Publications

Book Chapters:

  •  I. Sodagar, “Time-Varying Filter Banks,” a book chapter in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Handbook, Editors V. J. Maddessitti and D. Williams, January 1998, CRC Press/IEEE Press.
  •  I. Sodagar and Y.Q. Zhang, “Scalable Picture Coding for Multimedia Applications”, a book chapter in “Wavelet, Subbands and Block Transforms in Communications and Multimedia”, Editors A. N. Akansu and M. J. Medley, 1999, Kluwer Academic Publishers
  • W. Li, Y.Q. Zhang, I. Sodagar, J. Liang, and S. Li, “MPEG-4 Texture Coding”, a book chapter in “Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks”, Editors A. Puri, T. Chen, March 2000, Mercel Dekker Publisher.

Journal and Conference Papers:

  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi and T. P. Barnwell, “Time-Varying FilterBanks and Wavelets,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, November 1994.
  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi, T. P. Barnwell and M. J. T. Smith, “Time-Varying Analysis-Synthesis Systems Based on Filter banks and Post Filtering,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, October 1995.
  • I. Sodagar, H. J. Lee and Y. Q. Zhang, “Scalable Wavelet Coding for Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Images,” to appear in IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems for Video, Special Issue on Synthetic and Natural Hybrid Video Coding
  • I. Sodagar, H. J. Lee, P. Hatrack and Y. Q. Zhang, "Scalable Wavelet Coding for Synthetic/Natural Hybrid Images," IEEE. Trans. CSVT, vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 244-254, March 1999.
  • S. Martucci, I. Sodagar, T. Chiang, Y. Q. Zhang, “A Zerotree Wavelet Video Coder”, The special issue of IEEE Transaction on Video Technology on MPEG-4, February 1997
  • H.-J. Lee,  T. Chiang, I. Sodagar and Y.-Q. Zhang, "Rate-Distortion Based Optimization for Zerotree Entropy Wavelet Coding", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CE, pp. 650-660,  VOL 45; NUMBER 3,   May 1999.
  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi and T. P. Barnwell, “A Class of Time-Varying Wavelets,” Proc. Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1993.
  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi, T. P. Barnwell and M. J. T. Smith, “A New Approach to Time-Varying FIR Filter Banks,” Proc. 27th Annual Asilomar Conf. on Signal, Systems, and Computers, November 1993.
  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi, T. P. Barnwell and M. J.  T. Smith, “Perfect Reconstruction Multidimensional Filter Banks with Time-Varying Basis Functions,” Proc. 27th Annual Asilomar Conf. on Signal, Systems, and Computers, November 1993.
  • I. Sodagar, K. Nayebi, T. P. Barnwell and M. J. T. Smith, “A Novel Structure for Time-Varying Filter Banks,” Proc. Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 1994 
  • I. Sodagar, T. P. Barnwell and M. J. T. Smith, “On the Statistically Optimum FIR Filter Bank Design,” IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, 1994.
  • I. Sodagar, H.J. Lee, P. Hatrack and B.B. Chai, “Multi-Scale Zerotree Entropy Coding,” April 2000, Proc. IEEE. International Symposium on. Circuits and Systems, May 28-31, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Nayebi, I. Sodagar and T. P. Barnwell, “The Wavelet Transform and Time-Varying Tiling of the Time-Frequency Plane,” IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, October 1992.
  • S. Martucci and I. Sodagar, “Zerotree Entropy Coding of Wavelet Coefficients for Very Low Bit Rate Video,” Proc. 1996 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, September 1996.
  • T. Chiang, H-J. Lee, S. Pejhan, I. Sodagar and Y-Q Zhang, "Demonstration of the MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and H.263 Video Coding Standards", Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, '97, pp. 576-580, June, 1997, Princeton, NJ.
  • C. Lin, J. Youn, J. Zhou, M.T. Sun and I. Sodagar, “MPEG Video Streaming with VCR Functionality”, Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering, ‘2000, pp. 146-153, December 2000, Taipei, Taiwan
  • S. Li and I. Sodagar, “Generic, Scalable and Efficient Shape Coding for Visual Texture Objects in MPEG-4”, April 2000, Proc. IEEE. International Symposium on. Circuits and Systems, May 28-31, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland

Short Courses:

  • I. Sodagar, "MPEG-4  Video Coding Standard", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-1999), Los Angeles, CA
  • I. Sodagar, "MPEG4 For Multimedia Streaming", IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE-2000), June 11-12, 2000, Los Angeles, CA.
  • K. Diepold, R. Grzeszczuk, I. Pandzic, E. Petajan, I. Sodagar, JC Spierer  and G. Taubin, "MPEG-4: Next-Generation Standard for Interactive Media", July 21, 2002, Siggraph 2002, San Antonio, TX.

Granted Patents:

  • I. Sodagar; H. J. Lee; "Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees generated by a wavelet-based coding method", U.S. patent n. 6,157,746, December 2000
  • I. Sodagar, H.J. Lee; "Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees by backward predictive coding of wavelet transformed coefficients", U.S. patent n. 6,236,758, May 2001
  • I. Sodagar; B.B. Chai; P. Hatrack; H.J. Lee; "Apparatus and method for multiscale zerotree entropy encoding", U.S. patent n. 6,269,192, July 2001
  • I. Sodagar; H.J. Lee; "Apparatus and method for encoding wavelet trees generated by a wavelet-based coding method using band dependent tables", U.S. patent n. 6,298,163, October 2001
  • I. Sodagar and B.B. Chai, " Apparatus and method for packetizing significance-based information",U.S. patent n. 6,526,175, February 2003
  • S.A. Martucci; I. Sodagar; Y.Q. Zhang; "Vector wavelet organization", U.S. patent n. 6,298,167, October 2001
  • S. A. Martucci; I. Sodagar; Y.Q. Zhang; "Low bit rate video encoder using overlapping block motion compensation and zerotree wavelet coding" U.S. patent n. 5,764,805, June 1998
  • H.J. Lee; T. Chiang; I. Sodagar; Y.Q. Zhang; "Apparatus and method for optimizing the rate control for multiscale entropy encoding", U.S. patent n." 6,351,491, February 2002
  • E. Chalom; S. Sethuraman; I. Sodagar; "Apparatus and method for describing the motion parameters of an object in an image sequence", U.S. patent n. 6,366,701, April 2002
  • D. A. Florencio and I. Sodagar, "Method and apparatus for recovering quantized coefficients", U.S. patent n. 6,373,894, Apr. 2002.
  • S. Li; H. J. Lee; I. Sodagar; "Method and apparatus for generic scalable shape coding by deriving shape information for chrominance components from luminance component", U.S. patent n. 6,459,814, October 2002
  • S. A. Martucci, I. Sodagar, Y.Q. Zhang, Ya-Qin, "Apparatus and method for encoding zerotrees generated by a wavelet-based coding technique", U.S. patent n. 6,483,946, November 2002
  • B.B. Chai and I. Sodagar, "Apparatus and method for data partitioning to improving error resilience", U.S. patent n. 6,553,147,  April 2003.
  • S. Sethuraman, E. Chalomand, I. Sodagar, "Apparatus and method for context-based indexing and retrieval of image sequences", U.S. patent n. 6,643,387,  November 2003

A Sample Collection of MPEG and JPEG Submissions:

  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/N0437, “A Flexible Wavelet Transform Package for Image and Video Representation,” Dallas MPEG meeting, November 1995.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/N0441, “A Zero-Tree Entropy Coding Tool for Wavelet Compression of Video,'' Dallas MPEG meeting, November 1995.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/N0438, “Variable Block Size Motion Estimation for Video Compression,” Dallas MPEG meeting, November 1995.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/N0436, “A Rate Control Scheme Using A New Rate-Distortion Model,” Dallas MPEG meeting, November 1995.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/N0440, “A Global Motion Estimation/Compensation Scheme,” Dallas MPEG meeting, November 1995.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/M0637, ``Very Low Bit Rate Video Codec,'' Munich MPEG meeting, January 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1108, “Status report of Core Experiment T1/2: Wavelet coding of I and P Pictures.” Tampere MPEG meeting, July 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1111, “Status of Core Experiment P5: Variable-Block-Size MC Prediction.” Tampere MPEG meeting, July 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1109, “Status report on core experiment Q2 improved rate control.” Tampere MPEG meeting, July 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1109, “Status report on core experiment Q2 improved rate control.” Tampere MPEG meeting, July 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 96/M1333, “Report of Core Experiment T1/T2: Wavelet Coding of I and P Pictures.” Chicago MPEG meeting, September 1996.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M1870, “Report of Core Experiment X5; Efficient Coding of Static SNHC Texture.” Sevilla MPEG meeting, February 1997.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M1873, “Common Requirements For Still Image/SNHC Texture Coding in MPEG-4.” Sevilla MPEG meeting, February 1997.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 2151, “Report on Core Experiment T1: Improvements on Wavelet Coding of VM.” Bristol MPEG meeting, April 1997.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 2154, “Report on Core Experiment Z2: Spatial, Quality and View Dependent Scalability.” Bristol MPEG meeting, April 1997.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 2545, “Report of Core Experiment V2; Spatial and Quality Scalabilities.” Stockholm MPEG meeting, July 1997.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 2906, “Report on the Visual Texture Bitstream Exchange.” Fribourg MPEG meeting, October 1997.
  • &Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 3481, “Result of Core Experiment T1: Improvement on Visual Texture Coding Using 1-D Adaptive Wavelet.” Tokyo MPEG meeting, March 1998.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC/SC29/WG11 MPEG 97/M 3787, “Proposal for a generic scalable shape coding scheme.” Dublin MPEG meeting, July 1998.
  • Document ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N657, “A General Wavelet Texture Coding Technique”, Sydney JPEG meeting, November 1997.