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The
Centre will work and give services or products as summarized
below:
General
Missions
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To
use our knowledge in Signal Processing as a basis for
promoting Information Engineering and Multimedia Technology
within Hong Kong.
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To
make use of a strong research base to further enhance
the research contributions from Hong Kong in the international
arena.
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To
port academic research results into practical use, benefiting
the industrial, commercial and service sectors of Hong
Kong.
Specific
deliverables
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To
enhance the research group project 'Intelligent Video
Conference System for Multimedia Applications', with the
objective of designing an Intelligent Video Conferencing
System which will be able to do video conferencing via
communication channels and perform information exchange
and multimedia functions. (These include speech recognition,
secretarial services, documentation and intelligent services.)
The results should allow daily video conferencing among
colleagues within Universities in Hong Kong. The new techniques
will also be particularly useful to local industrialists
who are interested in the development of modern video
conferencing systems and contemporary multimedia applications.
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To
start a group project on the exploitation of trends and
technologies in specific areas of DSP, such as Video Technology,
Digital and High Definition TV, and their applications
to multimedia development in Hong Kong. This will be extremely
useful for the future direction of multimedia IT development
in Hong Kong, with the Centre serving as a technical consultant
to the Hong Kong SAR Government in the area.
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To
continue our excellent tradition of publishing our new
discoveries and theories in renowned journals, conferences,
etc.
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To
produce prototypes and frameworks for signal processing
products.
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To
transfer up-dated research outcomes and modern techniques
to industrial companies, especially to enhance their product
design, to suggest innovative products, and to resolve
production problems.
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To
offer short courses on cutting-edge technologies, and
undertake in-house training for industries, commercial
firms, and the service sector in Hong Kong and mainland
China.
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To
provide the necessary technical support and consultancy
to the SAR government in its strategic planning for Hong
Kong hi-tech development in the areas of Signal Processing
and Multimedia Technology.
Long
Term Objectives
We aim to become the major research centre in the area of
Multimedia Signal Processing in South East Asia within three
years, and to become one of the important centres of excellence
in this area in the world within eight years. Currently, staff
members of the group have already achieved good international
status, and possess the potential and track records to complete
these tasks.
We aspire to become a "mini MIT" Media Laboratory,
mainly looking into the Digital Signal Processing aspects
of Multimedia Technologies, while our operation and size will
grow to resemble the Photovoltaics Special Research Centre
at New South Wales University in Australia.
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