‘Distributed’ Signal Processing for sensor networks

 

1)      P. Ishwar, V. M. Prabhakaran, and K. Ramchandran. Towards a Theory for Video Coding using Distributed Compression Principles. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

 

2)      P. Ishwar, R. Puri, S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. On Compression for Robust Estimation in Sensor Networks.  Proc.of International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Yokohama, Japan, June 2003.

 

3)      D. Petrovic, R. C. Shah, K. Ramchandran and J. Rabaey. Data Funneling: Routing with Aggregation and Compression for Sensor Networks. International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications, Anchorage, AK, May 2003.

 

4)      J. Chou, D. Petrovic and K. Ramchandran,  A Distributed and Adaptive Signal Processing Approach to Reducing Energy Consumption in Sensor Networks.  Proc. of the Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 2003.

 

5)      P. Ishwar, A. Kumar and K. Ramchandran,  Distributed Sampling for Dense Sensor Networks: A Bit-Conservation Principle.  International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Palo Alto, CA, April 2003.

 

6)      P. Ishwar, R. Puri, S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. On Rate-Constrained Estimation in Unreliable Sensor Networks.  International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Palo Alto, CA, April 2003.

 

7)      S.S. Pradhan, K. Ramchandran. Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes (DISCUS).  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 3, March 2003. 

 

8)      J. Chou, D. Petrovic and K. Ramchandran. Tracking and Exploiting Correlations in Dense Sensor Networks. Proc. of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2002.

 

9)      R. Puri and K. Ramchandran. PRISM: A New Robust Video Coding Architecture Based on Distributed Compression Principles.  Proc. Of  40thAllerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, Oct. 2002.

 

10)   R. Puri and K. Ramchandran. PRISM: An Uplink-Friendly Multimedia Coding Paradigm. Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003.

 

11)   S.S. Pradhan, J. Kusuma, and K. Ramchandran. Distributed compression in a dense microsensor network.  IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol.19, no.2, March 2002, pp.51-60.  IEEE, USA.

 

12)   Kusuma J, Doherty L, Ramchandran K. Distributed compression for sensor networks. Proceedings 2001 International Conference on Image Processing. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2001, pp.82-5 vol.1.

 

13)   Pradhan SS, Ramchandran K. Distributed source coding: symmetric rates and applications to sensor networks. Proceedings DCC 2000. Data Compression Conference. IEEE Computer Soc. 2000, pp.363-72.

 

14)   A. Majumdar, K. Ramchandran, and I. Kozintsev. Distributed Compression of Correlated Audio Sources.  ACM Multimedia Conference, 2003.

 

15)   A. Majumdar, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran. Distributed multimedia transmission from multiple servers. Proceedings 2002 International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, N.Y., Sept. 2002.

 

 

 

Data hiding, watermarking and multimedia security

 

1)      J. Chou, K. Ramchandran, D. Sachs and D. Jones.  Audio data hiding with application to surround sound.  Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003.

 

2)      M. Johnson and K. Ramchandran. Dither-Based Secure Image Hashing Using Distributed Coding.  Proc. Of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

 

3)      J. Chou, K. Ramchandran, and Pradhan SS. Turbo-coded trellis-based constructions for data hiding. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.4675, 2002, pp.399-408. 

 

4)      J. Chou, S.S. Pradhan, and K. Ramchandran. Turbo coded trellis-based constructions for data embedding: channel coding with side information. Conference Record of Thirty-Fifth Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2001, pp.305-9 vol.1.

 

5)      J. Chou, K. Ramchandran K, and A. Ortega. Next generation techniques for robust and imperceptible audio data hiding. 2001 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings. IEEE. Part vol.3, 2001, pp.1349-52 vol.3.

 

6)      J. Chou, S. Pradhan, and K. Ramchandran. A robust blind watermarking scheme based on distributed source coding principles. Proceedings ACM Multimedia 2000. ACM. 2000, pp.49-56. New York, NY, USA. 

 

7)      J. Chou, S.S. Pradhan, L. El Ghaoui , and Ramchandran K. Watermarking based on duality with distributed source coding and robust optimization principles. Proceedings 2000 International Conference on Image Processing. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2000, pp.585-8 vol.1.

 

8)      J. Chou, K. Ramchandran, and A. Ortega. High capacity audio data hiding for noisy channels. Proceedings International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing. IEEE Comput. Soc. 2001, pp.108-12. Los Alamitos, CA, USA. 

 

9)      J. Chou, K. Ramchandran, and A. Ortega.  High Capacity Audio Data Embedding with Application to FM Broadcast.  Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing.  Las Vegas, April 2001.

 

10)   J. Chou, S.S. Pradhan, L. El Ghaoui, and K. Ramchandran. A robust optimization solution to the data hiding problem using distributed source coding principles. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.3974, 2000, pp.270-9.  USA.

 

11)   J. Chou, S. S. Pradhan, and K. Ramchandran. On the duality between distributed source coding and data hiding. Conference Record of the Thirty-Third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. IEEE. Part vol.2, 1999, pp.1503-7 vol.2. 

 

 

 

Information theory

 

Target Recognition

 

1)      Jain A, Moulin P, Miller MI, Ramchandran K. Information-theoretic bounds on target recognition performance based on degraded image data. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis & Machine Intelligence, vol.24, no.9, Sept. 2002, pp.1153-66. 

 

Multi-user information theory: Duality

 

2)      S. S. Pradhan, J. Chou and K. Ramchandran.  Duality between source coding and channel coding and its extension to the side information case.  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, vo. 5, May 2003.

 

3)      S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. A comprehensive view of duality in multi-user source and channel coding. Proceedings of DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory, Rutgers, N.J. March 2003.

 

4)      S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. On functional duality between MIMO source and channel coding with one-sided collaboration. Proceedings of IEEE Information Theory Workshop, October 2002.

 

Mult-iuser source coding

 

5)      S.S. Pradhan and  K. Ramchandran. Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes (DISCUS).  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, no. 3, March 2003. 

 

6)      Pradhan SS, Ramchandran K. Generalized coset codes for symmetric distributed source. Submitted, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Feb. 2003.

 

7)      S.S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. Multiuser successive refinement. Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2002.

 

8)      Pradhan S.S., and Ramchandran, K. Geometric proof of the rate distortion function of Gaussian sources with side information at the decoder. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 2000.

 

9)      Pradhan S.S., and Ramchandran, K. Group-theoretic construction and analysis of generalized coset codes for symmetric/asymmetric distributed source coding. Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2000.

 

10)   S.S. Pradhan and  K. Ramchandran. Distributed Source Coding Using Syndromes (DISCUS).  IEEE Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1999. 

 

11)   S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. Enhancing analog image transmission systems using digital side information: a new wavelet based image coding paradigm. IEEE Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 2001. 

 

12)   K. Ramchandran, R. Puri, and S.S. Pradhan. On Seamless Digital Upgrade of Analog Transmission Systems using Coding with Side Information. 40th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL. October 2002.

 

 

Multiple Description Coding

 

13)   S. S. Pradhan, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran. N-channel symmetric multiple descriptions – Part I: (n,k) source-channel erasure codes. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2004.

 

14)   R. Puri, S. S. Pradhan, and K. Ramchandran. N-channel symmetric multiple descriptions – Part II: an achievable rate-distortion region.  Under review, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

 

15)   Xuguang Yang, Ramchandran K. Optimal subband filter banks for multiple description coding.  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.46, no.7, Nov. 2000, pp.2477-90. 

 

16)   S.S. Pradhan, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran. (n,k) source channel erasure codes: can parity bits also refine quality? Proceedings of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, March 2001.

 

17)   R. Puri, S.S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. N-channel multiple descriptions: theory and constructions. IEEE Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, April 2002.

 

18)   R. Puri, S.S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. N-channel multiple descriptions: new rate regions. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multimedia transmission and networking

 

Multimedia networking

 

1)      R. Puri and K. Ramchandran.  PRISM: a new robust video coding architecture based on distributed compression principles.  Proc. of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Oct. 2002

 

2)      Chou PA, Ramchandran K. Clustering source/channel rate allocations for receiver-driven multicast under a limited number of streams. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. ICME2000. Proceedings. Latest Advances in the Fast Changing World of Multimedia. IEEE. Part vol.3, 2000, pp.1221-4 vol.3.

 

3)      Puri R, Kang-Won Lee, Ramchandran K, Bharghavan V. An integrated source transcoding and congestion control paradigm for video streaming in the Internet.  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol.3, no.1, March 2001, pp.18-32.  .

 

4)      Puri R, Ramchandran K, Lee KW, Bharghavan V. Forward error correction (FEC) codes based multiple description coding for Internet video streaming and multicast.  Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol.16, no.8, May 2001, pp.745-62.

 

5)      Majumdar A, Sachs DG, Kozintsev IV, Ramchandran K, Yeung MM. Multicast and unicast real-time video streaming over wireless LANs.  IEEE Transactions on Circuits & Systems for Video Technology, vol.12, no.6, June 2002, pp.524-34. 

 

6)      Majumdar A, Puri R, Ramchandran K, Kozintsev I. Robust video multicast under rate and channel variability with applications to wireless LANs. 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. Proceedings. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2002, pp.I-49-52 vol.1.

 

7)      A. Majumdar, R. Puri, and K. Ramchandran.  Distributed multimedia transmission from multiple servers.  Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002.

 

8)      X.Yang and K. Ramchandran. Optimal network proxy caching for image-rich contents. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.3969, 2000, pp.224-31. 

 

 

Multimedia transmission

 

9)      S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran. Enhancing analog image transmission systems using digital side information: a new wavelet based image coding paradigm. IEEE Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 2001. 

 

10)   Kozintsev I, Ramchandran K. On the transmission of a class of hidden Markov sources over Gaussian channels with applications to image communication. Proceedings 2000 International Conference on Image Processing. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2000, pp.363-6 vol.1.

 

11)   Puri R, Ramchandran K. Multiple description source coding using forward error correction codes. Conference Record of the Thirty-Third Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers. IEEE. Part vol.1, 1999, pp.342-6 vol.1.

 

12)   Appadwedula S, Goel M, Shanbhag NR, Jones DL, Ramchandran K. Total system energy minimization for wireless image transmission.  Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, vol.27, no.1-2, Feb. 2001, pp.99-117.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands.

 

13)   I. Kozintsev and K. Ramchandran. Robust image transmission over energy-constrained time-varying channels using multi-resolution joint source-channel coding. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing: Special Issue on Wavelets and Filter Banks, April 1998.

 

14)   K. Ramchandran, A. Ortega, K. M. Uz, and M. Vetterli. Multiresolution broadcast for digital HDTV using joint source-channel coding. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on HDTV and Digital Video Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 6-23, January 1993.

 

Communications & Coding

 

1)      I. Maravic, M. Vetterli and K. Ramchandran.  High resolution acquisition methods for wideband communication systems.  Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003.

 

2)      Pradhan SS, Ramchandran K. Generalized coset codes for symmetric distributed source. Submitted, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Feb. 2003.

 

3)      Petrovic D, Nikolic B, Ramchandran K. List Viterbi decoding with continuous error detection for magnetic recording. GLOBECOM'01. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference. IEEE. Part vol.5, 2001, pp.3007-11 vol.5. Piscataway, NJ, USA. 

 

4)      Anand R, Ramchandran K, Kozintsev I. Continuous error detection (CED) for reliable communication.  IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.49, no.9, Sept. 2001, pp.1540-9.  IEEE, USA.

 

5)      Anand R, Ramchandran K. Application of continuous error detection for joint equalization and coding for ISI channels. 2000 IEEE International Conference on Communications. ICC 2000. Global Convergence Through Communications. Conference Record. IEEE. Part vol.1, 2000, pp.21-5 vol.1.

 

6)      K. Ramchandran, K. M. Uz, and M. Vetterli. Multiresolution joint source-channel coding and ap-plications to digital broadcast. JSAC 1993.

 

7)      J. Chou, S. S. Pradhan and K. Ramchandran.  Turbo and trellis-based constructions for source coding with side information.  Proc. of the Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, UT, March 2003.

 

8)      Chou J, Ramchandran K, Pradhan SS. Turbo-coded trellis-based constructions for data hiding. SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of Spie - the International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.4675, 2002, pp.399-408. 

 

9)      D. Schonberg, K. Ramchandran and S. S. Pradhan.  LDPC codes can approach the Slepian Wolf bound for general binary sources.  Proc. of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, IL, Oct. 2002.

 

10)   Pradhan SS, Ramchandran K. Efficient layered data transport over multicarrier systems using optimized embedded modulation.  IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.50, no.6, June 2002, pp.877-81. 

 

11)   Krongold BS, Ramchandran K, Jones DL. Computationally efficient optimal power allocation algorithms for multicarrier communication systems.  IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol.48, no.1, Jan. 2000, pp.23-7. 

 

12)   R. Puri, K. Ramchandran, and A. Ortega. Joint Source Channel Coding with Hybrid ARQ/FEC for Robust Video Transmission. Proceedings of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, Redondo Beach, CA, Dec. 1998.

 

 

 

Video compression

 

 

1)      P. Ishwar, V. M. Prabhakaran, and K. Ramchandran. Towards a Theory for Video Coding using Distributed Compression Principles. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

 

2)      R. Puri and K. Ramchandran. PRISM: A New Robust Video Coding Architecture Based on Distributed Compression Principles.  Proc. Of  40thAllerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton, IL, Oct. 2002.

 

3)      R. Puri and K. Ramchandran. PRISM: An Uplink-Friendly Multimedia Coding Paradigm. Proc. of International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, April 2003.

 

4)      X. Yang, and K. Ramchandran. A low-complexity region-based video coder using backward morphological motion field segmentation.  IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol.8, no.3, March 1999, pp.332-45. 

 

5)      X. Yang and K. Ramchandran. Scalable wavelet video coding using aliasing-reduced hierarchical motion compensation.  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.9, no.5, May 2000, pp.778-91. 

 

6)      A. Ortega, K. Ramchandran, and M. Vetterli. Optimal trellis-based buffered compression and fast approximations. IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol.3, no.1, Jan. 1994, pp.26-40.

 

7)      K. Ramchandran, A. Ortega, and K. Ramchandran. Bit allocation for dependent quantization with applications to multiresolution and MPEG video coders. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Image Sequence Compression, vol. 3, no. 5, Sept. 1994, pp. 533-45.

 

 

 

Optimization of image and video compression standards

 

1)      Ortega and K. Ramchandran. Rate distortion methods in image and video compression. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, October 1998, pp. 20-50.

 

2)      M. Crouse and K. Ramchandran. Joint thresholding and quantizer selection for transform image coding: entropy-constrained analysis and applications to baseline JPEG. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 6, no. 2, February 1997, pp. 285-97.

 

3)      K. Ramchandran and M. Vetterli. Rate-distortion optimal fast thresholding with complete JPEG/MPEG decoder compatibility. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Image Sequence Compression, vol. 3, no. 5, Sept. 1994, pp. 700-704.

 

4)      K. Ramchandran, A. Ortega, and K. Ramchandran. Bit allocation for dependent quantization with applications to multiresolution and MPEG video coders. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Image Sequence Compression, vol. 3, no. 5, Sept. 1994, pp. 533-45.

 

 

Wavelets and multi-resolution signal processing

 

Time-frequency tilings and wavelet packet bases

 

1)      K. Ramchandran and M. Vetterli. Best wavelet packet bases in a rate-distortion sense. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 2, no. 2, April 1993, pp. 160-175.

 

2)      K. Ramchandran, M. Vetterli and C. Herley. Wavelets, Subband Coding and Best Bases. Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Wavelets, April 1996, pp. 541-560.

 

3)      C. Herley, J. Kovacevic, K. Ramchandran, and M. Vetterli. Tilings of the time-frequency plane: construction of arbitrary orthogonal bases and fast tiling algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Special Issue on Wavelets, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 1993, pp. 3341-59.

 

4)      Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, C. Herley, and M. T. Orchard. Flexible tree-structured signal expansions using time-varying filter banks. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 2, Feb. 1997, pp. 333-45.

 

Wavelet image coding

 

5)      Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, and M.T. Orchard. Space-frequency quantization for wavelet image coding. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 6, May 1997, pp. 677-93.

 

6)      K. Ramchandran and M. T. Orchard. An investigation of wavelet-based image coding using an entropy-constrained quantization framework. IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, March 1998.

 

7)      Servetto SD, Ramchandran K, Orchard MT. Image coding based on a morphological representation of wavelet data.  IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol.8, no.9, Sept. 1999, pp.1161-74.  IEEE, USA.

 

8)      Servetto SD, Ramchandran K, Vaishampayan VA, Nahrstedt K. Multiple description wavelet based image coding.  IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol.9, no.5, May 2000, pp.813-26.  IEEE, USA.

 

9)      S. LoPresto, K. Ramchandran, and M. T. Orchard. Image coding based on mixture modeling of wavelet coefficients and a fast estimation-quantization framework. Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, Utah, March 1997.

 

10)   Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, and M.T. Orchard. Space-frequency quantization for wavelet image coding. IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol. 6, May 1997, pp.1213-30.

 

Denoising

 

11)   A. Fletcher, K. Ramchandran, and V. Goyal. Wavelet denoising by recursive cycle spinning. Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002.

 

12)   Zixiang Xiong, Orchard MT, Ramchandran K. Inverse halftoning using wavelets.  IEEE Transactions of Image Processing, vol.8, no.10, Oct. 1999, pp.1479-83. 

 

13)   J. Chou, M. Crouse and K. Ramchandran. A simple algorithm for removing blocking artifacts in block-transform coded images. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Feb. 1998.

 

14)   Kivanc Mihcak M, Kozintsev I, Ramchandran K, Moulin P. Low-complexity image denoising based on statistical modeling of wavelet coefficients.  IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol.6, no.12, Dec. 1999, pp.300-3. 

 

 

Multi-resolution signal processing: design of multi-rate filter banks

                                                                                               

1)      P. Moulin, M. Anitescu, and Ramchandran K. Theory of rate-distortion-optimal, constrained filterbanks-application to IIR and FIR biorthogonal designs.  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.48, no.4, April 2000, pp.1120-32. 

 

2)      X. Yang and K. Ramchandran. Optimal subband filter banks for multiple description coding.  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.46, no.7, Nov. 2000, pp.2477-90. 

 

3)      M. K. Mihcak, P. Moulin, M. Anitescu, and  K. Ramchandran. Rate-distortion-optimal subband coding without perfect-reconstruction constraints.  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.49, no.3, March 2001, pp.542-57. 

 

4)      Xuguang Yang, Ramchandran K. Optimal subband filter banks for multiple description coding.  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.46, no.7, Nov. 2000, pp.2477-90. 

 

5)      V. Pavlovic, P. Moulin P, and K. Ramchandran. An integrated framework for adaptive subband image coding.  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol.47, no.4, April 1999, pp.1024-38. 

 

Education

 

Baraniuk RG, Burrus CS, Hendricks BM, Henry GL, Hero AO III, Johnson DH, Jones DL, Kusuma J, Nowak RD, Odegard JE, Potter LC, Ramchandran K, Reedstrom RJ, Schniter P, Selesnick IW, Williams DB, Wilson WL. Connexions: DSP education for a networked world. 2002 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings. IEEE. Part vol.4, 2002, pp.IV4144-7 vol.4.