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Associate Professor

Director, Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) Lab
Director, Real-Time Embedded Signal Processing (RESP) Lab
School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-7206

E-Mail: karam@asu.edu
Phone: (480) 965-3694
Fax: (480) 965-0493

Lina Karam's CV

Image, Video, and Usability Lab

2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2009)

International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX)

International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM)

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Research Interests

Dr. Karam's current research interests are in the areas of image and video processing, compression, and transmission; visual quality assessment; human visual perception; multidimensional signal processing; error-resilient source coding; digital filter design; and bio-medical imaging.

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Biography

Lina J. Karam received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1991 to 1995, she was a graduate research assistant in the Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center and then in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Tech. She worked at Schlumberger Well Services (Austin, TX) on problems related to data modeling and visualization, and in the Signal Processing Department of AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill, NJ) on problems in video coding during 1992 and 1994, respectively.

Prof. Karam is the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. She served as the Chair of the IEEE Communications and Signal Processing Chapters in Phoenix in 1997 and 1998. She also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 1999 to 2003 and of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2004 to 2006, and as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Conference Board from 2003 to 2005. She is the lead guest editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Visual Media Quality Assessment. She also co-founded two international workshops, VPQM (www.vpqm.org) and QoMEX (www.qomex.org), in the area of media quality assessment. She is currently serving as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and as the Technical Program Chair (together with Thrasos Pappas) of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. She is the General Chair (together with Ron Schafer) of the 14th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop and the 6th IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop. She also serves on the editorial board of the Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing journal and on the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Directions Board. She is an elected member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's DSP Technical Committee and of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's IVMSP Technical Committee. She is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Signal Processing, Communications, and Circuits and Systems societies of the IEEE.

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Selected Publications

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Lina J. Karam, Lossless Image Compression, in The Essential Guide to Image Processing, Al Bovik Editor, Chapter 16, pages 385-417, Elsevier Academic Press, 2009.

Ismail AlKamal, Alan Gatherer, Lina J. Karam, Gene Frantz, David Anderson, and Brian Evans, "Trends in Multi-Core DSP Platforms," accepted for publication in the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores, Nov. 2009.

Wei-Jung Chien and Lina J. Karam, "Transform-Domain Distributed Video Coding with Rate-Distortion Based Adaptive Quantization," accepted for publication in the IET Image Processing Journal, Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding, July 2009 (acceptance notification date).

Wei-Jung Chien and Lina J. Karam, "BLAST-DVC: BitpLAne SelecTive Distributed Video Coding," Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding, July 2009, DOI 10.1007/s11042-009-0314-8. [
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Lina J. Karam, Touradj Ebrahimi, Sheila Hemami, Thrasos Pappas, Robert Safranek, Zhou Wang, and Andrew B. Watson, "Introduction to the Special Issue on Visual Media Quality Assessment," IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Visual Media Quality Assessment, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 189-192, April 2009. [ pdf ]

Rony Ferzli and Lina J. Karam, "A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on the Notion of Just Noticeable Blur (JNB)," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 717-728, April 2009. [ pdf ]

Brian Lenoski, Leslie C. Baxter, Lina J. Karam, José Maisog, and Josef Debbins, "On the Performance of Autocorrelation Estimation Algorithms for fMRI Analysis," IEEE Journal on Special Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 828-838, Dec. 2008. [ pdf ]

Lina J. Karam and Naji Mounsef, Introduction to Engineering: A Starter's Guide With Hands-On Digital Multimedia Explorations and Robotics , Morgan-Claypool, 2008.

Lina J. Karam and Naji Mounsef, Introduction to Engineering: A Starter's Guide With Hands-On Analog Multimedia Explorations , Morgan-Claypool, 2008.

Lina J. Karam and Tuyet-Trang Lam, "Selective Error Detection for Error-Resilient Wavelet-Based Image Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 2936-2942, Dec. 2007. [ pdf ]

Zhen Liu, Lina J. Karam, and Andrew B. Watson, "JPEG2000 Encoding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1763- 1778, Jul. 2006. [ pdf ]

Zhen Liu and Lna J. Karam, "Mutual Information-Based Analysis of JPEG 2000 Contexts", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 411-422, April 2005. [ pdf ]

Lina J. Karam, James H. McClellan, Ivan Selesnick, and C. Sid Burrus, "Digital Filtering," in CRC Digital Signal Processing Handbook (Vijay Madisetti and Douglas Williams, Editors), Jan. 1998.

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