Ali N. Akansu - US grants

This award is for the acquisition of a real time disc system with color monitor, camera, printer, and recorder/player. The instruments are to support research projects in motion adaptive video coding with motion compensation and motion measurement by matching approaches. The instrument upgrades current black and white equipment to color. One method of squeezing more use out of limited broadcast channels is to discover new ways of coding color and motion information. These will become particularly important with the advent of high definition television and is critical to some of the proposed HDTV standards. This equipment award is for the acquisition of a real time color video display system for use in research on motion and color coding algorithms.

ABSTRACT EEC-9711581 Akansu The analog technology of television is in the process of changing to the recently approved FCC High Definition Television Standard which is digital. Although digital video is mature enough to generate and deliver digital video, a lot of research is necessary to enhance and broaden the current capability. This award provides funding for a planning meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology to determine if there is sufficient industrial support to establish an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Digital Video. In a recent award to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute it was noted that the envisioned research interests of industry would require the involvement of other university researchers. This award provides funding for an additional planning meeting to determine if there is sufficient industrial interest to establish a multi-university I/UCRC for Digital Video and Media utilizing the resources of Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Princeton University.

9724281 Akansu, Ali New Jersey Institute of Technology Laboratory for Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) is acquiring a high speed computing, data storage and retrieval facilities for processing, compressing and displaying real-time image and video sequences. This equipment will support research projects in image/video processing and compression, and transmission over wired and wireless networks. Additional image and video communication equipment will be acquired to support research projects on channel characterization, performance analysis and simulation for image and video communication. NJIT, Princeton University and Rutgers University are founding partners of a recently established New Jersey Center for Multimedia Research (NJCMR). NJCMR has been designated as a Research Excellence Center by the New Jersey State Commission of Science and Technology with a funding level of over $1 million per year for the coming 5 years. The MRI-funded equipment will form part of a new laboratory for Multimedia Signal Processing and Communication to support research projects within this Research Excellence Center. NJIT has a leading position in the State as a distance learning provider and the requested equipment will also be used to support multimedia technologies research and their application for educational and learning environments, as well as in advanced-level graduate course work on multimedia signal-processing, compression and communication.