Video Coding using Parallel and Distributed Systems

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Publications

Journal Papers

1. S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``Performance of a Software-Based MPEG-2 Video Encoder on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol.7, No.4, pp. 687-695, August 1997.

2. S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``A Data-Parallel Approach for Real-Time MPEG-2 Video Encoding'', Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 129-146, November 1995.

3. Yong He, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``A Software-based MPEG-4 Video Encoder using Parallel Processing'', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special issue on Image and Video Processing for Emerging Interactive Multimedia Services, September 1998, to appear.

4. Y. Kwok, K. Karlapalem, I. Ahmad and N. M. Pun, ``Data and Evaluation of Data Allocation Algorithms for Distributed Multimedia Database Systems'', IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Vol. 14, No. 7, pp. 506-521, September 1996.

Conference Papers

1. S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``A Software Based H.263 Video Encoder using a Cluster of Workstations'', Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 3166, pp. 266-273, SPIE's 1997 Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, 27 July - 1 August, 1997.

2. S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``A portable and Scalable MPEG-2 Video Encoder on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems'', Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2727, Pt. 2, pp. 973-984, Symposium on Visual Communications and Image Processing '96, Orlando, Florida, March 1996.

3. S. M. Akramullah, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``Parallelization of MPEG-2 Video Encoder for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems'', Proc. of 38th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 2, pp. 834-837, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1995.

4. Yong He, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``A Shape-Adaptive Partitioning Method for MPEG-4 Video Encoding'', Proc. of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS '98), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 1998.

5. Yong He, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``MPEG-4 Based Interactive Video using Parallel Processing'', Proc. of the 1998 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '98), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, August 10-15, 1998.

6. Yong He, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``Real-Time Distributed and Parallel Processing for MPEG-4'', Proc. of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '98), Monterey, CA, USA, May 31 - June 3, 1998.

7. Yong He, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``An Implementation of MPEG-4 Video Verification Model Encoder Using Parallel Processing'', Proc. of 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC '97), Sydney, Australia, December 1997.

8. M. Kafil, I. Ahmad and M. L. Liou, ``Encoding MPEG-2 video batches using a multiprocessor machine'', Proc. of the SPIE, Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing II, Vol. 3452, San Diego, CA, USA, 19-24 July 1998, to appear.

9. L. L. Yin Savio and I. Ahmad, ``A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Motion Estimation'', SPIE 1995 Symposium on Information, Communications and Computer Technology, Applications and Systems, Philadelphia, October 1995.

Other Publications

• S. M. Akramullah, ``Real-Time MPEG-2 Video Encoding on Parallel and Distributed Systems'', MPhil Thesis, HKUST, July 1995.

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