PhD Alumni

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1. Dr. Liang-Jin Lin, U-lead Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, Video Bit-Rate Control with Spline Approximated Rate-Distortion Characteristics, Feb. 1997.
2. Dr. Youngjun Yoo, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Adaptive methods and Fast Rate-Distortion Optmization Techniques for Efficient Quantization May 1998.
3. Dr. Chi-Yuan Hsu, Broadcom, San Jose, CA, Rate Control for Video Transmission over Variable Rate Channels May 1998.
4. Prof. Woontack Woo, Virtual Reality Lab, Information Systems Dept., Gwangju Instute of Technology, GIST, Korea. Rate-Distortion Based Dependent Coding for Stereo Images and Video: Disparity Estimation and Dependent Bit Allocation Dec. 1998.
5. Dr. Christos Chrysafis, Google, Mountain View, CA, Wavelet Image Compression: Rate Distortion Optimizations and Complexity Reductions Dec 1999.
6. Dr Wenqing Jiang, Broadcom, Sunnyvale, CA, Contributions to transform coding system implementations Dec. 1999.
7. Dr Krisda Lengwehasatit, Packet Video, San Diego, CA Complexity-Distortion Tradeoffs in Image and Video Compression Dec. 1999.
8. Dr Raghavendra Singh, IBM Research, Delhi, India, Source level sequence based processing for signal compression and reliable transmission, Summer 2001.
9. Dr Zhourong Miao, Flixlab, San Jose, CA, Algorithms for Streaming, Caching and Storage of Digital Media, May 2002.
10. Prof David W. Pan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, Variable complexity algorithms and adaptive computation control in video coding and communications Aug. 2002.
11. Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria, Universidad de Valencia, Quantization Design for Structured Overcomplete Expansions Sept. 2002.
12. Dr. Sang-Yong Lee, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Color processing and rate control for storage and transmission of digital images and video , Jan. 2003.
13. Dr. Kemal Demirciler, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, Contributions to efficient vector quantization and frequency assignment design and implementation, May 2003.
14. Dr. Phoom Sagetong, Contributions to Image and Video Coding for Secure and Reliable Communications
15. Dr Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Texas Instruments, Bangalore, India, Compression for distributed speech recognition (Co-advised with S. Narayanan), Nov. 2003.
16. Dr Hua Xie, NASA-JPL, Pasadena, CA, Contributions to content based image retrieval , Sep. 2004.
17. Dr Hyukjune Chung, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, Complexity scalable and robust motion estimation for video compression, Feb. 2005.
18. Dr. Alexandre G. Ciancio, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Distributed Wavelet Compression Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks , Aug. 2006.
19. Dr Huisheng Wang, Google, Mountain View, CA Algorithms for scalable and network-adaptive video coding and transmission , Aug. 2007.
20. Dr Nazeeh Aranki, NASA-JPL, Pasadena, CA Practical implementations of the wavelet transform and hyperspectral data compression on reconfigurable platforms: approach, methodology and practical considerations , Aug. 2007.
21. Dr Yoon Hak Kim, Samsung, Korea, Distributed Algorithms for Source Localization Using Quantized Sensor Readings , Aug. 2007.
22. Dr Ngai-Man Cheung, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Distributed Source Coding for Image and Video Applications , May 2008.
23. Dr Jae Hoon Kim, Motorola, San Diego, CA, Predictive Coding Tools in Multi-view video compression , Aug. 2008.
24. Dr Po-Lin Lai, Samsung, Dallas, TX, Focus Mismatch Compensation and Complexity Reduction Techniques for Multiview video coding , May 2009.
25. Dr. Roger Pique, Dept. of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Sparse representation models and applications to Bioinformatics, Aug. 2009.
26. Dr In Suk Chong, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA Error Tolerant Multimedia Compression System , Dec. 2009.
27. Dr. Brent McCleary, Raytheon, Digital Imaging System Testing and Design Using Physical Sensor Characteristics , Dec. 2009.
28. Dr Godwin Shen, Northrop-Grumman Lifting Transforms on Graphs: Theory and Applications , Aug. 2010.
29. Dr. Kun-Han Lee, Google [http://sipi.usc.edu/~ortega/PhDTheses/KunHanLee.pdf Investigating Statistical Modeling Approaches for Reservoir Characterization in Waterfloods from Rates Fluctuations ] , Dec. 2010.
30. Dr Hye-Yeon Cheong Error Tolerance Approach for Similarity Search Problems , May 2011.