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Index
 Books | Book Chapters | Journals | Patents | Conferences | Panels | MPEG/ANSI/DAVIC Contributions | Manuscripts in Review | Software | Theses | Other

Books

Video on Demand Systems: Technology, Interoperability and Trials, S.-F. Chang, D. Anastassiou, A. Eleftheriadis, and J. Pavlik, Editors, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997 (ISBN 0-7923-9949-8).

Delivering MPEG-4 Based Audio-Visual Services, H. Kalva, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000, ISBN 0-7923-7255-7). [This book is based on Dr. Kalva's Ph.D. thesis.]

Book Chapters

  1. H. Kalva, S.-F. Chang, A. Eleftheriadis, and H. Okuda, "DAVIC Standard for Multimedia Applications," Handbook of Multimedia Computing, B. Furht, Editor, CRC Press, 1998 (ISBN 0-8493-1825-4).

  2. A. Puri and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4: An Object-Based Standard for Multimedia Coding," Visual Information Representation, Communication, and Image Processing, C.-W. Chen and Y.-Q. Zhang, Editors, Marcel Dekker, 1999 (ISBN 0-8247-1928-X).

  3. O. Avaro, A. Eleftheriadis, C. Herpel, G. Rajan, and L. Ward, "MPEG-4 Systems Overview", Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, A. Puri and T. Chen, Editors, Marcel Dekker, 2000 (ISBN 0-8247-9303-X).

  4. C. Herpel, A. Eleftheriadis, and G. Fransescini, "MPEG-4 Systems: Elementary Stream Management and Delivery", Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, A. Puri and T. Chen, Editors, Marcel Dekker, 2000 (ISBN 0-8247-9303-X).

  5. J. Signes, Y. Fisher, and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4: Scene Representation and Interactivity," Multimedia Systems, Standards, and Networks, A. Puri and T. Chen, Editors, Marcel Dekker, 2000 (ISBN 0-8247-9303-X).

  6. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Hong, "Flavor: A Language for Media Representation," Handbook of Video Databases, B. Furht and O. Marques, Editors, CRC Press, 2003 (ISBN 084937006X).

  7. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Hong, "Using Flavor for Bitstream Representation," Audio Anecdotes, K. Greenbaum, Editor, A. K. Peters, 2003 (ISBN 1-56881-104-7).

  8. K. Greenbaum, C. A. Hresko, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Hong, "Audio File Formats: A Formal Description Based Approach," Audio Anecdotes, K. Greenbaum, Editor, A. K. Peters, 2003 (ISBN 1-56881-104-7).

Journal Publications

  1. A. Eleftheriadis, S. Pejhan, and D. Anastassiou, "Architecture and Algorithms of the Xphone Multimedia Communication System", Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 2, Nr. 2, August 1994, pp. 89-100.

  2. A. Eleftheriadis and A. Jacquin, "Automatic Face Location Detection and Tracking for Model-Assisted Coding of Video Teleconferencing Sequences at Low Bit Rates", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 7, Nr. 3, September 1995, pp. 231-248.

  3. S. Pejhan, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Distributed Multicast Address Management in the Global Internet", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Special Issue on the Global Internet, Vol. 13, Nr. 8, October 1995, pp. 1445-1456.

  4. A. Eleftheriadis and A. Jacquin, "Automatic Face Location Detection for Model-Assisted Rate Control in H.261-Compatible Coding of Video", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Special Issue on Coding Techniques for Very Low Bit-rate Video, Vol. 7, Nrs. 4-6, November 1995, pp. 435-455.

  5. S.-F. Chang, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Development of Columbia's Video on Demand Testbed", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Special Issue on Video on Demand and Interactive Television, Vol. 8, Nr. 3, April 1996, pp. 191-207.

  6. O. Avaro, P. Chou, A. Eleftheriadis, C. Herpel, and C. Reader, "The MPEG-4 System and Description Languages: A Way Ahead in Audio Visual Information Representation", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Special Issue on MPEG-4, Vol. 9, No. 4, May 1997, pp. 385-431 (invited paper).

  7. S.-F. Chang, A. Eleftheriadis, D. Anastassiou, S. Jacobs, H. Kalva, and J. Zamora, "Columbia's VoD and Multimedia Research Testbed with Heterogeneous Network Support", Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Video on Demand, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 5, Nr. 2, September 1997, pp. 171-184.

  8. H. Kalva, S.-F. Chang, and A. Eleftheriadis, "DAVIC and Interoperability Experiments", Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, Special Issue on Video on Demand, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Vol. 5, Nr. 2, September 1997, pp. 119-132.

  9. S.-F. Chang, A. Eleftheriadis, and R. McClintock, "Next-Generation Content Representation, Creation and Searching for New Media Applications in Education", IEEE Proceedings, Special Issue on Multimedia Signal Processing and Technology, Vol. 86, No. 5, May 1998, pp. 884-904 (invited paper).

  10. A. Puri and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4: A Multimedia Coding Standard Supporting Mobile Applications" ACM Mobile Networks and Applications Journal, Special Issue on Mobile Multimedia Communications, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 1998, pp. 5-32 (invited paper).

  11. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, "Streaming Video using TCP Flow Control and Dynamic Rate Shaping", Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Special Issue on Image Technology for Word-Wide-Web Applications, Vol. 9, No. 3, September 1998, pp. 211-222.

  12. S. Jacobs, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Silence Detection for Multimedia Communication Systems", ACM/Springer Verlag Multimedia Systems Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2, March 1999, pp. 157-164.

  13. H. Kalva, A. Eleftheriadis, and J. Zamora, "Delivering Object-Based Audio-Visual Services," IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 45, Nr. 4, November 1999, pp. 1108-1111.

  14. H. Kalva, L. Tang, J.-F. Huard, G. Tselikis, J. Zamora, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Implementing Multiplexing, Streaming and Server Interaction for MPEG-4," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Object Based Video Coding and Description, Vol. 9, Nr. 8, December 1999, pp. 1299-1312.

  15. O. Avaro, A. Eleftheriadis, C. Herpel, G. Rajan, and L. Ward, "MPEG-4 Systems: Overview", Signal Processing: Image Communication, Tutorial Issue on the MPEG-4 Standard, Vol. 15, Nos. 4-5, January 2000, pp. 281-298.

  16. C. Herpel and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Systems: Elementary Stream Management," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Tutorial Issue on the MPEG-4 Standard, Vol. 15, Nos. 4-5, January 2000, pp. 299-320.

  17. J. Signes, Y. Fisher, and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4's Binary Format for Scene Description," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Tutorial Issue on the MPEG-4 Standard, Vol. 15, Nos. 4-5, January 2000, pp. 321-345.

  18. J. Zamora, S. Jacobs, A. Eleftheriadis, S.-F. Chang, and D. Anastassiou, "A Practical Methodology for Guaranteeing QoS for Video on Demand", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, Nr. 5, August 2000, pp. 704-714.

  19. J. B. Lee and A. Eleftheriadis, "2-D Transform Domain Resolution Translation", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, Nr. 5, August 2000, pp. 704-714.

  20. H. Luo, J. Kouloheris, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Statistical Model Based Video Segmentation and its Application to Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 16, No. 3, October 2000, pp. 333-352.

  21. A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Systems: Architecting Object-Based Audio-Visual Content," Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Vol. 27, Nos. 1-2, February 2001, pp. 55-67.

  22. J.-B. Lee, J.-S. Cho, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Optimal Buffered Compression and Coding Mode Selection for MPEG-4 Shape Coding," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 2001, pp. 686-700.

  23. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "An Interactive Authoring System for Video Object Segmentation and Annotation," Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 17, No. 7, August 2002, pp. 559-572.

  24. D. Sow and A. Eleftheriadis, "Complexity Distortion Theory," IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, Vol. 49, No. 3, March 2003, pp. 604-608.

  25. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "Real-Time Model-Based Segmentation and Tracking of Head-and-Shoulder Video Objects with Applications to Videophone Service," IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 5, Nr. 3, September 2003, pp. 379-389.

  26. A. Eleftheriadis and P. Batra, "Optimal Data Partitioning of MPEG-2 Coded Video," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 14, Nr. 10, October 2004, pp. 1195-1209.

  27. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Algorithms for Multiplex Scheduling of MPEG-4 Presentations," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 14, Nr. 12, November 2004, pp. 1283-1293.

  28. A. Eleftheriadis and P. Batra, "Dynamic Rate Shaping of Compressed Digital Video," IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, accepted for publication (to appear in 2005).

Patents

12 Awarded, 7 Pending

Conference Publications

  1. F. M. Wang, R. Mokry, T. H. Chiang, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Compatible Coding of Digital Interlaced HDTV Using Prediction of the Even Fields from the Odd Fields" Proceedings, Fourth International Workshop on HDTV and Beyond, Torino, Italy, September 1991. This paper is reprinted in the book "Signal Processing of HDTV", III, H. Yasuda and L. Chiariglione, Editors, Elsevier, 1992.

  2. A. Eleftheriadis, S. Pejhan, and D. Anastassiou, "Algorithms and Performance Evaluation of the Xphone Multimedia Communication System", Proceedings, ACM Multimedia 93 Conference, Anaheim, California, August 1993, pp. 311-320.

  3. A. Eleftheriadis and A. Jacquin, "Model-Assisted Coding of Videoteleconferencing Sequences at Low Bit Rates", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, London, England, May-June 1994, pp. 3.177-3.180.

  4. S.-F. Chang and A. Eleftheriadis, "Error Accumulation of Repetitive Image Coding", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, London, England, May-June 1994, pp. 3.201-3.204.

  5. S. Pejhan, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Multiparty Multimedia Communication Systems", Proceedings, 2nd Iranian Conference on Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran, May 1994.

  6. S.-F. Chang, D. Anastassiou, A. Eleftheriadis, J. Meng, S. Paek, S. Pejhan, and J. R. Smith, "Development of Advanced Image/Video Servers in a Video on Demand Testbed", Proceedings, IEEE Visual Signal Processing and Communications Workshop, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September 1994.

  7. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Anastassiou, "Optimal Data Partitioning of MPEG-2 Coded Video", Proceedings, 1st IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, Texas, November 1994, pp. I.273-I.277.

  8. A. Eleftheriadis, S. Pejhan, and D. Anastassiou, "Address Management and Connection Control for Multicast Communication Applications", Proceedings, IEEE Infocom '95 Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 1995, pp. 386-393.

  9. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Anastassiou, "Meeting Arbitrary QoS Constraints Using Dynamic Rate Shaping of Coded Digital Video", Proceedings, 5th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Durham, New Hampshire, April 1995, pp. 95-106. Reprinted in "Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series," Vol. 1018, Springer-Verlag, 1995.

  10. A. Jacquin and A. Eleftheriadis, "Automatic Location Tracking of Faces and Facial Features in Video Sequences", Proceedings, International Workshop on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Zurich, Switzerland, June 1995.

  11. C. Aurrecoechea, A. Campbell, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Meeting End-to-End QoS Challenges for Adaptive Digital Video Flows", Proceedings, 6th IFIP International Conference on High Performance Networking, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, September 1995.

  12. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Anastassiou, "Constrained and General Dynamic Rate Shaping of Compressed Digital Video", Proceedings, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, DC, October 1995, pp. III.396-399.

  13. A. Eleftheriadis and A. Jacquin, "Low Bit Rate Model-Assisted H.261-Compatible Coding of Video", Proceedings, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, DC, October 1995, II.428-421.

  14. A. Campbell, A. Eleftheriadis, and C. Aurrecoechea, "End-to-End QoS Management of Adaptive Video Flows", Proceedings, International Symposium on Multimedia Communications and Video Coding, Brooklyn, NY, October 1995.

  15. A. Eleftheriadis, "Architecting Video-on-Demand Systems: DAVIC 1.0 and Beyond", Proceedings, International Symposium on Multimedia Communications and Video Coding, Brooklyn, NY, October 1995 (invited paper).

  16. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, "Video Pump Design for Interoperability with Set Top Units: The Case Against Small PDUs", Proceedings, 6th International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video, Zushi, Japan, April 1996, pp. 123-129.

  17. J.-B. Lee and A. Eleftheriadis, "Spatio-Temporal Model-Assisted Compatible Coding for Low and Very Low Bitrate Videotelephony", Proceedings, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996, pp. II.429-II.432.

  18. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "A Syntactic Framework for Bitstream-Level Representation of Audio-Visual Objects", Proceedings, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-96), Lausanne, Switzerland, September 1996, pp. II.421-II.424.

  19. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, Providing Video Services over Networks without Quality of Service Guarantees", Proceedings, WWW Consortium Workshop on Real-Time Multimedia and the Web, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 1996.

  20. J.-B. Lee and A. Eleftheriadis, "Motion Adaptive Model-Assisted Compatible Coding with Spatio-Temporal Scalability", Proceedings, Visual Communications and Image Processing Conference, San Jose, California, February 1997, pp. I.622-634.

  21. S.-F. Chang and A. Eleftheriadis, "Columbia VoD Testbed and Interoperability Experiment", Proceedings, 7th IFIP Conference on High Performance Networking (HPN-97), White Plains, New York, April-May 1997 (invited presentation).

  22. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, "Adaptive Video Applications for Non-QoS Networks", Proceedings, IFIP Fifth International Workshop on Quality of Service, May 1997, pp. 161-164.

  23. A. Eleftheriadis, "The MPEG-4 System Description Languages: From Practice to Theory", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Hong Kong, June 1997, pp. 1480-1483 (invited paper).

  24. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, "Real-Time Dynamic Rate Shaping and Control for Internet Video Applications", Proceedings, 1st IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, June 1997 (invited paper and demonstration).

  25. D. Sow and A. Eleftheriadis, "Complexity Distortion Theory", Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications, Ulm, Germany, June 1997, p. 188.

  26. H. Kalva, A. Eleftheriadis, and S.-F. Chang, "Columbia's Video on Demand Testbed", Proceedings, International Conference on Communications, Montreal, Canada, June 1997 (invited presentation).

  27. S. Jacobs and A. Eleftheriadis, "Real-Time Video on the Web using Dynamic Rate Shaping", Proceedings, 4th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-97), Santa Barbara, California, October 1997, pp. II.250-253.

  28. D. Sow and A. Eleftheriadis, "Algorithmic Representation of Visual Information", Proceedings, 4th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-97), Santa Barbara, California, October 1997, pp. III.14-17.

  29. A. Eleftheriadis, "Flavor: A Language for Media Representation", Proceedings, ACM Multimedia '97 Conference, Seattle, WA, November 1997, pp. 1-9.

  30. J.-B. Lee, J.-S. Cho, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Optimal Shape Coding Under Buffer Constraints", 5th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-98), Chicago, Illinois, October 1998, pp. I.290-294.

  31. H. Luo, J. Kouloheris, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Statistical Model-Based Video Segmentation and its Application to Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding", Proceedings, 5th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-98), Chicago, Illinois, October 1998, pp. III.438-442.

  32. D. Sow and A. Eleftheriadis, "Representing Information with Computational Resource Bounds", 1998 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, November 1998.

  33. Y.Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "Automatic Generation of Entropy Coding Programs using Flavor", 1998 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP-98), December 1998, pp. 341-346.

  34. A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Systems: Architecting Object-Based Audiovisual Content", IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP-98), December 1998, pp. 535-540.

  35. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Delivering MPEG-4 Content," Proceedings, 9th International Packet Video Workshop, April 1999.

  36. H. Kalva, J. Zamora, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Delivering Object-Based Audio Visual Services", Proceedings, International Conference on Consumer Electronics, Los Angeles, California, June 1999 (invited paper and demonstration).

  37. J.-B. Lee and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Shape Coding with Morphological Enhancement," Proceedings, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.

  38. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "Spatial Temporal Active Contour Interpolation for Semi-automatic Video Object Generation," Proceedings, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.

  39. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "Designing an Interactive Tool for Video Object Segmentation and Annotation," Proceedings, 1999 ACM Multimedia Conference, Orlando, Florida, October-November 1999, pp. 265-269 (paper and demonstration).

  40. H. Kalva, L.-T. Cheok, and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Systems and Applications," Proceedings, 1999 ACM Multimedia Conference, Orlando, Florida, October-November 1999 (demonstration).

  41. D. Sow and A. Eleftheriadis, "Approximation of the Resource Bounded Complexity Distortion Function," Proceedings, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISIT-2000), June 2000, Sorrento, Italy.

  42. A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Systems Systems," Proceedings, SPIE Int'l Symposium on Voice, Video, and Data Communications, November 2000, Boston, MA, Vol. 4209, pp. 1-12 (invited paper).

  43. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "On Face Detection in the Compressed Domain," Proceedings, ACM Multimedia 2000 Conference, October-November 2000, Los Angeles, CA.

  44. P. Batra and A. Eleftheriadis, "Alternative Formulations for Bit Allocation with Dependent Quantization," Proceedings, IEEE Int'l Conf. On Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2002), May 2002, Orlando, Florida, Vol. 4, pp. 3505–3508.

  45. A. Eleftheriadis, , D. Hong, and H. Kalva, “MPEG-4 Systems,” Proceedings, SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications V, July 2002, Boston, Massachusetts, Vol. 4861 (invited presentation).

  46. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, "XFlavor: Bridging Bits and Objects in Media Representation," Proceedings, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), August 2002, Lausanne, Switzerland.

  47. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "Rubberband: An Improved Graph Search Algorithm for Interactive Object Segmentation," Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, New York, September 2002, pp. I-101 - I-104.

  48. L.-T. Cheok, J. Sharony, and A. Eleftheriadis, “Symshop: A Novel Mobile Shopping Mall Application,” Proceedings, First Int’l Conference in Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM 2002), Oulu, Finland, December 2002.

  49. L.-T. Cheok, J. Sharony, and A. Eleftheriadis, "A SMIL-Enabled Mobile Shopping Mall Application," Proceedings, SMIL Europe Conference, Paris, France, February 2003. 

  50. A. Eleftheriadis, "On Complexity and Lossy Coding," Proceedings, Workshop on Complexity and Inference, Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Piscataway, New Jersey, June 2003 (invited presentation).

  51. P. Batra and A. Eleftheriadis, "Analysis of Optimal Dynamic Rate Shaping of Markov-1 Sources," Proceedings, IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2003), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003.

  52. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Hong, "Flavor: Formal Language for Audio-Visual Object Representation," Proceedings, ACM Multimedia 2004 Conference, New York, NY, October 2004 (Open Source Software Competition Award winner presentation).
  53. L.-T. Cheok and A. Eleftheriadis, "Operations Research Approach Towards Layered Multi-Stream Video Delivery," 2004 Picture Coding Symposium, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
  54. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, "Automatic Generation of C++/Java Code for Binary Arithmetic Coding," 2004 Picture Coding Symposium, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
  55. L.-T. Cheok and A. Eleftheriadis, "A Genetic Algorithm for Layered Multi-Source Video Distribution," Proceedings, SPIE Image and Video Communications and Processing Conference, San Jose, CA, January 2005.
  56. G. Kim, D. Hong, and A. Eleftheriadis, "A Real-Time Mobile Video Newsgathering and Broadcast System using a Wireless LAN," Proceedings, IEEE Int'l Conference on Communications, Multimedia Communications and Home Networking, Seoul, Korea, May 2005 (invited paper, to appear).
  57. G. Kim, Y.-Y. Yang, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Motion-Assisted Rate Control for ME/MC-Based Codecs," Proceedings, IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005 (to appear).

Panels

  1. A. Eleftheriadis, ACM Multimedia 2000 Conference, Workshop on Standards, Interoperability, and Practice, October-November 2000, Los Angeles, CA (invited panel presentation on MPEG-4).

  2. A. Eleftheriadis, Very Low Bitrate Video Workshop (VLBV-01), October 2001, Athens, Greece (invited panel presentation on software tools for video compression and the MPEG standards activities).

  3. A. Eleftheriadis, ACM Multimedia 2001 Conference, September-October 2001, Ottawa, CA (invited panel presentation on streaming technologies and MPEG-4).

  4. A. Eleftheriadis, SPIE Conference on Multimedia Systems and Applications, July-August 2002, Boston, MA (invited panel presentation on MPEG-4 applications).

  5. Streaming Media East 2002, October 2002, New York, NY (invited panel moderator on Non-Natural Codecs - BIFS, Facial, Structured Audio, AFX).

MPEG, ANSI, and DAVIC Contributions

  1. D. Anastassiou, T. H. Chiang, A. Eleftheriadis, R. Mokry, F. M. Wang, and Y. B. Yu, "Even field coding using adjacent future odd field, in addition to past even and odd fields", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC2/WG11 MPEG 91/014, May 1991, Paris, France (14th MPEG meeting).

  2. D. Anastassiou, T. H. Chiang, A. Eleftheriadis, R. Mokry, F. M. Wang, and Y. B. Yu, "Additional research results on MPEG-2", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 91/131, August 1991, Santa Clara, CA, USA (15th MPEG meeting).

  3. R. Mokry, Y. B. Yu, T. H. Chiang, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Columbia University's MPEG-2 Proposal", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG Proposal Reg. No. 29, November 1991, Kurihama, Japan (16th MPEG meeting).

  4. T. H. Chiang, Y. B. Yu, A. Eleftheriadis, and D. Anastassiou, "Continuous Scalability using Field-Based Coding", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG 92/45, January 1992, Singapore (17th MPEG meeting).

  5. D. Anastassiou, S.-F. Chang, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Some Interoperability Issues in a Video on Demand Testbed", Contribution DAVIC 94/27, June 1994, San Jose, CA, USA (3rd DAVIC meeting).

  6. A. Eleftheriadis, "A Syntactic Description Language for MPEG-4", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG95/546, November 1995, Dallas, TX, USA (32nd MPEG meeting).

  7. A. Eleftheriadis and Y. Fang, "A Revision and Proposed Grammar for the MSDL Syntactic Description Language", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/856, March 1996, Florence, Italy (34th MPEG meeting).

  8. A. Eleftheriadis and Y. Fang, "Adding Parameter Types to MSDL-S", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1055, July 1996, Tampere, Finland (35th MPEG meeting).

  9. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "MSDL-S Representation of the MPEG-2 Video IS", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1138, July 1996, Tampere, Finland (35th MPEG meeting).

  10. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "The Architectural Framework of MSDL-S", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1261, September-October 1996, Chicago, Illinois (36th MPEG meeting).

  11. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "A Proposed Revision of MSDL-S", Contribution ISO-IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1262, September-October 1996, Chicago, Illinois (36th MPEG meeting).

  12. A. Eleftheriadis and Y. Fang, "A Proposed Revision of MSDL-S", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1553, November 1996, Maceio, Brazil (37th MPEG meeting).

  13. A. Eleftheriadis, "The Benefits of Using MSDL-S for Syntax Description", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1555, November 1996, Maceio, Brazil (37th MPEG meeting).

  14. A. Eleftheriadis and Y. Fang, "The Integration of MSDL-S with MSDL Architecture and VM", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1556, November 1996, Maceio, Brazil (37th MPEG meeting).

  15. A. Kopansky, K. Wu, J.-B. Lee, Y. Fang, and A. Eleftheriadis, "The MPEG-4 Video VM 4.0 Syntax Using MSDL-S", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG96/1557, November 1996, Maceio, Brazil (37th MPEG meeting).

  16. A. Eleftheriadis and H. Kalva, "A Proposed Architecture for an Object-Based Audio-Visual Bitstream and Terminal", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/1619, February 1997, Seville, Spain (38th MPEG meeting).

  17. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Video WD 1.0 Syntax Using Flavor (MSDL-S)", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/1819, February 1997, Seville, Spain (38th MPEG meeting).

  18. Y. Fang and A. Eleftheriadis, "Flavor (MSDL-S) Translator to C++ Version 1.2a", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/1820, February 1997, Seville, Spain (38th MPEG meeting).

  19. H. Kalva, A. Eleftheriadis, A. Puri, and R. Schmidt, "Stored File Format for MPEG-4", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2062, April 1997, Bristol, UK (39th MPEG meeting).

  20. Y. Fang, A. Eleftheriadis, A. Puri, and R. Schmidt, "Adding Bitstream Input/Output Library in Java", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2063, April 1997, Bristol, UK (39th MPEG meeting).

  21. A. Puri, R. Schmidt, A. Eleftheriadis, H. Kalva, and Y. Fang, "APIs for MPEG-4 Systems", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2133, April 1997, Bristol, UK (39th MPEG meeting).

  22. A. Eleftheriadis, H. Kalva, A. Puri, and R. Schmidt, "Stored File Format for MPEG-4 (Rev. 2.0)", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2536, July 1997, Stockholm, Sweden (40th MPEG meeting).

  23. H. Kalva, A. Eleftheriadis, A. Basso, R. Schmidt, and A. Puri, "File Format for MPEG-4 (Rev. 3.0)", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2873, October 1997, Fribourg, Switzerland (41st MPEG meeting).

  24. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Requirements for MPEG-4 File Format", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2886, October 1997, Fribourg, Switzerland (41st MPEG meeting).

  25. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "MPEG-4 Interaction Model and Required Normative Support", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2888, October 1997, Fribourg, Switzerland (41st MPEG meeting).

  26. A. Eleftheriadis and Y. Fang, "Proposed Revision for the MPEG-4 Syntactic Description Language (Rev. 2.1)", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG97/2902, October 1997, Fribourg, Switzerland (41st MPEG meeting).

  27. A. Eleftheriadis, "Proposed Technical and Editorial United States National Body Comments on the MPEG-4 Systems CD (N1901)", Contribution ANSI NCITS L3.1 98/17, January 1998, San Jose, CA.

  28. A. Basso, A. Eleftheriadis, R. L. Schmidt, H. Kalva, and A. Puri, "MPEG-4 Integrated Intermedia Format (IIF): Basic Specification", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/2978, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  29. A. Basso, A. Eleftheriadis, A. Puri, R. L. Schmidt, and H. Kalva, "Flexible-IIF: A Conceptual Framework for Intermedia Development in MPEG-4", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/2979, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  30. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "AL Packetized Elementary Stream Format", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3188, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  31. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Syntax and Semantics of Control Messages for User Interaction", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3189, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  32. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Software Implementation of the MPEG-4 Intermedia Format Proposal from Columbia University and AT&T Research," Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3190, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  33. A. Eleftheriadis, "Comments on the MPEG-4 Systems CD", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3234, February 1998, San Jose, CA (42nd MPEG meeting).

  34. A. Eleftheriadis, A. Basso, H. Kalva, A. Puri, and R. L. Schmidt, "Input for Development of MP4 File Format", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3455, March 1998, Tokyo, Japan (43rd MPEG meeting).

  35. A. Eleftheriadis and H. Kalva, "Use of CommandDescriptors and CommandROUTEs to Support User Interaction", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3506, March 1998, Tokyo, Japan (43rd MPEG meeting).

  36. A. Eleftheriadis, "National Body Comment Template and Visual Basic Macros for MPEG-4 Systems", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPGE98/3549, July 1998, Dublin, Ireland (44th MPEG meeting).

  37. H. Luo and A. Eleftheriadis, "An Analysis of the Timing and Synchronization Models in MPEG-4 Systems", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/3630, July 1998, Dublin, Ireland (44th MPEG meeting).

  38. J. Zamora, L.-T. Cheok, A. Eleftheriadis, H. Kalva, and L. Tang, "MPEG-4 Remote Application through IP Networks: Demonstration Outline", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/4092, October 1998, Atlantic City, New Jersey (45th MPEG meeting).

  39. H. Kalva and A. Eleftheriadis, "Using Command Descriptors", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG98/4269, December 1998, Rome, Italy (46th MPEG meeting).

  40. H. Kalva, L.-T. Cheok, A. Akhtar, J. Zamora, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Implementation/Demonstration of Command Descriptor Framework", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPGE98/4270, December 1998, Rome, Italy (46th MPEG meeting).

  41. A. Puri et al., "MPEG Multimedia Language (MML): A Proposal for MPEG-7 DDL", Proposal ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/P484, February 1999, Lancaster, UK.

  42. A. Akhtar, H. Kalva, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Implementation of CommandDescriptor and CommandDescriptorNode", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MGE99/4431, March 1999, Seoul, Korea (47th MPEG meeting).

  43. A. Akhtar, H. Kalva, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Implementation of ServerCommand Node", Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG99/4905, July 1999, Vancouver, Canada (48th MPEG meeting).

  44. M. Kim, L.-T. Cheok, A. Cohen, A. Eleftheriadis, J. Smith, and S. Wood, "MPEG-4 Authoring Using SMIL," Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG00/5686, March 2000, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands (51st MPEG meeting).

  45. A. Akhtar, H. Kalva, and A. Eleftheriadis, "Implementation of ServerCommand Node in the IM1 Framework," Contribution ISO-IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 MPEG00/5687, March 2000, Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands (51st MPEG meeting). 

Manuscripts in Review

Journals

  1. J.-B. Lee and A. Eleftheriadis, "Spatio-Temporal Model-Assisted Very Low Bit Rate Coding with Compatibility," submitted to IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, February 1999.
  2. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, "Xflavor: Providing XML Features in Media Representation," submitted to the Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications, April 2004.
  3. 3. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, “Automatic Generation of C++/Java Code for Efficient VLC Decoding,” submitted to IEEE Trans. on Communications, May 2004.
  4. A. Eleftheriadis and D. Hong, “Flavor: A Language for Media Representation,” submitted to the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, October 2004 (paper proposal approved by the editorial board in January 2004).
  5. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, “Automatic Generation of C++/Java Code for Efficient Binary Arithmetic Coding,” submitted to IEEE Trans. on Communications, February 2004.

Conferences

  1. D. Hong and A. Eleftheriadis, “Memory Efficient Semi-Quasi-Arithmetic Coding,” submitted to IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing, January 2005.

Software Packages

Please visit our Software page for more information.

Doctoral Dissertations

  1. Alexandros Eleftheriadis, Dynamic Rate Shaping of Compressed Digital Video, 1995 (Advisor: Prof. D. Anastassiou). Available as Center for Telecommunications Research Technical Report CU/CTR/TR 419-95-25.
  2. Stephen Jacobs, Media and Protocols for Multimedia Communications over Disparate Networks, 1998 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).
  3. Hari Kalva, Delivering Object Based Audio-Visual Services, 2000 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).
  4. Jae-Beom Lee, Model-Assisted and Activity-Assisted Video Coding, 2000 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).
  5. Huitao Luo, Algorithms for Video Object Detection and Segmentation with Applications to Content-Based Multimedia Systems, 2000 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).
  6. Daby Sow, Algorithmic Representation of Visual Information, 2000 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).
  7. Pankaj Batra, Modeling and Optimization Techniques for Digital Video Communications , 2004 (Advisor: Prof. A. Eleftheriadis).

Other Publications

A. Eleftheriadis, "Vowel Recognition in Continuous Speech", Diploma Dissertation, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, July 1990 (Advisor: Prof. G Carayannis).

 

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