People

Faculty

Eve Riskin
Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
- Principal Investigator (PI), interested in joint rate-distortion-complexity analysis of the H.264 coder.

Sheila Hemami
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University
- Co-PI

Richard Ladner
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Co-PI

Staff

Dane Barney
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

Graduate Students

Anna Cavender
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Anna's main interests are in HCI (Human Computer Interaction).  Her role is empirically investigating the effects of distortion on the intelligibility of sign language videos.

Neva Cherniavsky
Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
- Neva is interested in using activity recognition to provide better compression.  Specifically, she is trying to distinguish between finger spelling and signing automatically so the encoder could raise or lower the frame rate as needed.

Frank Ciaramello
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cornell University
- Frank is working to develop an objective metric for measuring the intelligibility of compressed ASL video.  This involves techniques to isolate the face and hand pixels of a video and also identify frames in the video that contain portions of a sign.  The metric can be used in compression algorithms to maximize the intelligibility of the conversation under severe bandwidth constraints.

Rahul Vanam
Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
- Rahul is interested in low bitrate video coding.  He is performing Rate-Distortion-Complexity (R-D-C) analysis of H.264 encoder and looking at approaches for selecting optimal encoding parameters for R-D-C optimization.

Jaehong Chon
Electrical Engineering, University of Washington
- Jaehong is working to develop the video conference program using H.264 encoder and decoder.