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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!

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... (more).

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... (more).

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, to be presented at AES 129th Convention, Nov 2010... (more).

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 (more...).

Dr. Aggarwal, Dr. Regunathan, and Prof. Rose awarded the 2007 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (more...).

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 (more...).