Tutorials/Seminars (Lists are in the reverse chronological order.)

Tutorials/Seminars Presented Recently (04/18/08)

  1. Keynote speaker “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding”, WSEAS European Computing Conference, Athens, Greece, 25-27 Sept. 2007.
  2. Keynote speaker “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding”, 14th International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing and 6th EURASIP Conference Focused on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services, IWSSIP 2007 and EC-SIPMCS 2007 June 27 – 30, Maribor, Slovenia.
  3. Invited lecture, “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding”, IEEE Slovenia SP/CAS chapter, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 26 June 2007.
  4. Keynote speaker, “ Digital video image quality and perceptual coding” IWSSIP2007 and EC-SIPMCS-2007, Maribor, Slovenia, June 2007.
  5. Keynote speaker “ Digital video image quality and perceptual coding” 3rd International forum of Digital TV & Wireless Multimedia Communication, Shanghai, China 3-4 Nov. 2006.
  6. Keynote speaker “ overview of H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10” New trends in audio and video, Bialystok, Poland 20-22 Sept. 2006.
  7. “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding”, Seminar, Choyang University of Technology, Wufong, Taiwan (6/2/06)
  8. Tutorial “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10”  Chung Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (6/1/06)
  9. Keynote Speech, “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding” Chung Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan (6/1/06)
  10. “Digital video image quality and perceptual coding”  Seminar, National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Kaoshiung, Taiwan  (5/30/06)
  11. Seminar “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10”, Analog Devices Inc., Bangalore, India. 1/6/06
  12. Seminar “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10”, and research discussions with graduate students and faculty, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, India 1/8-12/06.
  13. Seminar “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10”, Sri Patum University, Bangkok, Thailand 12/28/05
  14. Seminar “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10 “, Panasonic Singapore Labs, Singapore 12/19/05.
  15. Tutorial “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10” , ISPACS, Hong Kong, Dec. 2005.
  16. Tutorial “ H.264/MPEG-4 Part 10”, EUSIPCO 2005, Antalya, Turkey, Sept. 2005.
  17. JPEG 2000 and MPEG-7, ICCS2001, Singapore, Nov. 2001.
  18. EUSIPCO Regional Conference, Budapest, Hungary, Sept. 2001.
  19. JPEG2000 and MPEG-7 , NCTU, Hsinchu, Taiwan,  Aug. 15-17, 2001.
  20. Tutorial on MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000, WPMC 2000, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2000.
  21. Tutorial on MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000, KMITL, Bangkok, Thailand, Nov. 2000.
  22. Tutorial on MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000, ICCS 2000, Singapore, Nov. 2000.
  23. Tutorial on MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000, EUSIPCO 2000, Tampere, Finland, Sept. 2000.
  24. Tutorial on MPEG-4, MPEG-7 and JPEG-2000, NUS, Singapore, Aug. 2000.
  25. Tutorial on multimedia visual communication services, NUS, Singapore, June 2000.

Overview of Dr. Rao's Tutorial

    JPEG-2000 AND MPEG-7 

This tutorial covers JPEG-2000 (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and MPEG-7 (Moving Picture Experts Group). JPEG-2000 has become a committee draft (CD) in Dec. 1999 with International Standard (IS) finalized in  Dec. 2000. JPEG-2000 is designed to provide rate-distortion and subjective image quality performance superior to current IS (JPEG and JPEG-LS). It  also provides functionality that current standards can neither  address efficiently nor address at all i.e., both lossless and lossy compression, encoding of very large images, progressive transmission by pixel accuracy and by resolution, robustness to channel noise and random codestream access. It is also designed to address the requirements of very different kinds of applications, e.g. internet, color facsimile, printing, scanning, digital photography, remote sensing, mobile applications, medical imagery, digital library and e-commerce. The tutorial will describe the algorithmic details followed by demonstration of reconstructed images. Access to source codes (C and JAVA), test data and IS documents will be provided.

MPEG-7 called “ Multimedia content description interface,’ will be a standardized description of various types of multimedia information associated with the content itself to allow fast and efficient search, browse and retrieval of multimedia of interest to the user. IS is finalized in  2001. Various proposals using standardized content set are interactively evaluated/revised at each MPEG meeting. It does not comprise the automatic extraction of descriptors and features. It also does not specify the search engine (or any other program) that can make use of the descriptors. It however, has standardized.

1.   A set of description schemes and descriptors

2.   A language to specify description schemes i.e., description definition     language (DDL)

3.   A scheme for coding the description allowing easy indexing, efficient storage and transmission.

It  embraces existing standard descriptions for text (HTML, SGML, RDF etc) if they are appropriate for the MPEG-7 descriptions for audio-visual data. It  also had standardized the linking between the descriptions of audio-visual data and text data.  It will consider other standardization activities such as SMPTE/EBU task force, DVB-SI, CEN/ISSS MMI, etc. It also addresses copyright, authentication and integrity issues as appropriate. MPEG-7 bitstream syntax is also standardized along with a decoder for coded descriptors. In summary, MPEG-7 is designed to facilitate a truly integrated multimedia search engine. The tutorial will discuss the current retrieval schemes such as Four Eyes, NeTra-V, WebSeek, MARS, VideoQ, QBIC, ARTISAN, STAR, ORBIT, VisualSeek, WebClip, DrawSeek, VideoTrails, VideoBase, Vortex, MUVIS, DARWIN, MetaSeek, InLumine, and SaFe. Note that each one of these schemes is designed for retrieval of a specific type of data (images or video or audio). Also there is no compatibility among these schemes. The tutorial will present the details of the IS . Access to content set, source codes and simulation of retrieval schemes will be provided.

 

REFERENCES

 1.“JPEG 2000 image coding system,” JPEG 2000 Final committee draft version 1.0,   Aug  2000. (ISO/IEC 15444-1).

2. M. Charrier, D.S. Cruz and M. Larsson, “ JPEG 2000, the next millennium compression standard for still images,” IEEE ICMCS ’99, pp. 131-132, Florence, Italy, June, 1999.  

3. A. Skoduas, C. Christopoulos and T. Ebrahim, "The JPEG 2000 still image compression standard", IEEE SP Magazine, vol. 18, pp. 36-58, Sept. 2001.

4.X. Liu, Y. Zhang and Y. Pan, “ Webscope-CBVR: a customized content based search engine for video on WWW,” SPIE, vol. 3974, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2000.

5.T. Meiers et al, “ Image visualization based on MPEG-7 color descriptors,“ SPIE/VCIP2000, vol.4067, Perth, Australia, June 2000.

6.“MPEG-7 Visual part of Experimentation Model Version 4.0,” Dec. 1999.  

7."Special issue on MPEG-7", IEEE Trans, CSVT, vol.11, pp.685-772, June 2001.

 

INTENDED AUDIENCE:

This course is directed at researchers, engineers, technical managers and academia who like to keep abreast with the emerging/established  standards (JPEG-2000 and MPEG-7). It is designed to provide a working description of the next generation still image compression standard together with its capabilities and functionalities. It will provide an understanding of the state of the art and the directions MPEG-7 is heading. This can help the audience in designing and developing integrated multimedia search engines.

 

SPEAKER:

Dr.K.R.Rao has conducted the short course/workshop/ tutorial in this field worldwide for Universities, Research Institutes and Industries. He is co-author of the book "Techniques and standards for image, video and audio coding" Prentice Hall (1996) III printing. This book has been  translated into Japanese and Korean.