Je-Won Kang(University of Southern California), “Efficient coding techniques for high definition video”, Prof. C.-C. Jay Kuo, 2012 High definition (HD) video contents become popular and displays of higher resolution such as ultra-definition are emerging in recent years. The conventional video coding standards offer excellent coding performance at lower bit-rates. However, their coding performance for HD video contents is not as efficient.

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The VideoSense Summer School focuses on Ethically-guided and Privacy-respecting Video Analytics, which is organized by the VideoSense EU FP7 Networks of Excellence. Following the previous successful Summer School in Dublin (you can watch a short video here), the Second VideoSense Summer School will be held on 30 June 2013 in DSP2013 premises, Santorini, Greece. In order to register for the VideoSense Summer School 2013, please contact Dr.

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Xiaojie Zhang(University of California, San Diego), “LDPC Codes -- Structural Analysis and Decoding Techniques”, Advisor: Prof. Paul H. Siegel, 2012 Low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes have been the focus of much research over the past decade. However, the error floor phenomenon observed in MP decoding, which manifests itself as an abrupt change in the slope of the error-rate curve, has hindered the adoption of LDPC codes and MP decoders in some applications requiring very low error rates.

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The IEEE SPS Italy Chapter Summer School on Signal Processing is intended to take advantage of the presence on site of Italian and International experts in the Signal Processing domain to provide students an insight on some basic general issues of wide use.