The Intelligent Media Processing Laboratory (IMPL) supports research into algorithms and architectures for processing digital multimedia data. Some specific areas of interest are:
- Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) for processing images, video, speech and text
- Computer vision
- Video enhancement and compression
- Active noise cancellation
The IMPL is well outfitted, and includes the following equipment:
- Linux compute servers
- Ubuntu 16.04 on 32-core Xeon with hyperthreading, 128 GB RAM, 8 TB HDD, 500 GB solid-state drive
- Dual nVidia GTX 1080 Ti’s provide supercomputing performance, over 22 TFLOPs peak throughout
- Supports interactive exploration of deep convolutional neural networks
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on 12-core Xeon with hyperthreading, 32 GB RAM, 6 TB internal HDD, 8 TB external HDD
- Supports chip design via tools for Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
- Supports massively parallel execution of computationally complex algorithms
- LG Electronics 55EG9600 55-Inch 4K Ultra HD Curved Smart OLED TV
- Wide gamut, high accuracy, state-of-the-art display
- HiMedia Q10 quad-core media player
- Supports playback of 4K streams compressed via MPEG-2/4, H.264, HEVC/H.265, WMV, AVI, MOV
- ChromaATE Display Color Analyzer Model 7123
- Allows measurement of display light emission – “color” and intensity
- Electronic microscope for nano-imaging
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