The Interactive Visual Media Processing (IVMP) lab is a world leader in developing coding, estimation and post-processing technologies for visual media, including images, video and higher dimensional media such as volumetric and plenoptic content.
Current research topics
High-Throughput JPEG 2000 image coding and communication (https://htj2k.com)
Scalable image transforms
Depth, motion and illuminant estimation for video and multi-view arrays
Plenoptic (light field) compression
Disparity/Motion based view synthesis
Industry and international standards impact
FBCOT algorithm, adopted as the foundation of the new High-Throughput JPEG 2000 (HTJ2K) image coding standard (ISO/IEC CD 15444-15)
Kakadu Software toolkit for JPEG 2000, licensed to more than 400 commercial organisations.
Highly efficient implementation of HTJ2K integrated to Kakadu Software toolkit and an open-source implementation of HTJ2K (https://github.com/aous72/OpenJPH)
JPIP technology for robust interactive image and video communication
Contribution to JPEG Pleno Lightfield standardisation efforts and extensions to JPEG 2000 for coding of discontinuous media – such as depth maps and motion fields.