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The proliferation of handheld mobile devices with the capacity to display video and the ever growing networks of these devices, both at the level of highly structured networks such as the Internet and the loosely connected ad-hoc sensor networks, have created a renewed demand for efficient techniques of transmitting large volume of video data using devices with limited battery power, processing capacity, and relatively low available memory. Future multimedia systems are expected to capitalise this demand by allowing multiple video input and output streams using a network of distributed devices connected through bandwidth-constrained noisy wireless transmission mediums. Recent works on pattern-based video coding (PVC) and distributed video coding (DVC) have tried to address these two issues in isolation. In this presentation, a combined PVC-DVC approach will be examined, with illustration from the recent research at Gippsland School of IT, Monash University.

About Manzur Murshed
Manzur Murshed received his BScEng(Hons) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), with the University Gold Medal, in 1994 and PhD degree in Computer Science from the Australian National University in 1999. He joined Monash University immediately after completing his PhD as a lecturer where he is currently an Associate Professor and the Head of Gippsland School of Information Technology. His major research interests are in the fields of Video Coding and Transcoding, Video Indexing and Retrieval, Video-on-Demand, Image Processing, Multimedia Communications, Wireless Communications, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Grid Computing, Simulation, Complexity Analysis, Multilingual Systems, Algorithms, Distributed Coding, and Digital Watermarking. He has published over one hundred journal and other peer-reviewed research articles. Recently he received the inaugural Faculty of Information Technology Award for Excellence in Research for Early Career Researchers. He is a member of IEEE.