Zihong Fan

Zihong Fan

Ph.D. Student

Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

E-mail: zihongfa@usc.edu

Advisor: Antonio Ortega

Research Interests

• Random Retrieval Methods
• 3D Compression
• 2D-3D stereoscopic video conversion
• Image Compression
• Image/Video Artifact Correction
• Pseudocolor Display Algorithm

Education

• Sep. 2005-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems
• Sep. 2002-June 2004: Stanford University, Stanford, CA
  • Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering
• Sep. 1996-July. 2000: Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering

Professional Experience

• Google: Mountain View, May 2010 – Dec. 2010
  • Software Engineer Intern

• Qualcomm: San Diego, June 2004 –Aug. 2005
  • Engineer

• Uel Jackson McMahan Laboratory: Stanford University, June 2003 – June 2004
  • Research Assistant

• China Mobile: China, July 2000-Aug. 2002
  • Engineer

Publications

• Zihong Fan, Antonio Ortega, , “Mapping data on rotated grid in high-dimension for lossless compression”, invited paper to appear in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Sept. 2011.

Zihong Fan, Antonio Ortega, “Wavelet-based redundant representation for efficient random access of volumetric images”. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, China, Oct. 2010.

• Zihong Fan, Antonio Ortega, “Optimization of Overlapped Tiling for Efficient 3D Image Retrieval”. full paper in Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, UT, March 2010. PDF format

• Zihong Fan, Antonio Ortega, “Overlapped tiling for fast random access of 3-D datasets”. full paper in Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, UT, March 2009. PDF format

• Zihong Fan and Antonio Ortega, “Overlapping tiling for fast random access of lowdimensional data from high-dimensional datasets”. In Proc. of SPIE Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems III, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2009. PDF format

• Zihong Fan, “A brief analysis of third generation mobile communication techniques”. In Modern Electronic Technique, Vol.130, No.11, ISSN 1004 – 373X, 2001.

• Zihong Fan, Xinmin Luo, and Yan Han, “The evolution and study of service for china mobile communication”. In Communications World, Vol.55, No.31, ISSN 1009-1564, 2001.

• Zihong Fan, Xinmin Luo, and Zhiqiang Li, “The theory and practice of GSM network optimization”. In Radio Engineering of China, Vol.150, No.11, ISSN 1003-3106, 2001.

Other

• Invited talk by Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), Oct, 2010.

• Research tech talks to Google Inc, 2010.

• Qualcomm Innovation Competition Finalist Link