EE381K-14 Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing - Fall 1998 Projects

Brian L. Evans

These are the research projects that the students completed during the Fall 1998 semester.

Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Processing

• Guner Arslan and Magesh Valliappan, "Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Image Compression"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report
  

  Published as
  G. Arslan, M. Valliappan, and B. L. Evans, ``Quality Assessment of Compression Techniques for Synthetic Aperture Radar Images'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 25-28, 1999, vol. III, pp. 857-861, Kobe, Japan.

  Dr. Guner Arslan currently works for Silicon Labs in Austin, Texas, and Mr. Magesh Valliappan currently works for Vitesse Semiconductor in Austin, Texas.

• K. Clint Slatton, "Minimizing Segmentation Discontinuities in the Topographic Height Measurements Derived from Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (INSAR) Data"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report

  Dr. Clint Slatton is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

• Junfei Li, "Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report

Optical Image Processing

• Er-Hsien Fu, "Digital Image Watermarking"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report

  Mr. Frank Fu is currently employeed by AeroAstro in Ashburn, Virginia.

• Viswanath Sankaranarayanan, "Fractal Image Compression"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report

Video Processing

• Yue Chen, Ying Lu, and Yu Wang, "New Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report
  
  
• Zhou Wang, "Blind Measurement of Blocking Artifacts in Images"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report
  
  Published as
  Z. Wang, A. C. Bovik, and B. L. Evans, ``Blind Measurement of Blocking Artifacts in Images'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Sep. 10-13, 2000, vol. III, pp. 981-984, Vancouver, Canada.

  Dr. Zhou Wang is currently a post-doctoral researcher at The City University of New York.

Tomographic Imaging

• Milos Milosevic and Wade Schwartzkopf, "Spectrogram Estimation Methods for Optical Doppler Tomography"
  Project idea - Literature survey - Final presentation - Final report
  
  Published as
  M. Milosevic, W. Schwartzkopf, T. E. Milner, B. L. Evans, and A. C. Bovik, ``Low-Complexity Velocity Estimation in High-Speed Optical Doppler Tomography Systems'', Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 25-28, 1999, vol. II, pp. 658-662, Kobe, Japan.

  Dr. Milos Milosevic is currently at Schlumberger in Sugar Land, Texas, and Dr. Wade Schwartzkopf is currently at Integrity Applications in Chantilly, Virginia.