Error Concealment Techniques for Multi-View Sequences
- When?
- Thursday 24 March 2011, 14:00 to 15:00
- Where?
- 39BB02
- Open to:
- Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Ing Carl James Debono, University of Malta
The H.264/MVC standard offers good compression ratios for multi-view sequences by exploiting spatial, temporal and interview image dependencies. The performance of this coding scheme is optimal in error-free channels, however in the event of transmission errors it leads to the propagation of the distorted macro-blocks, degrading the quality of experience of the user. In this presentation we will review the state-of-the-art error concealment solutions and look into low complexity concealment methods that can be used with multi-view video coding. Error resilience techniques that help error concealment will also be discussed.
Dr Ing. Carl James Debono, obtained his B.Eng.(Hons.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Malta, Malta in 1997 and Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy in 2001.
In 1997 he was employed as a Research Engineer with the Department of Microelectronics at the University of Malta. His research work included development of high frequency building blocks using CMOS technology. In 2000 he has spent four months as a Research Associate at the Texas A&M University under Prof. Franco Maloberti. In 2001 he was appointed Lecturer in Communications and Computer Engineering at the University of Malta and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. He was appointed Deputy Dean of the Faculty of ICT in November 2009.
Dr Debono has served as National Contact Point and Programme Committee Member for the Thematic Area Aeronautics and Space during the EU 6th Framework Programme. He has been appointed National Contact Point and Programme Committee Member for the Thematic Areas Space and Security for the EU 7th Framework Programme. Dr Debono has worked towards the formation of the IEEE Malta Section and managed to gather the required support in 2006. He was the first IEEE Malta Section Chair between 2007 and 2010. He is Chair of the IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Subcommittee. Dr Debono has participated in a number of local and european research projects in the area of communication systems. His research interests are in RF and Microwave System Development and Applications, Modelling of Communications Systems, and Resilient Multimedia Transmission.