Infocomm R&D Centre -ICT-R&D

Media Processing Division
The domain of the Media Division deals with the entire value chain of media, starting from the creation of the media, leading to its processing and analysis, followed by the production, distribution and presentation of the final media product.

The Media team at I²R has developed advanced media signal processing, media content analysis and production technologies that are clearly distinctive, as evidenced through performance comparisons against international standards, technology licensing to global companies and strong research contributions and publications in these areas. This has been further validated by major wins at international media technology competitions.

The Media Division has four departments, focusing on Media Processing , Media Semantics , Human Centric Media  and Pervasive Signal Processing . The Media Processing Department has been focusing on multimedia coding for efficient delivery of media. The Media Semantics Department works on technologies for understanding media content and what users desire so that hidden content can be made explicit through the generation of new media. The Human Centric Media Department strives to complement human senses through automated monitoring, recognition and discovery of interesting content in rich media environments with its various modalities. The Pervasive Signal Processing Department provides signal and information processing technologies for proactive and personalised healthcare including physical and mental well-being. Working in synergy, these departments have the ability to address various application areas including entertainment, corporate computing, homeland security and healthcare.

The Media Processing Department  has been focusing on advanced coding, and processing of multimedia signals for efficient storage and delivery. It has been actively involved in the international standardization activities over the past few years. Some of these technologies have been adopted and become the normative part of international standards. There are three laboratories under this department:

Audio Processing Lab
Pursuing research in audio processing, coding and streaming to provide cutting edge solutions for next generation music delivery system, where audio contents are consumed by any user at any time with any desired quality.

Video Processing Lab
To research and develop fast and efficient video compression algorithms and push these algorithms into the international video coding standards. To also transfer our technologies to industry.

Visual Processing Lab
Conducting research in visual quality evaluation and perceptual processing applied to mobile multimedia, as well as video/image coding.

Media Semantics Department
The Media Semantics Department focuses on media content (text, audio, image and video) analysis, security and modeling. The department has a total of 36 researchers and engineers in 4 labs, mainly targeting applications in entertainment, information intelligence and security. Current projects include sports/news video analysis and summarization, audio analysis and summarization, audio modeling and synthesis, image indexing, retrieval and annotation, intelligent information extraction, computational semantics, and multimedia security.

Natural Language Synergy Lab  
Developing a scalable information extraction engine which is easy to train and requires much less training data, and which works on multilingual documents.

Mixed Media Modeling Lab
Developing new sound modeling technologies and tools to bring interactive audio to games and other interactive media.

Media Analysis Lab
Conducting research on video analysis for automatic editorial generation in broadcast video, fundamental understanding and modeling in sports video, and semantic discovery of features for indexing and search in images.

Pervasive Media Lab
Focusing on security and analysis of media in a degraded (real world) scenario.

For more information

Please contact:

p.dir@iird.org

Programme Director for ICT-R&D
IIRD