Signal Transformation, Analysis and Compression Group
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Research Group
- Faculty
- Graduate Students
- Nazeeh Aranki (JPL), Multispectral image coding
- Ngai Man Cheung
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~hyukjunc/"> Hyukjune Chung, </A> Fault resilient compression
- Alexandre G. Ciancio,
- Jae Hoon Kim
- <A href="http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yhk"> Yoon Hak Kim, </A>
- Roger Pique
- Hsinyi (Ivy) Tseng,
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~vasudeva/"> Lavanya Vasudevan </A>, Compression for sensor networks , co-advised with Urbashi Mitra.
- <A href="http://www-scf.usc.edu/~huishenw/"> Huisheng Wang </A>, Multiple Description Layered Coding
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~huaxie/">Hua Xie</A>, Compression for distributed classification
- Visitors
- Joaquin Lopez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
- Dr. Kang-Sun Choi (Korea University)
- Prof. Antonio Navarro (University of Aveiro)
- Undergraduate Students
- Sam Bagwell
- Rahul Maini
- Merrick Mosst
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PhD Alumni (with current affiliation)
- Dr. Liang-Jin Lin, <A href="http://www.ulead.com/">U-lead Inc.</A>, Redondo Beach, CA. Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/LiangjinLin.pdf"> Video Bit-Rate Control with Spline Approximated Rate-Distortion Characteristics </A> Feb. 1997.
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~yyoo">Dr. Youngjun Yoo</A>, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/YoungjunYoo.pdf"> Adaptive methods and Fast Rate-Distortion Optmization Techniques for Efficient Quantization </A>, May 1998.
- Dr. Chi-Yuan Hsu, Broadcom, San Jose, CA, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/ChiYuanHsu.pdf"> Rate Control for Video Transmission over Variable Rate Channels </A>, May 1998.
- <A href="http://vr.kjist.ac.kr">Prof. Woontack Woo</A>, Virtual Reality Lab, Information Systems Dept., Kwangju Instute of Technology, KJIST, Korea. Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/WoontackWoo.pdf"> Rate-Distortion Based Dependent Coding for Stereo Images and Video: Disparity Estimation and Dependent Bit Allocation </A> Dec. 1998.
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~chrysafi">Dr. Christos Chrysafis </A>, Divio, Inc. San Jose, CA, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/ChristosChrysafis.pdf"> Wavelet Image Compression: Rate Distortion Optimizations and Complexity Reductions </a> , Dec 1999.
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~wqjiang">Dr Wenqing Jiang</A> Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, PhD Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/WenqingJiang.pdf"> Contributions to transform coding system implementations </A>, Dec. 1999.
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~lengweha">Dr Krisda Lengwehasatit</A>, Packet Video, San Diego, CA, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/KrisdaLengwehasatit.pdf"> Complexity-Distortion Tradeoffs in Image and Video Compression </A>, Dec. 1999.
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~rasingh">Dr Raghavendra Singh</A>, IBM Research, Delhi, India, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/RaghavendraSingh.pdf"> Source level sequence based processing for signal compression and reliable transmission. </A>, Summer 2001.
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~zmiao">Dr Zhourong Miao</A>, Sony Research Labs, Santa Clara, CA, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/ZhourongMiao.pdf"> Algorithms for Streaming, Caching and Storage of Digital Media </A>, May 2002.
- <A href="http://www.ece.uah.edu/~dwpan/">Prof David W. Pan</A>, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, Ph.D. Thesis: <A href="./PhDTheses/WendiPan.pdf"> Variable complexity algorithms and adaptive computation control in video coding and communications. </A>, Aug. 2002.
- <A href="http://lcavwww.epfl.ch/~beferull/"> Dr. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano, </A> Audiovisual Communications Lab, EPFL, Switzerland, <A href="./PhDTheses/BaltasarBeferull-Lozano.pdf"> Quantization Design for Structured Overcomplete Expansions,</A> , Sept. 2002.
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~sangyong/">Dr. Sang-Yong Lee, </a> Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, <A href="./PhDTheses/SangyongLee.pdf">Color processing and rate control for storage and transmission of digital images and video </A>, Jan. 2003.
- Dr. Phunsak Thiennviboon, Trellisware, San Diego, CA. 2D Optimization techniques for image halftoning (Co-advised with K.M. Chugg)
- <A href="http://www-scf.usc.edu/~demircil/">Dr. Kemal Demirciler</A>, <A href="./PhDTheses/KemalDemirciler.pdf"> Contributions to efficient vector quantization and frequency assignment design and implementation </A> , May 2003.
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~sagetong"> Dr. Phoom Sagetong,</A>, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, <A href="./PhDTheses/PhoomSagetong.pdf"> Contributions to Image and Video Coding for Secure and Reliable Communications </A>
- <A href="http://biron.usc.edu/~snaveen"> Naveen Srinivasamurthy </A>, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, Compression for distributed speech recognition (Co-advised with S. Narayanan).
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Past visitors and MS Students
- Fabio Carignano
- Carlo Torniai
- Jussi Kangasharju
- Lionel Perret
- Yong-Goo Kim
- Hyungsuk Kim
- Paul Fernandez
- Young-Gap Kwon
- Hironori Komi
- Julian Cabrera
- David Comas
- Patrick Kehoe
- Yifan Liu
- Jose Ramon Gimeno
- Marco Fumagalli
- Bae-sy (Brian) Lan
- David Romacho
Some of the research activities are part of the <A href="http://ultra.usc.edu/ulab/"> Ultra-Wideband Radio Communications lab </A>
Project pages
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/SoftCaching">Soft Caching </A>
- <A href="http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/DOE/"> Application- and Network-Cognizant Proxies </A>
- Demo: <a href="http://biron.usc.edu/~lengweha/jpeg/jpg.html"> Java JPEG decoder using variable complexity IDCT </a>