Parallel@Illinois Special Seminar Series

Video Processing: The Need for Speed

Wednesday, April 15^th at 4:15 pm CT, B02 CSL

Tom Huang, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois

Dennis J. Lin, Ph.D. candidate, ECE, Illinois

Mert Dikmen, Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Illinois

ABSTRACT:The goal of this talk is to describe some of our research projects in Video Processing and our experiences with using GPUs to speed up computation.

Huang will first give an overview of the 4 application areas that drive the Group's research: Biometrics; Video surveillance; Human Computer Interaction; and Multimedia search and mining. He will also give some general comments on the need for speed in Video Processing. Then, graduate students Dikmen and Lin will talk in some detail on two research projects: NIST TRECVID Video Event Detection evaluation 2008; and 3D hand/fingers tracking. Some preliminary results on GPU speedup over CPU will be presented.

BIO: Thomas S. Huang received his B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, China; and his M.S. and Sc.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was on the Faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at MIT from 1963 to 1973; and on the Faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering and Director of its Laboratory for Information and Signal Processing at Purdue University from 1973 to 1980. In 1980, he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is now William L. Everitt Distinguished Professor of Electlrical and Computer Engineering, and Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science he is Technology and Co-Chair of the Institute's major research theme Human Computer Intelligent Interaction.