I am a member of the Information Systems and Sciences (ISS) Group, where I head the Visual Information Processing (VIP) Laboratory. My current research interests include the following areas:

• digital image and video processing, compression and transmission,
• visual sensor networks (camera webs),
• stereoscopic and 3-D imaging,
• multidimensional digital signal processing,.

I am an Associate Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine and Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. In the past, I was on editorial boards of various journals and on program committees of numerous conferences [more ...].

I have been a consultant for law firms of Day, Casebeer, Madrid and Batchelder LLP, Cupertino, CA, Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta, GA, and Sherr & Nourse PLLC, Herndon, VA. In the past, I collaborated with Imax Corp., EMC Corp., Digital Equipment Corp .

News:

I have been recently elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to motion estimation and stereoscopic imaging

I have been invited to deliver plenary lecture at the XXII-th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (Sibgrapi 2009), Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil, Oct. 11-14, 2009.

My former student P.J. McNerney (B.S. Computer Systems '00, M.S. Electrical Engineering '03) and the company he works for, Insomniac Games, are among the driving forces behind the new Playstation 3 video games and were featured in December 2006 IEEE Spectrum article "The Insomniacs". Currently at Dreamworks Animation SKG,  Glendale, CA, Peter was recently featured in a College of Engineering Magazine article.

Together with my former student N. Bozinovic (PhD, Electrical Engineering  '06), I won the 2004-2005 EURASIP Image Communications Best Paper Award for paper entitled ``Motion analysis in 3D DCT domain and its application to video coding" (Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 20, July 2005).

A capstone senior design project "Vision-based parking monitoring system", that I conceived and that was developed by "iPark" team under my supervision, was recently awarded the 1-st prize at the 2005 IEEE Student Design Contest and featured on Channel 7 News and some web sites [more...].

Prospective students: If you are interested in the above research areas, and have a strong engineering background, I recommend that you apply to our graduate program. Please do not send me emails with your resume; we only consider students that submit a full application.