One industrial PhD fellowship

Recently the Swedish National Research Council has awarded VIMIO AB and the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University funding for One industrial PhD fellowship in Distributed Wyner-Ziv video coding for SWE - Share What I Experience VIMIO's technology has relatively low CPU processing power and low bandwidth utilization.The video encoding process analyses the video input to discard less useful information and retain and enhance more important features.Other VIMIO proprietary techniques compress the image further, by identifying features that don't change, or those that occur in multiple frames, thereby avoiding the transmission of identical information.Files compressed with VIMIO technology experience little or none of the quality erosion experienced when the same files are compressed with MPEG4, H.263 or similar.VIMIO technology compresses media files so that they can be used with little discernible impact on quality; www.vimio.com.VIMIO is a partner of The Digital Media Laboratory (DML) at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics (TFE).DML's research focuses on digital media signal processing.www.medialab.tfe.umu.se.The PhD student will research on the design of low-complexity encoder based on Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding (distributed coding) theory, where the interframe dependence of video frames can be exploited only at the decoder and address efficient compression by exploring source statistics partially/ wholly at the decoder only.This includes WZ quantization and reconstruction with linear codes and nested lattices.The PhD candidate will study performance and optimization of variable rate compression of realtime video signals and develop highly efficient blind motion estimation algorithms as well as motion compensated extrapolation techniques.She/he will carry out applications of relevance to VIMIO in the field of Wyner-Ziv video coding.The candidate will be hired by VIMIO as soon as possible for a maximum of 4 years to carry out the PhD at DML.Prerequisites include 120 points (180 ECTS-credits) undergraduate studies, of which 80 points (120 ECTS-credits) are in electronics or in closely related applied subject fields.A person who in some other system in the country or abroad has acquired corresponding university education shall have eligibility for admission.Experience in the business/industrial sector is considered a merit.Applications should include description of past accomplishments including a list of publications, curriculum vitae, up to 10 relevant publications, and the names of three references, all in 3 copies.For more information, contact Prof.Applications will be discarded or, if the applicant so wishes, returned two years after the position has been filled.Documents sent electronically should be in MS Word or PDF format.We look forward to receiving your application!