Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing, 8, 229-238 (1997) 1997 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. Contributing Authors Sankar Basu received B.Sc and B.Tech degrees from the Calcutta University respectively in Physics and Radio Physics and electronics, M.S and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He has been a faculty member at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ. He has visited the Lehrstuhl fur the NAchrichtentechnik at the Ruhr Inversitat, bochum, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow for an extended period of time, and was a visiting research scientist at the Information & Decision Systems Laboratory at MIT. In addition, he has been a senior summer research scientist at the Naval Underwater Systems Center in Connecticut. Currently, he is with the IBM research at the T. J. Watson research center. His research interests has been signal processing with particular emphasis on multidimensional signals, and the mathematics of networks and systems theory. Most recently he has been involved in speech recognition research. Steven A. Benno received his B.S. degree from Rutgers University in 1987, his M.S. from Columbia University in 1989, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University for electrical engineering. From 1987 to 1991, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories doing work in adaptive processing, and automatic detection and classification of ocean acoustic signals. From 1989 to 1991, he was also an adjunct professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His current research interests include timefrequency, time-scale representations, feature extraction, and pattern recognition. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
230 Giancarlo Calvagno was born in Venezia, Italy, in 1962. He received the "Laurea in Ingegneria Eletronica" degree from the University of Pad ova in 1986, and the Doctorate degree in electrical engineering 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. Since 1990 he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica of the University of Padova, as a Ricercatore. His main research interests are in the areas of digital signal processing, signal reconstruction, image processing and coding. Jose Fridman received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northeastern University in 1996, and the B.S. and M.S. degrees both in Electrical Engineering from Boston University in '87 and '91, respectively. His primary research focus is on the computational aspects of signal processing and numerical algorithms, and his research interests include parallel processing, communication networks and fault tolerant computing. Dr. Fridman is currently with Analog Devices, Inc., and may be reached by E-mail atjose.fridman@analog.com. Ton A. C. M. Kalker was born in The Netherlands in 1956. He received his M.S. degree in mathematics in 1979 from the University of Lei den, The Netherlands. From 1979 until 1983, while he was a Ph.D. candidate, he worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Leiden. From 1983 until December 1985 he worked as a lecturer at the Computer Science Department of the Technical University of Delft. In January 1986 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics. In December 1985 he joined the Philips Research Laboratories Eindhoven. Until January 1990 he worked in the field of Computer Aided Design. He specialized in (semi-) automatic tools for system verification. Currently he is a member of the Digital Signal Processing group of Philips Research, where he is working on advanced methods for video compression. His research interests include wavelets, multirate signal processing, motion estimation, psycho physics and digital video compression.
231 Bernard C. Levy received the diploma of Ingenieur Civil des Mines from the Ecole National Superieure des Mines in Paris, France, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. From July 1979 to June 1987 he was Assistant and then Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at M.LT. Since July 1987, he has been with the University of California at Davis, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering and a member of the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics. He was a consultant with the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusettes from 1986 to 1989, and from January to July 1993, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires (lrisa), in Rennes, France. His research interests are in multidimensional and statistical signal processing, estimation, detection, inverse problems, and scientific computing. He is a Fellow of IEEE, a member of SIAM and the Acoustical Society of America, and currently serves as a member of the Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Michael Lightstone received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1992 and 1995, respectively. During his undergraduate studies, he interned at a number of companies including McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Company in St. Louis, MO; AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, IL; and Andersen Consulting in Chicago, IL. From 1991 to 1993 he was a visiting researcher at the Tampere University of Technology in Tampere, Finland; the Advanced Video Technology Department at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ; and the Image Processing and Analysis Group at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. He is currently with Chromatic Research, Inc., in Mountain View, CA. His research interests are in the areas of image and video compression and processing. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
232 Eric E. Majani was born in Akron, OH, in 1960. He received the Ingenieur Degree from E.N.S.A.E. (Ecole Nationale Superieure de I' Aeronautique et de l'espace), and the Diplome d 'Etudes Avancees (DEA) Degree from the University Paul Sabatier, both in Toulouse, France, in 1982. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, respectively in 1983 and 1988. Since 1988, he has been a member of technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, mostly with JPL's Image Analysis Systems group. His cunent research interests include: image segmentation, image registration, reversible integer transforms, wavelet transform design, image compression and multiresolution image analysis. Elias S. Manolakos (elias@cdsp.neu.edu) received the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from University of Southern Calfornia in 1989, the MSEE degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. He was the recipient of the Pan-Hellenic Award in Computer Science and Engineering of the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) in 1984, and of an NSF Research Initiation Award in 1993. Since 1989 Dr. Manolakos is with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. of Northeastern University, where he is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Communications and Digital Signal Processing (CDSP) Center for Research and Graduate Studies. He is leading the Parallel Processing & Architectures research group of CDSP and his research interests include: Parallel Computing for SignallImage Processing, Systematic Synthesis of Parallel Anay Algorithms and Architectures, Neural Networks for Signal Processing, and Fault Tolerant Computing. His research is being supported by the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. Dr. Manolakos is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committees on the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems and Neural Networks. He was the Program Chair of the 1995 IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing and has participated in the organizing and program committees for several other IEEE Conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Kluwer Acad. Pub!. He has authored or co-authored more than 40 refereed publications and co-edited two books.
233 More information on his research activities is available on the World Wide Web URL http://www.cdsp.neu.edulinfo/manolalms.html. Thomas G. Marshall, Jr. received the B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Purdue University in 1952 and 1955, respectively, and the Licenciate and Doctor of Technology degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden, in 1968 and 1976, respectively. He served in the Signal Corps from 1955 to 1954 at White Sands Proving Ground and was commanding officer at Oscura Range Camp during this period. He was with the David Sarnoff Research Center from 1955 to 1966 working with transistor circuits for television applications for which he received seven patents and a joint Achievement Award for developing a transistorized, portable TV set. He joined Rutgers University in 1968 where he is currently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was department chair from 1976 to 1979 and founded the Center for Digital Signal Processing Research in 1987. His recent research interests have been in real-number error-correcting codes and digital filter banks and transmultiplexers. Charles A. Micchelli graduated in 1969from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in mathematics, and since 1970 has been a member of the research staff of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, NY. He has held visiting and adjunct positions at numerous universities in the U.S., Europe, South America, and Israel and has lectured widely on his research. In 1983, he was invited to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Warsaw and in 1990 was a CBMS lecturer at Kent State University. He serves on the editorial board of nine mathematics journals, is the author of the book Mathematical Aspects of Geometric Modeling, published by SIAM in 1994, and has written or coauthored more than 180 papers. His research interests are in computational mathematics. In 1992, Dr. Micchelli received a Humboldt Award; in 1994, he was on sabbatical at RWTH Aachen as a visiting professor. photo not available at time of print
234 Eric L. Miller (S'90, M'95) received the S.B. in 1990, the S.M. in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in 1994 all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. His research interests include the exploration of theoretical and practical issues surrounding the use of multi scale and statistical methods for the solution of inverse problems in general and inverse scattering problems in particular; development of computationally efficient, physically-based models for use in signal processing applications; multi scale methods for reduction of computational complexity. Dr. Miller is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Beta Kappa. Sanjit K. Mitra received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Physics in 1953 from Utkal University, Cuttack, India; the M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in Radio Physics and Electronics in 1956 from Calcutta University; the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and 1962, respectively. From June 1962 to June 1965, he was at the Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering. He was with the AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, from June 1965 to January 1967. He has been on the faculty at the University of California since then, first at the Davis campus and more recently at the Santa Barbara campus as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he served as Chairman of the Department from July 1979 to June 1982. He served as the President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986. He is currently a member of the editorial boards of the Internationallournal on Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing; Signal Processing; and the Journal of the Franklin Institute. Dr. Mitra is the recipient of the 1973 F. E. Terman Award and the 1985 AT&T Foundation Award of the American Society of Engineering Education, the Education Award of the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society in 1989 and the Distinguished Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of West Germany in 1989. In May 1987 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Technology degree from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. Dr. Mitra is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS and SPIE, and a member of EURASIP and ASEE.
235 Jose M. F. Moura received the engenheiro electrotecnico degree in 1969 from Instituto Superior Tecnico (1ST), Lisbon, Portugal, and the M.Sc., E.E., and the D.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.LT.), Cambridge, in 1973 and 1975, respectively. He is presently a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, which he joined in 1986. Prior to this, he was on the faculty of 1ST where he was an Assistant Professor (1975), Professor Agregado (1978), and Professor Catedratico (1979). He has had visiting appointments at several Institutions, including M.LT. (Genrad Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1984-1986, also associated with LIDS) and the University of Southern California (research scholar, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Summers 1978-1981). His research interests lie in statistical signal processing (one and two dimensional), image and video processing, array processing, underwater accoustics, and multi resolution techniques. He has organized and codirected two international scientific meetings on signal processing theory and applications. Dr. Moura has over 160 technical contributions, including invited ones, published in international journals and conference proceedings, and is co-editor of the books Nonlinear Stochastic Problems (Reidal, 1983) and Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Exploration (Kluwer, 1993). Dr. Moura is currently the Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing and a member of the IEEE Press Board. He was elected Fellow of the IEEE in November 1993 and is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Portugal (Section of Sciences). He is affiliated with several IEEE societies, Sigma Xi, AMS, IMS, and SIAM. Hyungju Park (also known as H. Alan Park) was born in Korea, and got the B.S. degree in physics from Seoul National University in 1986. Then he came to the graduate school of University of California at Berkeley to study mathematics. At Berkeley, he was a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Mathematics and a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. For the first few years at Berkeley, most of the education and training he got was on algebraic geometry. But eventually, his research interest shifted to computational aspects of this classical field and their applications to various problems in multidimensional signal processing.
236 He got the Ph.D. degree in mathematics in 1995 under the supervision of his two research co-advisors: Tsit-Yuen Lam (mathematics) and Martin Vetterli (electrical engineering). He was a member of the Berkeley Wavelet Group led by Martin Vetterli and became an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, in the fall of 1995. He is a member of IEEE and of AMS. Roberto Rinaldo obtained the "Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica" degree in 1987 from the University of Pad ova, Padova, Italy, with honors and the medal for the highest graduation score. He obtained the MS degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and the Doctorate degree from the University of Pad ova in 1992. Since 1993 he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica of the University of Pad ova, where he is currently a Ricercatore in Communications and Signal Processing. His interests are in the field of multidimensional signal processing, video signal coding, fractal theory and image coding. Martin Vetterli received the Dip!. E1.-Ing. degree from ETH Zurich, Switzerland, in 1981, the MS degree from Stanford University in 1982, and the Doctorat es Science degree from EPF Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1986. He was a Research Assistant at Stanford and EPFL, and has worked for Siemens and AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1986, he joined Columbia University in New York where he was last an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and co-director of the Image and Advanced Television Laboratory. In 1993, he joined the University of California at Berkeley where he is a Professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. Since 1995, he is a Professor of Communication Systems at EPF Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a fellow of the IEEE, a member of SIAM, and of the editorial boards of Signal Processing, Image Communication, Annals of Telecommunications, Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis and The Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications. He received the Best Paper Award of EURASIP in 1984 for his paper on multidimensional subband coding, the Research Prize of the Brown Bovery Corporation (Switzerland) in 1986 for his thesis, and the IEEE Signal Processing Society's 1991 Senior Award for a 1989 Transactions paper with D. LeGal!. He was a plenary speaker at the 1992 IEEE
237 ICASSP in San Francisco, and is the co-author, with 1. Kovacevic, of the book Wavelets and Subband Coding (Prentice-Hall, 1995). His research interests include wavelets, multirate signal processing, computational complexity, signal processing for telecommunications, digital video processing and compression and wireless video communications. Alan S. Willsky received both the S.B. degree and the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1969 and 1973 respectively. He joined the M.LT. faculty in 1973 and his present position is Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1974 to 1981 Dr. Willsky served as Assistant Director of the M.LT. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. He is also a founder and member of the board of directors of Alphatech, Inc. In 1975 he received the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council. Dr. Willsky has held visiting positions at Imperial College, London, L'Universite de Paris-Sud, and the Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systemes Aleatoires in Rennes, France. He was program chairman for the 17th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, has been an associate editor of several journals including the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, has served as a member of the Board of Governors and Vice President for Technical Affairs of the IEEE Control Systems Society, was program chairman for the 1981 Bilateral Seminar on Control Systems held in the People's Republic of China, and was special guest editor of the 1992 special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory on wavelet transforms and multiresolution signal analysis. Also in 1988 he was made a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society. In addition Dr. Willsky has given several plenary lectures at major scientific meetings including the 20th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, the 1991 IEEE International Conference on Systems Engineering, the SIAM Conf. on Control 1992, 1992 Inaugural Workshop for the National Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems, Canberra, Australia, and the IEEE Symposium on Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing in Cannes, France in 1993. Dr. Willsky is the author of the research monograph Digital Signal Processing and Control and Estimation Theory and is co-author of the undergraduate text Signals and Systems. He was awarded the 1979 Alfred Noble Prize by the ASCE and the 1980 Browder 1. Thompson Memorial Prize Award by the IEEE for a paper excerpted from his monograph. Dr. Willsky's research interests are in the development and application of advanced methods of estimation and statistical signal and image processing. Methods he has developed have been successfully applied in a wide variety of applications including failure detection in high-performance aircraft, advanced surveillance and tracking systems, electrocardiogram analysis, computerized tomography, and remote sensing.
238 Yuesheng Xu is an assistant professor of mathematics. He graduated from Department of Computer Science Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China, in 1982 with B.S. and in 1985 with M.S. and obtained his Ph.D. degree of Computational and Applied Mathematics from Old Dominion University, U.S.A., in 1989. His research interest ranges from approximation theory to numerical analysis. In particular, his current research interest is the wavelet construction and applications to numerical solutions of boundary integral equations. He has published approximately 40 research papers in three research areas: constrained best approximation, numerical solutions of integral equations with weakly singular kernels, and wavelet constructions and their applications. His research project "wavelet constructions on finite domains and applications in boundary integral equations" (co-principal investigator Charles A. Micchelli) is supported by the National Science Foundation of the United States. He has been a NASA research grant awardee since 1992 and was a NASA summer research fellow in 1995.