of image, video and audio coding and processing:

    • Video and audio codec implementations (software and hardware),
    • Media coding and processing systems on general-purpose processors, digital signal processors, FPGA, ASIC,
    • Automatic video analysis systems,
    • Digital television content analysis,
    • Implementations for new media coding standards (MPEG-4, AVC/H.264, AAC, SVC, MVC, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21),
    • Interactive digital television systems,
    • New multimedia systems,
    • Archivization, processing and analysis of medical images,
    • Video surveillance systems,
    • Applications of image, video, audio and speech processing anywhere.

  • Circuit design for image, video and audio processing and coding:

    • IP cores for image, video and audio processing and coding,
    • Network on Chip systems,
    • System design for FPGA,
    • System design for ASIC,
    • Low-power implementations,
    • Advanced video and audio coding system design.

  • Multimedia systems:

    • Communications, medical etc,
    • Metadata extraction, media indexing and retrieval,
    • MPEG-7 applications,
    • Interactive television,
    • System integration.

  • Color image and video processing:

    • Color transformation errors,
    • Color image representations, Scalar chrominance,
    • Irregular representations of images,
    • Color image and video enhancement and restoration,
    • Color image and video analysis,
    • Image and video segmentation,
    • Applications (medical, surveillance etc.).

  • Two-dimensional digital filters:

    • Linear (filter banks, FIR and IIR filters),
    • Scalar and vector nonlinear filters,
    • Nonlinear filters with prediction error processing,
    • Applications.

  • Theory of multidimensional digital systems:

    • General passivity of digital systems,
    • Digital systems with guaranteed stability,
    • Low-sensitive systems,
    • Unipolar systems.


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