UPCRC Illinois Keynote, Workshops, Session at ICME 2009
July 9, 2009
By: Cheri Helregel
UPCRC Illinois Co-director Wen-mei Hwu discussed the “Parallel Computing Revolution in Video Processing” during his keynote on Thursday, July 2 at the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME2009). Hwu discussed several exciting efforts using massively parallel processors to add innovations to the way videos are analyzed, enhanced, and synthesized for use in end-user applications. “With the pervasive presence of low-cost, high quality cameras on cell phones and laptops,” explained Hwu, “we are witnessing the beginning of an explosive growth of video applications.” Hwu further predicted that those applications will soon allow better management of images and videos, thus revolutionizing human interactions with computers, game consoles, mobile devices, and with each other.
UPCRC Faculty Klara Nahrstedt served as a chair for the Multimedia Aspects in Pervasive Healthcare workshop, as well as the Advances in Multimedia Computing Technologies workshop where she presented research on, “View-Based Network Protocols for Multi-Party 3D Tele-Immersive Environments.” Nahrstedt’s team also presented research on, “Modeling the Tele-Immersive Systems Using Stochastic Activity Network” during the technical program for Multimedia Applications: Videoconferencing and Collaboration Environment.
About UPCRC Illinois
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC Illinois) at the University of Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC Illinois is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.