Keynote Speech
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Borko Furht, Ph.D. |
Tel: (561) 297-3180
Fax: (561) 297-2800
Email: Twenty Years of Multimedia – from Video Codec to Video Broadcasting to 3D Video and Open Video
In the first part of our talk we present the genesis of multimedia from its birth at the end of 80s to these days. This genesis will be presented through our research projects, and successful and less successful start-up companies, based on these projects. We will briefly talk about our innovative compression algorithms and peer-to-peer architectures for video audio broadcasting developed in 1990s, content-based image and video techniques and video and related encryption and watermarking techniques, developed in 2000s, and others.
In the second part of our talk, we present our recent research results from our Multimedia Group, which are inspired by hypercube, which was a powerful parallel computer organization in 1980s. We proposed two new applications for hypercube: (i) for developing an innovative technique for multi-view and 3D video coding, and (ii) for designing an interactive system for navigation, visualization, and retrieval of video and image data.
Finally, in the third part of the talk, we slightly look to the future and try to foresee where the multimedia filed is heading in the next decade.
Curriculum Vitae
Dr.Borko Furht is a professor and chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton, Florida. He is also Director of the NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Research Center at FAU. Before joining FAU, he was a vice president of research and a senior director of development at Modcomp (Ft. Lauderdale), a computer company of Daimler Benz, Germany, a professor at University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and a senior researcher in the Institute Boris Kidric-Vinca, Yugoslavia. Professor Furht received Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Belgrade. His current research is in multimedia systems, video coding and compression, 3D video and image systems, video databases, wireless multimedia, and Internet computing. He has been Principal Investigator and Co-PI of several multiyear, multimillion dollar projects – on Coastline Security Technologies, funded by the Department of Navy, One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola, and NSF PIRE project on Global Living Laboratory for Cyber Infrastructure Application Enablement, and NSF High-Performance Computing Project. He is the author of numerous books and articles in the areas of multimedia, computer architecture, real-time computing, and operating systems. He is a founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer). He has received several technical and publishing awards, and has consulted for many high-tech companies including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Xerox, General Electric, JPL, NASA, Honeywell, and RCA, and has been an expert wetness for Cisco and Qualcomm. He has also served as a consultant to various colleges and universities. He has given many invited talks, keynote lectures, seminars, and tutorials. He served on the Board of Directors of several high-tech companies.
