Truong Nguyen

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California 92093-0407

Phone: 858-822-5554
Fax: 858-822-3425
email: nguyent@ece.ucsd.edu

Office: Engineering Building Unit I, Room 6404
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Research

Truong Nguyen manages the Video Processing Group at UCSD. The group's research objective is to generate enabling technology for low-cost mobile devices. The research involves the invention, development, analysis and implementation of multirate systems with emphasis on low-power application in image and video processing.

Current research topics include:

Complex wavelet transform and applications
Motion Compensated Frame Rate Conv. for Interlaced and Progressive Video
Integer Transforms in Image and Video Processing
Deblocking algorithms for video compression

Teaching

Troung Nguyen teaches courses associated with the Signal Image Processing Program (SIP) of the UCSD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently, these courses include:

ECE 161B: Digital Signal Processing I (Winter 2002)
ECE 161C: Digital Signal Processing II (Winter 2002)
ECE 251CN: Filter Banks and Wavelets (Spring 2002)

Selected Professional Activities

Editor, Digital Signal Processing Series, Academic Press.
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on CAS II
Member of the DSP Technical Committee of ISCAS
Member of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications

Education

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA		Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1989
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA		M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1986

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1985

Selected Journal Publications

H. D. Tuan, P. Apkarian and T. Nguyen, ``Robust and Reduced-Order Filtering:New Characterizations and Methods'', American Control Conf., pp. 1327-1331, 2000.
S. Yang, Y Hu, D. Tull and T. Nguyen, ``Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation for Image Ringing Artifact Removal," IEEE Trans. on CVST, vol. 11, No. 8, August 2001, pp. 963-973.
X. Q. Gao, T. Nguyen and G. Strang, "On Factorization of M-Channel Paraunitary Filter Banks," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, No. 5, July 2001, pp. 1433-1446.
T. Tran, R. deQueiroz and T. Nguyen, ``Linear Phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Bank: Lattice Structure, Design and Application in Image Coding'' , IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, pp. 133-147, January 2000.
T. Tran and T. Nguyen, ``A Progressive Transmission Image Coder Using Linear Phase Uniform Filter Banks as Block Transforms'' , IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, pp. 1497-1507, Nov. 1999.
S. R. Velazquez, T. Q. Nguyen and S. R. Broadstone, ``Design of Hybrid Filter Banks for Analog/Digital Conversion,'' IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, pp. 956-967, April 1998.
W. H. Kim, Y. H. Hu and T. Q. Nguyen, ``Wavelet-Based Image Coder with Joint Optimized Lattice Vector Quantizer and Entropy Coder,'' IEEE Trans. on Circuits \& Systems II, pp. 1015-1030, August 1998.
T. Q. Nguyen and R. D. Koilpillai, ``The Theory and Design of Arbitrary-Length Cosine-Modulated Filter Banks and Wavelets, Satisfying Perfect-Reconstruction'' IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, V44, N3, pp. 473-483, March 1996.
T. Q. Nguyen, ``Near-Perfect-Reconstruction Pseudo-QMF Banks'', IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, V42, N1, pp. 65-76, January 1994.
T. Q. Nguyen and P. P. Vaidyanathan, ``Structures for M-Channel Perfect-Reconstruction FIR QMF Banks Which Yield Linear-Phase Analysis Filters'', IEEE Transaction on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, V38, N3, pp. 433-446, March 1990.

Last Updated: 1/16/2002