Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ECpE Distinguished Lecture Series 2007-08

Lecture title: "Distributed Smart Cameras: Algorithms and Architectures"

Speaker: Wayne Wolf, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering;     Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems; and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Georgia Tech University

Time: 1:10 to 2 p.m.

Location: Howe Hall, Alliant Energy-Lee Liu Auditorium

Abstract: Smart cameras perform real-time, embedded computer vision. Smart cameras are useful in a variety of applications: medicine, entertainment, security, and so on. For many applications, single smart cameras are not enough. Multiple cameras quickly lead us to distributed computing platforms as vehicles for smart cameras. This talk will describe some examples of distributed smart camera systems, the algorithms they use, and the architecture of the underlying platforms.

Speaker biography: Wayne Wolf is the Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computer Systems and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was with Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989. He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1980, 1981, and 1984, respectively. His research interests include embedded computing, VLSI systems, and multimedia information systems. He has served as editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, and Design Automation for Embedded Systems. He is the author of Computers as Components, FPGA-Based System Design, and Modern VLSI Design (for which he won the ASEE Frederick E. Terman Award in 2003). Wolf has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi. He received the IEEE Circuits and Systems Education Award in 2006. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM, an IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Member, and a member of the SPIE and ASEE.