Research Supervision

Supervised the following research theses:

• Sathiya Narayanan Sekar, Compressive sensing reconstruction algorithms using partially correct signal information (PhD, 2017)
• Jayachandra Dakala, Lifting based direction adaptive two-dimensional wavelet transforms (PhD, 2014)
• Sujit K Sahoo, Sparse signal processing and compressed sensing recovery (PhD, 2014)
• Huang Honglin, Improvements to sparse signal processing in compressive sensing and other methods (PhD, 2012)
• A Anil Kumar, On algebraic decoding of real transform codes and application of random codes (PhD, 2010)
• Xu Zhiming, Theory, factorizations and designs of critically sampled filter banks and oversampled filter bank frames (PhD, 2009)
• Zhang Lei, Perfect reconstruction filter banks based on lifting and other approaches (PhD, 2007)
• Santosh Tripathi, Optimal image decomposition and minimization of quantization noise amplification in subband coders (Masters, 2003)
• P Viswanadha Reddy, Some design approaches for causal stable IIR and FIR perfect reconstruction filter banks (Masters, 2002)
• S Sethu Selvi, Variable dimension blocks in vector quantization and other image compression techniques (PhD, 2001)
• A Muthuvel, Characterization of some classes of FIR PR filter banks using eigen structures and convolution matrices (Masters, 1999)
• Gagan Bihari Rath, Some new approaches to block based motion estimation and compensation for video compression (PhD, 1999)
• Binoy Joseph, Clustering for designing error correcting codes (Masters, 1995)
• V L Narayana Murthy, Design of some 2-D filters through transformation for image processing (Masters, 1993)

Presently supervising the following doctoral research students:

• Abirami Srinivasan, Application of compressive sensing
• Mukund Sriram Narasimhan, Compressive sensing

Supervised/supervising the following post-doctoral researchers and research staff directly under me:

Post-doctoral:

• Sujit K. Sahoo, research fellow, sub-Nyquist sampling (2014-2016)
• Xu Zhiming, research fellow, image denoising (2010-2011)
• Asha Vijayakumar, research fellow, filter bank design (2009-2011)
• Ho Yu Tat Edward, research fellow, biomedical image processing (2009-2010)
• R. Venkatesh Babu, research fellow, video object segmentation, tracking, and compression (2005-2006)

Others:

• Mukund Sriram Narasimhan, research associate, comp. sensing (2015-present)
• Sathiya Narayanan Sekar, research associate, compressive sensing (2015-2016)
• Sujit K. Sahoo, project officer, compressed sensing (2012-2014)
• Jayachandra Dakala, project officer, analog-digital synthesis (2012-20013)
• Pham Duc Minh, research associate, analog-digital synthesis (2011)
• Huang Honglin, research associate, analog-digital synthesis (2011)
• Phan Buu Minh, project officer, two-dimensional systems (2008-2009)
• Divya Venkatraman, project officer/research associate, video surveillance systems (2008-2009)
• P. Victor Ananda Raj, scientific officer, compression for wireless multimedia (1996-1999)
• K. V. S. Jagannadha Rao, project assistant, compression for wireless multimedia (1997-1998)
• Pratibha Jain, project associate, radar image resolution improvement (1997-1998)
• Sreejith Pattuvakkaran, project assistant, telematics (1997)
• Bunith Cyril, project assistant, digital tv receiver (1995)
• Ch. P. Ramakrishna, visiting, digital tv receiver (1994)
• Preethi Shenoy, project assistant, digital tv receiver (1993)
• Raghunand Bhagwan, project assistant, digital tv receiver (1992)
• Vijay Simha, project assistant, digital tv receiver (1992)

Supervised/supervising more than 50 Masters’ dissertations. The area of these works spans compressed sensing, image/video compression, mutlimedia services, filterbank design, image/video halftoning, image restoration, document/image watermarking, vector quantization, television processing, compression, error correcting codes, etc.