| 1. |
Signal Processing: General techniques and algorithms. Adaptive DSP algorithms; Filter Bank Theory; Spectrum Estimation and Processing; Non-linear Systems; Digital Transforms; Multidimensional Signal Processing;
Pattern Recognition. |
| 2. |
Technologies: Neural Networks; Fuzzy Systems; Expert Systems; Genetic Algorithms; Data Fusion. |
| 3. |
Multimedia Content Processing: Speech Processing and Recognition, Audio Enhancement, Restoration and Analysis, Image Representation and Modelling, Image Restoration and Enhancement; Colour Vision, 3D Vision, Image and Video Analysis; Pattern Recognition; Watermarking, New Media. |
| 4. |
Multimedia Data Compression: Speech and Audio Compression, Image and Video Coding, Scalable Techniques, Standards. |
| 5. |
Multimedia Systems: Human Factors, Multimodal Interfaces, Networked Multimedia, Seamless Audiovisual Networks, Multimedia Services; Multimedia Servers; Multimedia Streaming, Wireless and Mobile Multimedia, Universal Multimedia Access, Right Protection and Management. |
| 6. |
Content Description: Metadata and Media Abstracts, Audiovisual
Databases. |
| 7. |
Implementations: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems for Audio, Image and Video Processing; Architectures and VLSI Hardware; Programmable Signal Processors; Real-time Software. |
| 8. |
Applications: Bioinformatics; Broadcasting; Control; Communications; Digital Production; Medical; Opto-mechatronics; Remote Sensing; Robotics; Speech; Television; Telepresence; e-learning; Virtual Reality;
Remote Sensing. |
