Plenary Lecture

Video and Audio Compressions and Human Perception Mechanism

Professor Michael Bank
Dept. of Communication Engineering,
HIT-Holon Institute of Technology
Israel
E-mail: michaelbank@bezeqint.net
Websites: http://www.hit.ac.il/staff/commEng/Michael_Bank/M_Bank.html
http://ofdma-manfred.websplanet.com/

Abstract: A proposal is put forward for a possible explanation of human perception algorithm. The main conclusion of different kinds of art perception examination is necessity of big part of signal redundancy. It turned out, that there are common methods of redundancy creation in different kinds of art like painting, architecture, music and speech. It is shown the common peculiarities of human processing of video and audio information. On the other hand, due to the limited bandwidth in communication channels, transmitted signals must be compressed. This begs the question – what should be transmitted in these types of signals, if a large part of them is removed by the system controlling the sensor-brain?

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Professor Michael Bank received the B.A and M.Sc. degrees in communicational engineering from the Leningrad Institute of Communications in 1960, received the Ph.D. degree in 1969 in the field of FM signal detection. He received Doctor of Science degree (Russian equivalent of professor) in 1990. Since 1992 he is a consultant in Israel communicational company Bezeq and a professor in the Holon Institute of Technology (HIT). His research interests include mobile communication systems theory and video and audio compression methods.