➤ CAMSAT
Design and production of a set of prototype HD signal converters, 2016–2017
Contract work for CAMSAT. The project focused on developing converters between three types of high-definition analogue video signals: AHD, TVI and CVI. The result is a device that accepts any of the three formats and generates an output signal in a single selected format. The device supports automatic adaptation to the input format, resolution scaling, PTZ control and interoperation with radio devices. It was implemented as an electronic module equipped with an FPGA (Xilinx Spartan 6) and analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters dedicated to video signals. The devices developed are manufactured and sold by CAMSAT.
➤ BIOWIZ
Development and implementation of a system for identifying persons (perpetrators of crimes) from images recorded in photographs or video footage, 2015–2018
The project was carried out by a consortium of research institutions – Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology), NASK, AGH University of Krakow and the Polish Platform for Homeland Security – and was funded by the National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR). Its aim was to create a computer system supporting officers of the uniformed services in the biometric identification of persons (identification by face and/or whole silhouette) from images recorded in photographs or video footage. The system was implemented as an interactive tool enabling, among other things, face detection, extraction of video frames containing faces, tracking of faces and whole silhouettes in video sequences, and identification of persons marked in photographs or video sequences. The research of the ZIM team focused on the following tasks:
- image quality assessment (determining suitability for further processing and analysis)
- face detection
- facial landmark localisation
- face recognition
for which state-of-the-art algorithms based on convolutional neural networks were developed, offering high accuracy and efficiency.
➤ LIDER
Hardware Architectures for Multi-Source Real-Time Audiovisual Coding, 2011–2014
The aim of the project was to develop and implement a prototype of a real-time audiovisual coding system that includes generation of a multi-view disparity map. The practical outcome of the project is a hardware application running on an FPGA platform that demonstrates real-time compression of multichannel audio and multi-view video together with disparity estimation. The digital part of the system is integrated in a single FPGA device. Hardware acceleration and new encoder architectures provide higher audio-video compression performance than existing solutions. Accurate multi-view disparity estimation supports video compression and the computation of the depth map needed for 3D scene reconstruction.
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➤ PROTEUS
Integrated mobile system supporting counter-terrorism and crisis operations – Proteus, 2009–2013
The project was carried out by a consortium of research institutions, including the WUT Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology (IRiTM). Within the project, IRiTM was responsible for the detailed architecture, implementation and validation of the communications subsystem, while the work of the ZIM team concerned the latest solutions in multimedia technology, in particular efficient hardware implementations of source encoders and data multiplexing mechanisms.
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➤ PBZ MNiSW-02/II/2007
Next-generation ICT services and networks – technical, application and market aspects, 2007–2011
The project was carried out by a consortium of research institutions, including the WUT Institute of Radioelectronics and Multimedia Technology (IRiTM). The research of the ZIM team fell within the area defined as Thematic Group GT-09: Multimedia Services. The research focused on the following topics:
- multimedia data retrieval
- multimedia data streaming in IP networks
- multimedia data adaptation
➤ VISNET, VISNET II
Networked Audiovisual Media Technologies, 2004–2009
The project was carried out by an international consortium of research institutions as an EU Network of Excellence. The research of the ZIM team covered a broad range of topics in multimedia technology, including audio and video coding, 3D modelling, multimedia data retrieval, face recognition, audio and video segmentation, and object tracking.
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➤ HMP
Home Multimedia Platform, 2002–2004
The project was carried out for a commercial client. The work covered applications for presenting additional data (telephone call information, e-mail messages, etc.) on an integrated video platform (set-top box), an integrated home appliance control system and a multimedia gateway.
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