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Recent Publications (2006 to 2008)
Signal and Image Processing Education
Perceptual-based Image Processing and Coding
Image & Video Quality
Image & Video Coding & Transmission
Image & Video Processing
MultiD DSP & Filtering
Bioinformatics


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Recent Publications (2006-2008)

R. Ferzli and LJ. Karam, "A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on the Notion of Just Noticeable Blur (JNB)," accepted and to appear in the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2009. B. Lenoski, L. Baxter, L. Karam, J. Maisog, and J. 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, Dec. 2008. W.-J. Chien and LJ. Karam, "Bitplane Selective Distributed Video Coding," IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 2008. G. Van der Auwera, P.T. David, M. Reisslein, and L.J. Karam, "Traffic and Quality Characterization of the H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding Extension," Advances in Multimedia, vol. 2008, Article ID 164027, 27 pages, 2008. doi:10.1155/2008/164027. http://www.hindawi.com/getarticle.aspx?doi=10.1155/2008/164027 S. Varadarajan and L.J. Karam, "An Improved Perception-Based No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Using Iterative Edge Refinement," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

R. Ferzli, Z.A. Ivanovski, and L.J. Karam, "An Efficient, Selective, Perceptual-Based Super-Resolution Estimator," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

N. G. Sadaka, L. J. Karam, R. Ferzli, G. P. Abousleman, "A No-Reference Perceptual Image Sharpness Metric Based On Saliency-Weighted Foveal Pooling," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Rate-Distortion Based Selective Decoding for Distributed Video Coding," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

N. Mounsef, L. J. Karam, Z. Lacroix, and C. Legendre, "A low-complexity probabilitic genome assembly based on hashing functions," Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing(GenSIP), June 2008.

W.-J. Chien, N. G. Sadaka, G. P. Abousleman, and L. J. Karam, "
Region-of-Interest-Based Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," SPIE vol 6978, Visual Information Processing XVII, SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security 2008, pages 69780C-1-9, Apr. 2008.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Corrections to "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves"", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 54, issue 4, pages 166 – 166, Mar. 2008.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Corrections to "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves"", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 53, issue 4, pages 811 – 811, Dec. 2007.

L.J. Karam and T-T. Lam, "Selective Error Detection for Error-Resilient Wavelet-Based Image Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 12, pages 2936-2942, Dec. 2007.

Said and L. J. Karam, "Cell Migration Analysis using a Statistical Level-Set Segmentation on a Wavelet-Based Structure Tensor Feature Space," 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2007.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and LJ. Karam, "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves," IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 53, no. 3, pages 637-648, Sept. 2007.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on Just-Noticeable Blur and Probability Summation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pages 445-448, San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2007.

B. Lenoski, L. Karam L, J. Debbins, and L. Baxter , "??Autocorrelation Correction Methods in Clinical fMRI: Fixed Versus Variable P-Value Thresholding of 3T fMRI Datasets," 13th Annual Meeting Human Brian Mapping, Chicago, IL, Jun. 2007.

N.G. Sadaka, G.P. Abousleman, and L.J. Karam, "Memory-Efficient Contour-based Region-of-Interest Coding of Arbitrarily Large Images," Proc. SPIE 6579, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2007, pages 657903-1 to 657903-10, May 2007.

W.-J. Chien, G.P. Abousleman, and L.J. Karam, "Super-resolution-based Enhancement for Real-Time Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," Proc. SPIE 6579, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2007, pages 657904-1 to 657904-9, Orlando, FL, May 2007.

B. Lenoski, L. Karam, L. Baxter, and J. Debbins, "??Clinical Significance of Global versus Local fMRI Autocorrelation Estimation," Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 2007.

H. Abbas and L.J. Karam, "Suppression of Mosquito Noise by Recursive Epsilon-Filters," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pages 773-776, Honolulu, Hawai, Apr. 2007.

W.-J. Chien, L.J. Karam, and G.P. Abousleman, "Block-Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Coding for Transform-Domain Distributed Video Coding," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pages 525-528, Honolulu, Hawai, Apr. 2007.

A. Said, L.J. Karam, M.E. Berens, Z. Lacroix, and R.A. Renaut, "Migration and proliferation analysis for bladder cancer cells," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, pages 320-323, Washington, DC, Apr. 2007.

T. Kartalov, Z.A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L.J. Karam, "Compression Artifacts Removal Using an Adaptive POCS Algorithm and Explicit Region Modeling," Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT), Hammamet, Tunisia, Mar. 2007.

T. Kartalov, Z. A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L. J. Karam, "An Adaptive POCS Algorithm for Compression Artifacts Removal," International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications (ISSPA), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007.

R. Ferzli and L. Karam, " A No Reference Objective Sharpness Metric using Riemannian Tensor," 3rd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2007. On-line proceedings at www.vpqm.org.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "An Online Web-Based Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Course," IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), pages 6-11, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "A Human Visual System-Based No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pages 2949-2952, Oct. 2006.

L. J. Karam and N. Mounsef, " Integrating Visual Programming, Instrumentation, and Embedded DSP Technology into Freshman Introduction to Engineering Design," IEEE DSP/DSP Education Workshop, pages 466-471, Sep. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "Virtual Bench for Online Real Time Digital Signal Processing Students," IEEE DSP/DSP Education Workshop, pages 450-455, Sep. 2006.

Z. Liu, LJ. Karam, and AB Watson, "JPEG2000 Encoding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pages 1763-1778, Jul. 2006.

R. Ferzli, R. A. Bazzi, and L. J. Karam, "A CAPTCHA Based on the Human Visual System Masking Characteristics," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), pages 517-520, July 2006 (invited paper).

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves of I, P, and B Frames," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), pages 1405-1408, July 2006.

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Distributed Video Coding With Lossy Side Information," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pages 69-72, May 2006.

T.-T. Lam, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Selective Error Detection for Error-Resilient JPEG2000 Coding," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pages 469-472, May 2006.

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Distributed Video Coding with 3-D Recursive Search Block Matching," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), vol. 2, pages 5415-5418, May 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "DNA-RESIDUAL: A DNA Compression Algorithm Using Forward Linear Prediction," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , May 2006.
Note: The results reported in this paper are incorrect: ERRATUM - DNA-RESIDUAL: A DNA Compression Algorithm Using Forward Linear Prediction

W.-J. Chien, T.-T. Lam, G. P. Abousleman, and L. J. Karam, "Automatic Network-Adaptive Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," Visual Information Processing XV, SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, pages 624606-1 to 624606-10, April 2006.

Z.A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L.J. Karam, "Robust Super-Resolution based on Pixel-Level Selectivity," SPIE Electronic Imaging, Visual Communications and Image Processing, Jan. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "A Human Visual System-Based Model for Blur/Sharpness Perception," 2nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM06, ISBN: 09774739), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2006, electronic proceedings at http://www.vpqm2006.org/

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Signal and Image Processing Education

L. J. Karam and N. Mounsef, "
Integrating Visual Programming, Instrumentation, and Embedded DSP Technology into Freshman Introduction to Engineering Design," IEEE DSP/DSP Education Workshop, pages 466-471, Sep. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "Virtual Bench for Online Real Time Digital Signal Processing Students," IEEE DSP/DSP Education Workshop, pages 450-455, Sep. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "An Online Web-Based Real-Time Digital Signal Processing Course," IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Oct. 2006.

U. Rajashekar, AC. Bovik, LJ. Karam, RL. Lagendijk and M. Unser, "Image Processing Education," in the Handbook of Image and Video Processing, 2nd Edition, (Al Bovik Editor), Academic Press, June 2005.

M. Yasin, LJ. Karam, and A. Spanias, "On-Line Laboratories for Image and Two-Dimensional Signal Processing," IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, vol. 1, pages T3E_19- T3E_22, Nov. 2003.

M. Yasin, L. Karam, and A. Spanias, "On-Line Laboratories for Image and Two-Dimensional Signal Processing Using 2D J-DSP," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 3, pages 785-788, 2003.

A. Spanias, V. Atti, Y. Ko, T. Trasyvoulou, M. Yasin, M. Zaman, T. Duman, L. Karam, A. Papandreou, K. Tsakalis, "On-Line Laboratories For Speech And Image Processing And For Communication Systems Using J-DSP," IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, pages 174-179, Oct. 2002.

LJ. Karam, "Teaching Image Processing to High School Students," IEEE Signal Processing Education Workshop, Oct. 2000. On-line proceeding http://spib.rice.edu/DSP2000/program.html\#dspcourse.

LJ. Karam and D. Rice, "Web-based Interactive Tutorial for Teaching the Theory of 2-D Signals and Systems," American Society for Engineering Education, Pacific Southwest Section Conference, pages 77-84, 2000.

BL. Evans, LJ. Karam, KA. West, and JH. McClellan, "Learning Signals and Systems with Mathematica," IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 36, pages 72-78, Feb. 1993.

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Perceptual-based Image Processing & Coding

S. Varadarajan and L.J. Karam, "An Improved Perception-Based No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Using Iterative Edge Refinement," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

R. Ferzli, Z.A. Ivanovski, and L.J. Karam, "An Efficient, Selective, Perceptual-Based Super-Resolution Estimator," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

N. G. Sadaka, L. J. Karam, R. Ferzli, G. P. Abousleman, "A No-Reference Perceptual Image Sharpness Metric Based On Saliency-Weighted Foveal Pooling," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "
A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on Just-Noticeable Blur and Probability Summation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pages 445-448, San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2007.

R. Ferzli, R. A. Bazzi, and L. J. Karam, "A CAPTCHA Based on the Human Visual System Masking Characteristics," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), Jul. 2006 (invited paper).

Z. Liu, LJ. Karam, and AB Watson, "JPEG2000 Encoding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 7, pages 1763-1778, Jul. 2006.

Z. Liu, LJ. Karam, and AB. Watson, "JPEG2000 Encoding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 637-640, Sep. 2003.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Adaptive Image Coding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 213-222, March 2002.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Image Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, pages 1472-1483, Sept. 2000.

F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam, "A DWT-Based Perceptually Lossless Compression Scheme and VLSI Architecture for R-G-B Digital Images," Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 7, pages 117-134, 2000.

TT. Lam, LJ. Karam, and GP. Abousleman, "Robust Image Coding Using Perceptually-Tuned Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," 42nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, pages 1131-1134, 2000.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Scalable, Subband-Based Video Coding with a Locally-Adaptive Perceptual Distortion Measure,'' Thirty-Three Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1453-1457, 1999.

TT. Lam, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "A Perceptually Tuned Image Coder with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Cod ed Quantization," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 421-425, 1999.

F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam,"A DWT-Based Perceptually Lossless Color Image Compression Architecture ," Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 1, pages 149-153, Nov. 1998. < br>
F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam, "A Perceptually Lossless Compression for RGB Images," IASTED Internati onal Conference on Signal and Image Processing, pages 169-172, Oct. 1998.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, ``Locally-Adaptive Image Coding Based on a Perceptual Target Distortion,'' IEEE In ternational Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pages 2569-2572, May 1998.

I. S. Höntsch and L. Karam, "Locally-adaptive Image Coding based on a Perceptual Target Distortion", 1998 International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing - ICASSP'98, May 1998.

JG. Gonzalez, MJT. Smith, I. Hontsch, L. Karam, K. Namuduri, and H. Szu, ``Perceptual Image Compression for Data Transmission on the Battlefield,'' SPIE Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Control s -- AeroSense'98 , vol. 3387, pages 56-67, Apr. 1998.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Quantization without Side Information for Compression of Visual Data", 1997 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference - Globecom 97, Nov. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Quantization without Side Information for DCT Coefficients", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "APIC: Adaptive Perceptual Image Coding Based on Subband Decomposition with Locally Adaptive Perceptual Weighting", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch, L. J. Karam, and R. J. Safranek, "A Perceptually Tuned Embedded Zerotree Image Coder Based on Set Partitioning", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1997.

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Image & Video Quality

S. Varadarajan and L.J. Karam, "An Improved Perception-Based No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Using Iterative Edge Refinement," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

N. G. Sadaka, L. J. Karam, R. Ferzli, G. P. Abousleman, "A No-Reference Perceptual Image Sharpness Metric Based On Saliency-Weighted Foveal Pooling," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "
A No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric Based on Just-Noticeable Blur and Probability Summation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 3, pages 445-448, San Antonio, TX, Sep. 2007.

R. Ferzli and L. Karam, " A No Reference Objective Sharpness Metric using Riemannian Tensor," 3rd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2007. On-line proceedings at www.vpqm.org.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "A Human Visual System-Based No-Reference Objective Image Sharpness Metric," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pages 2949-2952, Oct. 2006.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "A Human Visual System-Based Model for Blur/Sharpness Perception," 2nd International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM06, ISBN: 09774739), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2006, electronic proceedings at http://www.vpqm2006.org/

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "No-Reference Objective Wavelet-Based Noise Immune Image Sharpness Metric," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, pages 405 - 408, Sep. 2005.

R. A. Ferzli, LJ. Karam, and J. Caviedes, "A Robust Image Sharpness Metric Based on Kurtosis Measurement of Wavelet Coefficients", 1st International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics (VPQM05, ISBN: 09774739), Scottsdale, AZ, Jan. 2005 (invited paper), electronic proceedings at http://enpub.eas.asu.edu/resp//vpqm2006/accepted_papers_vpqm05.htm.

G. Fahmy and LJ. Karam, "Prediction of the Quality of JPEG-compressed Color Images Based on the SCIELAB Metric," Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1054-1057, Oct./Nov. 2000.

S. Bellofiore, L. J. Karam, W. Metz, and T. Acharya, "A Flexible and User-Friendly Image Quality Assessment System", IASTED International Conference, Signal and Image Processing, Dec. 1997.

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Image & Video Coding & Transmission

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Rate-Distortion Based Selective Decoding for Distributed Video Coding," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

W.-J. Chien, N. G. Sadaka, G. P. Abousleman, and L. J. Karam, "
Region-of-Interest-Based Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," SPIE vol 6978, Visual Information Processing XVII, SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security 2008, pages 69780C-1-9, Apr. 2008.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Corrections to "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves"", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 54, issue 4, pages 166 – 166, Mar. 2008.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Corrections to "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves"", IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 53, issue 4, pages 811 – 811, Dec. 2007.

L.J. Karam and T-T. Lam, "Selective Error Detection for Error-Resilient Wavelet-Based Image Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 12, pages 2936-2942, Dec. 2007.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and LJ. Karam, "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves," IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting , vol. 53, no. 3, pages 637-648, Sept. 2007.

N.G. Sadaka, G.P. Abousleman, and L.J. Karam, "Memory-Efficient Contour-based Region-of-Interest Coding of Arbitrarily Large Images," Proc. SPIE 6579, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2007, pages 657903-1 to 657903-10, May 2007.

W.-J. Chien, G.P. Abousleman, and L.J. Karam, "Super-resolution-based Enhancement for Real-Time Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," Proc. SPIE 6579, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing for Military and Security Applications, SPIE Symposium on Defense & Security 2007, pages 657904-1 to 657904-9, Orlando, FL, May 2007.

W.-J. Chien, L.J. Karam, and G.P. Abousleman, "Block-Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Coding for Transform-Domain Distributed Video Coding," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pages 525-528, Honolulu, Hawai, Apr. 2007.

G. Van der Auwera, M. Reisslein, and L. J. Karam, "Video Texture and Motion Based Modeling of Rate Variability-Distortion (VD) Curves of I, P, and B Frames," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), pages 1405-1408, July 2006.

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Distributed Video Coding With Lossy Side Information," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.

T.-T. Lam, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Selective Error Detection for Error-Resilient JPEG2000 Coding," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006.

W.-J. Chien, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Distributed Video Coding with 3-D Recursive Search Block Matching," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), May 2006.

W.-J. Chien, T.-T. Lam, G. P. Abousleman, and L. J. Karam, "Automatic Network-Adaptive Ultra-Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding," Visual Information Processing XV, SPIE Symposium on Defense and Security, April 2006.

LJ. Karam, "Lossless Coding", in the Handbook of Image and Video Processing, 2nd Edition, (Al Bovik Editor), Academic Press, June 2005.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "Mutual Information-Based Analysis of JPEG2000 Contexts," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 411-422, April 2005.

T.-T. Lam, L. J. Karam, R. A. Bazzi, and G. P. Abousleman, "Reduced-Delay Selective ARQ for Low Bit-Rate Image and Multimedia Data Transmission," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 309-312, Mar. 2005.

M. M. Subedar, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "JPEG2000-Based Adaptive Algorithm for the Efficient Coding of Multiple Regions-of-Interest," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), pages 1293 to 1296, Oct. 2004.

T.-T. Lam, L. J. Karam, R. A. Bazzi, and G. P. Abousleman, " Selective FEC for Error-Resilient Image Coding and Transmission using Similarity Check Functions," Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP), pages 3217 to 3220, Oct. 2004.

M. M. Subedar, LJ. Karam, and GP. Abousleman, " An Embedded Scaling-Based Arbitrary Shape Region-Of-Interest Coding Method for JPEG2000", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (IEEE ICASSP) , vol. 3, pages 681-684, May 2004.

Z. Liu, LJ. Karam, and AB. Watson, "JPEG2000 Encoding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 637-640, Sep. 2003.

TT. Lam, LJ. Karam, K. Tyldesley, and GP. Abousleman, "An Efficient Long-Term Memory Motion-Compensated Prediction Scheme and Application to Error-Resilient Video Transmission," IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications, vol. 1, pages 101-104, July 2003.

K. Tyldesley, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Error-Resilient Multiple Description Video Coding for Wireless Transmission over Multiple Iridium Channels," Proceedings of the SPIE, Visual Information Processing XII, vol. 5108, pages 110-122, 2003.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "Mutual Information Analysis of JPEG 2000 Contexts," Proceedings of the SPIE vol. 5022, Electronic Imaging, Image and Video Communications and Processing, pages 573-582, 2003.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "Quantifying the Intra and Inter Subband Correlations in the Zerotree-Based Wavelet Image Coders," Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems,and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1730-1734, Nov., 2002.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "An End-to-End, Real-Time, CDPD Wireless Video Coding and Transmission System," Thirty-Sixth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems,and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1875-1879, Nov., 2002.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "Optimal Context Formation by Mutual Information Maximization," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pages 89-92, Sep. 2002.

GP. Abousleman, T.-T. Lam, and LJ. Karam, "Robust Hyperspectral Image Coding with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol 40, no. 4, pp. 820-830, April 2002.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Adaptive Image Coding with Perceptual Distortion Control," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 213-222, March 2002.

L. Gao, LJ. Karam, M. Reisslein, and GP. Abousleman, "Error-Resilient Image Coding and Transmission over Wireless Channels," IEEE International Conference on Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, pages 629-632, May 2002.

D. Giguet, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Very Low Bit-Rate Target-Based Image Coding," Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems,and Computers, vol. 1, pages 778-782, Oct./Nov., 2001.

D. Giguet, LJ. Karam, and GP. Abousleman, "Image Coding with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization for Channels with Memory," Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 1, pages 788-791, Oct./Nov., 2001.

SS. Channappayya, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Image Coding for Transmission over Multiple Noisy Channels using Punctured Convolutional Codes and Trellis Coded Quantization," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 106-109, Oct. 2001.

SS. Channappayya, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Coding of Digital Imagery for Transmission over Multiple Noisy Channels," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 3, pages 1729-1732, May 2001.

SS. Channappayya, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images using Punctured Convolutional Codes and Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, pages 133-136, May 2001.

D. Giguet, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Image Coding over Noisy Channels with Memory," Proceedings of the SPIE, Aerosense, Wavelet Applications VIII, vol. 4391, pages 181-190, March 2001.

Z. Liu, LJ. Karam, GP. Abousleman, T. Key, and B. Razzouk, "Error-Resilient Video Coding and Application to Telemedicine," 7th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS 2000), vol. 1, pages 533-536, Dec. 2000.

D. Giguet, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization over Channels with Memory," Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1087-1091. Oct./Nov. 2000.

Z. Liu, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Error-Robust Video Coding with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1389-1393, Oct./Nov. 2000.

Z. Liu, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Error-Resilient Video Coding with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, vol. 1, pages 202-206, Oct. 2000.

Z. Liu and LJ. Karam, "An Efficient Embedded Zerotree Wavelet Image Codec Based on Intraband Partitioning," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pages 162-165, September 2000.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Image Coding," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, pages 1472-1483, Sept. 2000.

F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam, "A DWT-Based Perceptually Lossless Compression Scheme and VLSI Architecture for R-G-B Digital Images," Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 7, pages 117-134, 2000.

TT. Lam, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Multiple Description Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pages 2645-2648, 2000.

TT. Lam, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Image Coding with Robust Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Special Issue on Error-Resilient Image and Video Transmission), vol. 18, pages 940-951, June 2000.

TT. Lam, LJ. Karam, and GP. Abousleman, "Robust Image Coding Using Perceptually-Tuned Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," 42nd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, pages 1131-1134, 2000.

LJ. Karam, "Lossless Image Coding," in the Handbook of Image & Video Processing (Al Bovik, Editor), Chapter 5.1, pages 461-474, Academic Press, 2000.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, "Scalable, Subband-Based Video Coding with a Locally-Adaptive Perceptual Distortion Measure,'' Thirty-Three Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1453-1457, 1999.

GP. Abosuleman, TT. Lam, and LJ. Karam, "Channel-Optimized Hyperspectral Image Coding," Proceedings of the SPIE, Aerosense, Algorithms for Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imagery, vol. 3717, pages 92-103, 1999.

GP. Abosuleman, TT. Lam, and LJ. Karam, "Channel-Optimized Transform Coding of Imagery," Proceedings of the SPIE, Aerosense, Visual Information Processing VIII, vol. 3716, pages 80-90, 1999.

GP. Abousleman, TT. Lam, and LJ. Karam, "Wavelet-Based Secure Image Coding Using Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," Proceedings of the SPIE, Aerosense, Sensors, C31, Information, and Training Technologies for Law Enforcement, vol. 3577, pages 288-299, 1999.

TT. Lam, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "A Perceptually Tuned Image Coder with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 421-425, 1999.

TT. Lam, GP. Abousleman, and LJ. Karam, "Wavelet-Based Image Coder with Channel-Optimized Trellis-Coded Quantization," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 6, pages 3201-3204, 1999.

F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam,"A DWT-Based Perceptually Lossless Color Image Compression Architecture," Thirty-Second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 1, pages 149-153, Nov. 1998.

F. Marino, T. Acharya, and LJ. Karam, "A Perceptually Lossless Compression for RGB Images," IASTED International Conference on Signal and Image Processing, pages 169-172, Oct. 1998.

I. Hontsch and LJ. Karam, ``Locally-Adaptive Image Coding Based on a Perceptual Target Distortion,'' IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 5, pages 2569-2572, May 1998.

I. S. Höntsch and L. Karam, "Locally-adaptive Image Coding based on a Perceptual Target Distortion", 1998 International Conference On Acoustics, Speech, And Signal Processing - ICASSP'98, May 1998.

JG. Gonzalez, MJT. Smith, I. Hontsch, L. Karam, K. Namuduri, and H. Szu, ``Perceptual Image Compression for Data Transmission on the Battlefield,'' SPIE Symposium on Aerospace/Defense Sensing, Simulation, and Controls -- AeroSense'98 , vol. 3387, pages 56-67, Apr. 1998.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Quantization without Side Information for Compression of Visual Data", 1997 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference - Globecom 97, Nov. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "Locally Adaptive Perceptual Quantization without Side Information for DCT Coefficients", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch and L. J. Karam, "APIC: Adaptive Perceptual Image Coding Based on Subband Decomposition with Locally Adaptive Perceptual Weighting", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1997.

I. S. Höntsch, L. J. Karam, and R. J. Safranek, "A Perceptually Tuned Embedded Zerotree Image Coder Based on Set Partitioning", 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1997.

L. J. Karam and C. Podilchuk, "Chroma Coding for Video at Very Low Bit Rates", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 1995.

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Image & Video Processing

R. Ferzli, Z.A. Ivanovski, and L.J. Karam, "An Efficient, Selective, Perceptual-Based Super-Resolution Estimator," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2008.

Said and L. J. Karam, "
Cell Migration Analysis using a Statistical Level-Set Segmentation on a Wavelet-Based Structure Tensor Feature Space," 7th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), Cairo, Egypt, Dec. 2007.

B. Lenoski, L. Karam L, J. Debbins, and L. Baxter , "Autocorrelation Correction Methods in Clinical fMRI: Fixed Versus Variable P-Value Thresholding of 3T fMRI Datasets," 13th Annual Meeting Human Brian Mapping, Chicago, IL, Jun. 2007.

B. Lenoski, L. Karam, L. Baxter, and J. Debbins, "Clinical Significance of Global versus Local fMRI Autocorrelation Estimation," Joint Annual Meeting ISMRM-ESMRMB, Berlin, Germany, May 2007.

H. Abbas and L.J. Karam, "Suppression of Mosquito Noise by Recursive Epsilon-Filters," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pages 773-776, Honolulu, Hawai, Apr. 2007.

A. Said, L.J. Karam, M.E. Berens, Z. Lacroix, and R.A. Renaut, "Migration and proliferation analysis for bladder cancer cells," IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano, pages 320-323, Washington, DC, Apr. 2007.

T. Kartalov, Z.A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L.J. Karam, "Compression Artifacts Removal Using an Adaptive POCS Algorithm and Explicit Region Modeling," Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT), Hammamet, Tunisia, Mar. 2007.

T. Kartalov, Z. A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L. J. Karam, "An Adaptive POCS Algorithm for Compression Artifacts Removal," International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications (ISSPA), Sharjah, UAE, Feb. 2007.

Z.A. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and L.J. Karam, "Robust Super-Resolution based on Pixel-Level Selectivity," SPIE Electronic Imaging, Visual Communications and Image Processing, Jan. 2006.

Z. Ivanovski, LJ. Karam, and GP. Abousleman, "Super-resolution video enhancement based on a constrained set of motion vectors," Proceedings SPIE 5817, Defense and Security Symposium, Visual Information Processing XIV, Proceedings SPIE vol. 5817, pp. 124-132, Apr. 2005.

Z. Ivanovski, L. Panovski, and LJ. Karam, "Efficient Edge-Enhanced Super-resolution," 3rd International Conference Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT), Tunisia, Mar. 2005.

Z. A. Ivanovski, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "A Motion-Augmented Super-Resolution Scheme for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Enhancement," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 2, pp. 613-616, Mar. 2005.

Z. A. Ivanovski, L. J. Karam, and G. P. Abousleman, "Selective Bayesian Estimation for Efficient Super-Resolution," Proc. 4th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (IEEE ISSPIT), Rome, Italy, December 2004.

CQ. Zhan and LJ. Karam, "Wavelet-based Adaptive Image Denoising with Edge Preservation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pages 97-100, Sep. 2003.

MY. Hasan and LJ. Karam, "Morphological Text Extraction From Images," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 9, pages 1978-1983, Nov. 2000.

MY. Hasan and LJ. Karam, "Morphological Reversible Contour Representation," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 22, pages 227-240, March 2000.

J. Black and L. J. Karam, "Automatic Detection and Extraction of Perceptually Significant Features Based on Properties of Human Visual Perception", Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Nov. 1997.

L. J. Karam, "An Analysis/Synthesis Model for the Human Visual System Based on Subspace Decomposition and Multirate Filter Bank Theory", IEEE International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, October 1992.

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MultiD DSP & Filtering

H. Abbas and L.J. Karam, "
Suppression of Mosquito Noise by Recursive Epsilon-Filters," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 1, pages 773-776, Honolulu, Hawai, Apr. 2007.

MY. Hasan, LJ. Karam, Matt Falkinburg, Art Helwig, and Matt Ronning, "Canonic Signed Digit Digital Filter Design," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 8, pages 167-169, June 2001.

YM. Hasan, LJ. Karam, Matt Falkinburg, Art Helwig, and Matt Ronning, "Canonic Signed Digit FIR Filter Design," Thirty-Fourth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, vol. 2, pages 1653-1656, Oct./Nov. 2000.

LJ. Karam and JH. McClellan, "Chebyshev Digital FIR Filter Design," Signal Processing, vol. 76, pages 17-36, July 1999.

LJ. Karam, "Two-Dimensional FIR Filter Design by Transformation," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 47, pages 1474-1478, May 1999.

LJ. Karam, JH. McClellan, I. Selesnick, and CS. Burrus, "Digital Filtering," in the Digital Signal Processing Handbook (V. K. Madisetti and D. B. Williams, Editors), Chapter 11, pages 11-1 to 11-86, CRC Press, 1998.

L. J. Karam, J. H. McClellan, I. Selesnick, and S. Burrus, "Digital Filtering", in CRC Digital Signal Processing Handbook, Dec. 1997.

L. J. Karam and J. H. McClellan, "Efficient Design of Digital Filters for 2-D and 3-D Depth Migration", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 1036--1044, April 1997.

L. J. Karam, "On the Design of Multidimensional FIR Filters by Transformation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing , April 1997.

L. J. Karam, "Design of Complex Multi-dimensional FIR Filters by Transformation", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 573--576, September 1996.

L. J. Karam and J. H. McClellan, "Efficient Design of Families of FIR Filters by Transformation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1996.

L. J. Karam and J. H. McClellan, "Design of Optimal Digital FIR Filters with Arbitrary Magnitude and Phase Responses", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 1996.

A. Yardim, L. J. Karam, J. H. McClellan, and G. D. Cain, "Performance of Complex Chebyshev Approximation in Delay-Root-Nyquist Filter Design", IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 1996.

L. J. Karam and J. H. McClellan, "Complex Chebyshev Approximation for FIR Digital Filter Design", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 207--216, March 1995.

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Bioinformatics

N. Mounsef, L. J. Karam, Z. Lacroix, and C. Legendre, "A low-complexity probabilitic genome assembly based on hashing functions," Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing(GenSIP), June 2008.

R. Ferzli and L. J. Karam, "DNA-RESIDUAL: A DNA Compression Algorithm Using Forward Linear Prediction," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) , May 2006.
Note: The results reported in this paper are incorrect:
ERRATUM - DNA-RESIDUAL: A DNA Compression Algorithm Using Forward Linear Prediction

C. Beaudry, M. Berens, T. El Doker, A. Joy, L. Karam, Z. Lacroix, J. Lutfi, S. Motoru, R. Renaut, and I. Rich, "Automated Characterization of cellular migration phenomena," IEEE International Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB), pages 185-186, Aug. 2005.

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Lina J. Karam ( karam@asu.edu )