Projects

• H.263 or H.263 Version 2 video codec
• MPEG-1/2/4 video codec, MPEG-2/4 system
• H.320/H.323/H.324 video or voice conferencing
• Error resilience, joint source/channel coding
• Network adaptive video coding
• Encoder optimization for video coding, e.g., motion estimation, rate (This may involve some original research)
• Multimedia databases (e.g., content-based retrieval of images)
• User interfaces for multimedia access (e.g., video on demand)
• Others (Feel free to be creative!)

• Spatial audio, 3D sound, computer music (e.g., MIDI)
• 3D graphics: OpenGL and VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language)
• ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee) and HDTV (high definition television)
• DAVIC (Digital Audio-Visual Council)
• FIPA (Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents)
• IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force): Audio/Video Transport and Resource Reservation Setup Protocol (RSVP)
• IMTC (International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium)
• W3C (World Wide Web Consortium): Synchronized Multimedia (e.g., SMIL)