Who am I?

I am a Research Fellow in the I-Lab Multimedia and DSP Research Group of the University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK. Currently, I work for the VISNET II NoE research team at Surrey. Before joining the I-Lab, I was with the Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, as a Research Fellow.

Being a Sri Lankan, most of my formal education was obtained in Sri Lanka. Just because I was lazy to memorize things, I decided to follow more mathematic oriented subject stream and therefore, I joined the University of Moratuwa, which is one of the leading technological universities in Sri Lanka, to follow an engineering degree course in 1993. I graduated with an honours in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering in 1997. Since I have been 'obsessed' with research, I joined the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, within no time after the graduation. First, I have been a researcher for the department for about three months and subsequently, became a lecturer. While serving as a lecturer, I also enrolled in a masters degree program (by research) in 1998 at the same department. After completing the masters degree in 2000, I joined the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand to continue studies towards my doctoral degree in Telecommunication Engineering. I obtained my doctoral degree in 2004.

My primary education was completed at (then) the Royal Primary School, Telijjawila (present Telijjawila Royal College) and the secondary education was obtained at the Central College, Telijjawila. I ended my formal school education after taking the advanced level examination in 1990.

I have a cute little son and his name is Kavin. My wife, Themali, and I really enjoy his company and as expected, most of our leisure time spends with him.

Selected Publications

• H. Kodikara Arachchi, S. Dogan, H. Uzuner and A.M. Kondoz, "Utilising Macroblock SKIP Mode Information to Accelerate Cropping of an H.264/AVC Encoded Video Sequence for User Centric Content Adaptation", Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automated Production of Cross Media Content for Multi-Channel Distribution (AXMEDIS'2007), Barcelona, Spain, 28-30 November 2007. (Abstrac and Full Text)
• M.T. Andrade, H. Kodikara Arachchi, S. Nasir, S. Dogan, H. Uzuner, A.M. Kondoz, J. Delgado, E. Rodriguez, A. Carreras, T. Masterton and R. Craddock, "Using Context to Assist the Adaptation of Protected Multimedia Content in Virtual Collaboration Applications", Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (CollaborateCom'2007), New York, NY, USA, 12-15 November 2007. (Full Paper)
• S. Adedoyin, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, A. Aggoun, , “An Efficient Motion Estimation Technique for 3D Integral Video Compression,” Proceedings of Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC-06), San Diego, USA, Sep. 2006.
• A.B.B. Adikari, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, "Context based Motion and Disparity Vector Prediction Algorithm for H.264 Based Stereoscopic Video Coding," ELEX Electronics Letters, Vol. 4, No 9, June, 2006.
• A.B.B. Adikari, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.R.J. Weerakkody, "Sequential Motion Estimation Using Luminance and Chrominance Information for Distributed video coding of Wyner-Ziv frames," IEE Electronic Letters, Vol. 42, No. 7, pp. 379-433, Mar. 2006.
• H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "H.264/AVC IN MOBILE ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW," SPIE Optical Engineering Journal, accepted, 2005.

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