Multimedia Communications and Networking Lab
Goal
Create compelling networked media experiences that fundamentally change how people communicate, collaborate, socialize and entertain. Develop multimedia technologies to deliver interactive, mobile, and immersive audio-visual experiences. Create the next generation of network architectures and technologies which provide predictable, high-quality and power-efficient networking to support current and future applications.
Impact
We aim to fundamentally understand and design:
- user experiences inspired by networked media technologies in the creation of next generation media-rich social networks
- intelligent infrastructure for the home, enterprise, data center, and Internet
- future network architectures which provide end-to-end Quality of Experience (QoE) across independently administered domains
- natural audio/video/gesture communication systems for collaboration and entertainment
- interactive multimedia delivery systems that dynamically adapt media and transport according to user behavior, context, and sensed network conditions
Research
- media compression, multimedia signal processing, streaming
- network-based platforms (e.g., content delivery, peer-to-peer)
- highly-scalable network/system sensing, inference, and control
- design and operation of next-generation wired and wireless networks
- in-network processing to adapt and personalize media streams while in flight
- user studies and novel user experiences
- computer vision, graphics, and audio processing for natural communication,
- collaboration and entertainment
- media security and biometrics
- media interoperability.
Director: John Apostolopoulos