This is Cornell University's research group for the study of visual communications, and is under the direction of Prof. Sheila Hemami.

Primary funding is provided by the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and by Eastman Kodak Company.

The primary objective of our research is to enable high-quality, reliable visual communications for all users. All users, regardless of their individual network connection bandwidths, qualities-of-service, or terminal capabilities, should have the ability to access still images, video clips, and multimedia information services, and to use interactive visual communications services.

Specific research topics include motion estimation and compensation for video coding, psychovisually-based image processing and compression, and error-resilient coding for transmission applications. More details on our research are available from our publications.

Photos of the lab are here!