Next Generation Video Communications

A one day symposium presented by
The Georgia Centers for Advanced Telecommunications Technology

John G. Apostolopoulos Senior Research Scientist HP Labs

John Apostolopoulos received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in EECS from MIT in 1989, 1991, and 1997. In graduate school, he worked on the design of the video compression algorithms for the MIT/General Instrument and the Grand Alliance HDTV systems as part of the U.S. HDTV standardization activities, and he received an Emmy Award Certificate for contributions to the U.S. Digital TV Standard. He also received a best student paper award for his work on coding of arbitrarily shaped objects in an image, which was part of his PhD thesis.

Recently, he received the Young Investigator Award (best paper award) at VCIP'2001 for his work on multiple description video coding and path diversity for reliable video communication over lossy packet networks.

John joined Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 1997, where he is currently a Senior Research Scientist. John also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, is a member of IEEE Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing (IMDSP) Technical Committee, and a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford where he teaches the graduate course Digital Video Processing (EE392J).

His current research interests are in the general areas of multimedia communication, digital video processing, and the design of mobile streaming media systems.