Dynamic image coding using tera-speed analogueic visual microprocessors

Project Information

DICTAM

Grant agreement ID: 27077

Project closed

Start date 15 January 1998

End date 14 January 1999

Funded under

• Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Total cost € 161 000,00

EU contribution € 100 000,00

Coordinated by

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS
Spain

Objective

The primary objective of DICTAM is to develop a new class of image-processing systems to make hand held video-compression possible. These systems are based on the hybridisation of conventional, accurate, serial Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), and unconventional moderate-accuracy, parallel Analog Signal Programmable Processing Arrays (ASPPAs). DICTAM aims to realise a smart synergy of DSPs and ASPPAs based on an adaptive optimum distribution of the image-processing tasks among these two types of processors, and attending to the specific spatial and temporal characteristics of the image sequences being processed. In this manner, the better of the two processing alternatives can be exploited, and their limitations avoided.
DICTAM results are expected to yield a drastic increase in the effective real-time video-transmission capability for a given channel bandwidth, an increase in the reproduction quality of transmitted images, and a reduction in the production cost and power dissipation of equipments incorporating the resulting technology. The new processing systems are also expected to lead to a significant breakthrough in key artificial-vision tasks, other than those considered as the major project applications. This broader range of applications could also be explored during the eventual second phase in parallel to the core applications mentioned above.
The approach towards DICTAM objectives include the realisation of the new processing architectures themselves, the conception and design of its unconventional parts in the form of mixed-signal VLSI chips, and the development of optimum signal processing algorithms, tailored to the processing architecture, for real-time dynamic image coding/decoding, video compression/decompression, and authenticity and integrity verification of the transmitted images.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › computer hardware › computer processors
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › analogue electronics
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › signal processing

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Programme(s)

• FP4-ESPRIT 4 - Specific research and technological development programme in the field of information technologies, 1994-1998

Topic(s)

• 4.1 - Openness to Ideas

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

ACM - Preparatory, accompanying and support measures

Coordinator

CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Avenida Astrofisico Francisco Sanchez S/N ; 38206 LA LAGUNA ; Spain
• Total cost: No data