Resume of Jin Li


Career Highlights

Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA. (8 years)

Manager of Communication subgroup in Communication and Collaboration Systems.

Gold Star service award (1999, 2001, 2006), Microsoft

Microsoft Member Bench Program, 2007

Ph.D. with honor in Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University

Tsinghua Ten Stars (an honorary title of Tsinghua University)

Recipient of Young Investigator Award from Visual Communication and Image Processing’98 by SPIE/IS&T

Associate editor of the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

Lead guest editor on the special issue of “Content storage and delivery in peer-to-peer networks” for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia.

Guest editor on the special issue of “Advances in peer-to-peer streaming systems” for IEEE Journal of Selected Area of Communication (J-SAC)

Senior member of IEEE

Affiliated Professor, Tsinghua University

Past Position

Researcher/Project Leader, Microsoft Research China.

Member of Technical Staff, Sharp Laboratories of America.

Research associate, Univ. of Southern California

Actively involved in Research and Development of MPEG/JPEG, media streaming, image/media compression tools, P2P applications

Over 80 technical publications in a diversified area of media (still image, video, 3D scene) compression and streaming (single server-client and P2P).

25 years of computer system experiences, total programming around 500,000 lines, world expert in media compression, media communication and peer-to-peer applications.

 

Contact

Email: jinl@microsoft.com

 


Education

Mar. 1991 - Jun. 1994 Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, graduated with honor

Thesis advisor: Prof. Xinggang Lin and Prof. Youshou Wu

Sep. 1990 - Mar. 1991 Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, graduated with honor

Thesis advisor: Prof. Rensheng Liu

Sep. 1987 - Sep. 1990 Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, graduated with honor

(Complete 5 year undergraduate program with only 3 years.)

 

Honors and Awards

 

Gold Star service award (1999, 2001, 2006), Microsoft

Microsoft Member Bench Program, 2007

The Young Investigator Award from SPIE/IS&T, 1998 (for Visual Communication and Image Processing)

The Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 1994 (10% of Ph.D. graduates)

Tsinghua Ten Stars” (An honorary title of Tsinghua University, elected by all Tsinghua students every 5 years)

Various prestigious scholarships of Tsinghua Univ. during year 1987-1994,  such as the Supreme Guanghua Scholarship(1993), the Supreme Scholarship of Tsinghua (1991), the Best M.S. Thesis Award (1991), etc..

Championship of National Youth Computer Programming Competition, China, 1987.

Professional memberships & activities

 

Senior member of IEEE

Associate editor for Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

Associate editor for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia

Lead guest editor on the special issue of “Content Storage and Delivery in Peer-to-peer Networks” for IEEE Transaction on Multimedia,

Co-chair: ACM MM’2005 workshop on “Advances in Peer-to-peer Streaming”

Co-chair: QShine’2006 workshop on “Recent Advances in Peer-to-peer Streaming”

TPC of many conferences

Affiliated professor, Tsinghua University.

Professional experience

2001.1 – Current         Microsoft Research                              Redmond, WA

Principal Researcher and manager of the Communication system subgroup (Communication and Collaboration System Group)

Peer assisted content delivery solution, covers media sharing, on-demand streaming and live broadcast.

Hybrid P2P and CDN network.

Symmetric NAT traversal solution (deployed in Messenger)

Real-time conferencing solution (bandwidth estimation, real-time video codec, multiparty conferencing solution)

Scalable audio/image/video codecs.

1999.4 – 2000.12        Microsoft Research China                     Beijing, China

Researcher/Project Leader (Internet Media)

Graphic compression algorithm, e.g., texture coder, geometry compression.

Developed Vmedia, a virtual media access protocol over the Internet for interactive browsing of large static scene/object/image. It is the first to achieve ROI access and interactive browsing functionality (later evolved into JPIP) for JPEG 2000 .

Developed compression and streaming algorithms for image based rendering scene, enable a 3D scene to be interactively streamed

Developed a video object wavelet (VOW) coder which beats MPEG-4 wavelet mode by 0.65dB

 

1996.11 – 1999.4        Sharp Laboratories of America            Camas, WA

Member of Technical Staff  (Digital Video Department)

Heavily engaged in MPEG4 and JPEG2000 standard activity

Developed a rate-distortion optimized embedded coder (RDE). The work won the Young Investigator Award from SPIE/IS&T Visual Communication and Image Processing 1998. The concept of rate-distortion optimized embedding was later adopted into JPEG 2000.

Proposed visual frequency weighting and visual progressive coding technologies that are adopted by JPEG 2000.

Proposed palletized image coding, adopted by JPEG 2000.

Investigated the coding of arbitrary shape object with wavelet. The proposal was adopted by MPEG4.

Investigated the removal of blocky and ringing artifact of coded image with multiscale post-processing and Markov random field model.

Supported Sharp product for image/data compression and communication

1994.8 – 1996.11        University of Southern California     Los Angeles, CA

Research Associate (Integrated Media Systems Center)

Various image/video coding techniques, e.g., hybrid fractal wavelet coder, wavelet packet image coder, multiwavelet transform and vector wavelet coding, layered DCT coder, scalable wavelet video compression, wavelet based automatic target recognition system, and pattern recognition on compressed image/video

1991.3 – 1994.8          Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

Research Assistant (Department of Electrical Engineering)

Various image/video coding techniques, e.g., variable block size low bit rate video coding, hybrid DCT/binary image coding.

Implemented JPEG/MPEG1/JBIG

Implemented a low cost still/moving video displaying system on the MS DOS, and an image format converter among TIFF, GIF, PCX, GEM/IMG

1990.9 – 1991.3          Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant (Department of Electrical Engineering)

Ported the X window system to SCO Unix 2.3.2

Developer of a computer aided manufacturing system for Wu-Xi Lian Zhi Textile factory

1987.9 – 1990.9          Tsinghua University                              Beijing, China

Technical consultant (Extracurricular activity)

Built an embedded data collector for power company

Developed an automatic account balancing system

Built a VGT-100 terminal simulator on MS-DOS

1983 – 1987.7             EFZ high school                                 Shanghai, China

Technical consultant (Extracurricular activity)

Developed a piracy protection software for Apple-II

Built a computer aided education system for high school chemistry

Developed a financial management system for Daqing Oil Inc.

Built a computer aided test system for UHF TV tuner manufacturing

Patents and publications

Patents Issued:

[1] J. Li and S. Lei, “Arbitrary shape wavelet transform with phase alignment”, US 6,233,357. [Provisional filed Jul. 14, 1997, US1997000052450, Issued May. 15, 2001]

[2] J. Li, “Method of visual progressive coding”, US6,327,392, [Filed Jan. 28, 1999, Issued Dec. 4, 2001]

[3] J. Li and S. Lei, “Quad-tree embedded image compression and decompression method and apparatus”, US6,356,665, [Filed Dec. 9, 1998, Issued Mar. 12, 2002]

[4] J. Li and S. Lei, “Dynamic management of embedded coded images in a digital storage device”, US6,463,177, [Filed Nov. 4, 1998, Issued Oct. 8, 2002]

 

[5] W. Zeng, S. Lei and J. Li, “Re-indexing for efficient compression of palettized images”, US6,522,783, [Filed Nov. 23, 1999, Issued Feb. 18, 2003]

[6] W. Zeng, J. Li, and S. Lei, “Joint coding method for images and videos with multiple arbitrarily shaped segments or objects”, US6,553,148, [Filed May. 21, 2001, Issued Apr. 22, 2003]

[7] J. Li, Y. Zhang, Y. Wu and L. Luo, “Methods and arrangements for compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data using alignment and 3D wavelet transform techniques”, US6,567,081, [Filed Jun. 20, 2001, Issued May. 20, 2003]

[8] J. Li and S. Lei, “Embedded image coder with rate-distortion optimization”, US6,625,321, [Filed Jan. 30, 1997, Issued Sept. 23, 2003]

 [9] C. Zhang and J. Li, “Methods and arrangements for compressing image based rendering data using multiple reference frame prediction techniques that support just-in-time rendering of an image”, US 6,693,964 [Filed Mar. 24, 2000, Issued Feb. 17, 2004]

[10] J. Li and J. Zhou, “System and method for delivery of dynamically scalable audio/video content over a network”, US 6,789,123 [Filed Dec. 28, 2001, Issued Sept. 7, 2004]

[11] J. Li, H. Sun, H. Li, Q. Zhang and X. Lin, “Methods and systems for providing random access to structured media content”, US 6,807, 550 [Filed Dec, 1, 1999, Issued Oct. 19, 2004]

[12] C. Zhang, J. Li and Y. Wu, “Rebinning methods and arrangments for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data”, US 6,959,120[filed Oct. 27, 2000, Issued Oct. 25, 2005]

[13] C. Zhang, J. Li and Y. Wu, “Rebinning methods and arrangments for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data”, US 6,959,120[filed Oct. 27, 2000, Issued Oct. 25, 2005]

[14] C. Zhang and J. Li, “Methods and arrangements for handling concentric mosaic image data”, US 6,993,074[filed Mar. 19, 2001, Issued Jan. 31, 2006]

[15] C. Zhang, J. Li and Y. Wu, “Rebinning methods and arrangements for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data”, US 6,996,294, [filed Oct. 18, 2004, Issued Feb. 7, 2006]

[16] C. Zhang, J. Li and Y. Wu, “Rebinning methods and arrangements for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data”, US 7,065,260, [filed Oct. 13, 2004, Issued June. 20, 2006]

[17] C. Zhang, J. Li and Y. Wu, “Rebinning methods and arrangements for use in compressing image-based rendering (IBR) data”, US 7,110,617, [filed Oct. 18, 2004, Issued Sept. 19, 2006]

[18] J. Li, “System and method for embedded audio coding with implicit auditory masking”, US 7,110,941, [filed Mar. 28, 2002, Issued Sept. 19, 2006]

[19] J. Li, “System and method for receiver-driven streaming in a peer-to-peer network”, US 7,174,385, [filed Sept. 28, 2004, Issued Feb. 6, 2007]

[20] J. Li, H. Sun, H. Li, Q. Zhang, and X. Ling, “Methods and systems for providing random access to structured media content”, US 7,236,988, [filed Apr. 30, 2004, Issued June. 6, 2007]

More than two dozens patents pending.

Journal Paper

[1]   J. Li, Y. Cui and B. Chang, “PeerStreaming: Design and Implementa-tion of an on-demand distributed streaming system”, ACM Multimedia Systems Journal, 2007.

[2]   J. Li, “Low noise reversible MDCT (RMDCT) and its application in progressive to lossless embedded audio coding”, IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 5, May. 2005, pp. 1870-1880.

[3]   C. Zhang and J. Li, “On the Compression and Streaming of Concentric Mosaic Data for Free Wandering in a Realistic Environment over the Internet”, IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 6, Dec. 2005, pp.1170-1182.

[4]   J. Duan and J. Li, “Compression of the layered depth image”, IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, vol. 12, no. 3, Mar. 2003, pp.365-372.

[5]   J. Li and H. Sun, "A virtual media (Vmedia) interactive image browser", IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 581-590, Dec. 2003.

[6]   Y. Wu, C. Zhang and J. Li, "Smart rebinning for the compression of concentric mosaic", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 332-342, Sept. 2002.

[7]   Y. Wu and J. Li, "Concentric mosaic compression with rebinning of slits (ROSS) ", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 269-271, Sept. 2002.

[8]   L. Luo, Y. Wu, J. Li and Y. Zhang, “3D wavelet compression and progressive inverse wavelet synthesis rendering”, IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 7, pp. 802-816, Jul. 2002.

[9]   G. Xing, J. Li, S. Li and Y. Zhang, “Arbitrarily shaped video object coding by wavelet”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 11, No. 10, pp. 1135-1139, Oct. 2001.

[10]           J. Li, H. Shum and Y. Zhang, “On the compression of the image based rendering scene: a comparison among block, reference and wavelet coders”, International Journal on Image and Graphics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.45-61, 2001.

[11]           J. Li and S. Lei, "An embedded still image coder with rate-distortion optimization", IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 913-924, Jul. 1999.

[12]           J. Li and J. Kuo, "Image compression with a hybrid wavelet-fractal coder", IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 868-873, Jun. 1999.

[13]           P. Cheng, J. Li and J. Kuo, “Rate control for embedded wavelet video coder'', IEEE Trans. On Circuit and System for Video Technology, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 696-702, Aug. 1997.

[14]           K. Liang, J. Li and J. Kuo, “Embedded wavelet coder with multistage vector quantization,'' the International Journal on Imaging Systems and Technology, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp.444-449, 1997.

[15]           J. Li, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Layered DCT still image compression,” IEEE Trans. On Circuit and System for Video Technology, Vol. 7, No.2, pp.440-443, Apr. 1997.

[16]           J. Li, X. Lin, and J. Kuo, “Boundary-control vector (BCV) motion field representation and estimation by using a Markov random field model”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 230-243, Sep. 1996.

[17]           J. Li and X. Lin, “Sequential image coding based on the multiresolution tree architecture,” IEE Electronics Letters, 29, pp. 1545--1547, 1993.

[18]           J. Li, X. Lin, and Y. Wu, “Image coding with neural nets,” Journal of China Institute of Communications, 14(6), pp. 84--89, December 1993.

 

Book Chapter

[1] J. Li, “Image Compression – The Mechanics of JPEG 2000”, in MSRI modern signal processing series.

[2] J. Li, “Scalable audio coding”, in Multimedia over IP: Wired and Wireless Networks, M. Schaar and P. A. Chou eds.

 

 

Conference Papers

 

[1]   J. Li, “Locality aware peer assisted delivery: the way to scale Internet video to the world”, 16th Packet Video workshop (PV 2007), Lausanne, Switzerland, Nov. 2007.

[2]   C. Huang, J. Li, and M. Chen, “On optimizing XOR-based codes for fault-tolerant storage applications”, in 2007 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW 2007), Sep. 2007, Lake Tahoe, CA.

[3]   C. Huang, J. Li, K. W. Ross, “Can Internet Video-on-Demand be profitable”, in ACM SIGCOMM 2007, Aug. 2007, Kyoto, Japan.

[4]   C. Huang, M. Chen and J. Li, “Pyramid codes: flexible schemes to trade space for access efficiency in reliable data storage systems”, in the 6th IEEE International symposium on network computing and applications (NCA 2007), Jul. 2007, Cambridge, MA.

[5]   M. Chen, C. Huang, and J. Li, “On the maximally recoverable property for multi-protection group codes”, in 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2007), Jun. 2007, Nice, France.

[6]   C. Huang, J. Li, K. W. Ross, “Peer-assisted VoD: making internet video distribution cheap”, in the 6th International Workshop on Peer-to-peer systems (IPTPS 2007), Feb. 2007, Bellevue, WA.

[7]   J. Li, and J. D. Johnston, “Perceptually layered scalable coding”, in 2006 40th Asilomar Conf. on Signals, Systems and Computers, Oct. 2006, pp.2125-2129, Pacific Grove, CA.

[8]   A. Conceicao, J. Li, D. Florencio, F. Kon, “Is IEEE 802.11 Ready for VoIP”, in 2006 8th workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Oct. 2006, Victoria, BC.

[9]   J. Li, “Adaptive erasure resilient coding in distributed storage”, 2006 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME’2006), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 9-12, 2006.

[10]           C. Huang and J. Li, “DISCOVR: distributed collaborative video recorder”, 2006 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME’2006), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 9-12, 2006.

[11]           Y. Sun and J. Li, “Distributed source coding with context modeling”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2006), Toulouse, France, May. 15-19, 2006.

[12]           J. Li and Q. Huang, “Erasure resilient codes in peer-to-peer storage cloud”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’2006), Toulouse, France, May. 15-19, 2006.

[13]           C. Huang, P. A. Chou, J. Li, and C. Zhang, “Adaptive peer-to-peer streaming with MutualCast”, International Packet Video Workshop 2006, Hang Zhou, China, Apr. 20-21, 2006.

[14]           J. Li, “PeerStreaming: an on-demand peer-to-peer media streaming solution based on a receiver-driven streaming protocol”, in Proc. IEEE 7th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2005. pp. 197-200.

[15]           J. Li, P. A. Chou and C. Zhang, “Mutualcast: an efficient mechanism for content distribution in a P2P network”, Proc. Acm Sigcomm Asia Workshop, Beijing, China, Apr. 10-12, 2005.

[16]           J. Li, “The efficient implementation of Reed-Solomon high rate erasure resilient codes”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2005), Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 19-23, 2005.

[17]           J. Li, “The seamlessly multiplexed embedded codec (SMEC) and its application in image coding”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (2004), Singapore, Oct. 2004.

[18]           J. Li and C. Zhang, “Distributed hosting of web content with erasure coding and unequal weight assignment”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (2004), Taipei, Jun. 27-30, 2004.

[19]           Z. Wen, Z. Liu, M. Cohen, J. Li, K. Zheng, T. Huang, “Low bit-rate video streaming for face-to-face teleconference”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (2004), Taipei, Jun. 27-30, 2004.

[20]           J. Li, “Reversible FFT and MDCT via matrix lifting”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2004), Montreal, Quebec, May. 23-28, 2004.

[21]           J. Li, “A progressive to lossless embedded audio coder (PLEAC) with reversible modulated lapped transform”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Expo (2003), Baltimore, MD, Jul. 6-10, 2003. (re-published due to cancellation of ICASSP 2003).

[22]           J. Li, “A progressive to lossless embedded audio coder (PLEAC) with reversible modulated lapped transform”, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2003), Hong Kong, China, Apr. 6-10, 2003.

[23]           J. Li, "Embedded audio coding (EAC) with implicit psychoacoustic masking", ACM Multimedia 2002, Nice, France, Dec.1-6, 2001.

[24]           L. Luo, J. Li, S. Li, Z. Zhuang and Y. Zhang. “Motion compensated lifting wavelet and its application in video coding”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2001), Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 2001.

[25]           J. Zhou and J. Li, “Scalable audio streaming over the internet with network-aware rate-distortion optimization”, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (2001), Tokyo, Japan, Aug. 2001.

[26]           J. Duan and J. Li, “Compression of the layered depth image”, in IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC’2001), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2001, pp.331-340.

[27]           C. Zhang and J. Li, “Interactive browsing of 3D environment over the Internet”, in Visual Communication and Image Processing 2001 (VCIP 2001), SPIE Vol. 4310, No. 51, San Jose, CA, Jan 2001.

[28]           J. Li and H. Sun, “A virtual media (Vmedia) access protocol and its application in interactive image browsing”, SPIE, IS&T and ACM SIG Multimedia, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001 (MMCN'01), Vol. 4312, No. 10, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2001.

[29]           Y. Wu and J. Li, “Compression of concentric mosaic with rebinning of slits (ROSS)”, The First IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Sydney, Australia, Dec. 13-15, 2000.

[30]           J. Li and H. Sun, “A virtual media (Vmedia) JPEG 2000 interactive image browser”, ACM Multimedia 2000 (demo), Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2000, pp.501-502.

[31]           Y. Wu, C. Zhang, J. Li and J. Xu, “Smart rebinning for compression of concentric mosaics”, ACM Multimedia 2000 (oral presentation), Los Angeles, CA, Oct. 2000, pp.201-209.

[32]           J. Li, H. Shum and Y. Zhang, “On the compression of image based rendering scene”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), #3307, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2000.

[33]           W. Zeng, S. Lei and J. Li, “An efficient color re-indexing scheme for palette-based compression”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2000), #1321, Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2000.

[34]           Y. Wu, L. Luo, J. Li and Y. Zhang, “Rendering of 3D wavelet compressed concentric mosaic scenery with progressive inverse wavelet synthesis (PIWS)”, SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP 2000), Vol. 4067, No. 4, pp.31-42, Perth, Australia, Jun. 2000.

[35]           C. Zhang and J. Li, “Compression and rendering of concentric mosaic scenery with reference block codec (RBC)”, SPIE Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP 2000), Vol. 4067, No. 5, pp. 43-54, Perth, Australia, Jun. 2000.

[36]           G. Xing, J. Li, S. Li and Y. Zhang, “Arbitrarily shaped video object coding by wavelet”, IEEE International Symposium for Circuit and Systems (ISCAS 2000), Geneva, Switzerland, May. 2000.

[37]           H. Wang and J. Li, “Octmesh – interactive mesh browsing over the internet”, IEEE information theory: coding and communication (ITCC 2000), pp. 104-108, Las Vegas, NV, Mar. 2000.

[38]           C. Zhang and J. Li, “Compression of Lumigraph with multiple reference frame (MRF) prediction and just-in-time rendering”, IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC’2000), pp. 253-262, Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2000.

[39]           L. Luo, Y. Wu, J. Li and Y. Zhang, “Compression of concentric mosaic scenery with alignment and 3D wavelet transform”, SPIE: Image and Video Communication and Processing, Vol. 3974, No. 10, pp. 89-100, San Jose CA, Jan. 2000.

[40]           J. Li, “Visual progressive coding”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, Volume 3653, No. 116, San Jose, CA, Jan. 1999.

[41]           W. Zeng, J. Li and S. Lei, “Adaptive wavelet transform with spatially varying filters for scalable image coding”, 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, volume 1, pp. 112-116, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.

[42]           J. Li and S. Lei, “Arbitrary shape wavelet transform with phase alignment”, 1998 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, volume 3, pp. 683-687, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.

[43]           J. Li and S. Lei, “An embedded still image coder with rate-distortion optimization”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 3309, pp. 36-47, San Jose, CA, Jan. 1998.

[44]           J. Li and J. Kuo, “Coding artifact removal with multiscale post-processing”, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, volume 1, pp. 45-48, Santa Barbara, CA, Oct. 1997.

[45]           J. Li and S. Lei, “Rate-distortion optimized embedding”, Picture Coding Symposium, pp. 201-206, Berlin, Germany, Sep. 1997.

[46]           J. Li, “Interscale predictive wavelet coding with Huber Markov random field”, Picture Coding Symposium, pp. 387-392, Berlin, Germany, Sep. 1997.

[47]           Y. Lai, J. Kuo and J. Li, “New image compression artifact measure using wavelets”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 3204, pp. 897-908, San Jose, Feb. 1997.

[48]           J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Hybrid wavelet-fractal image compression based on a rate-distortion criterion”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 3204, pp. 1014-1025, San Jose, Feb. 1997.

[49]           J. Li, J. Kuo and P. Cheng, “Embedded wavelet packet image coder with fast rate-distortion optimized decomposition”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 3204, pp. 1077-1088, San Jose, Feb. 1997.

[50]           P. Cheng, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Rate-distortion optimized bit rate control scheme for a wavelet video coder”, SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 3204, pp.105-116, San Jose, Feb. 1997.

[51]           J. Li, J. Li and J. Kuo, “Progressive compression of 3D graphic model”, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, pp.135-141, 1997.

[52]           Y. Lai, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “A wavelet approach to compressed image quality measurement”, 30th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 3-6, pp.938-942, 1996.

[53]           J. Li, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “An embedded DCT approach to progressive image compression,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. I:81--84, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.

[54]           J. Li and J. Kuo, “Fractal wavelet coding using a rate-distortion constraint,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. II:201--205, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996.

[55]           J. Li, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Embedded DCT still image compression,” Signal and Information Display, San Diego, CA, May 1996.

[56]           P. Cheng, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Video coding using embedded wavelet packet transform and motion compensation,” SPIE: Visual Information Processing V, Orlando, FL, Apr. 9, 1996.

[57]           K. Liang, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Image compression with embedded multiwavelet coding,” SPIE: Wavelet Application III, volume 2762, pp. 165--176, Orlando, FL, Apr. 9 1996.

[58]           J. Li and J. Kuo, “Automatic target shape recognition via deformable wavelet templates,” SPIE: Automatic Object Recognition VI, volume 2756, pp. 2--13, Orlando, FL, Apr. 9 1996.

[59]           Y. Lai, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Image enhancement for low-bitrate JPEG and MPEG coding via postprocessing,” SPIE: Visual Communication and Image Processing, volume 2727, pp. 1484--1494, Orlando, FL, March 1996.

[60]           J. Li and S. Kim and J. Kuo, “Focus of attention (FOA) identification from compressed video for automatic target recognition(ATR),” 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. III:508--511, Washington, DC, Nov. 1995.

[61]           P. Cheng, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Multiscale video compression using wavelet transform and motion compensation,” 1995 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. I:606--609, Washington, DC, Nov. 1995.

[62]           Y. Lai, J. Li, and J. Kuo, “Removal of blocking artifacts of DCT transform by classified space-frequency filtering,” 29th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 1995.

[63]           J. Li, P. Cheng, and J. Kuo, “An embedded wavelet packet transform technique for texture compression,” SPIE: Wavelet Applications in Signal and Image Processing II, volum