Imagine being able to communicate with video images anywhere in the world. Regardless of the connection you still have a good image of the person you are communicating with. Ulrik Söderström from Digital Media Lab, Umea University in Sweden, has developed a technique that enables this. The technique is so powerful that it is possible to use video with HDTV-quality and transmit it over the regular cellular phone network.
The equipment that is used today is a backpack with a video camera mounted on a bar in front of the person wearing it or a small camera mounted on a helmet.
“In the near future the equipment can be so small that it is like using a hands-free, but in this case for video communication,” says Ulrik Söderström.
His research regards video and how you can compress the images so that they can be transmitted over any kind of connection while still maintaining high image quality.