1. Education and Research in the Center for Signal and Image Processing

2. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Summary
Ph.D. graduates have impact worldwide in DSP education and research
Distinguished faculty
20 faculty (8 IEEE Fellows)
Co-authors of over 25 books on DSP
80 current Ph.D. students
Located on 5th floor
of Centergy building
75 5th St., NW
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

3. Courses Taught by CSIP Faculty
Undergraduate Courses
ECE 2025 – SP First
ECE 3075 – Random signals
ECE 4270 – Intro. to DSP
ECE 4271 – Appl. of DSP
ECE 4273 – Hardware
ECE 4006 – DSP Capstone
Special projects with faculty
Graduate Courses
ECE 6250, 6254, 6255, 6258, 6271, 6272, 6273, 6276, 6277, 6279, 7251, 7252
GTA: Try ECE 2025
at least once while
you are here.
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

4. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - 0
Justin Romberg: Ph.D., Rice University, 2003 – Sparse representations, wavelets, image compression, inverse problems
Xiaoli Ma: Ph.D., Minnesota, DSP for Telecom, MIMO systems
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

5. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - I
Yucel Altunbasak: Ph.D., University of Rochester, Media processing, video processing and communication
David V. Anderson: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Real-time DSP systems, aids for the hearing-impaired, speech processing
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

6. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - II
Thomas P. Barnwell, III: Ph.D., MIT, DSP hardware, speech processing, computers in engineering education
Mark A. Clements: Sc.D., MIT, Speech processing, aids for the hearing-impaired, multi-media systems
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

7. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - III
Faramarz Fekri: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Coding Theory, Cryptography, Information Processing for Sensor Networks
Monson H. Hayes: Sc.D., MIT, Spectrum estimation, adaptive filtering, image processing
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

8. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - IV
Joel R. Jackson: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Educational technology
Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang: Ph.D., UCSB, 1981 – Speech processing, multimedia systems
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

9. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - V
Aaron Lanterman: Ph.D., Wash. U. SL, Radar, computer vision, image reconstruction
James H. McClellan: Ph.D., Rice University, Computed imaging, acoustic array processing and tracking, DSP education
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

10. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - VI
Chin-Hui Lee: Ph.D., U. of Washington, 1981 – Speech recognition, multimedia systems
Russell M. Mersereau: Sc.D., MIT, Image and video processing, multimedia systems
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

11. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - VII
Douglas B. Williams: Ph.D., Rice University, Statistical signal processing, array processing, chaos in communications systems
G. Tong Zhou: Ph.D., U. of Virginia, Statistical signal processing, signal processing for communications, nonlinear systems, bioinformatics
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

12. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - VIII
Vijay K. Madisetti: Ph.D., UC-Berkeley, VLSI architectures, parallel processing, embedded systems
Ronald W. Schafer: Ph.D., MIT, 1968 – Emeritus, HP Fellow at HP Labs
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

13. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - IX
Anthony Yezzi: Ph.D., U. Minn., 1992 – Image processing, medical imaging
Paul Hasler: Ph.D., Cal. Tech 1994 – Analog signal processing circuits
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

14. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Faculty - X
Ghassan Al-Regib: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, 2003 –multimedia processing and networking, wireless sensor networks, and collaborative systems
Elliot Moore, II: Ph.D., Georgia Tech, Voice stress/emotion analysis, Speech feature extraction, Glottal waveform analysis, estimation, and quality evaluation, Speaker characterization
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

15. Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing
CSIP Staff
Catherine Gohlson (starts 9/25/06)
Administrative & Accounting Manager
Tammy Scott
Program Mgr for CSIP
Lisa Gardner
Administrative Assistant
Pat Dixon
Accountant III
Debra Kelley
Program Mgr: Arbutus Ctr for Distributed Engr Education
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CSIP Staff: Computers
Sam Smith
Research Scientist
Room
UNIX
Keith May
Computer Specialist II
Windows, PCs
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

17. Current Research Areas - I
Speech Processing
Robust automatic speech recognition
New architectures for speech recognition
High-quality low-bit-rate speech coding for voice over IP
Blind separation of speech signals
Audio Signal Processing
Music analysis and synthesis
Compressed-domain processing of audio
Acoustic Signal Processing
Noise and reverberation removal
Microphone array processing
Spatialization
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

18. Current Research Areas - II
Video Signal Processing
Target tracking in video
Video streaming with error concealment and MDC
Graphics streaming for the Internet
Automated analysis of video
Video indexing for smart VCR
Super-resolution of video
Face Recognition
Video compression
Image Processing
Image-based graphical rendering
Image interpolation for digital color cameras
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

19. Current Research Areas - III
Multimedia & Multi-modal Signal Processing
“Intelligent Environments”
Automatic storage/retrieval of speech and audio
Audio-visual speech recognition
Speech-driven facial animation
Application of multimedia processing in education
Communications Signal Processing
Chaos in wireless communication systems
Space-time coding and OFDM
Compensation for selective fading effects
Finite field wavelet transforms and applications to error control coding and cryptography
Compensation of nonlinear power amps
DSP for hand-held communication devices
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

20. Current Research Areas - IV
Sensor Signal Processing
SENSOR NETWORKS
Buried mine detection using GPR, seismic & EMI
Target Tracking in sensor networks
Hyperspectral imaging and target classification
SAR imaging
Signal Modeling
Multi-scale sinusoidal modeling
Biological Signal Processing
Automated measurement and modeling of behavior in biological systems
Medical Signal Processing
Segmentation of cardiac MRI images
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

21. Recent Sources of Funding
Industry: Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Mathworks, National Instruments, Analog Devices, Lucent, Harris, Hughes, Prentice-Hall
Federal: NSF, U.S. Army, DARPA, ONR, NASA, MPO
State: Georgia Research Alliance
Private Foundation: John and Mary Franklin Foundation
Total Funding: several million $$$
Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Signal and Image Processing

22. Industrial Partnership Examples
Texas Instruments Leadership University Program
Members with MIT and Rice U.
7 faculty and 7 Ph.D. students
FPAAs (Cooperative SP)
Speech Recognition
Equation Recognition in images
Security for video teleconferencing
Nonlinear DSP
Particle Filters
Secure Communication protocols
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24. Your Obligations and Opportunities
Check with your advisor about a desk
Help out with the Web-site
Join the SAC
Learn the policies of CSIP
Get to know your colleagues
faculty and other students
If you get a cube, spend time here
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More Opportunities
Student Action Committee (SAC) – join!
Contact Nicolas Gastaud
CSIP Seminars – volunteer to speak, help
CSIP Web team
Espresso Club – join!
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