Content-Guided Image Acquisition

Ms. Serene Banerjee

Ph.D. Student
Embedded Signal Processing Laboratory (ESPL)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712, USA

Monday, November 25th, 9:00 AM, ENS 637

serene@ece.utexas.edu

This presentation is the open-to-public part of Ms. Banerjee's Ph.D. Qualifying Examination

Abstract

From the advent of pictography in 4000 BC to modern inventions such as cameras, video phones and the Internet, pictures add greater dimensionality to every communication system. As current research is targeted to developing portable technologies for image communication, the proposed research aims at revisiting and improving image acquisition techniques, for better image and video communication. Human intelligence can quickly identify regions of interest in a scene, and direct their attention towards them. The proposed work is to develop content-guided image and video acquisition methods for smart cameras. The methods will be able to recognize important elements of a scene so as to enable the capturing of pictures with greater appeal to a human user. This talk (a) reviews the current research in this area, (b) presents research that motivated this work, and (c) proposes methods for smart content-guided image acquisition.

Biography

Serene Banerjee received her Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech (honors)) in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering (E & ECE), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, in May 1999 and Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Texas, Austin, in May 2001, respectively. She is currently a Ph.D. student of Prof. Brian L. Evans at UT Austin.

During the summers of 2001 and 2002, she was a summer intern at Nokia R&D Center in Irving, TX, and Ricoh Research Center in Menlo Park, CA, respectively, where she developed algorithms for coding and transmitting JPEG2000 compressed images.

Her research interests include real-time algorithm development for Image Analysis, Image Communication System Design, and Real-time Video and Image Compression System Design.

A list of Wireless Networking and Communications Seminars is available at from the ECE department Web pages under "Seminars". The Web address for the Wireless Networking and Communications Seminars is http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars