PhD

Smart Systems and Energy Technology

• DNA analysis with a nanopore
• Reconfigurable biosensor arrays
• 3D-SOC integration by stacking heterogeneous IC technologies
• Technology aware design research
• Analog and RF circuit design for 45nm CMOS Cognitive Radio t
• CMOS design for mm-wave applications
• Cognitive radio processor architecture and platform
• Cognitive radio functionality
• Miniaturized Hyperspectral Vision System for the Embedded Do
• Multi-View Video
• Run-time resource management for dynamic Embedded Software
• Solar Cell Technology
• Organic electronics
• Wireless autonomous transducer solutions
• Ultra-high frequency communication with thin-film oxide elec

Multi-View Video

Multi-View Video technology has evolved up to the point of maturity that enables the off-line post-processing of a restricted set of camera viewpoints to calculate photo-realistic intermediate user-defined viewpoints. Today, all the processing needed to achieve such results is done at the cost of a massive amount of processing, real-time being often beyond today's capabilities. Imec has taken Multi-View Video processing within the ubiquitous world of low-power, wireless, mobile media-devices, with a clear goal of enabling real-time processing over the end-to-end chain, from camera to client terminal. Multi-View Video Processing applications already provided by imec essentially combine multiple real or virtual camera views to namely an interpolated synthesized view (e.g. simulating eye-gazing for 3D video conferencing), or mosaiced panoramic view (i.e. stitch different views together) and super-resolution (i.e. merge different low-resolution low-cost camera pictures to create high-resolution). The PhD student will contribute to this research domain with algorithmic-architecture co-design for Multi-View Video compression, processing and quality of experience. This will involve the selection of the appropriate image processing kernels, re-design of the algorithms to expose similar functionalities at hopefully reduced complexity and larger (data)-parallelism.

Responsible scientists: Diederik Verkest, Johan De Geyter, Rudi Lauwereins