Project Topics

1. Project Topics ECE 591

2. Technologies of Multimedia Networking • Media compression – reduce the data volume • Image compression • Video compression • Audio compression • Multimedia transmission technology • Protocols for real-time transmission • Rate / congestion control • Error control

3. Project Topics • Multimedia Coding • JPEG vs JPEG 2K • Entropy Coding • Multiple description coding • Super-resolution image construction • Audio/video Compression (MP3, MPEG) • Distributed Video Coding • Security • DWT based Watermarking • Streaming Authentication (MAC code) • Selective Encryption • Error Resilience • Unequal error Protection (UEP) for image transmission over wireless networks • Unequal error Protection (UEP) for Video transmission over wireless networks • Others • Image Quality Measure • Motion Detection in a video • Imote 2 multimedia sensor experiment ( image capture, compression, transmission)

4. Other project 1:Smartphone Programing • Develop a smartphone application on Android Phone or IPhone • Distance measurement between two mobile devices • WiFi or Bluetooth Sensor detection • SAC club: • http://sac.umassd.wikispaces.net/

5. Other project 2: Image Coder/Decoder • T. Ma, P. Shrestha, M. Hempel, D. Peng, H. Sharif, " Low-Complexity Image Coder/Decoder with an Approaching-Entropy Quad-Tree Search Code for Embedded Computing Platforms," in Proceedings of ICIP 2011. Code implementation can be downloaded in the following link: http://www.ceen.unl.edu/students/tao_ma/ISPIHT.rar • Run the simulations and improve the scheme

6. Projects from the reading paper list • 1. Authentication of Scalable Video Streams With Low Communication Overhead http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5475217 • 2. Multimedia Cloud Computing http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5754008 • 3. Cross-Layer QoS-Aware Communication for Ultra Wide Band Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5472422 • 4. A Multimedia Cross-Layer Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5510772 • 5. On Wireless Links for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5191040

7. Topics from the reading paper list • 6. Lightweight Multimedia Packet Prioritization Model for Unequal Error Protection http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5735493 • 7. Secure Multimedia Communications http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5655248 • 8. Unequal Error Protection Using Fountain Codes With Applications to Video Communication http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5639084 • 9. A Mobile Multimedia Technology to Aid Those with Alzheimer's Disease http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5471682 • 10. Wearable Mobility Monitoring Using a Multimedia Smartphone Platform http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5740351

8. Topics from the reading paper list • 11. Multimedia Software for Mobile Phones http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5452142 • 12. A. Swaminathan, Y. Mao, and M. Wu: ¡°Robust and Secure Hashing for Images,¡± IEEE Trans. on Info. Forensics and Security, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 215-230, June 2006. • 13. G-M. Su, Z. Han, M. Wu, and K.J.R. Liu, ¡°Multiuser Cross-Layer Resource Allocation for Video Transmission over Wireless Networks,¡± IEEE Network Magazine • 14. M. Chen, Y-F. Zheng, and M. Wu: "Classification-Based Spatial Error Concealment for Visual Communications," EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission, 2006. • 15. M. Wu, R. Joyce, H-S. Wong, L. Guan, and S-Y. Kung: "Dynamic Resource Allocation via Video Content and Short-term Traffic Statistics", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Special Issue on Multimedia over IP, vol.3, no.2, pp.186-199, June 2001. • 16. Three-Dimensional Media for Mobile Devices http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5725138 • 17. OFDMA channel aware error-resilient mobile streaming video service over mobile WiMAX http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5735483

9. Expectation for the project selected from paper list • Repeat some simulations • Survey related research literature • Improve the existing approach

10. Other Project 3: Localization through Wi-Fi and Wireless Camera WIFI localization: Wireless Camera: Goal: Understand RF based localization techniques, and how to enhance localization through wireless video streaming and processing

11. Other Project 4: Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications • Dalei Wu, Song Ci, and Haohong Wang, "Cross-layer optimization for video summary transmission over wireless networks," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on ross-Layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications, vol.25, no. 4, May 2007, pp. 841-850.

12. Other Project 5: Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Testbed • Setup testbed with HP netbooks • Programing for sending video and receiving video • Measure the QoS performance

13. More • Any topics related to Multimedia Communications

14. Expectation and requirements • Repeat other research by simulation (A) • Improve existing schemes and validate your improvement (A+) • Implementation a system(A+) • Survey (A-)