Dr. Ian Burnett is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and
Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Wollongong. His research interests
extend from speech and audio compression and processing through to multimedia delivery
and perception. He currently chairs the Multimedia Description Schemes subgroup at MPEG,
and has been extensively involved in the standardisation of MPEG-21. For further
information refer to Dr. Burnett's faculty page. 

Articles

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Reconfigurable Media Coding: Self-Describing Multimedia Bitstreams (with J. Thomas-Kerr, J. Janneck, M. Mattavelli, and C. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

The development of MP3 and JPEG sparked an explosion in digital content on the internet....

 

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The MPEG-7 Query Format: A New Standard in Progress for Multimedia Query by Content (with K. Adistambha, M. Doeller, R. Tous, M. Gruhne, M. Sano, C. Tsinaraki, S. Christodoulakis, Kyoungro Yoon, and C. H. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

ln recent years, the amount of Internet accessible digital audiovisual media files has vastly increased....

 

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MQF: An XML Based Multimedia Query Format (with K. Adistambha and C. H. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

MQF is a new XML based format designed to facilitate communication between disparate systems for...

 

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Principles and Analysis of the Squeezing Approach to Low Bit Rate Spatial Audio Coding (with B. Cheng and C. H. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

This paper presents a novel solution to multichannel spatial audio coding: Spatial Squeezing Surround Audio...

 

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Is That a Fish in Your Ear? A Universal Metalanguage for Multimedia (with J. Thomas-Kerr, C. H. Ritz, S. Devillers, D. de Schrijever, and R. Van de Walle), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

Universal Multimedia Access promises to adaptively deliver multimedia content to users according to their needs?whether...

 

Presentations

An anechoic configurable hemispheric environment for spatialised sound (with Christian H. Ritz, Gregory M. Schiemer, Eva Cheng, Damien Lock, Terumi Narushima, Stephen F. Ingham, and Diana Wood Conroy), Faculty of Creative Arts - Papers (2008)
 

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Intelligent Multimedia Delivery? It’s a question of semantics (with J. Thomas-Kerr and C. Ritz), Faculty of Informatics - Papers (2007)

Intelligent multimedia delivery uses semantic information about content to enhance the delivery process. This paper...

 

Other

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Convolutional Interleaver for Unequal Error Protection of Turbo Codes (with Sina Vafi and Tadeusz A. Wysocki), Computer & Electronics Engineering Faculty Publications (2003)

This paper describes construction of a convolutional interleaver as a block interleaver and discusses its...