Seminar: ECE Faculty Candidate
Friday March 10th 11:00 - 11:50am KEC 1005 Chang Wen Chen Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Florida Institute of Technology Research in Multimedia Communication and Wireless Sensor Networks This talk will first present an overview of recent research activities in multimedia communication and wireless sensor networks in the Multimedia Communications Lab at the Wireless Center of Excellence, Florida Institute of Technology. Then, this talk will focus on research projects in the areas of wireless video and wireless sensor networks. In wireless video, two different applications will be presented: (1) video transmission over mobile wireless channel and MIMO systems, and (2) DSP and software implementation of video codec for mobile devices. In particular, in-depth discussion in video over MIMO channels will be given. In wireless sensor networks, two different applications will be presented: (1) chain-type wireless sensor network for infrastructure and environmental monitoring, and (2) energy efficient imaging sensor applications. In depth discussion in chain-type wireless sensor networks will be given. Experimental results for these applications will be shown to demonstrate that the proposed approaches are able to consistently outperform the existing schemes in terms of improved video quality, reduced computational complexity, and superior energy efficiency. Biography: Chang Wen Chen is currently Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor and Director of the Wireless Center of Excellence at Florida Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996, on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003. He also served as the Head of Interactive Media Group at David Sarnoff Research Labs in Princeton from 2000 to 2002. Currently, he is serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology 1997-2005, an Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. Multimedia 2002-2005, and an Editor for IEEE Multimedia Magazine 2003-2005. He is also on the Editorial Board of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation since 2000. He is serving as Technical Program Committee Chair for 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo to be held in July 2006 in Toronto, Canada. He is also serving as Program Committee Chair for SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications to be held in October 2005 in Boston, MA and for SPIE Conference on Multimedia on Mobile Devices in January 2006 in San Jose, CA. His research interests include image and video coding, joint source and channel coding, wireless and Internet video, wireless sensor networks, and multimedia communication and networking. His research is supported by NSF, DARPA, Air Force, NASA, Whitaker Foundation, and Kodak. He was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2004 for his contributions in digital image and video processing, analysis, and communications. He received his BS from University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, MSEE from University of Southern California in 1986, and Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium _______________________________________________ eecs-office mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/eecs-office _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
