At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. Our primary directive is to bring spectacular experiences to all possible devices. We work closely with content creators understanding their desires and constraints, with ways of distributing this content via Dolby provided tools, and optimize the rendering to ensure that the artistic intent is maintained even in the presence of different environments. Dolby engineers, scientists, and researchers work on core technologies, including Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision, which is now supported by most content services addressing billions of devices.
In this talk we will provide an overview of the research in Dolby in the frontier of visual/aural perception, advanced signal/image compression solutions, audio/image processing algorithms to enhance content, next generation of audio-visual capture, developing tools that enable volumetric experiences (VR/AR), multimodal data analytics, network coding solutions to improve audio/video resiliency, and using machine learning/AI to create immersive audio and visual experiences that enables the next generation of Dolby products.
Host
Dinesh Manocha
Brett Crockett
As Vice President, Sound Technology R&D, Brett Crockett leads the groups responsible for research and development of the breakthrough and next-generation audio and immersive sound technologies for which Dolby is widely recognized. He leads Dolby’s San Francisco, Sydney, Beijing, Barcelona, Nuremberg and Stockholm R&D groups, and coordinates activities between sound technology business development and sales and marketing groups to keep technology research and development focused on the end user. In addition, Brett actively participates in formulating corporate business, technology, and standards strategies.
Samir N. Hulyalkar
Samir Hulyalkar received his B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, his MS in Mathematics, and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He joined Philips in 1991 and developed digital communications algorithms for DTV, cable, satellite, and broadband wireless; and was the chief architect of Philips’ first VSB ASIC. He joined NxtWave in February 1998, which was acquired by ATI in June 2002, which in turn was acquired by AMD in Oct 2006; and AMD in turn sold the DTV business unit to Broadcom in 2009. At AMD/ATI/NxtWave, he worked on Front-End and MPEG Encoder SoC products. He then became the CTO of the DTV business unit and led a team on IP development such as Frame-rate-conversion, Deinterlacing, and demodulation. He joined Dolby Labs in 2010 and has been leading the team on Imaging technology, specifically on High Dynamic Range Video (Dolby Vision) and 3DTV. His team pioneered the development of Dolby Vision from inception to product delivery for consumer devices ranging from TVs, DMAs, Game consoles, PC, Mobile. He is now the VP in Imaging Technology with a charter to bring new Imaging experiences to life. He holds 110+ patents and has co-authored more than 40 papers. He received the Charles M. Close award at RPI in 1992. He is also a recipient of the Technical Emmy on Dolby Vision in 2021.