Oscar C. AU (區子廉, PhD, Princeton, 1991)

 

Journal Publications (complete list) - students listed in italics, postdoc marked with *

  1. Xing Wen, O.C. Au, Jiang Xu, Lu Fang, Run Cha, “Novel RD-optimized VBSME with Matching Highly Data Re-usable Hardware Architecture”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, in Sept. 2010.

  2. Jiantao Zhou, O.C. Au, “On the Security of Chaotic Convolutional Coder”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems – I in Aug. 2010.

  3. Lu Fang, O.C. Au, Xing Wen, Yi Yang, “Subpixel-based Image Down-sampling with Min-Max Directional Error for Stripe Display”, accepted by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing in Jun. 2010.

  4. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Ngai Man Cheung*, Jiantao Zhou and Ling Hou, “Transform-domain Adaptive Correlation Estimation (TRACE) for General Wyner-Ziv Video Coding”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in May 2010.

  5. Jiantao Zhou, O.C. Au, “Synchronization Recovery of Variable Length Codes over Binary Symmetric Channel”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Communications in Dec 2009

  6. Ngai-Man Cheung*, Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, M.C. Kung, “Video Coding and Transcoding on Multi-Core Graphics Processors”, accepted by IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special issue on Signal  Processing on Platforms with Multiple Cores: Part 2 -- Design and Applications, in Nov. 2009.

  7. Zhiding Yu, O.C. Au, Ruobing Zou, Weiyu Yu, Jing Tian, “An Adaptive Unsupervised Scheme for Pixel Clustering and Color Image Pre-Segmentation”, accepted by Elsevier Journal of Pattern Recognition in Oct 2009.

  8. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Ngai Man Cheung*, Yan Chen, Jiantao Zhou, ”Successive Refinement based Wyner-Ziv Video Compression”, accepted by Signal Processing: Image Communication in Sept. 2009.

  9. Mengyao Ma, O.C. Au, S.H. Gary Chan, Ming-Ting Sun, “Edge-Directed Error Concealment”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in Aug. 2009.

  10. Ngai-Man Cheung*, O.C. Au, M.C. Kung, Peter H.W. Wong, Chun Hung Liu, “Highly Parallel Rate-Distortion Optimized Intra Mode Decision On Multi-Core Graphics Processors”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Algorithm/Architecture Co-Exploration of Visual Computing,  in July 2009.

  11. Liwei Guo, O.C. Au, Mengyao Ma, Peter H.W. Wong, “Integration of Recursive Temporal LMMSE Denoising Filtering for Video Codec”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in Jun 2009.

  12. Liwei Guo, O.C. Au, Mengyao Ma, Zhiqin Liang, “Fast Multi-Hypothesis Motion Compensated Filter for Video Denoising”, accepted by Journal of Signal Processing Systems in Mar 2009.

  13. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Yan Chen, Jiantao Zhou, Mengyao Ma, Peter H.W. Wong, “Wyner-Ziv Based Bidirectionally Decodable Video Coding”, accepted by Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation in Mar 2009.

  14. Mengyao Ma, O.C. Au, S.H. Gary Chan, Liwei Guo, “Error Resilient Coding using B Frames in H.264”, accepted by IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology in Mar 2009.

  15. Jiantao Zhou, O.C. Au, P.H.W. Wong, Xiaopeng Fan, “Adaptive Chosen-ciphertext Attack on Secure Arithmetic Coding”, IEEE Trans. On Signal Processing, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 1825-1838, May 2009.

  16. Liwei Guo, O.C. Au, Mengyao Ma, Zhiqin Liang, Peter H.W. Wong, “A Novel Analytic Quantization Distortion Model for Hybrid Video Coding”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol .19, No. 5, pp. 627-641, May 2009.

  17. Mengyao Ma, O.C. Au, Liwei Guo, S.H. Gary Chan, Xiaopeng Fan, Ling Hou, “Alternate Motion-Compensated Prediction for Error Resilient Video Coding”, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 19, No. 7, pp. 437-449, Oct. 2008.

  18. Mengyao Ma, O.C. Au, Liwei Guo, S.H. Gary Chan, Peter H.W. Wong, “Error Concealment for Frame Losses in MDC”, IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 1638-1647, Dec. 2008.

  19. Yan Chen, O.C. Au, Xiaopeng Fan, “Simultaneous MAP-Based Video Denoising and Rate-Distortion Optimized Video Encoding”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 15-26, Jan 2009.

  20. Jiantao Zhou, O.C. Au, “Comments on ”A Novel Compression and Encryption Scheme Using Variable Model Arithmetic Coding and Coupled Chaotic System””, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems - 1, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 3368-3369, Nov. 2008.

  21. Yan Chen, Yang Hu, O.C. Au, Houqiang Li, Chang Wen Chen, “Video Error Concealment using Spatio-Temporal Boundary Matching and Partial Differential Equation”, IEEE Trans. On Multimedia, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 2-15, Jan. 2008.

  22. Liwei Guo, O.C. Au, Mengyao Ma, Zhiqin Liang, “Temporal Video Denoising Based on Multihypothesis Motion”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 17, No. 10, pp. 1423-1429, Oct. 2007.

  23. Jiantao Zhou, Zhiqin Liang, Yan Chen, O.C. Au, “Security Analysis of Multimedia Encryption Schemes based on Multiple Huffman Table”, IEEE Signal Processing Letter, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 201-204, Mar 2007.

  24. Dicky C.W. Wong, O.C. Au, “Linear Real Time Rate Control”, HKIE Transactions, Vol. 14, No. 1, P. 54, Mar 2006.

  25. Jiantao Zhou, W. J. Pei, K. Wang, Z. Y. He, O.C. Au, “Asymptotic Model of Deterministic Randomness and its Application to Secure Communications”, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 305-310, WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Mar. 2006.

  26. Mengyao Ma, O.C. Au, S.H. Gary Chan, “Multiple Description Coding for Error Resilient Video Transmission”, WSEAS Trans. On Computers, pp. 1426-1431, issue 10, Vol. 1, Oct 2005.

  27. Y.M. Yeung, O.C. Au, “Efficient Rate Control for JPEG2000 Image coding”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 335-344, Mar 2005.

  28. P.H.W. Wong, O.C. Au, “A Capacity Estimation Technique for Jpeg-to-Jpeg Image Watermarking”, IEEE Trans. On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 8, pp. 746-752, Aug. 2003.

  29. P.H.W. Wong, O.C. Au, “A Novel Blind Multiple Watermarking Technique for Images”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 8, Aug. 2003.

  30. P.H.W. Wong, O.C. Au, Y.M. Yeung, “Fast SOLA-based Time Scale Modification using Envelope Matching“, J. of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol. 35, No. 1, Aug. 2003.

  31. M.S. Fu, O.C. Au, “A Self-Conjugate Watermarking Technique for Halftone Images”, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol 39, No. 4, pp.356-358, Feb 2003.

  32. M.S. Fu, O.C. Au, “Steganography in Halftone Images: Conjugate Error Diffusion”, Signal Processing: Special Issue on Security of Data Hiding Technology, Vol. 83, pp. 2171-2178, Oct. 2003.

  33. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, and M.L. Liou, “Highly Efficient Predictive Zonal Algorithms for Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 12, No. 10, pp. 934-947, Oct. 2002.

  34. M.S. Fu, O.C. Au, “Data Hiding Watermarking for Halftone Images”, IEEE Trans. On Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 477-484, Apr. 2002.

  35. M.S. Fu, O.C. Au, “Halftone Image Data Hiding with Intensity Selection and Connection Selection”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 909 – 930, Aug. 2001.

  36. M.S. Fu, O.C. Au, “Data Hiding in Ordered Dithered Halftone Images”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.209-232, Jun. 2001.

  37. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, G. Shen, “Fast and Efficient Motion Estimation using Diamond Zonal based Algorithms”, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp.233-251, Jun. 2001.

  38. P.H.W. Wong, O.C. Au, "Modified One-Bit Transform for Motion Estimation", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 9, No. 7, pp.1020-1024, Oct. 1999.

  39. O.C. Au, L.K. Ma, M.L. Liou, "Advances in Fractal Image and Video Coding", Journal of Circuits and Systems, Vol-1, No. 1, pp. 6-18, Mar. 1996.

  40. O.C. Au, "On Sensitivity of Detector Structures to Contaminants in Non-white Mixture Noise Model", Signal Processing, Vol-50, No. 3, pp. 195-204, May 1996.

  41. O.C. Au, "Locally Optimal and Suboptimal Signal Detection in Transformation Noise", IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronics System, Vol-32, No. 2, pp. 742-753, Apr 1996.

  42. O.C. Au, J.B. Thomas, "On Transformation Noise: Properties and Modeling", Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol-330, No. 4, pp.707-720, July 1993.
     

Standard Contributions (complete list)  - students listed in italics, postdoc marked with *

  1. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Fast Motion Estimation using Circular Zonal Search,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m4038, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, Oct. 1998.

  2. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “The Second Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Half Stop Circular Zonal Search,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m4239, Roma, Italy, Dec. 1998.

  3. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Half Stop Zonal Search with Adaptive Search Area,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m4580, Seoul, Korea, Mar. 1999.

  4. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, G. Shen, “Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Diamond Zonal Search with Embedded Radar,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m4917, Vancouver, Canada, July 1999.

  5. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, G. Shen, “Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Advanced Diamond Zonal Search with Embedded Radar,” ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m4980, Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 1999.

  6. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, G. Shen, “Hardware/software complexity issues between two fast motion estimation algorithms: the Advanced Diamond Zonal Search with Embedded Radar (ADZS-ER) and Diamond Search (DS)”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m5321, Maui, USA, Dec. 1999.

  7. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Advanced Predictive Diamond Zonal Search (APDZS)”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m5865, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherland, Mar. 2000.

  8. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Core Experiment On Block Based Motion Estimation”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m5867, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherland, Mar. 2000.

  9. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation using Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique (PMVFAST)”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/m5866, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherland, Mar. 2000. PMVFAST accepted into MPEG-4 Part 7.

  10. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, M.L. Liou, “Implementation of the Predictive Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique (PMVFAST) algorithm in the Optimization Model 1.0”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2000/m6194, Beijing, China, July 2000.

  11. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, “Verification Results of the Feature-based Fast and Robust Global Motion Estimation Technique (FFRGMET) for Sprite Coding”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2000/m6216, Beijing, China, July 2000.

  12. A.M. Tourapis, O.C. Au, “Verification Results of the Feature-based Fast and Robust Global Motion Estimation Technique (FFRGMET) for Sprite Coding”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG2000/m6552, La Baule, France, Oct. 2000.

  13. Chi-Wah Wong, O.C. Au, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Hong-Kwai Lam, “AVS Fast Real-time Rate Control”, 10th China AVS meeting/AVS-M1372, Suzhou, China, Sept. 2004.

  14. O.C. Au, H.M. Wong, Xiaopeng Fan, “A Novel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm”, 14th AVS meeting/AVS-M1671, Shanghai, China, Sept. 2005.

  15. O.C. Au, H.M. Wong, Xiaopeng Fan, “A Novel Fast Motion Estimation Algorithm (EPMVFAST Extension)”, 16th AVS meeting/AVS-M1793, Beijing, China, Mar. 2006. EPMVFAST accepted into AVS-M standard.

  16. Amanda Wu, O.C. Au, Dicky Chi Wah Wong, “Advanced Macroblock Header Entropy Coding”, 23th AVS meeting/AVS-M1793, Shanghai, China, Dec. 2007.

  17. Jiantao Zhou, Yannan Wu, O.C. Au, “A Light Weight Encryption algorithm for AVS-S”, 26th AVS meeting/AVS-M2435, Beijing, China, Sept 2008.

  18. Jiantao Zhou, Yannan Wu, O.C. Au, “A Light Weight Encryption algorithm for AVS-S”, 27th AVS meeting/AVS-M2492, Tianjin, China, Dec 2008. Light weight encryption accepted into AVS-S standard.

  19. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Feng Zou, Yannan Wu, Wen Yang, “L-slice and lossless error resilient transcoding”, 27th AVS meeting/AVS-M2491, Tianjin, China, Dec 2008.

  20. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Feng Zou, Yannan Wu, Wen Yang, “L-slice and lossless error resilient transcoding”, 28th AVS meeting/AVS-M2533, Hangzhou, China, Mar 2009. L-slice accepted into AVS standard.

  21. Xiaopeng Fan, O.C. Au, Xing Wen, Haitao Yang*, “A new slice type for supporting lossless error resilient transcoding”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/MPEG2009/m16861, Xian, China, Oct. 2009.

  22. Jingjing Dai, O.C. Au, Wen Yang, Yu Liu, Xing Wen, “An efficient motion vector coding algorithm based on adaptive motion vector prediction”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/MPEG2009 /m16862, Xian, China, Oct. 2009.

  23. Jiantao Zhou, O.C. Au, Xing Wen, Haitao Yang*, “Joint Compression and Encryption for MPEG Video”, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/MPEG2009 /m16864, Xian, China, Oct. 2009.

  24. Feng Zou, O.C. Au, Wen Yang, Xingyu Zhang, Yu Liu, “Adaptive Intra-Prediction based on Edge Information”, 31st AVS meeting/AVS-M2649, Beijing, China, Dec 2009.

  25. Wen Yang, O.C. Au, Jingjing Dai, Feng Zou, Xingyu Zhang, Yu Liu, “A Novel Method for Selection of Motion Vector Predictors”, 31st AVS meeting/AVS-M2650, Beijing, China, Dec 2009.

  26. Lu Fang, O.C. Au, Xingyu Zhang, Lingfeng Xu, Yuanfang Guo, “ A request to consider developing a coding standard for 4-component video”, 31st AVS meeting/AVS-M2659, Beijing, China, Dec 2009.