1) Mon, 3/20/06, 5:10 pm, NEB 409

Arun Avudainayagam:
"Distributed' Video Coding for Sensor Networks"

Abstract: 
A new paradigm for the design of video coding schemes
that are suitable for wireless video and sensor network 
applications will be introduced in this talk. Conventional video encoding 
schemes like MPEG and H.26x are computationally intensive tasks and hence 
cannot be implemented in small, low-cost sensors. Low complexity video
coding schemes that are based on distibuted source coding 
techinques will be introduced. A (very) brief introduction to distributed source 
coding will be presented, and it will be shown how these techniques can 
be applied to video coding. After demonstrating the sub-optimality of 
one of the existing "distributed" video coding schemes, an 
introduction to our research in this area will be presented.