Publications

Journal papers.

• D. Mukherjee, A. Said, and S. Liu, "A framework for fully format-independent adaptation of scalable bit-streams," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, Oct. 2005.
• W.A. Pearlman, A. Islam, N. Nagaraj, and A. Said, "Efficient, low-complexity image coding with a set-partitioning embedded block coder," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, pp. 1219-1235, Nov. 2004.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Bandwidth-efficient coded modulation with optimized partial-response signals," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 44, pp. 701-713, March 1998.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "An image multiresolution representations for lossy and lossless compression," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 5, pp. 1303-1310, Sept. 1996. (Winner of the Best Paper "Senior" Award, from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, current Scopus Citation statistics: 255 citations; ISI Web of Knowledge statistics: 143 journal citations.)
• A. Said and R. Palazzo Jr., "New ternary and quaternary linear block codes," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 42, pp. 1625-1628, Sept. 1996.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "A new fast and efficient image codec based on set partitioning in hierarchical trees," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, pp. 243-250, June 1996. (Winner of Best CSVT Paper Award, from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society; current Scopus Citation statistics: 1739 citations; ISI Web of Knowledge  statistics: 832 journal citations.)
• A. Said and R. Palazzo Jr., "Using combinatorial optimization to design good unit-memory convolutional codes," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 39, pp. 1100-1108, May 1993.
• A. Said and R. Palazzo Jr., "Determination of optimal unit-memory convolutional codes: a resource selection and assignment problem," Trans. of the Brazilian Telecommunications Society, vol. 5, pp. 1-21, June 1990.
• A. Said, A. Santos Jr., and P.M. França, "An optimization mathematical model for long-range transmission expansion planning," IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 4, pp. 94-101, Feb. 1989.

Conference papers.

• A. Said, Antonius Kalker, and Ronald Schafer, "Phase-domain statistical analysis for audio source localization," IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Greece, Oct. 2007.
• A. Said, "A new class of filters for image interpolation and resizing," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2007.
• D. Mukherjee, H. Wang, A. Said, and S. Liu, "Format independent encryption of generalized scalable bit-streams enabling arbitrary secure adaptations," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Hawaii, April 2007.
• A. Said, "Analysis of multi-rate filters and signal design for projected image superimposition" (invited paper), IEEE Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, Oct. 2006.
• A. Said, "Analysis of subframe generation for superimposed images," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2006.(Winner of the Most Innovative Paper Award, among nearly 1,600 conference submissions).
• A. Said, "Worst-case analysis of the low-complexity symbol grouping coding technique," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006.
• A. Said, "Measuring the strength of partial encryption schemes," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005.
• Y. Cho, A. Said, and W.A. Pearlman, "Coding the wavelet spatial orientation tree with low computational complexity," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005.
• Y. Cho, W.A. Pearlman, and A. Said, "Quantifying the coding power of zerotrees of wavelet coefficients: a degree-k zerotree model," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005.
• A. Said, "Efficient alphabet partitioning algorithms for low-complexity entropy coding," IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 2005.
• A. Said, "On the inadequacy of Golomb-Rice codes for adaptive coding," IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 2005.
• D. Mukherjee, H. Wang, A. Said, and S. Liu, "Format independent encryption of generalized scalable bit-streams enabling arbitrary secure adaptations," IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005.
• T. Kalker, M. Spasojevic, A. Said, A. Petruszka, P. Shah, and P. Mclean, "A case for person-centric digital rights management," IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, (Workshop on Digital Rights Management Impact on Consumer Communications), Jan. 2005.
• A. Said, "Efficient and reliable dynamic quality control for compression of compound document images," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004.
• S. Yea, A. Said, and W.A. Pearlman, "Efficient image coding for access to pixel ranges," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004.
• D. Mukherjee, G. Kuo, S.-T. Hsiang, S. Liu, and A. Said, "Format-independent scalable bit-stream adaptation using MPEG-21 DIA," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004.
• R. Samadani, A. Sundararajan, and A. Said, "Deringing and deblocking DCT compression artifacts with efficient shifted transforms." IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore, Oct. 2004.
• S.-T. Hsiang, D. Mukherjee, S. Liu, and A. Said, "Content agnostic digital item adaptation using the MPEG-21 DIA framework," SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science and Technology, Denver, CO, Aug. 2004.
• N. Chang and A. Said, "Automatically designed 3-D environments for intuitive exploration," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2004.
• D. Mukherjee, S. Hsiang, S. Liu, and A. Said, "From HP's SSM proposal to MPEG-21 digital item adaptation," Hewlett-Packard Co. Annual Technical Conference, Orlando, FL, June 2004.
• A. Said, S. Yea, and W.A. Pearlman, "Coding for fast access to image regions defined by pixel range," Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, pp. 489-497, Snowbird, Utah, March 2004.
• A. Said, "Comparative analysis of arithmetic coding computational complexity," Proc. IEEE Data Compression Conference, p. 562, Snowbird, Utah, March 2004.
• A. Said, "Compression of compound images and video for enabling rich media in embedded systems" (Invited Paper), SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, SPIE vol. 5308, pp. 69-82, San Jose, CA, Jan. 2004.
• D. Mukherjee, P. Chen, S-T. Hsiang, J. Woods, and A. Said, "Fully scalable video transmission using the SSM adaptation framework" (Invited Paper), SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Proc. SPIE vol. 5018, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003.
• D. Mukherjee and A. Said, "Structured scalable meta-formats for digital item adaptation" (Invited Paper), SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Proc. SPIE vol. 5018 (Internet Imaging), pp. 148-167, Santa Clara, CA, Jan. 2003.
• R. Samadani, A. Said, and D. Mukherjee, "Hybrid signal-feature system for music discovery," SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, Proc. SPIE vol. 5022 (Image and Video Communications and Processing), pp. 401-406, Santa Clara, CA, May 2003.
• D. Mukherjee, C. Chrysafis, and A. Said, "JPEG2000-Matched MRC compression of compound documents," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 73-76, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002.
• D. Mukherjee, C. Chrysafis, and A. Said, "Low complexity guaranteed fit compound document compression," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 1, pp. 225-228, Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002.
• D. Mukherjee, N. Memon, and A. Said, "JPEG-Matched MRC Compression of Compound Documents," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 434-437, Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 2001.
• C. Chrysafis, A. Said, A.I. Drukarev, A. Islam, W.A. Pearlman, "SBHP: a low complexity wavelet coder," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 4, pp. 2035-2038, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
• A. Said, "Efficient Internet delivery of documents via small devices," Hewlett Packard Digital Imaging Symposium, Palo Alto, CA, May 2000.
• A. Said and A.I. Drukarev, "Simplified segmentation for compound image compression," IEEE International Conference on Image processing, vol. 1, pp. 229-233, Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
• A. Said, "A framework for compound document compression," Hewlett Packard Digital Imaging Symposium, Palo Alto, CA, May 1999.
• V. Mani, R. Xie, E. Cubillo, S. Demko, A. Said, M.F. Barnsley, "System for guaranteed high-quality video compression," SPIE International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, Proc.  SPIE vol. 3460 (Applications of Digital Image Processing), pp. 289-298, San Diego, CA, July 1998.
• A. Said, W.A. Pearlman, and A. Islam, "Efficient block entropy coding with low complexity," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 139, Cambridge, MA, Aug. 1998.
• B.F. Uchoa Filho, B.F.; R. Palazzo Jr.; C. De Almeida, and A. Said, "New unit-memory codes obtained by puncturing periodically time-varying convolutional codes," Proc. SBT/IEEE International Telecommunications Symposium, vol. 2, pp. 534-538, Aug. 1998.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "A survey of the state-of-the-art and utilization of embedded, tree-based coding," (invited paper) IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, pp. 114-117, Monterey, CA, May 1998.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "Low-complexity waveform coding via alphabet and sample-set partitioning," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 61, Cambridge, MA, June 1997.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "Low-complexity waveform coding via alphabet and sample-set partitioning," SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Proc. SPIE vol. 3024, pp. 25-37, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997.
• W.R. Franklin and A. Said, "Lossy compression of elevation data," Seventh International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, Delft, The Netherlands, Aug. 1996.
• A. Manduca and A. Said, "Wavelet compression of medical images with set-partitioning in hierarchical trees," SPIE International Symposium on Medical Imaging, Proc. SPIE vol. 2707, pp. 192-200, Cambridge, MA, March 1996.
• A. Said, "Error burst detection with high-rate convolutional codes," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Whistler, B.C., Canada, Sept. 1995.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Phased-shifted linear partial response modulation," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 400, Whistler, B.C., Canada, Sept. 1995.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "Reduced-complexity waveform coding via alphabet partitioning," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 373, Whistler, B.C., Canada, Sept. 1995.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Bounds for the computation of the free distance of codes based on convolution," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 276, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994.
• J.B. Anderson and A. Said, "An optimization algorithm for estimating the storage requirement of a reduced-search decoder," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 174, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994.
• J.B. Anderson, A. Said and K. Balachandran, "Advances in partial-response modulation," 17th Biennial Symposium on Communications, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1994.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Computation of the minimum Euclidean distance of modulated signals in IIR dispersive channels," IEEE International Communications Conference, vol. 3, pp. 1556-1560, New Orleans, LA, May 1994.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Asymptotic performance and decoding complexity of bandwidth-efficient linear modulation codes," 28th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, March 1994.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "Reversible image compression via multiresolution representation and predictive coding," SPIE International Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Proc. SPIE vol. 2094, pp. 664-674, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1993.
• B.F. Uchôa Filho, R. Palazzo Jr., A. Said and C. de Almeida, "On the structural and distance properties of punctured convolutional codes," Swedish-Russian Workshop on Information Theory, Mölle, Sweden, Aug. 1993.
• A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, "Image compression using the spatial-orientation tree," IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 279-282, Chicago, IL, May 1993.
• A. Said and J.B. Anderson, "Design of optimal filters for use as bandwidth-efficient coded modulation," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, p. 417, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 1993.
• A. Said and R. Palazzo Jr., "Heuristic search: a new method to design good unit-memory convolutional codes," Fourth Joint Swedish-Soviet International Workshop on Information Theory, pp. 325-331, Gotland, Sweden, Aug. 1989.
• A. Said and P. M. França, "Combining heuristics and the subgradient method to solve the p-median problem," VII Brazilian Conference on Automation, São José dos Campos, Brazil, Aug. 1988.
• P.M. França, Anirio Salles Jr., and A. Said, "Dynamic design of networks with variable arc capacities," IFORS 11th Triennial International Conference on Operations Research, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Aug. 1987.
• A. Said, P.M. França, and A. Santos Jr., "An efficient optimization method for transmission expansion planning," IFAC International Symposium on Planning and Operation of Electric Energy Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Aug. 1985.
• A. Said and P.M. França, "A new heuristic procedure for the p-median problem," VII National Conference on Applied and Computational Mathematics, Campinas, SP, Brazil, Sept. 1984.

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