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Current M.S. and Ph.D students and their research

  1. Jennie Gloria Abraham (Ph.D)
    Sarnoff vision optimized model (VDM) in H.264
    jennie.abraham@mavs.uta.edu

    > Sarnoff embedded VDM in MPEG-2 and demonstrated significant
        improvement in image quality over MPEG-2 at the same bit rate. 
    > Sarnoff has approved this research – but only on UTA computers.
    > Commercial development requires licensing agreement with Sarnoff
       Labs.    
     

  2. Muhammad S. Koul (Ph.D)
    Error Resilience and Performance Evaluation of H.264/AVC video streams in a Lossy Wireless Environment
    mskoul@uta.edu PPT

    > W
    orking in Motorola, Ft. Worth, TX
     

  3.  Vineeth Shetty Kolkeri (M.S)
    Error concealment techniques in H.264/AVC for wireless video transmission
    vineeth.kolkeri@mavs.uta.edu  PPT

         > Intern in Qualcomm
               > Dr. Jung Ho Lee, ETRI, Korea is visiting our lab this year and is helping
                  in this research.

  1.  Jay R Padia (M.S)
    VP6 to H.264 transcoder
     
    jay.padia@mavs.uta.edu PPT

         > Intern in Intel, Arizona
               > C. Holder and H. Kalva, “H.263 to VP6 video transcoder”, SPIE-VCIP,
                  vol.6822, San Jose, CA, Jan.2008.
               > On2 Technologies, Inc., “White paper – On2 VP6 for Flash8 video”,
                   http://www.On2.com    12 Sept. 2005. 
               > Obtained licensing agreement for their software.

5.   Vidhya Vijayakumar (M.S)
                H.264  to VC-1 transcoder
 
                vidhya.vijayakumar@mavs.uta.edu PPT

          > VC-1  of SMPTE adopted from WMV-9 of Microsoft
                > Obtained the software for VC-1 from SMPTE courtesy of Dr. Jon
                   Bredow, Interim Chair, EE Department
                > Worked in Wipro Technologies Ltd, India and has various skills
                   related to H.264/MPEG-2

    6.      Subrahmanya MV (M.S.)
          Wyner  Ziv to H.264 transcoder
       
  subrahmanyamaira.venkatrav@mavs.uta.edu  PPT

         > Worked in Ittiam Systems Inc., India and has various skills related to
                   H.264/MPEG-2

    7.      Swaminathan  Sridhar (M.S.)
              H.264-to-AVS China transcoder

              swaminathan@gmail.com PPT
  

         > Dr. Zhang visiting professor from China is helping on this