Industry/university collaboration in creating advanced multimedia systems and tools

This paper is based on the keynote talk, which is presented at symposium ELMAR 2016. We first introduce the concept of “Entrepreneurial University (EU)”. The backbone of the EU at FAU is the NSF-sponsored Industry/University Cooperative Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement, which presently has 35 industry members with about $5 million in memberships. The Center is successfully building a bridge linking academia, industry, and government in a coordinated research initiative. In our keynote talk we describe several applied multimedia research projects conducted within the Center including automatic asset management in data centers, driver drowsiness detection system using image processing, 3D image reconstruction and segmentation of brain cells, augmented reality methods for hearing augmentation, and several others. All these projects are initiated by industry partners who are the members of the Center and who are interested to apply the obtained research results and create successful commercial products.