Group Member

Edward Lin
Master of Science Student

Personal Homepage: http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~eclin
Email: eclin@andrew.cmu.edu

Office: HH 3106
Phone: 412-268-5103

Mailing Address:
Department of ECE, Carnegie Mellon University,
5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh,
PA 15213-3890

Research Interests

Research Focus:

Areas of Interest:

Low power multimedia architecture designs

Until recently, power efficiency in multimedia devices had largely been ignored for high throughput designs. The sudden growth is largely due to two sources. First, as circuits become faster, heat created the high power dissipation increases the need for expensive cooling systems. The second is in portable devices where battery lifetime is important.

Projects

Low Power Variable Length Decoder

With the rise in demand for portable multimedia devices, power has become an important element in variable length decoding. By implementing a custom hardware decoder, an increase in speed and reduction in power is achievable.

For more details on the project please see the Low power VLC Project Page.
Low Power Viterbi algorithm with speech recognition application

Until just recently, Sphinx 3 reached real time decoding on new P4 platforms, but for low power devices such as PDAs processing power is still fairly limited. Creating a custom hardware implementation which is lower in power and decodes faster allows for a wider range of possibilities, such as decoding different languages or machine translation in real time.

For more details on the project please see the Speech-in-Silicon Page.

Publications

Conference papers:

E. Lin, A. Cassidy, D. Hook, A. Baliga, T. Chen "Hand Tracking using Spatial Gesture Modeling and Visual Feedback for a Virtual DJ System", 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) 2002 , Rochester, NY, U.S.A., September 2002.