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Biography
Giancarlo Calvagno is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at University of Padova.
He received the “Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica” degree from the University of Padova in 1986, and the Doctorate degree in “Ingegneria Elettronica e dell’Informazione” from the University of Padova in 1990. From 1988 to 1990 he was at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a Visiting Scholar.
He contributed to many research programs funded by MiUR and CNR concerning the coding and processing of still images and video sequences. He participated to the PRIN 2005 research program “Reliable multimedia transmission over non-reliable networks: advanced source/channel coding techniques”, where he was associated investigator of the research unit of the University of Padova. He participated to the FIRB research program “Reconfigurable platforms for wideband wireless communications: PRIMO” funded by MiUR, where he was coordinator of the Work Package “Reliable delivery of multimedia data” for the research unit of the University of Padova. He was principal investigator of the two-year research program “Joint source/channel coding based on turbocodes and its application to robust transmission of images and video sequences” funded by the University of Padova in 2005. He participated to the PRIN 2005 research program “ARACHNE: Advanced video streaming techniques for peer-to-peer networks”, where he was principal investigator of the research unit of the University of Padova. He has been involved in the European research projects IST-1999-20859 “MetaVision” and IST-2004-506969 “MetaCamera” , where he worked on lossless and near-lossless compression of high-definition video sequences. He has also been involved in the European research projects RFS-PR-09037 “Muons scanner to detect radioactive sources hidden in scrap metal containers: MuSteel” where he worked on problems related to the reconstruction and classification of 3D objects in cosmic ray (muon) tomography.
His main research interests are in the areas of digital signal processing, signal reconstruction, and multidimensional signal analysis and coding, with special emphasis on the transmission of images and video sequences.
He is member of the IEEE since 1992.
Publications
2008
A low-complexity packet classification algorithm for multiple description video streaming over IEEE802. 11E networks Proceedings Article
In: 2008 15th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 3072–3075, IEEE 2008.
A regularization approach to demosaicking Proceedings Article
In: Visual Communications and Image Processing 2008, pp. 517–527, SPIE 2008.
CROSS-LAYER JOINT OPTIMIZATION OF FEC CHANNEL CODES AND MULTIPLE DESCRIPTION CODING FOR VIDEO DELIVERY OVER IEEE 802.11 E LINKS Journal Article
In: 2008.
A regularization approach to demosaicking (Invited Paper)[6822-59] Proceedings Article
In: PROCEEDINGS-SPIE THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING, pp. 6822, International Society for Optical Engineering; 1999 2008.
2007
Demosaicing based onwavelet analysis of the luminance component Proceedings Article
In: 2007 IEEE International conference on image processing, pp. II–181, IEEE 2007.
Lossless Compression of Colour Video Sequence using Optimal Prediction Theory-Octopus Proceedings Article
In: 2007 Data Compression Conference (DCC’07), pp. 375–375, IEEE 2007.
A distributed video coder based on the H. 264/AVC standard Proceedings Article
In: 2007 15th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 673–677, IEEE 2007.
CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION BASED ON $rho$-DOMAIN: WHEN BIT RATE, QOS, AND COMPLEXITY MEET ON A COMMON GROUND Proceedings Article
In: Workshop Toni Mian, 2007.
2006
Demosaicing with directional filtering and a posteriori decision Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 132–141, 2006.
A novel technique for reducing demosaicing artifacts Proceedings Article
In: 2006 14th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1–5, IEEE 2006.
Lossless compression of bayer mask images using an optimal vector prediction technique Proceedings Article
In: 2006 14th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1–5, IEEE 2006.
2005
Lossless video compression using a spatio-temporal optimal predictor Proceedings Article
In: 2005 13th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1–4, IEEE 2005.
Lossless image compression using vector prediction based on spectral correlation Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005, pp. II–277, IEEE 2005.
Segnali e sistemi Miscellaneous
2005.
On the dependency between compression and demosaicing in digital cinema Proceedings Article
In: European Conference on Visual Media Production, 2005.
2004
Comparison of lossy to lossless compression techniques for digital cinema Proceedings Article
In: 2004 International Conference on Image Processing, 2004. ICIP’04., pp. 513–516, IEEE 2004.
Model-based global and local motion estimation for videoconference sequences Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 14, no. 9, pp. 1156–1161, 2004.
A lossless image coding technique exploiting spectral correlation on the RGB space Proceedings Article
In: 2004 12th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1305–1308, IEEE 2004.
2003
Lossless compression of video using temporal information Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on image Processing, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 132–139, 2003.
Optimal Weighted 3D Prediction for Lossless Video Coding Journal Article
In: Proc. Non-linear Signal and Image Processing-NSIP, pp. 89–93, 2003.
2002
Lossless video coding using optimal 3D prediction Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings. International Conference on Image Processing, pp. I–I, IEEE 2002.
Analysis and synthesis of talking heads in videoconference sequences Journal Article
In: 2002.
2001
Two-dimensional separable filters for optimal reconstruction of JPEG-coded images Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 777–787, 2001.
Feature based global and local motion estimation for videoconference sequences Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings 2001 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No. 01CH37205), pp. 102–105, IEEE 2001.
JPEG decoding via two-dimensional optimal separable filters Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings 2001 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No. 01CH37205), pp. 451–454, IEEE 2001.
Stima dei movimenti del volto in sequenze di videoconferenza basata sull’uso di feature Book Section
In: Multimodalita’e Multimedialita’nella Comunicazione, pp. 27–32, Unipress, 2001.
2000
A multiresolution approach to spike detection in EEG Proceedings Article
In: 2000 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Proceedings (Cat. No. 00CH37100), pp. 3582–3585, IEEE 2000.
Synthesis filter bank optimization in two-dimensional separable subband coding systems Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on image processing, vol. 9, no. 9, pp. 1497–1508, 2000.
Wavelet packets and spatial adaptive intraband coding of images Journal Article
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 15, no. 10, pp. 891–906, 2000.
Ancient document compression and archiving via page decomposition Proceedings Article
In: 2000 10th European Signal Processing Conference, pp. 1–4, IEEE 2000.
Spike Detection in EEG by a Multiresolution Approach Journal Article
In: 2000.
3D modeling of objects for frame interpolation and synthetic face animation Journal Article
In: 2000.
1999
Synthesis Filter Bank Optimization in 1D and 2D Separable Subband Coding Proceedings Article
In: Multimedia Communications, pp. 18–31, Springer London 1999.
1998
Three-dimensional motion estimation of objects for video coding Journal Article
In: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 86–97, 1998.
Object oriented coding using 3D motion estimation Proceedings Article
In: 9th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1998), pp. 1–4, IEEE 1998.
Frame interpolation in low bit rate coding by 3D motion estimation Book Section
In: Proceedings of Image and Multidimensional Digital Signal Processing’98, pp. 127–130, 1998.
3-D Motion Estimation of Objects for Video Coding Journal Article
In: 1998.
1997
Modeling of subband image data for buffer control Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on circuits and systems for video technology, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 402–408, 1997.
Hybrid vector quantization for multiresolution image coding Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on image processing, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 753–758, 1997.
Accurate bit-rate and quality control for the MPEG video coder Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 571–574, IEEE 1997.
Multiresolution Vector Quantization for Video Coding Journal Article
In: Multidimensional Filter Banks and Wavelets: Research Developments and Applications, pp. 129–150, 1997.
Optimal Reconstruction Filter Design for Quantization error Minimization in Subband Coding Journal Article
In: 1997.
Hybrid Vector Quantization for Multiresolution Image Coding Journal Article
In: 1997.
1996
A frequency-domain approach to interpolation from a nonuniform grid Journal Article
In: Signal Processing, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 1–21, 1996.
Computation of the coding gain for subband coders Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on communications, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 475–487, 1996.
Multiresolution motion estimation for the MPEG coder Proceedings Article
In: Digital Video Compression: Algorithms and Technologies 1996, pp. 111–121, SPIE 1996.
Statistical based motion estimation for video coding Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 105–108, IEEE 1996.
A performance model for the MPEG coder Proceedings Article
In: 1996 8th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 1996), pp. 1–4, IEEE 1996.
Performance model for MPEG2 Journal Article
In: 1996.
1995
Image coding by block prediction of multiresolution subimages Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 7, pp. 909–920, 1995.