Past Research

Research in: Perceptual Quality, Video Coding and Transmission, Medical Imaging, and other areas. 

Perceptual Quality

1. Perceptual Quality Modeling of Compressed Video
   • Perceptual quality of compressed video in presence of packet loss
   • Perceptual quality metrics considering the effect of frame rate and quantization
   • Perceptual quality modeling aided by visual saliency detection

 

Video Coding and Transmission

1. Video Coding using a 3D Motion-Selective Wavelet Transform
    
2. Multimedia Transport over Wireless Networks Using Multiple Description Coding and Multiple Path Transport (1996 – 2000)
    
3. Wireless video encoding and transmission with Power Constraint
    
4. Search and Rescue Using Remotely Guided Rats
    
5. Multimedia Content Analysis Using Audio and Visual Information (1996 – 2000)
    
6. Stereo Video Sequence Analysis and Compression (1996 – 2000)
   • Sponsor: CATT
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang, Fatih Porikli and Ru-Shang Wang
    
7. Video transport over ATM and Internet (1995 – 1998)
   • Participating Faculty and students: Yao Wang
   • Collaborators: Wenwu Zhu (Lucent Technologies) and Ya-Qin Zhang (David Sarnoff Research Center) and Yiwei Hou (CATT)
    
8. H.323 Video Conferencing over Internet Using Ultra-Sparc and VIS (1996 – 1997)
   • Sponsor: SUN Microsystems
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang (PI), Tim Lim and Jenny Chen
    
9. Motion Estimation and Low-Bit-Rate Video Coding (1992 – 1996)
   • Sponsor: National Science Foundation and CATT
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang, Ouseb Lee, Anthony Vetro, Zhongke Wang
    
10. Image and Video Communications over ATM Networks: Error Concealment and Joint Optimization of Coding, Packetization, and Reconstruction (1991- 1993)
    • Sponsor: CATT
    • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang (PI), Qin-Fan Zhu, and Wenwu Zhu

Medical Imaging

1. Optical Imaging of Tissue (1992 – 1998)
   • Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang (PI),Feng-Bao Lin (Co-PI), Erh-Ya Lin, Ya-Ling Pei, and formerly Yuqi Yao and Wenwu Zhu
   • Collaborators: Randall Barbour (SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn) and Ray Aronson (Professor Emeritus of Polytechnic University)
    
2. Multispectral MR Image Segmentation and Compression (1993 – 1997)
   • Sponsor: Whitaker Foundation and CATT
   • Participating Faculty and Student: Yao Wang(PI), Jian-Hong Hu and Zhongke Wang
   • Collaborators: Patrick Cahill (Cornell University Medical College and Professor Emeritus of Physics of Polytechnic University

Other Areas

1. Check Image Compression (1995 – 1997)
   • Sponsor: CATT and the Financial Services Technology Consortium(FSTC)
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang (PI), Edward K. Wong (Co-PI), Jin-Cheng Huang and formerly Ali Susanto
    
2. Survey of Multimedia Technology and Applications (1995 – 1996)
   • Sponsor: PRIDE
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang (PI), Ifay Chang (PRIDE), and Jin-Cheng Hu
    
3. Photo ID Picture Compression (1994 – 1996)
   • Sponsor: Symbol Technology, Inc., Bohemia, NY
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Yao Wang, Jin-Cheng Huang, Ru-Shang Wang, and formerly Jian-Hong Hu
    
4. Fingerprint Verification and Application in Smartcard (1991 – 1993)
   • Sponsor: New York State Science and Technology Foundation, IX Systems, Inc.
   • Participating Faculty and Students: Edward Wong (PI) and Yao Wang (Co-PI)