Jong-il Kim, "System-level modeling and implementation of video codecs"
The project focuses on the system-level modeling of image and video processing systems. Based on the models given, image and video compression and decompression standards (e.g. H.263 and MPEG-4) will be implemented in a formal, consistent and extensible framework such as in Ptolemy with well-defined and optimized processing primitives. The models of computation and an implementation of image and video processing algorithm will also help automate partitioning of the design into hardware and software. And to automate the design of scalable (both compile-time and run-time scalability), modular software and hardware for image and video processing systems, formal, mathematical models that confirm to the parallelism of image and video codecs will be developed.