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Video is becoming an integral part in various applications
such as entertainment, education, medicine, databases, security,
and even wireless applications. The introduction of next generation
mobile services will increase this trend where multimedia services
will be accessible via mobile terminals.
Video
Processing is concerned with processes to capture, store,
manipulate, and analyze images captured over time, a video. Video analysis aims at extraction of useful information from video signals such that "intelligent" assertions can be made by video-based systems (e.g., video surveillance) about people and objects. Popular techniques include the detection of motion and the tracking of objects or people.
Video images may be from video captured with an analog or digital movie
camera,
as well as time based sequences, such as those captured from radar, a security camera, satellite, or aerial surveillance vehicle.
In recent years, video processing technologies have started emerging from universities. They are being increasingly used in social, commercial, industry and military applications.
The effective use of video in various applications requires understanding of video processing techniques such as video enhancement, video analysis, video interpretation, and video compression. It is important that students at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering become familiar with basic concepts of the field of Video Processing.
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- 13)
Wireless Smart Camera, April
2011.
- Won a "Honorable Mention Certificate" as part of a final
year project compitition at the department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, Concordia University.
- Website:
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~vidprog/WirelessCamera2011/
- 12) A shadow remover
system for video surveillance, August 2010.
- 11) "Sedan or
Taxi": Object Classification for Video Surveillance, May 2010.
- 10) Video on
Hardware: FPGA-based moving object detection for automated video
surveillance, May 2009.
- 9) Video surveillance over IP via Mobile Devices, Jeck Chin, Milos Haravan, Mouhib Sarhan, Kagiso Marumo, and Mosalaosi Mosalaosi, May 2008.
- 8) Universal Video Transcoder, Wei Yong NG, Jascha Jacques, Qi Li, May 2008.
- 7) A real-time video surveillance system over IP, Safwan Kazmam, Daniel Jean-Baptiste, Milad Saliba, Rafaa Rabah, May 2007.
- A sub-team (MPEG-7 part) published an IEEE conference paper (co-author)
- 6) An Online System For Synchronized Processing of Video and Audio Signals, Mary Mikhail, Giovanni Palumbo, Jinane Mohammad, Elena Petrova, and Dennis Pavia, May 2006.
- Won the 2nd prize in the MET 4th year thesis/project award of a Canada-wide competition organized by the University of Toronto (http://www.met.utoronto.ca/met/award.html).
- Published one IEEE conference paper (co-authors)
- 5) Video signal over IP for surveillance applications, Drew Ostheimer, Sebastien Lemay, Dennis Mayisela, Pierre Franklin Dagba, May 2006.
- Won a "Honorable Mention Certificate" as part of a final year project compitition at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University.
- Published one IEEE conference paper (co-authors)
- 4) Processing and transmission of video over IP for surveillance applications, RAFAEL LONGO, RAFAEL LONGO, CHRISTIAN MARTUCCI, MICHELE CICORIA, YANIC DESROCHERS, ANDREW WOLANIUK, May 2005.
- 3) Video processing and transmission over IP for Video Surveillance Applications, Scott Lew, Thanh-Lan Hoang, Margaret Li, Tommy Woo, and Patrick Li-Cheong-Man, May 2004, co-supervised with Dr. Agarwal.
- Won a "Honorable Mention Certificate" as part of a final year project compitition at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University.
- 2) Segmentation of Video Objects for Visualization of Speech Signals in Intralocuter applications, Steve Amping, Christopher Campbell, and Issam Kawsan, May 2004.
- 1) A Tool for Global Motion Estimation and Compensation for Video Processing, Olivier Adda, Nicolas Cottineau, and Mahmoud Kadoura, May 2003, co-supervised with Dr. Lynch.