The MDDSP Research Group receives financial support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Reseach Council (NSERC) of Canada, the Micronet Federal Network of Centres of Excellence and the Government of Alberta. The Group is located in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Our work is concerned with the engineering applications of multidimensional signals, of which digital images are of particular interest.

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Principal Investigator

Dr. Len Bruton, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Research Engineer

Norm Bartley, Department of Electrical and Computer Enginering.

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Research Topics and Researchers' Home Pages

We carry out research on such topics as:

• 2D and 3D Video Sub Band Filtering
• Image Compression Using Fractal Block Processing (see Michael Lazar's page)
• Simulation and Design Tools for 1D, 2D and 3D Filter Design (see Chris Kulach's page)
• Velocity Estimation for Video Sequences Using 3D Filters (see Norm Bartley's page)
• Analog and Digital Real-Time Video Filter Circuit Implementations (see Chris Kulach's page)

For details about our research projects, and some of the professional and personal interests of our researchers, please consult the following:

• Len Bruton, Principal Investigator,
• Norm Bartley, Research Engineer,
• Dr. Wen Jiang, Postdoctoral Fellow,
• current graduate students Chad Dreveny, Remi Gurski, and James Gordy.
• some of our recently-graduated students, including Margaret Cheng, Cameron Taylor, Chia-Luh Chung, Chris Kulach, Kazem Najafi, Mike Lazar, Roger Bertschmann, Dave Jin, Yuejin Zhang, Steven Knudsen, Bo Liu, as well as Andreas Dilger, who also worked with us.
• and visiting researchers.

Rear: Norm Bartley, Cam Taylor, Kazem Najafi, Chris Kulach, Andreas Dilger, Chia-Luh Chung.
Front: including Naoki Matsumoto, Len Bruton, Margaret Cheng.
(Photograph taken February 1995.)

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On-line Publications

On-line publications may be downloaded

• Research Journal and Conference Publications (postscript)
• Internal Technical Reports (postscript)
• Graduate Thesis Titles

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Demonstrations of our 3D Filter Research

• Downloadable MPEG Demonstrations of our 3D Filter Research

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Fractal Art Show and Awards for this Web Site

Not to be taken too seriously but you may possibly be interested in

• Len Bruton's Fractal Art Collection has been selcted by The McKinley Group's professional editorial team as a "3-Star" site.
• Our server has been chosen as a "Starting Point Choice", and is listed in Starting Point's Choice directory located at www.stpt.com.

"Your site has been placed in the Starting Point - Education section of the directory because it provides our visitors exceptional presentation, depth of content, and value within that category."

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Links To Other WWW Sites:

• The University of Calgary WWW Server
• Electrical and Computer Engineering WWW Server
• Faculty of Engineering WWW Server

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