Alumni of UM Data Compression Research Group

M.S. Thesis

• Kumar C. Gopalakrishnan, "Backward Adaptive Architecture for Progressive Image Coding," Aug. 1998.

Ph.D. Theses

• Stephen L. Fix, "Rate Distortion Functions for Continuous Alphabet Memoryless Sources," 1977.
  
  
• Roberto García-Muñoz, "Coding for a Class of Sources," 1980.
  
  
• Kou-Tan Wu, "Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Communications: Applications to Multiple Access and Jamming Resistance," 1981.
  
  
• R. Kent Gilbert, "Causal Encoding of Markov Sources," 1983.
  
  
• Michael J. Carter, "Source Coding of Composite Sources," 1984.
  
  
• Razmik Karabed, "Problems in Coding," 1985.
  
  
• Nader Moayeri, "Fast Vector Quantization," 1986.
  
  
• Taejeong Kim, "Source Coding for Line Drawings," 1986.
  
  
• Morteza Naraghi-Pour, "Predictive Quantization of Autoregressive and Composite Random Processes," 1987.
  
  
• Sangsin Na, "Source Coding of Composite Sources with Segmental Fidelity Measures," 1989.
  
  
• Ali Khayrallah, "Input-Constrained Channels and Finite-State Codes," 1989
  
  
• Don H. Lee, "Asymptotic Quantization Error and Cell-Conditioned Two-Stage Vector Quantization," 1990.
  
  
• Stephen W. McLaughlin, "Source-Channel Coding with Applications to Digital Magnetic Recording", May 1992.
  
  
• Daniel F. Lyons, "Fundamental Limits of Low-Rate Transform Codes," Aug. 1992.
  
  
• Ahmed Balamesh, "Block-Constrained Methods of Fixed-Rate Entropy Constrained Quantization," Jan. 1993.
  
  
• Chia-Yuan Teng, "Hierarchical Data Compression," Sept. 1996.
  
  
• Jordi Ribas-Corbera, "Optimizing the Motion Vector Accuracy in Block-Based Video Coding," Sept. 1996.
  
  
• Dennis Hui, "Asymptotic Performance and Complexity of Quantization," Jan. 1998.
  
  
• Michael Horowitz, "Perceptual Image Coding Using a Cortical Snapshot Model of Human Vision," Feb. 1998.
  
  
• Peter Moo, "Asymptotic Analysis of Lattice-Based Quantization," Aug. 1998.
  
  
• Jongtae Lim, "Joint and Tandem Source-Channel Coding with Complexity and Delay Constratins," May. 2001.
  
  
• Sungill Kim, "Frog-in-the-Box Codes and Robust Quantization", Oct. 2001.
  
  
• Navin Kashyap, "Data Synchronization with Timing", Oct. 2001.
  
  
• Marko Slyz, "Lossless Image Compression Using Combinations of Simple Components", June, 2002.