Company Overview

GreenParrotPictures was founded in 2004 as a Digital Video Technology Company providing IP licensing, consulting and software development.

GPP motivation comes from the observations that entertainment now drives technology further than the cold war did, and media broadcasting in all its forms has come to encompass increasingly higher definition media.

GreenParrotPictures anticipates a demand for high quality picture manipulation technology in a landscape of personal, home and broadcast devices with varying performance characteristics. To the consumer, that landscape is flat and the expectation is increasingly that picture content should be of a high quality regardless of the device. This places demands on manufacturers of equipment and production of content. GPP has developed a suite of video IP that manifests in different products and satisfies the need for content manipulation at high quality.

The Team
Prof. Anil Kokaram - CEO

Prof. Anil Kokaram is the CEO of GreenParrotPictures and also an Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. He gained the PhD in 1993 from the Signal processing group at the Cambridge University Engineering Department (UK) and moved to Trinity College Dublin in 1998. He has been working in the broad area of digital video processing including work in numerical probabilistic inference for video and motion picture restoration. He has published over 100 refereed papers in the areas of video signal processing, motion picture restoration and post-production. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions in Image Processing which is the premiere international journal for research in image processing.

He is inventor on a number of patents in the area of video enhancement and motion estimation and has had an active life working with many well known companies as a consultant and research collaborator e.g. Cambridge Consultants, The Foundry, Snell and Wilcox and DaimlerBenz. His work on motion picture restoration is one of the most referenced pieces of research in the field as the first to develop automated motion compensated restoration tools. In recent years he was involved with the Foundry's Furnace toolkit since its inception.

In 2007 he won a SciTech Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the USA for his part with colleagues at the Foundry in making motion estimation applications suitable for the post-production workflow in cinema making. His work can be seen used in many movies on release e.g. Lord of the Rings, King Kong, XMen, Spider Man and so on.

   
Dr Robert Swann - Non-Executive Director

Dr Robert Swann is an experienced entrepreneur with a proven track record in marketing, business development, investment fundraising and technical management. He also has hands-on engineering experience in semiconductor, image/video/cellular, and consumer electronics.

He was Co-Founder of Alphamosaic Ltd, a semiconductor company which was sold to Broadcom in 2004. After leaving Broadcom, Robert founded n++ Ltd. He has also been working with a number of early-stage venture companies and has joined the boards of ImSense Ltd and Spiral Gateway Ltd.

   
Dr Andrew Crawford - Algorithms Engineer

Dr Andrew Crawford gained his PhD in 2008 from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He was the first to develop algorithms for treating semi-transparent blotches in archived photographs as part of his graduate research. In addition he was the chief developer behind a video parsing system for movement analysis in the Dept of Psychology, Trinity College, which was the first serious attempt to bring advanced video technology into the normally subjective domain of observational psychology. See www.dysvideo.org and www.sigmedia.tv.

Dr Crawford joined Green Parrot Pictures in November 2007. He has been involved in the development and implementation of algorithms for both post-production and mobile platforms.

   
Dr Hugh Denman - Software Architect

Dr Hugh Denman graduated from the University of Cambridge Computer Science Department in 2000 and then went on to graduate research at Trinity College Dublin. He was awarded the Ph.D in 2006 in the general area of statistical techniques for video parsing. He has been involved with a number of software startups over the years and his knowledge of both video processing and software design is exploited in his GPP role as Chief Software Architect.

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