John Apostolopoulos

Theses

• Ph.D. thesis: "Transform/Subband Representations for Multidimensional Signals with Arbitrary Regions of Support" Developed novel critically sampled transforms for discrete multidimensional signals with arbitrary (e.g. arbitrarily shaped or non-square) regions of support. Advisor: Professor Jae S. Lim. EECS, MIT, June 1997.

• M.S. thesis: "Coding of the MC-Residual for an All-Digital HDTV System.''  Analyzed DCT/LOT/wavelet-based methods for compressing the motion-compensated residual for an HDTV video compression system. Advisor: Professor Jae S. Lim. EECS, MIT, Sept 1991.

• B.S. thesis: Designed and built an optical interferometer to map the structure of multilayered objects such as the human eye. EECS, MIT, June 1989. 

Publications

Published and accepted papers are listed, please note that not all of the PDFs have been added.

• ``Channel, Deadline, and Distortion (CD^2) Aware Scheduling for Video Streams over Wireless'', A. Dua, C. Chan, N. Bambos, J. Apostolopoulos, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless, 2007.

• ``Scheduling Algorithms for Broadcasting Media with Multiple Distortion Measures'', C. Chan, N. Bambos, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2008.

• ``Multiple Distortion Measures for Packetized Scalable Media'', C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2007.

• ``Generalized Butterfly Graph and Its Application to Video Stream Authentication'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, J. Apostolopoulos, W. Wong, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 2008.

• ``Real-Time Monitoring of Video Quality in IP Networks'', Shu Tao, John Apostolopoulos, Roch Guerin, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Networking, 2008.

• ``Security Applications for JPEG2000 Imagery'', J. Apostolopoulos, F. Dufaux, Q. Sun, book chapter to appear in "The JPEG2000 Suite", P. Schelkens, T. Skodras, and T. Ebrahimi, editors, John Wiley & Sons, 2009.

• ``Multiple Distortion Measures for Video with Temporal Scalability'', C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, October 2008.

• ``Rate-Distortion-Authentication Optimized Streaming with Generalized Butterfly Graph Authentication'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, J. Apostolopoulos, W. Wong, IEEE ICIP, October 2008.

• ``Content-Aware Playout and Packet Scheduling for Video Streaming over Wireless Links", Yan Li, Athina Markopoulou, John Apostolopoulos, Nicholas Bambos, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, August 2008.

• ``Analysis of Packet Loss for Compressed Video: Effect of Burst Losses and Correlation Between Error Frames'', Y.J. Liang, J.G. Apostolopoulos, and B. Girod, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, July 2008.

• ``Wireless Video Broadcasting to Diverse Users'', C. Chan, N. Bambos, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE Inter. Conf. Communications, May 2008.

• ``Quality-Optimized and Secure End-to-End Authentication for Media Streaming'', Qibin Sun, John Apostolopoulos, Chang Wen Chen, and Shih-Fu Chang, invited paper in Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Recent Advances in Distributed Multimedia Communications'', January 2008.

• "Conversa: Uniting Mobile Video with a Community-Based Web Service", A. Vorbau, A. Mitchell, M. Trott, J. Apostolopoulos, D. Penkler, 11th Inter. Conf. on Intelligence in Service Delivery Networks (ICIN), October 2007.

• ``Stream Authentication Based on Generalized Butterfly Graph'', Z. Zhang, J. Apostolopoulos, Q. Sun, S. Wee, W. Wong, IEEE ICIP, September 2007.

• ``Towards Quality of Service for Peer-to-Peer Video Multicast'', E. Setton, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, September 2007.

• ``Lossless FMO and Slice Structure Modification for Compressed H.264 Video'', W. Tan, E. Setton, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, September 2007.

• "Introduction to the Issue on Network-Aware Multimedia Processing and Communications", A. Dumitras, H. Radha, J. Apostolopoulos, Y. Altunbasak, special issue in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Aug. 2007.

• ``Optimal Scheduling of Media Packets with Multiple Distortion Measures'', C. Chan, N. Bambos, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICME, July 2007.

• ``Rate-Distortion-Authentication Optimized Streaming of Authenticated Video'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, W. Wong, J. Apostolopoulos, S. Wee, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, May 2007.

• ``Dynamic Video Transcoding for 3G/3.5G/IMS Video Services and Fixed-to-Mobile Convergence'', Bo Shen, Francois-Xavier Kowalski, John Apostolopoulos, Frederic Huve, Wai-Tian Tan, poster presentation in HP TechCon2007. One of 120 accepted papers out of over 1000 submissions, April 2007.

• ``Conversa: Uniting Mobile Video with a Community-Based Web Service'' April Slayden Mitchell, Alex Vorbau, Mitch Trott, Dan Tan, John Apostolopoulos, Francois-Xavier Kowalski, Jehan Monnier, poster presentation in HP TechCon2007. One of 120 accepted papers out of over 1000 submissions, April 2007.

• ``Joint Packet Selection/Omission and {FEC} System for Streaming Video'', Y. Huang, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICASSP, April 2007.

• ``Rate-Distortion-Authentication Optimized Streaming with Multiple Deadlines'', Z. Zhang, J. Apostolopoulos, Q. Sun, S. Wee, W. Wong, IEEE ICASSP, April 2007. Finalist for best student paper award! Congrats Zhishou!

• ``Multiple Distortion Measures for Scalable Streaming with JPEG2000'', C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICASSP, April 2007.

• ``Path Diversity and the use of Multiple Description Coding'', J. Apostolopoulos, M. Trott, W. Tan, book chapter to appear in Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, M. van der Schaar and P. Chou, editors, Elsevier / Academic Press, publishers, March 2007.

• ``Infrastructure-Based Streaming Media Overlay Networks'', S. Wee, W. Tan, J. Apostolopoulos, book chapter to appear in Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, M. van der Schaar and P. Chou, editors, Elsevier / Academic Press, publishers, March 2007.

• ``An Optimized Content-Aware Authentication Scheme for Streaming JPEG-2000 Images over Lossy Networks'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, W. Wong, J. Apostolopoulos, S. Wee, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, February 2007.

• ``Architectural Principles for Supporting Secure Streaming and Secure Transcoding in the Developing Scalable Video Coding (SVC) Standard'', J. Apostolopoulos, invited paper at IEEE ICIP, 2006.

• ``Making Packet Erasures to Improve Quality of FEC-protected Video'', Y. Huang, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, 2006.

• ``Rate-Distortion Optimized Streaming of Authenticated Video'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, W. Wong, J. Apostolopoulos, S. Wee, IEEE ICIP, 2006.

• ``On Optimal Embedded Schedules of JPEG-2000 Packets'', C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, 2006.

• ``Joint Power-Playout Control for Media Streaming over Wireless Links'', Yan Li, Athina Markopoulou, Nicholas Bambos, John Apostolopoulos, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, August 2006.

• ``Secure Media Streaming and Secure Transcoding'', J. Apostolopoulos, S. Wee, book chapter in Multimedia Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management, edited by W. Zeng, H. Yu, C. Lin, Elsevier, July 2006.

• ``Receiver-based Optimization for Video Delivery over Wireless Links'', C. Chan, J. Apostolopoulos, Y. Li, N. Bambos, invited paper at IEEE ICME, July 2006.

• ``A Content-Aware Stream Authentication Scheme Optimized for Distortion and Overhead'', Z. Zhang, Q. Sun, W. Wong, J. Apostolopoulos, S. Wee, IEEE ICME, July 2006. Best Paper Award

• "The Emerging JPEG-2000 Security (JPSEC) Standard", John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, Frederic Dufaux, Touradj Ebrahimi, Qibin Sun, Zhishou Zhang, invited paper in IEEE ISCAS, May 2006.

• "End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized MD Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding", Brian Heng, John Apostolopoulos, Jae Lim, invited paper in EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing special issue on "Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission", Spring 2006.

• ``Source-Channel Diversity for Parallel Channels'', J. Nicholas Laneman, Emin Martinian, Gregory Wornell, John Apostolopoulos, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, October 2005.

• ``Rate-Distortion Hint Tracks for Adaptive Video Streaming'', Jacob Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, Wai-tian Tan, Bernd Girod, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, special issue on "Video Adaptation", October 2005.
  

• ``Joint Packet Scheduling and Content-Aware Playout Control for Video Streaming over Wireless Links'', Yan Li, Athina Markopoulou, John Apostolopoulos, Nicholas Bambos, invited paper, IEEE Inter. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 2005.

• "Examining Memory in Reconstruction Distortion: Dropping Additional Packets to Improve Video Quality", Jacob Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, IEEE Inter. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, October 2005.

• ``Optical Flow Estimation Using Temporally Oversampled Video'', S.H. Lim, J.G. Apostolopoulos and A. El Gamal, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, August 2005.

• ``Supporting Secure Transcoding in JPSEC'', John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, invited paper, SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, August 2005.

• ``Study and validation of tools interoperability in JPSEC'', V. Conan, Y. Sadourny, K. Jean-Marie, C. Chan, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, invited paper, SPIE Applications of Digital Image Processing, August 2005.

• ``Enterprise Streaming: Different Challenges from Internet Streaming'', John Apostolopoulos, Mitchell Trott, Ton Kalker, Wai-tian Tan, invited paper, IEEE ICME, July 2005.

• ``Joint Power-Playout Control for Media Streaming over Wireless Links'', Yan Li, Athina Markopoulou, Nicholas Bambos, John Apostolopoulos, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, May 2005.

• ``Real-Time Monitoring of Video Quality in IP Networks'', Shu Tao, John Apostolopoulos, Roch Guerin, ACM NOSSDAV, June 2005.

• ``Broadband in the Last Mile: Current and Future Applications'', John Apostolopoulos and Nikil Jayant, chapter within Broadband Last-Mile Technologies, Marcel Dekker, 2005.

• "End-to-End Rate-Distortion Optimized Mode Selection for Multiple Description Video Coding", Brian Heng, John Apostolopoulos, Jae Lim, invited paper in IEEE ICASSP, March 2005.

• ``Bringing Security to Digital Imagery: Driving JPSEC'', John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, full-paper in HP TechCon 2005 (highly competitive HP internal conference -- one of only 40 full-papers accepted out of about 1000 submissions), March 2005.

• ``Infrastructure for Interactive Streaming of Video to your Phone'', Sumit Roy, Michele Covell, John Ankcorn, Bo Shen, Wai-Tian Tan, John Apostolopoulos, Mitch Trott, Frederic Huve, Scott McGlashan, Simon Morlat, Yann Stephan, Philippe Wieczorek, full-paper in HP TechCon 2005 (highly competitive HP internal conference -- one of only 40 full-papers accepted out of about 1000 submissions), March 2005.

• ``Joint Power/Playout Control Schemes for Media Streaming over Wireless Links'', Yan Li, Athina Markopoulou, Nicholas Bambos, John Apostolopoulos, IEEE Packet Video, December 2004.

• ``Path Diversity for Enhanced Media Streaming'', John Apostolopoulos and Mitchell Trott, IEEE Communication Magazine special issue on "Proxy Support for Streaming on the Internet", 2004.

• ``Secure Media Streaming & Secure Adaptation for Non-scalable Video'', John Apostolopoulos, invited paper in IEEE ICIP, October 2004.

• ``Secure Transcoding with JPSEC Confidentiality and Authentication'', Susie Wee and John Apostolopoulos, invited paper in IEEE ICIP, October 2004.

• ``Benefits of Temporal Oversampling in Optical Flow Estimation'', SukHwan Lim, John Apostolopoulos, Abbas El Gamal, IEEE ICIP, October 2004.

• ``Low-Complexity Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Streaming'', Jacob Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, Bernd Girod, IEEE ICIP, October 2004.

• ``JPSEC for Secure Imaging in JPEG 2000'', F. Dufaux, S. Wee, J. Apostolopoulos, T. Ebrahimi, SPIE Proc. Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXVII, August 2004.

• ``Secure Scalable Streaming Media Systems that Enable Transcoding without Decryption'', John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, to appear as a full-paper in HP TechCon 2004 (highly competitive HP internal conference -- one of only 40 full-papers accepted out of over 1000 submissions).

• ``R-D Hint Tracks for Low-Complexity R-D Optimized Video Streaming'';, Jacob Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, Susie Wee, Wai-tian Tan, Bernd Girod, IEEE ICME, June 2004.

• ``Semantic-Enhanced Distribution & Adaptation Networks'', Bo Shen, Zhichen Xu, Susie Wee, and John Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICME, June 2004.

• ``Wise Video: Using In-band Wireless Loss Notification to Improve Rate-Controlled Video Streaming'', Athina Markopoulou, Eric Setton, Mark Kalman, John Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICME, June 2004.

• ``Divert: Fine-grained Path Selection for Wireless LANs'', Allen Miu, Godfrey Tan, Hari Balakrishnan, John Apostolopoulos, ACM MobiSys, Boston, MA, June 2004.

• ``Distortion Chains for Predicting the Video Distortion for General Packet Loss Patterns'', Jacob Chakareski, John Apostolopoulos, Wai-tian Tan, Susie Wee, Bernd Girod, IEEE ICASSP, May 2004.

• ``Secure Scalable Streaming and Secure Transcoding with JPEG-2000'', Susie Wee and John Apostolopoulos, IEEE ICIP, September 2003.

• ``Research and Design of a Mobile Streaming Media Content Delivery Network (MSM-CDN)'', S.J. Wee, J.G. Apostolopoulos, S. Roy, W. Tan,  Invited paper in IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July 2003.

• ``Low-latency Wireless Video over 802.11 Networks using Path Diversity'', A. Miu, J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, and M. Trott, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, July 2003.

• ``Mobile Streaming Media Content Delivery Network (MSM-CDN): System Design and Architecture'', Susie Wee, Wai-tian Tan, John Apostolopoulos, Sumit Roy, full-paper in HP TechCon 2003 (highly competitive HP internal conference -- one of only 40 full-papers accepted out of over 1500 submissions).
  

• ``Comparing Application- and Physical-Layer Approaches to Diversity on Wireless Channels'', J.N. Laneman, E. Martinian, G.W. Wornell, J.G. Apostolopoulos, and S.J. Wee, IEEE International Conference on Communications, May 2003.

• ``Analysis of Packet Loss for Compressed Video: Does Burst-Length Matter?'', Y.J. Liang, J.G. Apostolopoulos, and B. Girod, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2003.

• ``Playback-Buffer Equalization for Streaming Media using Stateless Transport Prioritization'', W. Tan, W. Cui, and J.G. Apostolopoulos, IEEE Packet Video, April 2003.

• ``Video Streaming: Concepts, Algorithms, and Systems'', J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, and S.J. Wee, Handbook of Video Databases, CRC Press, March 2003.  

• ``Compressed-Domain Video Processing'', S.J. Wee, B. Shen, and J.G. Apostolopoulos, Handbook of Video Databases, CRC Press, March 2003. 

• ``Model-Based Delay-Distortion Optimization for Video Streaming Using Packet Interleaving'', Y.J. Liang, J.G. Apostolopoulos, B. Girod,  Invited paper, 36th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, & Computers, November 2002.

• ``Performance of a Multiple Description Streaming Media Content Delivery Network'', J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, S.J. Wee,  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2002.

• ``Optimized Video Streaming for Networks with Varying Delay'', S. Wee, W. Tan, J. Apostolopoulos, M. Etoh,  Invited paper, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002.

• "On Multiple Description Streaming with Content Delivery Networks", J.G. Apostolopoulos, T. Wong, W. Tan, and S.J. Wee, IEEE INFOCOM, June 2002.

• "Modeling Path Diversity for Multiple Description Video Communication", J.G. Apostolopoulos, W. Tan, S.J. Wee, G.W. Wornell,  IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2002.

• ``Secure Scalable Streaming Enabling Transcoding without Decryption'', S.J. Wee and J.G. Apostolopoulos,  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2001. 

• ``Unbalanced Multiple Description Video Communication Using Path Diversity'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and S.J. Wee, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2001.

• ``Secure Scalable Video Streaming for Wireless Networks'', S.J. Wee and J.G. Apostolopoulos,  Invited paper, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2001.

• "Reliable Video Communication over Lossy Packet Networks using Multiple State Encoding and Path Diversity", J.G. Apostolopoulos,  Visual Communications and Image Processing, January 24-26, 2001. If you have problems printing the above pdf, try this one. Young Investigator Award (Best Paper Award).

• ``Video Compression Standards'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and S.J. Wee, Online Symposium for Electronics Engineers, January 2001.

• "Error-Resilient Video Compression Through the Use of Multiple States", by John Apostolopoulos,  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vancouver, CA, September 10-13, 2000. 

• ``Field-to-Frame Transcoding with Spatial and Temporal Downsampling'', S.J. Wee, J.G. Apostolopoulos, N. Feamster,  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 24-28, 1999.

• ``Error-Resilient Video Compression Via Multiple State Streams'', J.G. Apostolopoulos,  IEEE International Workshop on Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding, October 29-30, 1999.

• ``Error-Resilient Video Coding'', J.G. Apostolopoulos,  SPIE International Symposia on Voice, Video and Data Communications, September 20-22, 1999.

• ``Post-Processing for Very-low-bit-rate Video Compression,'' J.G. Apostolopoulos and N.S. Jayant,  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, August 1999.

• ``Video Compression Standards'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and S.J. Wee, Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, March 1999. 

• ``Efficient Processing of Compressed Video'', S.J. Wee and J.G. Apostolopoulos,  Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 1998.

• ``Critically Sampled Wavelet Representations for Multidimensional Signals with Arbitrary Regions of Support'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim,  IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1998.

• ``Transform/Subband Representations for Signals with Arbitrarily Shaped Regions of Support'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 1997.

• ``Representing Arbitrarily-Shaped Regions - A Case Study in Overcomplete Representations'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim,  IEEE Inter. Conf. on Image Processing, October 1995.

• ``Coding of Arbitrarily-Shaped Regions'', J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim,  Visual Communications and Image Processing, May 1995. Best Student Paper Award.

• ``Position-Dependent Encoding,'' J.G. Apostolopoulos, A. Pfajfer, H.M. Jung and J.S. Lim  IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 1994.

• ``Video Compression for Digital Advanced Television Systems,'' J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim, in Motion Analysis and Image Sequence Processing, M. Sezan and R. Lagendijk, eds., Chapter 15, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.

• ``Designing a Video Compression System for High Definition Television,'' J.G. Apostolopoulos, P.A. Monta, J.J. Nicolas and J.S. Lim,  Invited paper, IEEE Inter. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 1993. 

• ``Channel-Compatible DigiCipher HDTV System,'' J.S. Lim, P.A. Monta, J.J. Nicolas, J.G. Apostolopoulos, S. Cheung, W. Paik, E. Krause, V. Liu,  Invited paper, IEEE Inter. Conf. of Consumer Electronics, June 1992. 

• ``Channel-Compatible DigiCipher HDTV System'', submission by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and General Instrument Corporation as part of the U.S. High-Definition Television (HDTV) standardization competition, May 14, 1992. 

• ``Coding of the Motion-Compensated Residual for an All-Digital HDTV System,'' J.G. Apostolopoulos and J.S. Lim,  IEEE Workshop on Visual Signal Processing and Commun., Sept. 1992.

• ``Optical Link Demonstration with a Lightweight Transceiver Breadboard,'' H. Hemmati, J.R. Lesh, J.G. Apostolopoulos, et.al.,  SPIE Free-Space Laser Comm.~Technologies III, Vol. 1417, 1991.

A more comprehensive list of my, and my group's, research, publications, and patents, is available on the Streaming Media Systems Group's webpage.