Signal Transformation, Analysis and Compression Group

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Research Group

  • Faculty

    Antonio Ortega

  • Graduate Students

  • 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

  • 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).

  • 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

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