Insuk Chong

In Suk Chong

Ph.D. student

Department of Electrical Engineering- Systems

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA

Telephone: (213)-740-4655

E-mail:ichong@usc.edu

http://biron.usc.edu/~ichong/IMG_3985.jpg

In Solvang, July 2005

Objective

Video and Image Coding and Compression

Error Tolerant Video and Image Coding

Low Power Video and Image Coding

Education

• Sep. 2004-present: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems

• Sep. 2002-May. 2004: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Master of Science, May 2004, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems

• Mar. 1995-Aug. 1998: Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Cum Laude, Aug. 1998, School of Electrical Engineering

Research Field

• Video/Image compression, processing, and communication

• Error Tolerant Multimedia compression

• Low Power Multimedia compression

Research Experience

• Sep. 2004-present Research Assistant
  • Institute: Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
  • Topics of research:
    • Video/Image compression, processing, and communication
      • Wavelet based scalable video coding
      • Video and Image coding standards
        • ISO MPEG-1,2, H.264/AVC, JPEG
    • Error Tolerant Multimedia Compression system
      • Error Tolerant Linear Transform: implemented in JPEG
      • Error Tolerant Motion Estimation: implemented in H.264 JM10.2
    • Low Power Multimedia Compression system
      • Low Power Motion Estimation using Dynamic Voltage Scaling:
        • implemented in H.264 JM10.2

Technical Experience

• October 2007- December 2007 Interim Intern
  • Employer: Qualcomm
  • KTA (newer version of H.264/AVC) standard work
    • Improve encoder efficiency

• July 1998 – September 2001 Researcher and Software & Hardware Developer
  • Employer: Fine Digital co. Ltd
  • Developed Products:
    • NMS (Network Management System)
    • Digital Optic Repeater for celluar system (IS-95, CDMA2000)
    • ADSL-Access Point for IEEE 802.11g (Wireless LAN)

Publications

• I. Chong and A. Ortega, "Hardware Testing For Error Tolerant Multimedia Compression based on Linear Transforms". In Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems (DFT), Monterey, October 2005.PDF format

• I. Chong, H. Cheong, and A. Ortega, "New Quality Metric for Multimedia Compression Using Faulty Hardware". In Proc. of International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics, Arizona, January 2006.PDF format

• H. Cheong, I. Chong and A. Ortega, "Computation Error Tolerance in Motion Estimation algorithms". In Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP06), Atlanta, October 2006. PDF format

• I. Chong and A. Ortega, "Dynamic Voltage Scaling Algorithm For Power Constrained Motion Estimation". In Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP07), Hawaii, April 2007. PDF format

• I. Chong and A. Ortega, "Power Efficient Motion Estimation Using Multiple Imprecise Metric Computation". In Proc. of International Conference on Multimedia & EXPO (ICME07), Beijing, July 2007. PDF format

ETC

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