Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County

• Adaptive multimedia streaming for wireless and mobile environments;
• Clustered server architectures for Internet streaming;
• Dynamic load balancing streaming protocols for Internet streaming;
• Multicasting for Internet streaming;
• Text recognition in video;
• Repeating audio pattern recognition using n-grams in musical compositions;
• Video summarization and shot detection using Delaunay clustering;
• Performance analysis of delay tolerant networks.

CURRENT STUDENTS:
 

Yong Rao (PhD ABD, Proposal Defense Fall 2004) Email: yongrao1@umbc.edu Title: Automatic video processing using clustering and user relevance feedback Undergraduate: Majored in Electrical Engineering and Minored in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1992-1996. Publications: Y. Rao, P. Mundur, and Y. Yesha,  Automatic Video Summarization for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Proc. International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 20-24, Paris, 2004. Experimental Results (Includes summarization results for 50 video segments from Open Video Project, Paper (published in the International Journal of Digital Libraries) on Delaunay Clustering for Video Summarization.

Sookyoung Lee (PhD student, since Fall 2005) Email: slee22@umbc.edu Title: Routing Algorithms for Delay Tolerant Networks Undergraduate: Publications:  (Funded project by RABA Technologies/LTS)

Usha Sree Kaja (MS Expected, 2006) Email: uskaja1@umbc.edu Title: Security solutions for delay tolerant networks Undergraduate: Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Osmania University (A), India, 1999-2003.

PAST STUDENTS:
 

Amit Mahajan(MS 2003, Plethora Inc.)  Title: QoS issues for multimedia applications in mobile and wireless environment Publications: A. Mahajan, P. Mundur, and A. Joshi, Adaptive Multimedia System Architecture for Improving QoS in Wireless Networks, Proc. Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, December 16-18, Taiwan, 2002.

Ashwatha Matthur (MS 2003, EPIC Systems) Title: Integrated solutions for streaming applications on the Internet Publications:  A. Matthur and P. Mundur, Congestion Adaptive Streaming: an Integrated Approach, Proc. International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS), September 24-26 Miami, FL 2003.  A. Matthur and P. Mundur, Dynamic Load Balancing across Mirrored Multimedia Servers, Proc. International Conference on Multimedia Expo (ICME), July 6-9 Baltimore, MD 2003.

Peng Yu Liu( MS 2004, Washington State University) Title: Internet multicasting for streaming applications. Undergraduate: Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China.

Poorva Arankalle (MS 2004, Yahoo!) Title: Clustered server architectures for Internet streaming Undergraduate: Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Cummins College of Engineering, Pune, India, 1998 - 2002. Publications: P. Mundur and P. Arankalle, Optimal Server Allocations for Streaming Multimedia Applications on the Internet, Accepted for Computer Networks Journal, March 2006.

Snehal Manohar (MS 2004, Google; Snehal is working on Video Google!)  Title: Information extraction using text in videos Undergraduate: Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), University of Pune, India, 1998 - 2002.

Nikunj Patel (MS 2004, Georgetown University Medical Center, ISIS Research Center) Title: Music information retrieval and query by humming  Undergraduate:  Publications: N. Patel and P. Mundur, An n-gram based approach to finding repeating patterns in musical compositions, Proc. Euro/IMSA, February 2005, Grindelwald, Switzerland.

Yun Teng (MS Thesis, December 2005) Email: tengyun1@umbc.edu Title: Performance analysis of delay tolerant networks Undergraduate: Bachelor of Science, Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, China, 1999-2003.