Promotion date: 21.12.2015
Topic: Towards computational efficiency of next generation multimedia systems
Mr. Muhammad Usman Karim Khan is currently serving as a research assistant in the „Chair for Embedded Systems“ (CES), under the supervision of Prof. Joerg Henkel in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
The research focus of Mr. Usman is embedded multimedia systems, targeting low energy and high efficiency architectures and algorithms. He was also a part of a collaborative research project with the industry to design a video encoding/compression system for video data logging in cars, under the supervision of Mr. Shafique and Mr. Bauer. The development of the video encoding system was H.264/AVC based and carried on a mid-range FPGA.
Mr. Usman has completed his Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Peshawar and Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) Islamabad, Pakistan, by securing top grades. He has also been awarded the prestigious Erasmus Mundus MERIT scholarship (European Master of Research on Information and Communication Technologies) owing to his exceptional education track-record. Under this program, Mr. Usman had to complete his masters in 2 esteemed European universities, from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (2009-2010) and Politecnico di Torino (PdT) (2010-2011). Thus, Mr. Usman has double masters in Electrical Engineering and has studied in 4 different institutes and 3 different countries to achieve this.
For his excellent academic performances, he has been awarded numerous awards from Government of Pakistan and his educational institutes. He has been given a gold medal from UET Peshawar for his academic performance in BSC. After securing 3rd position in Pre-Engineering studies (both in 12th and 10th grade) in the state, his efforts were acknowledged by the Governor and his own institute. For this, he was awarded medals and granted scholarships throughout his educational career.
Mr. Usman has also served as a lecturer and lab-engineer in UET Peshawar where he has taken labs in Digital Signal/Image Processing and logic design. He also worked in conjunction with his Professors in conducting various seminars and students’ Bachelor projects.
Mr. Usman has good research and development experience in audio/image processing, wireless networks and communications (OFDM), video compression (H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, Distributed Video Coding) and computer architectures. His interest lies in efficient algorithmic implementations and designing hardware architectures for complex computational problems (like video coding systems). Mr. Usman has also served as an external reviewer for major conferences in embedded systems and automation.
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The following papers are made available for easy access. However, the copyrights of the relevant publishers and organizations apply accordingly.
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel Power-Efficient Workload Balancing for Video Applications. In IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI), 2016 (to appear). |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Lars Bauer, Jörg Henkel Multicast FullHD H.264 Intra Video Encoder Architecture. In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Vol. PP, Issue 99, pp. 1-5, DOI, June 18, 2015. |
| Jörg Henkel, Haseeb Bukhari, Siddharth Garg, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Heba Khdr, Florian Kriebel, Umit Ogras, Sri Parameswaran, Muhammad Shafique Dark Silicon - From Computation to Communication. In 9th International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip (NOCS'15), Vancouver, Canada, 2015. (invited special session paper). |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel Hierarchical Power Budgeting for Dark Silicon Chips. In ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED´15), Rome, Italy, 2015. |
| Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Orcun Tuefek, Jörg Henkel, EnAAM: Energy-Efficient Anti-Aging for On-Chip Video Memories. In ACM/EDAC/IEEE 52nd Design Automation Conference (DAC'15), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2015, (accepted). Software link. |
| Jörg Henkel, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Energy-Efficient Multimedia Systems for High Efficiency Video Coding. In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'15), Lisbon, Portugal, May 2015, (reviewed Special Session paper). |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, Power-Efficient Accelerator Allocation in Adaptive Dark Silicon Many-Core Systems. In 18th Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'15), Grenoble, France, March 2015. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, Fast Hierarchical Intra Angular Mode Selection for High Efficiency Video Coding. In International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'14), Paris, France, October 2014. |
| Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Jörg Henkel, Power Efficient and Workload Balanced Tiling for Parallelized High Efficiency Video Coding. In International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'14), Paris, France, October 2014. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, Software Architecture of High Efficiency Video Coding for Many-Core Systems with Power-Efficient Workload Balancing. In IEEE/ACM 17th Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE´14), Dresden, Germany, March, 2014. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, AMBER: Adaptive Energy Management for On-Chip Hybrid Video Memories. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD'13), San Jose, California, November, 2013. |
| Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Jörg Henkel, Content-Driven Adaptive Computation Offloading for Energy-Aware Hybrid Distributed Video Coding. In ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED´13), Beijing, China, September 2013. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, An Adaptive Complexity Reduction Scheme with Fast Prediction Unit Decision for HEVC Intra Encoding. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'13), Melbourne, Australia, September 2013. |
| Mateus Grellert, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Luciano Agostini, Julio C. B. Mattos, Jörg Henkel, An Adaptive Workload Management Scheme for HEVC. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'13), Melbourne, Australia, September 2013. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Mateus Grellert da Silva, Jörg Henkel, Hardware-Software Collaborative Complexity Reduction Scheme for the Emerging HEVC Intra Encoder. In IEEE/ACM 16th Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE´13), Grenoble, France, March 2013. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Jan Micha Borrmann, Lars Bauer, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, An H.264 Quad-FullHD Low-Latency Intra Video Encoder. In IEEE/ACM 16th Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE´13), Grenoble, France, March 2013. |
| Muhammad U. K. Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel, A Hierarchical Control Scheme for Energy Quota Distribution in Hybrid Distributed Video Coding. In IEEE International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS’12), Tampere, Finland, October 2012. |
| M. Umar Karim, Muhammad U. K. Khan, Yahya M. Khawaja. An Area Reduced, Speed Optimized Implementation of Viterbi Decoder. In International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT'11). Pakistan, July 2011. |
| Muhammad U. K. Khan, Abdul Bais, M. Khawaja, Ghulam M. Hassan, Rizwana. A Swift and Memory Efficient Hough Transform for Systems with Limited Fast Memory. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR’09). Halifax, Canda, July 2009. Link. |
| Abdul Bais, Muhammad U. K. Khan, Yahya M. Khawaja, Robert Sablatnig, Ghulam M. Hassan. Memory Efficient Vision Based Line Feature Extraction for Tiny Mobile Robots. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR’09). Halifax, Canda, July 2009. Link. |
| Yasir A. Khan, Anees Ullah, Hazrat Ali, Yahya M. Khawaja, Muhammad U. K. Khan. Differential Based Area Efficient ROM-less Quadrature Direct Digital Frequency Synthesis. In Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET’09). Islamabad, Pakistan, October 2009. |
| Syed Aamir Ali Shah, Tahir Jamil Khattak, Muhammad Farooq, Yahya M. Khawaja, Abdul Bais, Asim Anees, Muhammad U. K. Khan. Real Time Object Tracking in a Video Sequence Using a Fixed Point DSP. In Proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC’08). Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, December 2008. Link. |
| Yahya M. Khawaja, Muhammad U. K. Khan, Abdul Bais, Rizwana Arshad, Muhammad Suleman, Ihsan Ul Haq. A New Software Approach for Real Time OFDM. In Proceedings of 21st Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’08). Ontario, Canada, May 2008. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel Application-Specific Hierarchical Power Management for Multicast High Efficiency Video Coding. In ACM/EDAC/IEEE 51st Design Automation Conference (DAC'14), San Francisco, CA, USA, 2014. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel Hardware-Software Co-Design for Next Generation Dark Silicon Multimedia Systems. In Design Automation Conference (DAC'15), San Francisco, CA, 2015. |
| Muhammad Usman Karim Khan, Muhammad Shafique, Jörg Henkel Hardware-Software Co-Design for Next Generation Dark Silicon Multimedia Systems. In 18th Design Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE'15), Grenoble, France, 2015. |
