The goal of Multimedia Research Lab (MRL) is to conduct research on all aspects of multimedia systems including multimedia data processing, computing and the related communication issues. In today’s age of Information Technology, Multimedia data refers to Audio, Images, Video, Graphics and Text data. Currently the MRL lab has been focusing on research on video, image and audio processing algorithms, coding and their real-time implementation on embedded platforms.
The lab with state-of-the-art facilities is now about two and a half years old and was established through external funding. During this time with the growing number of students and researchers associated with the lab 17 research publications have been realized. In the last two years MRL has also successfully managed to deliver an industrial project related to the development of a proprietary Video Conferencing system. It is the objective of the lab to steer its effort towards new emerging research areas including multi-view image and video processing, Mobile TV and 3D-TV.
MRL team believes in encouraging collective research among its faculty members, graduates students and external research groups. At the same time we want to strengthen our interaction with industry through collaborative R&D projects. Currently research is being done on Motion Compensated Wavelet based video coding, efficient implementation issues of Fine Grain Video Scalability, efficient prediction algorithms for real-time implementation of H.264 and MPEG4 standards, Constrained but fast object extraction and tracking for real-time multimedia applications, proprietary error resilient audio/video codec for multipoint video conferencing on embedded platform over diverse networks and CELP and HVXC based speech/audio codecs. In the future MRL plans to work on Multi-view video processing, 3D-TV and Free View TV standardization and Mobile TV standard for 4G wireless Networks.
For more information regarding the activities at the Multimedia Research Lab, please contact Dr. Nadeem Khan (nkhan AT lums DOT edu DOT pk) or Dr. Shahid Masud(smasud AT lums DOT edu DOT pk).
