Department's
ObjectivesDepartment's
ObjectivesCurrent
ResearchResearch
GroupsResearch
Grants
Digital
communications
Data
and computer communications
Speech,
Image and Signal Processing
Digital Multimedia
Parallel
computer architectures for signal processing
Video
coding
Video
conferencing
Multimedia
networking and Security
Wireless
multimedia
Cryptography
Error-control
coding
Source
coding
Also of special interest to the Department is research in:
Real Time Operating Systems for the
8051 microcontroller.
Embedded
Systems
Speech
synthesis and recognition for the Maltese language
Digital
video transmission over wireless access networks
Variable-length
error-correcing codes
Soft
decision decoding for block codes
Synthesis
and recognition of Maltese speech
Multimedia indexing
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Dr. Victor Buttigieg obtained a research grant of LM13,200 from the RTDI under MCST for a period of two years for work on Content Based Multimedia Retrieval |
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Dr. Adrian Muscat and Dr. Carl J. Debono obtained a research grant of Lm1250 from the University of Malta for the development of WLAN antennas. |
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Mr. Paul P. Debono, Dr.Edward Gatt and Dr. Carl J. Debono obtained a research grant of Lm5250 from the University for work on the development of an FPGA implementation of a speech recognizer. |
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Dr. David Zammit Mangion and Dr Carl J. Debono are participating in the EU program START. The funding is 25,534€. |
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Dr. Adrian Muscat and Dr. Carl J. Debono are participating in the EU program ALIPRO. The funding is 20,140€. |
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Prof. Paul Micallef and Dr. Carl J. Debono are participating in a VIth Framework IST Project with acronym TWISTER. The project runs from 2004 - 2007. The local contribution is to setup, test and evaluate a high speed satellite link between the department and UGC, Gozo that is being used for a virtual classroom. Additionally a research work on modelling the channel bandwidth usage is also being conducted. The funding is for 159,000€ |
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Dr. Carl J. Debono and Dr. Adrian Muscat obtained a research grant of 24,000€ from ST Microelectronics, Catania for the development of WLAN and UWB antennas. |
Research
grants 2003
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Dr. V. Buttigieg obtained a grant of
Lm23,000 over a three year period from the University for the
development of Multimedia Indexing |
Research
grants 2001
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Mr. P. P. Debono obtained a grant of Lm8300 over a two year period from the University for the development of the microcontroller laboratory. |
Research
grants 2000
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Prof. Paul Micallef participated in a Vth Framework INCOMED Project with acronym CAHRISMA. The project runs from 2000 - 2003. The local contribution is to the acoustic analysis of single voice chant and to relate it to the space architecture. The funding is for 58,000€ |
Research grants from the University for the years 1998
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Dr. Victor Buttigieg received a University research grant of Lm3,500 for his work on multirate coding |
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Dr. Paul Micallef received a University
research grant of Lm 4,500
for the ongoing work on DSP applications to speech synthesis. |
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Mr. Adrian Muscat and Mr. Johann Briffa received a University Research grant of Lm5,000 for research on parallel computiong in high frequency applications. |
In addition the department is currently using funds obtained under the Maltese-Italian financial protocol for its research work in conjunction with Prof. M. DeBlasi's group at the University of Lecce.
Previous research grants for the years 1995 - 1997 include
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The multimedia research group led by Dr. Saviour Zammit received a research grant of Lm 11,500 to research Digital Video Conferencing Systems. |
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Dr. Paul Micallef received Lm 2,000 to do
research in speech synthesis |
Dr.
Johann Briffa is currently collaborating with Oakland Univertsity, USA
in the area of steganalysis and steganography.Dr.
Carl J. Debono and Dr. Adrian Muscat are currently collaborating with
ST Microelectronics in the area of UWB Antenna Development.