Ongoing Projects
Ongoing Research Projects
The main focus of research is in the following areas:
• Image and video coding and processing
• Wireless multimedia coding and communications
• Secure multimedia systems including multimedia cryptography and
watermarking
Recently funded projects:
• Center for Coastline Security Technologies, Federal Earmark Project,
(total $1.75 million in 2004-05 and $2,5 million in 2005-06)
• One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola, Plantation, FL, ($250,000
in 2004 and $180,000 in 2005)
• Algorithms for KVM Processing and Benchmarking, Avocent Corporation,
Sunrise, FL ($50,000 in 2004-05)
Current Ph.D. Students:
• Daniel Socek, Research area: multimedia cryptography
• Praveen Sanigepalli, Research area: Video error resilience techniques
• Tom Fernandez, Research area: Genetic programming
• Daniel Culibrk, Research area: multimedia objects
• Esfandiar Zolghadr, Research area: multimedia coding