The activities of multimedia group
Areas of expertise:
- Video compression: AVC, SVC, MVC, HEVC, 3D
- 3D video creation and processing: depth estimation, view synthesis, free-viewpoint video
- Video processing: surveillance applications.
- Video watermarking
- Audio compression and processing: low-bitrate coding, USAC, spatial audio etc.
- Video and audio codec implementations - software and hardware (FPGA etc.)
- Digital television, interactive television, free-view tv
- IP cores development, FPGA programming, Design for FPGA
International standardization activities in multimedia:
- ~80 contributions to MPEG (ISO) and JVT / JCT-VC / JCT-3V (ISO + ITU).
- Our scalable video codec was ranked within three the best codecs in MPEG March 2004 contest for scalable coding (the other codecs were from HHI Berlin and MS Research Asia)
- Organization of the 73rd MPEG and 16th JVT Meetings in Poznań (July 2005) – first meeting in Central Europe
- Proposal to USAC – SBR extension (Audio group, 2010)
- Improvements to Depth Estimation Reference Software
- We have been ranked among two the best proponents worldwide - for 3D HEVC-based video codec – November 2011
Examples of major research achievements with practical implications:
- First worldwide stereoscopic system for vehicle dimension estimation (2013)
- Experimental system for free-viewpoint television – partially in cooperation with Orange Labs (2012).
- Outstanding proposal for HEVC-based 3D video coding technology – we have been ranked among two the best proponents for HEVC-based 3D video coding technology in MPEG 2011 contest
- Outstanding proposal for scalable video coding technology - ranked within three the best codecs in MPEG March 2004 contest for scalable coding
- One of the very first worldwide AVC decoders for television set-top-boxes (early 2004) – cooperation with ADB
The activities of electromagnetic waves and fields group
We include the following areas in our research:
Methods of electronic circuit analysis and design.
Modeling, simulation and analysis of Interconnects.
Designing, simulation and analysis of antennas.
Modeling of propagation channels in frequency and time domain.
We took part in the following projects:
Projekt badawczy promotorski (1744/B/T02/2007/33)
Project title: „Analiza propagacji sygnału w połączeniach nowoczesnych układów VLSI”,
The place of project realisation: Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Chair of Multimedia Telecommunications and Microelectronics,
Project supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech BandurskiProjekt badawczy promotorski (N N517 382336)
Project title: „Analiza zniekształceń impulsu UWB w kanałach z przeszkodami wypukłymi”,
The place of project realisation: Poznań University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Chair of Multimedia Telecommunications and Microelectronics,
Project supervisor: prof. dr hab. inż. Wojciech Bandurski