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The Group on Interactive Coding of Images (GICI) is a research group of the Department of Information and Communications Engineering (DEIC) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). The group is formed by professors, researchers, and students working on different topics related to image compression and transmission. The study, design, and implementation of standards and techniques for image coding and transmission is the main focus of the group. We are also interested in the development and modification of the state-of-the-art techniques, adapting them to new scenarios of use.
GICI has developed several open source Java implementations (see the Section Downloads). Some of these developments are: Part 1 of JPEG2000 standard, Part 9 of JPEG2000 standard, CCSDS-IDC Recommendation for Image Data Coding, and implementations of EZW, IC, SPECK and SPIHT. Some of these coding schemes have been modified with the aim to study novel evolutions or adaptations to particular settings. The results of these researches are published in international journals and conferences.
In recent years, some research projects on image coding have been under development. These projects deal with the compression and transmission of large images used in Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems applications. Currently we are also interested in medical imaging applications and how the encoding methods can help this community to fulfill their requirements.
GICI collaborates with other national and international research groups. The group is as well open to new collaborations with other researchers. We are also interested in the supervision of M.S. and Ph.D. Thesis under the official Graduate Programme on Computer Science, and in the tuition of undergraduate degree projects for UAB students. To retrieve more information, please visit our section Join Us.
If you are further interested in any aspect of our research, please do not hesitate to contact us (gici-info@deic.uab.cat).