Vision

Our lab targets for multimedia application and SoC hardware architecture design. Our missions, strategies and research topics are listed as follows.

● Missions
    ▪ Microchip -- leading IC designs for future multimedia systems
    ▪ People -- high quality environment to foster creative talents
    ▪ Industry -- innovative and competitive forces for high-tech industry in Taiwan
    ▪ Society -- technologies to benefit human lives

● Strategies
    ▪ Application -- human-centric video / visual / neural signal processing applications
    ▪ Approach -- scalable design methodologies for future SoC
    ▪ Algorithm -- next generation video coding and intelligent signal processing algorithms
    ▪ Architecture -- reconfigurable / high-performance / low-power / bio-inspired architecture design

● Research Topics
    ▪ Next generation scalable and multi-view video encoder / decoder
    ▪ Stereo / 3D video processing and conversion system
    ▪ Video surveillance system supporting single- / multi-camera intelligent analysis
    ▪ Vision processor (iVisual) design and application
    ▪ Bio-inspired intelligent chip (iChip) design for image / video recognition
    ▪ Brain / neural signal processor design and application
    ▪ ESL design methodology for next generation multimedia SoC