Advanced Signal Processing Systems and ApplicationsAdvanced Signal Processing Systems and Applications

Main research areasMain research areas ApplicationsApplications

– biomedical, media, communications, securitybiomedical, media, communications, security

AlgorithmsAlgorithms– codecs to realise applicationscodecs to realise applications

DevicesDevices– processing, acquisition & conversion devicesprocessing, acquisition & conversion devices

Support activitiesSupport activities– tools, methodologies & softwaretools, methodologies & software

ApplicationsApplications

biomedicalbiomedical – echography, imagingechography, imaging

– personal health devices, special needspersonal health devices, special needs

mediamedia – music, images, videomusic, images, video

– speech, language engineeringspeech, language engineering

communicationscommunications – fixed, wireless, navigationfixed, wireless, navigation

securitysecurity – enhanced e-commerce transactionsenhanced e-commerce transactions

AlgorithmsAlgorithms

Main topicsMain topics– physical modelling, synthesis– multidimensional filtering, recognition– neural networks, wavelets, chaos theory– coding, compression, modulation – watermarking, cryptography– others ...others ...

Codec propertiesCodec properties– realtimerealtime– secure, robust/reliablesecure, robust/reliable– multiple data rates, data fusion, large data setsmultiple data rates, data fusion, large data sets

DevicesDevices

Signal processing devicesSignal processing devices– Architectures (RISC, VLIW)Architectures (RISC, VLIW)– Instruction set enhancements (MMX, SIMD)Instruction set enhancements (MMX, SIMD)– FPGA, ASIC/SOC, multichip assembliesFPGA, ASIC/SOC, multichip assemblies

Acquisition devicesAcquisition devices– sensors, sensor arrays, biometrics sensors, sensor arrays, biometrics – pre-processing (beamforming, transforms)pre-processing (beamforming, transforms)

Conversion devicesConversion devices– analogue & digital conversionanalogue & digital conversion

PropertiesProperties– low power, reconfigurable, small footprintlow power, reconfigurable, small footprint

Tools, methodologies & softwareTools, methodologies & software

Open approachOpen approach– standardsstandards

– methodologiesmethodologies

Support toolsSupport tools– languages, real-time operating systemslanguages, real-time operating systems

– interoperation between toolsinteroperation between tools

IP reuseIP reuse– re-usable blocks & open coresre-usable blocks & open cores

Know howKnow how– initiatives to promote knowledge sharinginitiatives to promote knowledge sharing