General Info

 

Multimedia Lab (MMLab) is a research group within Ghent University (Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Electronics and Information Systems). MMLab was founded in 2001. This lab has a wide range of activities, including fundamental/basic research, applied research, and contract-based research with industrial partners. Besides, MMLab is doing scientific consultancy for both industrial and governmental partners and is one of the founding research groups of iMinds.

 

Research Topics

  • Video coding and compression
    • profound expertise in recent video coding standards such as MPEG-4, H.264/AVC, Scalable Video Coding (SVC)
    • advanced video coding techniques for higher compression and/or lower complexity ('H.265')
    • distributed video coding (DVC)
    • objective/subjective assessment of coding efficiency (video quality)
    • error resilience and error concealment

  • Game technology 

    • GPU-assisted video processing and medical imaging
    • texture/geometry compression and streaming
    • remote/networked interactive 3D rendering and visualization
    • animation analysis and synthesis

  • Media adaptation and delivery

    • low-complexity video transcoding (transrating, multi-stream generation, insertion of logos/watermarks/…)
    • model-driven content adaptation
    • media adaptation decision taking
    • creation, publishing, and display of digital books (profound expertise in recent standards such as HTML 5 and EPUB 3, definition of new e-book formats)
  • Multimedia information retrieval and understanding
    • multi-modal and multi-sensor video analysis
    • media annotation guided by the social and/or semantic web
  • Knowledge representation and reasoning
    • intelligent agents and semantic web services
    • automatic data enrichment with provenance
    • linked open data publishing and integration
    • big (linked) data analytics & visualization
    • collective social intelligence with trust estimation
    • read-write web
  • Standardization activities in the domain of multimedia applications and services
    • W3C: actively collaborating in 'media fragments' WG (chair), 'linked data platform' WG, 'provenance' WG, 'eGov' WG, 'media annotation' WG, and the 'multimedia semantics' XG
    • JVT / JCT-VC: contribution to H.264/AVC- and HEVC-based compression tools
    • MPEG: (co-)editor of multiple MPEG-21 standards
    • VQEG: validating video quality metrics