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Research Interests

• Digital Signal Processing.
• Image and Video processing, compression, and transmission.
• Wireless Video.
• Joint source-channel coding, error-resilient coding, channel-optimized coding.
• Visual Perception.
• Digital Filter Design.
• Approximation Theory.
• Pattern Recognition.
• Arts, Media, and Engineering (AME) .
• MORE.

Selected Sponsored Projects

• "Freshman Intro to Engineering Redesign," National Instruments
• "Mosquito Noise Reduction in Video," Intel
• "Video Enhancement and Superresolution," Intel
• "MRI Reconstruction and Enhancement," St. Joseph Hospital/Barrow Neurological Institute
• " Error-resilient Coding and Transmission of Digital Imagery and Video," General Dynamics
• "Very low bit rate Target-based Image Coding," General Dynamics
• "Multiple Description Coding for the Wireless Transmission of Video over the Iridium Communication Network," General Dynamics
• "Adaptive Perceptual Coding of Visual Information," NSF CAREER Award
• "CSD-based Digital FIR Filter Design," Motorola
• "Real-time High-quality DWT-based Video Processing and Compression for Peripheral Devices," Intel
• "Image Compression Optimized for Noisy Environments," Motorola
• "Signal Processing for Improved Image Quality," Intel
• "Visual Quality Evaluation," Intel
• "PC-based Tools for Evaluating the Visual Performance of Image Processing Algorithms," Intel

Resources and Other Projects

• IVU and MDSP Laboratory.
• Design of FIR Filters with Arbitrary Phase and Magnitude (L. Karam and J. McClellan): download (tar.Z)