Welcome to the website of the Signal Compression Lab (SCL). A constituent of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), we are located at 3166, Harold Frank Hall, on the beautiful oceanfront of the campus.
Our research covers a wide spectrum of topics in signal compression and related areas, and is a confluence of both theoretical foundations, and practical algorithms and applications. Multimedia compression and networking, in particular audio and video coding, and transmission, estimation theory, distributed source coding, pattern recognition and classification, indexing and retrieval from databases, and bio-informatics, are some of our current research emphases. Follow the various links at the top of this page for more information on our research activities and people involved.
News
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded the ECE Research Accelerator Award in 2022 by ECE department at UCSB.
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded the Spring 2022 ECE Dissertation Fellowship.
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded again for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant in 2021 by the Department of ECE at UCSB
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded again for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant in 2020 by the Department of ECE at UCSB.
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded again for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant in 2019 by the Department of ECE at UCSB.
Ahmed Elshafiy awarded for outstanding performance as a Teaching Assistant in 2018 by the Department of ECE at UCSB.
The paper titled "Rotational Motion Model for Temporal Prediction in 360 Video Coding", by Bharath Vishwanath, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy and Prof. Rose, awarded the Top 10% Paper Award at IEEE MMSP, 2017.
Jingning Han, Ankur Saxena, and Vinay Melkote awarded the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for the paper co-authored with Prof. Rose, "Jointly Optimized Spatial Prediction and Block Transform for Video and Image Coding"
The paper titled "Asymptotic Closed-loop Design for Transform Domain Temporal Prediction", by Shunyao Li, Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Yue Chen and Prof. Rose, awarded the Top 10% Paper Award at IEEE ICIP, 2015.
Yue Chen, Mustafa Mehmetoglu and Renuka Shenoy awarded the Spring 2015 ECE Dissertation Fellowship.
The paper titled "Hidden Markov Model-based Multi-modal Image Fusion with Efficient Training", by Renuka Shenoy, Min-Chi Shih and Prof. Rose, awarded the Top 10% Paper Award at IEEE ICIP, 2014.
The paper titled "A unified estimation-theoretic framework for error-resilient scalable video coding", by Jingning Han, Vinay Melkote and Prof. Rose,
awarded the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICME, 2012
Jingning
Han awarded the Spring
2012
ECE Dissertation Fellowship.
Jingning
Han again awarded for outstanding
performance as a Teaching
Assistant in 2011 by the Department of ECE.
Vinay Melkote's dissertation titled "Optimal Delayed Decisions in Encoding and Decoding of Audio Signals and General Sources" featured in IEEE Signal Processing Newsletter Nov. 2010
The paper titled "Perceptual Distortion-Rate Optimization of Long Term Prediction in MPEG AAC", by Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Vinay Melkote, Emmanuel Ravelli and Prof. Rose, wins the Student Technical Paper Award of the Audio Engineering Society, at AES 129th Convention, Nov 2010
Emrah Akyol awarded the Spring 2010 ECE Dissertation Fellowship.
Jingning
Han awarded for outstanding
performance as a Teaching
Assistant in 2010 by the Department of ECE.
The paper titled "A modified distortion metric for audio coding", by Vinay Melkote and Prof. Rose,
awarded the Best Student
Paper Award
at
IEEE ICASSP, 2009
Dr.
Aggarwal, Dr. Regunathan, and Prof. Rose awarded the 2007 IEEE
Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
Prof.
Gersho awarded the 2007 IEEE
James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award - "For contributions to the theory and
application of
speech coding" by the IEEE Board of Governors