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This facility will support research and education in hard-wired and wireless video processing and compression technologies.
The need for research in this area is growing rapidly, as video teleconferencing, remote video/image access, video telephony and multimedia internet content come closer to being fully realized as mainstream technologies. In fact, most of these media will be transmitted over limited bandwidth paths, making research in video compression even more timely.
The Video Processing Research and Education Facility will be linked with the Communications & Signal Processing (C&SP) Lab, directed by Professor Nariman Farvardin. Already research in that lab has led to honors for students such as the 1995 American Division Award of the Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processing Solutions Challenge.
The C&SP Lab supports 14 faculty members and many students conducting research in communications systems, signal processing (including speech, image and video), multimedia systems, VLSI signal processing, and information theory.
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Pictured: (from left to right) Students Hamid Jafarkhani, Steven Neuendorffer, and lab manager Tasuki Hirata introduce visitors to the Video Processing Research and Education Facility. |
Research slated to be conducted in the new facility includes:
The development of full-motion video compression systems for video teleconferencing applications at 64-128 bits.
The AT&T Foundation has a history of committment to education and research at the University of Maryland. Besides funding the Video Processing Research and Education Facility, the AT&T Foundation, in conjunction with the GE Fund, has supported the GEMSTONE program. GEMSTONE brings together teams of undergraduate students from many disciplines to investigate current societal problems over a four-year period.
Since 1984, AT&T has invested more than $500 million in education. In higher education, AT&T supports research to create the technologies that will advance global information infrastructure.
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