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Prof. Sanjit Mitra
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Many advances in digital image and video processing have facilitated the enormous growth of these disciplines in support of science, manufacturing and entertainment. In this presentation, Dr. Mitra will provide an overview of some recent research results in this vibrant field. He will address three specific areas that have particular relevance to laboratory data processing: image analysis, image filtering, and image and video compression. In image analysis, he will explore the areas of camera calibration, color image segmentation and image resizing. Topics discussed under the second category of image filtering will be impulse noise removal, color image filtering and contrast enhancement. Finally, in the third category, Dr. Mitra will address image compression using sub-band DCT (discrete cosine transform) techniques and using perfect-reconstruction IIR QMF (infinite impulse response, quadrature mirror filterbanks). He will also present rate-distortion analysis of images and videos.

Biography
Professor Sanjit K. Mitra is internationally known for his work in analog and digital signal processing and image processing. He has published over 600 papers, is the author or co-author of 12 books, and holds five patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and a member of the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP).

This year, he received the 2006 James H. Mulligan, Jr. IEEE Education Medal for “outstanding contributions to electrical engineering education through pioneering textbooks, innovative laboratory development, and curriculum reform.” He is the recipient of numerous other awards during his distinguished career at UC Santa Barbara, including the 1989 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany) Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist, the IEEE Millennium Medal in 2000, and the 2002 Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP.

In 2006, Professor Mitra joined the Viterbi School at USC as the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor of Electrical Engineering (Systems). Professor Mitra received a B.S. with honors in Physics from Utkal University, India, in 1953, an M.S. in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta in 1956, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and 1962, respectively.

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