UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Multimedia Systems, Image/Signal Processing and Networking: Faculty

The following list of faculty members are associated with multimedia systems, image/signal processing and networking.

John B. Anderson

• Coded modulation methods
• Transmission in bandlimited and time varying channels
• Error correction
• Bandwidth-efficient coding
• Rate-distortion and information theory
• Algorithms for use in signal processing and communications
• Cellular and mobile radio.

Lester A. Gerhardt

• Communication systems
• Digital signal processing
• Adaptive systems
• Pattern recognition
• Computer integrated manufacturing
• Voice processing
• Image processing
• Bandwidth compression.
• 3-D vision and modeling
• Biometrics (fingerprints, voice) for personnel ID
• Computer integrated manufacturing and inspection
• Technology aids to the handicapped

Tim Holmes

• No information at this time

Chuanyi Ji

• Neural network learning models
• Hybrid learning systems
• Pattern recognition
• Applications of neural networks in signal processing and control

Shivkumar Kalyanaraman

• Computer networking
• Traffic management & pricing on the Internet
• Rate-based flow control for high speed networks
• ATM traffic management
• Gigabit ethernet and layer 3 switching
• Residential broadband access technologies
• Proactive network management
• Multimedia networking testbed development

James W. Modestino

• Stochastic processes in communication and control
• Information theory
• Coding detection and estimation theory
• Digital signal and image processing

William A. Pearlman

• Information theory
• Rate-Distortion (data compression) theory
• Communication theory
• Vector quantization and coding of image decompositions and transforms
• Image and power spectrum estimation using subbands
• Multi-rate codebook generation
• Hexagonal, Gabor, and wavelet pyramids for image coding
• Image coding for the human observer and medical diagnostics
• Motion video coding
• High fidelity audio coding

Badrinath Roysam

• Parallel algorithms and architectures for biomedical imaging applications
• Computational optics
• Joint solution of vision problems
• Automated neuroanatomy mapping
• Emission tomography
• Automated tissue analysis
• Computational 3-D microscopy
• Laser eye surgery
• Pap smear analysis
• Low-dose X-ray surgery

Arthur C. Sanderson

• Task planning and architectures for robotic systems
• Knowledge-based systems
• Computer vision and pattern recognition
• Flexible manufacturing systems

Gary J. Saulnier

• Circuits and electronics
• Communications systems
• Adaptive signal processing
• Spread spectrum communications
• Application of digital signal processing to communication transmitter/receiver design

Mike Savic

• Speech and signal processing; analog and digital electronics
• Automatic speaker recognition
• Speech recognition
• Signal recognition
• Low bit rate transmission and encryption
• Automatic language identification

• Speaker separation
• Voice character transformation
• Signal enhancement
• Neural networks
• Adaptive vocal tract modeling
• Analog signal processing
• Linear active networks

Kenneth S. Vastola

• Communication networks
• Optical networks
• Metropolitan area networks
• Quality of service guanantees
• Packet video

John Woods

• High definition video
• Image sequence restoration
• Multidimensional signal processing
• Subband image coding for advanced television
• Predictive vector quantization coding
• Video coding and motion estimation
• Image and image sequence restoration based on compound Markov models
• Implementation on massively parallel architectures

Last Modified: Tue Jan 23 01:27:46 EST 1996