A New Paradigm for the Representation and Distribution of High Dimensional Multimedia Content. The proposed project involves cutting edge research in a field of great international significance. The most obvious benefits will be international acclaim and the potential to patent, develop and ultimately export technology and systems for the distribution of high dimensional multimedia content. Outcomes from the project may support the growth of surveillance and networking equipment industries wit ....A New Paradigm for the Representation and Distribution of High Dimensional Multimedia Content. The proposed project involves cutting edge research in a field of great international significance. The most obvious benefits will be international acclaim and the potential to patent, develop and ultimately export technology and systems for the distribution of high dimensional multimedia content. Outcomes from the project may support the growth of surveillance and networking equipment industries within Australia. One application considered explicitly within the project is the demonstration of a new surveillance oriented approach to both distance education and pre-recorded educational content, based upon dense multimedia sampling and our proposed paradigm for efficient distribution to interactive clients.Read moreRead less
Managing quality of experience delivery in new generation telecommunications networks with e-negotiation. New generation telecommunications networks are required to support increasingly demanding services, including interactive multimedia and conferencing. The success of these networks will rely on the users' perception of their quality of experience. The management of these networks will rely on the ability of informed decision making that competes effectively for limited resources in such a ....Managing quality of experience delivery in new generation telecommunications networks with e-negotiation. New generation telecommunications networks are required to support increasingly demanding services, including interactive multimedia and conferencing. The success of these networks will rely on the users' perception of their quality of experience. The management of these networks will rely on the ability of informed decision making that competes effectively for limited resources in such a highly dynamic environment. This project will design information distribution strategies and smart decision making agents that negotiate a user's quality of experience using market mechanisms. Designs from this project will be trialled and validated in the partner's commercial networks.Read moreRead less
Smart communications network management: Delivering bundled interdependent services across internetworked heterogeneous domains. Sophisticated communications network management (data, voice, video) is crucial to the global economy. The field is worth several billion dollars per annum. This project will generate expertise that addresses and solves an important problem in communications management, will enable Australia to use communications networks more effectively, and will advance communicatio ....Smart communications network management: Delivering bundled interdependent services across internetworked heterogeneous domains. Sophisticated communications network management (data, voice, video) is crucial to the global economy. The field is worth several billion dollars per annum. This project will generate expertise that addresses and solves an important problem in communications management, will enable Australia to use communications networks more effectively, and will advance communications technology. Read moreRead less
Mobile Device Autoconfiguration. Todays cellular networks are built to optimise spectrum efficiency by combining specific codecs and matching bearer services. With general purpose mobile terminals that can access different network types the applications will break this optimisation by using generic codecs. This project aims at solving this problem by letting the access networks configure the terminals with the natively supported codecs and bearer service definitions. The project will lead to con ....Mobile Device Autoconfiguration. Todays cellular networks are built to optimise spectrum efficiency by combining specific codecs and matching bearer services. With general purpose mobile terminals that can access different network types the applications will break this optimisation by using generic codecs. This project aims at solving this problem by letting the access networks configure the terminals with the natively supported codecs and bearer service definitions. The project will lead to considerably higher cost effectiveness in the emerging mobile Internet.Read moreRead less
Building a Talking Head via Dynamic & 3D-Static, and Age- & Ethnically-Varied Databases: Perceptibility and Acceptability. This project will provide cutting edge realistic, perceptible talking head animation. Based on rich 3D face motion and static face databases, it will allow the study of the facial structure of specific groups of people, and the creation of a lasting cultural heritage of faces. Information in these databases will be useful for research in high-quality 3D face reconstruction ....Building a Talking Head via Dynamic & 3D-Static, and Age- & Ethnically-Varied Databases: Perceptibility and Acceptability. This project will provide cutting edge realistic, perceptible talking head animation. Based on rich 3D face motion and static face databases, it will allow the study of the facial structure of specific groups of people, and the creation of a lasting cultural heritage of faces. Information in these databases will be useful for research in high-quality 3D face reconstruction, with applications as wide as multimodal Biometric Identification, finding lost children, and security systems. The novel methods in this project will also advance auditory-visual speech and emotion research with particular commercial applications in telecommunications, human-machine interfaces, foreign language teaching, humanoid development, animation, and film.Read moreRead less
New Signal Transforms for Multimedia Applications. This project targets at important yet challenging problems for reliable transmission and efficient processing of digital multimedia. The solutions to these problems will not only contribute to our fundamental understanding of digital visual information, but also lead to new commercial opportunities. Hence, the project is clearly within the ARC priority research area 3: Frontier Technologies Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Aus ....New Signal Transforms for Multimedia Applications. This project targets at important yet challenging problems for reliable transmission and efficient processing of digital multimedia. The solutions to these problems will not only contribute to our fundamental understanding of digital visual information, but also lead to new commercial opportunities. Hence, the project is clearly within the ARC priority research area 3: Frontier Technologies Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries. Also, as multimedia market is one of the highest growth segments within the information technology industry, the project is directly in the information and communication technologies (ICT), whose national importance was recognized by the Federal Government. Read moreRead less
Non-Parametric Modelling of Motion and Depth fields with Boundary Geometry for Scalable Compression and Dissemination. Applications for large format video surveillance are about to grow rapidly, starting with military applications and then moving into the civilian arena, highlighting the importance of compression for interactive dissemination, so as to make best use of limited communication channels. This project will develop an innovative representation for motion and depth/elevation maps, whi ....Non-Parametric Modelling of Motion and Depth fields with Boundary Geometry for Scalable Compression and Dissemination. Applications for large format video surveillance are about to grow rapidly, starting with military applications and then moving into the civilian arena, highlighting the importance of compression for interactive dissemination, so as to make best use of limited communication channels. This project will develop an innovative representation for motion and depth/elevation maps, which addresses a key obstacle in the deployment of technology for efficient interactive access to large format video and geospatial imagery. These applications are relevant to Australia's defence and infrastructure for smart information use. Moreover, this is a strategic proposal to strengthen Australia's existing lead in aspects of interactive media dissemination.Read moreRead less
Vision Model Based Perceptual Digital Video Coding. Digital video coding and compression is an enabling technology and has diversified applications in audiovisual communications, multimedia computing, digital television broadcast and electronic entertainment industries. The project aims at spearheading research in theory, techniques and implementation of perceptual video coding in order to achieve constant and guaranteed quality in visual communications and services. It will explore a new appr ....Vision Model Based Perceptual Digital Video Coding. Digital video coding and compression is an enabling technology and has diversified applications in audiovisual communications, multimedia computing, digital television broadcast and electronic entertainment industries. The project aims at spearheading research in theory, techniques and implementation of perceptual video coding in order to achieve constant and guaranteed quality in visual communications and services. It will explore a new approach to digital video coding other than the constant bit rate coding techniques which have dominated digital video research for the past four decades. It will form a part of the theoretical foundation and principles for the next generation video coding and compression techniques, and may lead to new standards and practice.Read moreRead less
Providing End-to-End Quality of Service to Internet Applications. Current Internet only supports limited quality of service (QoS) within isolated domains. This project allows critical applications to be deployed over the global Internet. The project employs a programmable architecture for composing services and intelligent software elements for negotiating acceptable QoS responses for individual application flows over multiple administrative domains. The architecture employs DiffServ's aggregati ....Providing End-to-End Quality of Service to Internet Applications. Current Internet only supports limited quality of service (QoS) within isolated domains. This project allows critical applications to be deployed over the global Internet. The project employs a programmable architecture for composing services and intelligent software elements for negotiating acceptable QoS responses for individual application flows over multiple administrative domains. The architecture employs DiffServ's aggregation property to make it scalable for the Internet core. Successful outcomes would open the floodgates, allowing the development and deployment of applications such as high quality videoconferences, live sport broadcasts, remote medical services, network games, real-time on-line educations, and multimedia distributions.
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Fair Intelligent Quality of Service Control and Path Discovery Mechanisms for Internet Scalable Architectures. Until now the Internet only provides best effort service without guaranteeing the timeliness or actual delivery of data. Quality of Service (QoS) architectures have been proposed but not deployed due to a fundamental problem: either the architecture is not scalable or it does not guarantee end-to-end QoS. The project tackles the problem by introducing mechanisms for network path discove ....Fair Intelligent Quality of Service Control and Path Discovery Mechanisms for Internet Scalable Architectures. Until now the Internet only provides best effort service without guaranteeing the timeliness or actual delivery of data. Quality of Service (QoS) architectures have been proposed but not deployed due to a fundamental problem: either the architecture is not scalable or it does not guarantee end-to-end QoS. The project tackles the problem by introducing mechanisms for network path discovery in the network core. The solution allows an integration of both scalability and end-to-end QoS architectures. The outcomes allow network providers to provision network resources efficiently, to develop competitive Internet-based products; and the service providers to develop quality services such as high quality IP phone, multimedia distributions.
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