Title: Optimizing Emerging Multimedia Algorithms on Multi-core CPUs

Time: 10:00-11:00 AM, April 10, 2012

Location: FIT 1-515

Speaker: Prof. Yen Kuang Chen, IEEE Fellow

Abstract: Multi-core processors are now prevalent everywhere from desktops and graphics processors to laptops and embedded systems. Many novel multimedia applications can be enabled by multi-core processors. More importantly, multimedia system designers must understand the nuances of a multi-core computing engine, only then can the tremendous computing power that such platforms provide be harnessed efficiently.

This talk will first show some of the emerging applications that can take advantage of the processing power of multi-core processors. This talk will then show the advanced optimization techniques on Intel multi-core processors with shared cache. In particular, we will use design examples of image processing, computer vision, and video codec to demonstrate the algorithm changes for efficient implementations on Intel multi-core platforms.

BIO: Dr. Yen-Kuang Chen (an IEEE Fellow) is a Principal Engineer at Intel Corporation and Associate Director of the Intel-NTU Connected Context Computing Center. His research interests include Internet of Things, machine-to-machine, multimedia signal processing, video compression, parallel processing, and computer architecture. He is a key contributor to SSSE3 and AVX instruction sets on Intel Core processor family. He has 25+ US patents, 25+ pending patent applications, and 85+ technical publications. He has served as an editorial board member of 5+ journals and a program committee member of 40+ international conferences, on multimedia, video compression/communication, image/signal processing, VLSI circuits and systems, parallel processing, and software optimization.