The Lab specializes in the design and testing of new algorithms for the compression and transmission of digital image, video and audio signals. These exciting topics have been experiencing an explosion of activity over the past few years, due to the development of the next-generation image coding standard JPEG 2000 and video coding standard H.264.

Researchers

Faculty

• Dr. Ivan Bajic
• Dr. Jie Liang
• Dr. Atousa HajShirMohammadi

Visiting Scholars

• Dr. Hongfei Du
• Dr. Mario Enriquez

Ph.D.

• Yue-Meng Chen
• Yu Gao
• Hadi Hadizadeh
• Choong-Hoon Kwak
• Carl Qian
• Upul Samarawickrama
• Mehdi Seyfi
• Jing Wang
• Xiaoyu Xiu

M.A.Sc.

• Parmida Beigi
• Duncan Chan
• Calvin Che
• Xiaozheng Huang
  
• Xiaonan Ma
• Mohammad Jafar Taghiyar Renani
• Unnati Sapre
• Dong Zhang

B.A.Sc.

Recent Alumni

• Mahin Torki (M.A.Sc. 2009)
• Derek Pang (B.A.Sc. 2009, now a graduate student at Stanford)
• S. Mohsen Amiri (M.A.Sc. 2009, now a Ph.D. student at UBC)
• Guoqian Sun (M.A.Sc. 2009, now with Cisco)
• Sohail Bahmani (M.A.Sc. 2008, now a Ph.D. student at CMU) [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Duncan Chan (B.A.Sc. 2008, now a graduate student at SFU)
• Sunghoon Ivan Lee (B.A.Sc. 2008, now a graduate student at UCLA)
  
• Yue-Meng Chen (M.A.Sc. 2007, now a Ph.D. student at SFU) [M.A.Sc. Thesis]
• Tong Jin (Ph.D. 2006, now with Teradici) [Ph.D. Thesis]
• Raymond Ngun (M.Eng. 2006, now with Broadcom) [M.Eng. Project]
• Victor Chan (M.Eng. 2006, now with MDA) [M.Eng. Project]
• Howard Chang (B.A.Sc. 2006, now with Redback)

Earlier Alumni (students of Dr. J. Vaisey)

• Chen Ji (M.A.Sc. 2001)
• K.P. Subbalakshmi (Ph.D. 2000, now Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology)
• Ed Chiu (M.A.Sc. 1999)
• David Hargreaves (M.A.Sc. 1994)
• David Houlding (M.A.Sc. 1994)
  

Former Visitors

• Dr. Weidang Zhang, Zhengzhou University (2008-2009)
• Prof. John Crawford, UC Irvine (2008)
• Dr. Myo Tun, Brunel University (2008)
• Maxime Taquet, Université Catholique de Louvain (2008)
• Lijie Liu, Johns Hopkins University (2005)

Current Research Projects

• Error Resilient Image and Video Coding
• Error Resilient Lapped Transform
• JPEG 2000 Tiling Artifact Removal
• Jittering Artifact Removal in 3-D Wavelet Video Coding
• Context Adaptive Entropy Coding
• Joint Optimization of Video Codec Parameters
• Error Control for Video Streaming
• Predictive Decoding for Delay Reduction
• Joint Source-Channel Decoding
• Multiview Video Coding
  
• Multiple Description Image and Video Coding

Facilities

• 17 PC workstations
• 2 Sun Ultra 40 workstations
• 2 Dell PowerEdge servers
• 1 Simena NE 3000 network emulator
• 1 8-core MacPro
• 1 Sony PlayStation3 cluster with Apple G5 head node
• 2 Point Grey Bumblebee2 stereo cameras
• 1 Vertex 0824 8-camera surveillance system
• 1 Sony HDR-SR12 camera
• 1 DTI 3-D monitor

Sponsors