Derek Schwenke

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Principal Technical Staff
M.S., Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1988

Phone: (617) 621-7572
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Derek Schwenke received his B.S.E.E. from Tulane and M.S.C.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. At Raytheon (1984-1988) in Marlboro, MA. Derek worked on image processing and satellite communications systems. At MERL (1988) Derek worked on the design and simulation of the M80 and PXB1 CPUs, and software development using the OSF-DCE/Encina platform. He co-developed the OpenMQâ„¢ message queuing system for Mitsubishi Electric. Derek has worked on Splineâ„¢, OpenCommunityâ„¢, Schmoozerâ„¢ Java UI and the Internet Sharing and Transfer Protocol (ISTPâ„¢) extensions. He's worked on the Concordiaâ„¢ mobile agent project's Java security architecture and the Location Aware Systems project. Currently he is working on FormsTalkâ„¢ and Collagenâ„¢ multimodal interfaces and is an active member of the W3C VoiceXML and Multimodal working groups.

Recent Projects:

Scalable Streaming of JPEG 2000
TV Content Search Using Voice

Recent Publications:

Schwenke, D.; Vetro, A.; Hata, T, "Server-Driven Progressive Image Transmission of JPEG 2000", SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Vol. 6822, January 2008 (SPIE Publications, TR2008-005)

Hata, T.; Kuwahara, N.; Schwenke, D.; Vetro, A., "Surveillance System with Mega-Pixel Scalable Transcoder", SPIE Conference Visual Communicaitons and Image Processing, Vol. 6508, January 2007 (SPIE Proceedings, TR2007-008)

Vetro, A.; Schwenke, D.; Hata, T.; Kuwahara, N., "Scalable Video Streaming Based on JPEG2000 Transcoding with Adaptive Rate Control", Advances in Multimedia, Volume 2007, Article ID 62094, 7 pages, December 2006 (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, TR2007-016)

Schwenke, D.; Vetro, A.; Hata, T.; Kuwahara, N., "Dynamic Rate Control for JPEG 2000 Transcoding", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), ISBN: 1-4244-0367-7, pp. 1437-1440, July 2006 (IEEE Xplore, TR2006-073)

Wittenburg, K.; Lanning, T.; Schwenke, D.; Shubin, H.; Vetro, A., "The Prospects for Unrestricted Speech Input for TV Content Search", ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI), May 2006 (AVI 2006, TR2006-045)

Hata, T.; Kuwahara, N.; Nozawa, T.; Schwenke, D.L.; Vetro, A., "Surveillance System with Object-Aware Video Transcoder", International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Poster Session 4, October 2005 (MMSP 2005, TR2005-115)