PhD Alumni

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• Dr. Liang-Jin Lin, U-lead Inc., Redondo Beach, CA, Video Bit-Rate Control with Spline Approximated Rate-Distortion Characteristics, Feb. 1997.
• Dr. Youngjun Yoo, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Adaptive methods and Fast Rate-Distortion Optmization Techniques for Efficient Quantization May 1998.
• Dr. Chi-Yuan Hsu, Broadcom, San Jose, CA, Rate Control for Video Transmission over Variable Rate Channels May 1998.
• 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.
• Dr. Christos Chrysafis, NVidia, Santa Clara, CA, Wavelet Image Compression: Rate Distortion Optimizations and Complexity Reductions Dec 1999.
• Dr Wenqing Jiang, Broadcom, Sunnyvale, CA, Contributions to transform coding system implementations Dec. 1999.
• Dr Krisda Lengwehasatit, Packet Video, San Diego, CA Complexity-Distortion Tradeoffs in Image and Video Compression Dec. 1999.
• Dr Raghavendra Singh, IBM Research, Delhi, India, Source level sequence based processing for signal compression and reliable transmission, Summer 2001.
• Dr Zhourong Miao, Magnum Semiconductor, Milpitas, CA, Algorithms for Streaming, Caching and Storage of Digital Media, May 2002.
• Prof David W. Pan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, Variable complexity algorithms and adaptive computation control in video coding and communications Aug. 2002.
• Prof. Baltasar Beferull-Lozano Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieria, Universidad de Valencia, Quantization Design for Structured Overcomplete Expansions Sept. 2002.
• Dr. Sang-Yong Lee, Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, Color processing and rate control for storage and transmission of digital images and video , Jan. 2003.
• Dr. Kemal Demirciler, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, Contributions to efficient vector quantization and frequency assignment design and implementation, May 2003.
• Dr. Phoom Sagetong, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, Contributions to Image and Video Coding for Secure and Reliable Communications
• Dr Naveen Srinivasamurthy, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, Compression for distributed speech recognition (Co-advised with S. Narayanan), Nov. 2003.
• Dr Hua Xie, NASA-JPL, Pasadena, CA, Contributions to content based image retrieval , Sep. 2004.
• Dr Hyukjune Chung, Qualcomm, San Diego, CA, Complexity scalable and robust motion estimation for video compression, Feb. 2005.
• Dr. Alexandre G. Ciancio, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Distributed Wavelet Compression Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks , Aug. 2006.
• Dr Huisheng Wang, Google, Mountain View, CA Algorithms for scalable and network-adaptive video coding and transmission , Aug. 2007.
• 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.