HANDiCAMS - Heterogeneous Ad-hoc Networks for Distributed, Cooperative, and Adaptive Multimedia Signal Processing

From 01-10-2013 to 30-09-2016
Website: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/108665_en.html

Description

The project is aimed at developing a new ICT paradigm, which considers multiple heterogeneous devices that cooperate in multiple signalprocessing tasks. This is radically different from current ICT paradigms, in which stand-alone devices merely focus on individual tasks ormultiple devices perform one joint task, e.g., in a wireless sensor network (WSN). Examples of the heterogeneous devices considered aretablets, smartphones, handheld cameras, active headsets and hearing aids. Each device is equipped with one or several sensors, e.g.,microphones and cameras, as well as with computing and wireless communication facilities, and has its own signal processing task, e.g., alocal signal enhancement task. The aim is to achieve superior performance in these tasks through cooperation amongst the devices, whichthen effectively act as nodes in a WSN type set-up, where each node contributes to the other nodes’ tasks.The main objective is to develop distributed, cooperative and adaptive signal processing algorithms for the acquisition, coding, processing,and in-network fusion of multimedia signals, in particular for the enhancement of audio and video signals. The algorithms are operated in aheterogeneous, ad-hoc and dynamic network, where each node has its own signal processing task as well as its own specific mode ofoperation. Furthermore, the algorithms should be scalable

Team

• Vetterli, Co-promoter (External)
• Abdelhak Zoubir, Co-promoter (External)
• Sergios Theodoridis, Co-promoter (External)
• Marc Moonen, Coordinator
• Alexander Bertrand, Team member

Financing

Funding: EU Funding - European Funding

Program/Grant Type: FET Open - FET Open - Novel Ideas for Radically New Technologies