ONUR G. GULERYUZ

  onur@vision.poly.edu

http://eeweb.poly.edu/~onur

Education

PhD: Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, June 1997.
Thesis title: Optimal Linear Processing for Image and Video Coding.

MSc: Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 1992.

BSc: Electrical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1991.

BSc: Physics, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, June 1991.

 

Academic Experience

Research Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering: Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,
July 2001- present.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering: Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY,
August 1997 - July 2001.

Visiting Research Assistant: Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University,
September 1995 - May 1997.

Research Assistant: Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
August 1992 - August 1997.

Graduate Fellow: Department of Engineering and Applied Science, Yale University,
September 1991-June 1992.

Teaching Assistant: Department of Physics, Bogazici University,
September 1989-January 1991.

Industry Experience

Project Manager: DoCoMo Communications Laboratories, USA, Inc., San Jose, CA,
September 2004-present (with various titles).

Senior Member of Technical Staff: Epson Research and Development, Epson Palo Alto Laboratory,  Palo Alto, CA,

December 2000-September 2004.

(Please email me for an industry oriented CV.)

Professional Experience

Undergraduate/Graduate Teaching, Polytechnic University:

More than three years of teaching experience as the primary instructor at the undergraduate and graduate level.

1. EL 512 (undergraduate/graduate): Digital Image Processing.
2. EL 512 (undergraduate/graduate): Digital Image Processing - Internet. This is a new course I developed which has audio and lecture notes posted on the Internet. Lecture notes and accompanying audio presentation can be found in:
   http://eeweb.poly.edu/~onur/lectures/lectures.html.
3. EL 913 (graduate): Image and Video Compression. This is a new course I developed in Spring 1998 semester.
4. EE 105 (undergraduate): Signals, Systems and Transforms.
5. EL 611 (graduate): Signals, Systems and Transforms.

Undergraduate/Graduate Advising, Polytechnic University:

Extensive experience advising undergraduate thesis and projects. Graduate students advised/co-advised, including membership to PhD thesis committees: Y. Wu, S. Lin, A. Vetro, J. Huang, Z. Liu, R. Wang, D.-M. Chung, L. Sendur.

Administered Internships:

J. Zujovic - Northwestern (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2008), A. Saxena - UCSB (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2007), O. Sezer - Georgia Tech (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2007), G. Hua - Rice (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2006), A. Cunha - UIUC (DoCoMo USA Labs, summer 2005).

Docent of Electrical and Electronics Engineering:

Awarded by Higher Education Council of Turkey, 2006.

Services for Scientific Publications and Funding Agencies: 

• Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (May 2004 - June 2008).
  
• Technical Reviewer: Extensive experience as a reviewer for the National Science Foundation and other funding agencies, IEEE and other journals on Image/Signal Processing,  Information Theory, Multimedia, etc.
  
• Panelist: National Science Foundation, CAREER Program; National Science Foundation, Information & Intelligent Systems, Robust Intelligence Program.

Services for Scientific Conferences:

• Conference Reviewing / Program Committees / Session Chair: Numerous.
  
• Special Session Organizer:
  
• "Special Session on Super-Resolution", SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose, CA, January 2006.
  

Industry Contributions - Transferred/Deployed Technologies:

• ``High quality rendering and display of video for mobile devices,'' DoCoMo Communications Laboratories, USA, Inc., January 2007. Signal processing that allows high quality and high resolution display of compressed video on mobile devices.
  
• ``A Nonlinear Loop Filter for Hybrid Video Compression,'' DoCoMo Communications Laboratories, USA, Inc., February 2005. A high performance loop filter for the proprietary DoCoMo codec based on overcomplete transforms and weighted denoising. The filter, implemented as a fast, all integer algorithm, outperforms the filters in standards like h.264 and windows media.
  
• ``Subpixel Compensation for Chromatic Aberration and Intrachannel Focus Mismatch in Scanners,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, deployed technology, January 2004. Low complexity detection and calibration of scanner anomalies.
• ``Integrated Labeling and Enhancement for Color Copiers,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, deployed technology, December 2002. Robust and accurate labeling and enhancement of scanned compound documents for processing in a color copier pipeline.
• ``Error Detection and Concealment for Power Scalable MPEG4 Decoding,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, transferred technology, March 2002. Power scalable algorithms for error detection and error concealment of MPEG4 video.
• ``Resolution Improvement Technology for Color Laser Printers,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, transferred technology, September 2001. Very high quality resolution enhancement of text and graphics data in a color laser printer pipeline.
• ``Pulse Width Modulation Based Text and Graphics Rendering,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, transferred technology, September 2001. Very high quality rendering of text and graphics data in a color laser engine.
  
• ``Standards Compliant Watermarking for Access Management,'' Seiko-Epson Corporation, deployed technology, August 2001. Visible, obstructive, and standards compliant watermarks for access management to images and video.

Standards Body Involvement:

Primary Representative of DoCoMo Communications Laboratories, USA, Inc. in INCITS/L3 (US National Body for MPEG). ITU accredited through NTT DoCoMo, Japan. DoCoMo USA Labs delegate for MPEG and NTT DoCoMo delegate for VCEG.

Awards and Honors

• IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2007 (for the sequence [3, 4]).
  
• DoCoMo Communications Laboratories President's Award,  2005 and 2008.
• DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Research of the Year Award, 2005.
• Seiko-Epson Corporation President's Award for Research and Development, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• National Science Foundation, Career Award (CAREER-2000), 2000.
• The Science and Technical Research Council of Turkey Award, 1993.
• Yale University Fellowship, 1992.
• Graduated in the ``High Honors'' lists of the Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Bogazici University, 1991.
  
• 46th in Turkish National University Entrance Exam (among in excess of 600,000 candidates), 1987.

Academic Funding

1. National Science Foundation, ``CAREER: Models and Representations for Digital Images and Video,'' (CAREER 2000), award total $300,000, October 2001 - October 2007.
2. National Science Foundation, ``Integrated Video Encoding and Networking,'' jointly with Y. Wang, J. Liebeherr, and S. Panwar, award total $130,000, January 1998 - January 2001.
3. Polytechnic University startup grant for video research, award total $100,000,  August 1997 - January 2001.
   

Research Interests

Statistical signal processing and information theory with applications to digital signals, images, and video.

• Sparse signal models and related estimation/inverse problems.
• Denoising.
• Super-resolution.
• Prediction.
  
• Wavelets and multiresolutional representations.
• Image and video compression.
• Next generation, geometrical image/video compression.
• Structure, limitations, and performance of hybrid video coders.
  
• Detection, compression, and routing trade-offs in sensor networks.
  
• Statistical signal models and associated optimal source coders.
• Information theoretic inequalities.
• Intelligent clustering and categorization for images and video.

Journal Articles

Accepted/Published:

1. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Weighted Averaging for Denoising with Overcomplete Dictionaries,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, No. 12, pp. 3020-3034, December 2007.
   
2. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Linear, Worst-Case Estimators for Denoising Quantization Noise in Transform Coded Images,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, No. 10, pp. 2967-2986, October 2006.
3. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Nonlinear Approximation Based Image Recovery Using Adaptive Sparse Reconstructions and Iterated Denoising: Part I - Theory'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 539-554, March, 2006.
4. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Nonlinear Approximation Based Image Recovery Using Adaptive Sparse Reconstructions and Iterated Denoising: Part II - Adaptive Algorithms'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 555-571, March, 2006.
5. O. G. Guleryuz, `` A Low Complexity Comprehensive Labeling and Enhancement Algorithm for Compound Documents,'' Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 832-859, October 2004.
6. O. G. Guleryuz, E. Lutwak, D. Yang, and G. Zhang, ``Information-Theoretic Inequalities for Contoured Probability Distributions,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 48, no. 8, pp. 2377-2383, August 2002.
7. A. Cohen, I. Daubechies, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. T. Orchard, ``On the importance of combining wavelet-based nonlinear approximation with coding strategies,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 48, no. 7, pp. 1895-1921, July 2002.
8. O. G. Guleryuz and M. T. Orchard, ``On the DPCM Compression of Gaussian Auto-Regressive Sequences,'' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 945-956, March 2001.
9. O. G. Guleryuz and M. T. Orchard, ``Optimized Nonorthogonal Transforms for Image Compression,'' IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 507-522, April, 1997.
10. Z. Xiong, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. T. Orchard, ``A DCT-based Embedded Image Coder,'' IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 3, 11, pp. 289-290, November, 1996.

In review:

1. G. Hua and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Spatial Sparsity-Induced Prediction (SIP) for Images and Video: A Simple Way to Reject Structured Interference,'' in review.

Conference Articles

1. S. Kanumuri, O. G. Guleryuz, M. R. Civanlar, A. Fujibayashi, and C. S. Boon,``Temporal Flicker Reduction and Denoising in Video using Sparse Directional Transforms,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXI, in Image and Signal Processing, San Diego, Aug. 2008.
   
2. A. Saxena, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. R. Civanlar, ``On Optimal Royalty Costs for Video Compression,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2008), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008.
   
3. O. G. Sezer , O. Harmanci, O. G. Guleryuz, ``Sparse Orthonormal Transforms for Image Compression,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2008), San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008
   
4. E. Akyol, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Royalty Cost Based Optimization for Video Compression,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2007), San Antonio, TX, Sept. 2007.
   
5. O. Harmanci, G. Hua, and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Predictive compression and denoising with overcomplete decompositions: a simple way to reject structured noise,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Wavelets XII, in Image and Signal Processing, San Diego, Aug. 2007.
   
6. S. Kanumuri, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Fast Super-Resolution Reconstructions of Mobile Video Using Warped Transforms and Adaptive Thresholding,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXX, in Image and Signal Processing, San Diego, Aug. 2007.
   
7. G. Hua  and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Spatial Sparsity Induced Temporal Prediction for Hybrid Video Compression,'' IEEE Data Compression Conference, IEEE DCC-07,  March 2007.
8. O. G. Guleryuz and A. L. da Cunha, ``Image Compression with a Geometrical Entropy Coder,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2006), Atlanta, GA.
   
9. F. Shi, I. W. Selesnick, and O. Guleryuz, ``Image Enhancement Using Wavelet-domain Mixture Models,'' Proc. IEEE 12th Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Grand Teton National Park, WY.
   
10. C. S. Boon, O. G. Guleryuz, T. Kawahara,  and Y. Suzuki, ``Sparse super-resolution reconstructions of video from mobile devices in digital TV broadcast applications,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIX, in Algorithms, Architectures, and Devices, San Diego, Aug. 2006 (invited paper).
    
11. O. G. Guleryuz, "A Nonlinear Loop Filter for Quantization Noise Removal in Hybrid Video Compression," Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2005), Genova, Italy, Sep. 2005.
    
12. O. G. Guleryuz, "On Missing Data Prediction Using Sparse Signal Models: A comparison of Atomic Decompositions with Iterated Denoising," Proc. SPIE Conf. on Wavelets XI, in Mathematical Methods, San Diego, Aug. 2005 (invited paper).
13. O. G. Guleryuz and U. C. Kozat,``Joint Compression, Detection, and Routing in Capacity Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks,'' Proc. IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop, Bordeaux, France, July 2005.
    
14. O. G. Guleryuz, ``A Multiresolutional Algorithm for Halftone Detection,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Image and Video Communications and Processing, San Jose, Jan. 2005.
15. I. W. Selesnick, R. Van Slyke, and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Pixel Recovery via l1 Minimization in the Wavelet Domain,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2004), Singapore, Oct. 2004.
    
16. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Predicting Wavelet Coefficients Over Edges Using Estimates Based on Nonlinear Approximants,'' Proc. Data Compression Conference, IEEE DCC-04, April 2004.
17. L. Sendur and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Globally Optimal Wavelet-Based Motion Estimation Using Interscale Edge and Occlusion Models,'' Proc. SPIE Conf. on Visual Communication and Image Processing, Jan. 2004.
18.  O. G. Guleryuz, ``Weighted Overcomplete Denoising,'' Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2003.
19. O. G. Guleryuz, V. Ratnakar, R. Radhakrishnan, and N. Memon, ``Stochastic Sampling from Image Coder Induced Probability Distributions,'' Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals and Systems, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2003.
20. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Nonlinear Approximation Based Image Recovery Using Adaptive Sparse Reconstructions,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2003), Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 2003.
21. J. Huang, O. Guleryuz, A. Bhattacharjya, and J. Shu, ``Pulse-width Modulation for Rendering Color Text and Graphics for Laser Printer,'' Proc. NIP18: Int'l Conf on Digital Printing Technologies San Diego, CA, Sept. 2002.
22. O. G. Guleryuz and A. Bhattacharjya, ``Fast Text/Graphics Resolution Improvement Using Wavelet-Based Denoising and Chain-Code Table Lookup,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2002), Rochester, NY, Sept. 2002.
23. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Iterated Denoising for Image Recovery,'' Proc. Data Compression Conference, IEEE DCC-02, pp. 3-12, April 2002.
24. V. Ratnakar and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Standards-Compliant Watermarking for Access Management,'' Proc. SPIE Multimedia Systems and Applications, Vol. 4518, pp. 259-267, August 2001.
25. O. G. Guleryuz and V. Ratnakar, ``Multiresolutional Descriptions of Digital Video in terms of Relevance,'' Proc. IASTED Int'l Conf. on Signal and Image Proc. (SIP2001), Hawaii, August 2001.
26. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Subspaces of Quantization Artifacts for Transform Image Compression,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Image Proc. (ICIP2000), Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 2000.
27. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Maximizing Uniform Translational Motion: Motion Estimation with the Haar Transform and Dynamic Programming,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Proc. (ICASSP2000), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2000.
28. A. Vetro, H. Sun, Y. Wang, O. G. Guleryuz ``Rate-Distortion Modeling of Binary Shape Using State Partitioning,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Image Processing (ICIP99), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
29. S. Lin and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Dense Motion Fields for Digital Video Processing and Compression,'' Proc. IEEE Int'l Conf. Image Processing (ICIP99), Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
30. Z. Xiong, O. Guleryuz, and M. T. Orchard, ``Embedded image coding based on DCT,'' Proc. VCIP'97, San Jose, CA, Feb. 1997.
31. O. G. Guleryuz and M. T. Orchard, ``Rate Distortion Based Temporal Filtering for Video Compression,'' Proc. Data Compression Conference, IEEE DCC-96, pp. 122-131, April 1996.
32. O. G. Guleryuz and M. T. Orchard, ``Optimized Nonorthogonal Transforms for Image Compression,'' Proc. SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing VCIP-94, Vol.2308, pp. 1434-1445, September 1994.

Patents

1. S. Kanumuri, O. G. Guleryuz, M. R. Civanlar, and A. Fujibayashi, “Methods for Fast and Memory Efficient Implementation of Transforms,” filed, September 2008.
   
2. S. Kanumuri, O. G. Guleryuz, M. R. Civanlar, C. S. Boon, and A. Fujibayashi, “Noise and/or Flicker Reduction in Video Sequences Using Spatial and Temporal Processing,” filed, September 2008.
   
3. O. Harmanci, O. G. Sezer, and O. G. Guleryuz, “Image and Video Compression Using Sparse Orthonormal Transforms,” filed, August 2008.
   
4. S. Kanumuri, O. G. Guleryuz, and M. R. Civanlar,  ``Image/Video Quality Enhancement and Super-Resolution Using Sparse Transformations,'' filed, June 2008.
   
5. O. G. Guleryuz and M. R. Civanlar, ``Optimized Content-Based and Royalty-Based Encoding and Distribution of Media Data,'' filed, January 2008.
   
6. O. G. Guleryuz and G. Hua, ``Spatial Sparsity Induced Temporal Prediction for Hybrid Video Compression,'' filed, October 2007.
   
7. O. G. Guleryuz and A. L. Cunha, ``Geometrical Image Representation and Compression,'' filed, December 2006.
   
8. O. G. Guleryuz, ``A Nonlinear, Prediction Filter for Hybrid Video Compression,'' filed, June 2006.
   
9. O. G. Guleryuz, ``A Nonlinear, In-the-loop, Denoising Filter for Quantization Noise Removal for Hybrid Video Compression,'' filed, January 2005.
10. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Methods and Systems for Correcting Color Distortions,'' issued, April 2009. Patent no: 7,525,702.
11. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Inter and Intra Band Prediction of Singularity Coefficients Using Estimates Based on Nonlinear Approximants,'' filed, July 2004.
    
12. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Weighted Overcomplete De-noising,'' issued, April 2008. Patent no: 7,352,909.
    
13. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Method and Apparatus for Segmentation of Compound Documents Having Low Resolution Halftones,'' issued, May 2006. Patent no: 7,043,078.
14. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Image Recovery Using Thresholding and Direct Linear Solvers,'' issued, August 2007. Patent no: 7,260,269.
15. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Method and Apparatus for Segmentation of Compound Documents,'' issued, July 2006. Patent no: 7,079,687.
16. V. Ratnakar, W. Chen, C. Kim, B. Vasudev, and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Power-Scalable Digital Video Decoding,'' filed, February 2003.
17. O. G. Guleryuz, ``Iterated Denoising for Image Recovery,'' issued, October 2006. Patent no: 7,120,308.
18. J. Huang, O. G. Guleryuz, A. Bhattacharjya, and J. Shu, ``Pwm Rendering for Color/Gray-Scale Text and Graphics for Laser Printer,'' issued, September 2007. Patent no: 7,265,876.
19. O. G. Guleryuz and A. Bhattacharjya, ``Fast Text/Graphics Resolution Improvement with Chain-Code Table Look-Up,'' issued, August 2005. Patent no: 6,927,780.
    
20. V. Ratnakar and O. G. Guleryuz, ``Standards Compliant Watermarking for Access Management,''  issued, July 2006. Patent no: 7,046,818.
21. A. Vetro, H. Sun, Y. Wang, O. G. Guleryuz, ``Estimating Rate-Distortion Characteristics of Binary Shape Data,'' issued, April 2003. Patent no: 6,542,545.
    

Computer Language and Operating System Experience

Extensive programming experience under Unix, Linux and Windows using C, C++, Matlab, OpenGL. Familiarity with Fortran, Basic and Mathematica.

References

Available on Request

 

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