SAT – Immersive Communications

Over the past decade, we have witnessed tremendous progress in the design and the implementation of communications networks driven by broadband and mobile technologies. This advancement provides the user with access and bandwidth to send and receive information anywhere and anytime. However, there has been less progress on how the user could share rich information utilizing the available networks. In this SAT we address the technologies that enable users from sharing experiences and information seamlessly and efficiently beyond voice, image, and video communications. We look at how to immerse the user and the surroundings into the digital world for optimal collaboration experience.

Ghassan AlRegib - Committee Chair

Georgia Institute of Technology

Dr. AlRegib is an assistant professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Georgia Tech Savannah. Dr. AlRegib earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in June 2003 from The Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2003 where his research group is currently working on projects related to multimedia communications, video and 3D graphics streaming, multi-modal processing of 3D objects, distributed processing, collaborative systems, and wireless sensor networks.

Dr. AlRegib was the recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in 2000-2001 at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, the Center for Signal and Image Processing Research Award in spring 2003 at Georgia Tech, and the Center for Signal and Image Processing Service Award in spring 2003 at Georgia Tech. Dr. AlRegib is the Co-Chair of the first International Conference on Immersive Telecommunications to be held in Italy in May 2007. He is also the Chair of the Special Sessions Program at the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2006 in Atlanta, GA. He also serves as Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine 2006-2007.