CONCORD, Mass., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Euclid Discoveries, a developer of video compression and other enabling technologies, is pleased to announce that Dr. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury has signed on as Chief Consulting Scientist. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury will lead initiatives to advance the development of EuclidVision(TM), which is working to become the leading video compression technology for consumer and commercial applications.

Dr. Roy-Chowdhury brings an impressive mix of academic and professional experience to Euclid Discoveries. In addition to working with Euclid, Dr. Roy-Chowdhury also serves as an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department of University of California, Riverside. Dr. Roy-Chowdhury's work includes the advancement of technology applications in computer vision, video analysis, image processing, pattern recognition and statistical signal processing.

"We are delighted to have Dr. Roy-Chowdhury as part of the Euclid Discoveries team," said Richard Wingard, CEO of Euclid Discoveries. "His achievements and reputation within the industry are great assets to the company, and will enable us to continue to make advancements in compression technology."

Charles P. Pace, Chief Software Architect said, "Dr. Roy-Chowdhury brings expertise that will further our technology as the cutting edge in video compression solutions."

Dr. Roy-Chowdhury has earned advance degrees at several universities both domestically and abroad. These include a Bachelor of Engineering, from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India (1995); a Master of Engineering, from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1997) and a PhD from University of Maryland, College Park (2002).

"I am excited to be a part of Euclid Discoveries team," said Dr. Roy-Chowdhury. "Our groundbreaking work in video compression technology and its multitude of applications is the realization of years of research and I'm honored to be able to contribute."

Dr. Roy-Chowdhury's work in the area of computer vision technology has been featured in several publications, including the International Journal of Computer Vision (October 2003), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (July-August 2003), IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (several articles in 2004-2005), IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Intelligence (in press) and the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (2002). He is an author of a monograph titled, "Recognition of Humans and Their Activities Using Video."

About Euclid Discoveries

Euclid Discoveries researches and develops next-generation video processing and compression technology. In order to meet consumer demand for high quality video on any video-enabled device, the company developed EuclidVision(TM). EuclidVision is a proprietary technology, based on the MPEG-4 standard, that will increase video compression ratios by orders of magnitude - reducing file size dramatically and removing existing bandwidth constraints for the transmission of high quality video. This technology has clear potential applications in a host of industries beyond consumer electronics and telecommunications including surveillance, medical imaging, weather forecasting and image mining. Euclid Discoveries has also developed a rigorous testing environment, EuclidStudio(TM), to accurately evaluate video compression and quality for MPEG-4 compression technologies. For more information on Euclid Discoveries and its offerings, please visit http://www.eucliddiscoveries.com/.

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