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"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about. "
-- John von Neumann

Publications

Journal Papers:

  1. C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, S. Cheng, "Multiterminal source coding for multiview images under wireless fading channels," Multimedia Tools and Applications: Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding, Springer, to appear.
  2. P. Verma, A. K.Ghosh, R. C. Huck, S. Cheng, S. Chen, M. Martens, A. Kaul, "Continuous wireless monitoring of the cervical dilation of a pregnant woman," Int J. Advanced Media and Communication, to appear.
  3. S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, "An efficient spectrum sensing scheme for cognitive radio," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, pp. 501-504, June 2009.
  4. Y. Zhai, M.B. Yeary, S. Cheng, and N. Kehtarnavaz, "An Object-Tracking Algorithm Based on Multiple-Model Particle Filtering with State Partitioning," IEEE Trans. Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 58, pp.1797-1809, May 2009.
  5. Y. Yang, S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, and W. Zhao, ``Wyner-Ziv coding based on TCQ and LDPC codes," IEEE Trans. Communications, vol 57, pp. 376-387, February 2009.
  6. Y. Sun, M. Uppal, A. D. Liveris, S. Cheng, V. D. Stankovic, and Z. Xiong, "Nested Turbo Codes for the Costa Problem," IEEE Trans. Communications, vol 56, pp. 388-400, March 2008.
  7. L. Zou, S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, M. Liu, and K.R. Castleman, "3D face recongition based on warped example faces," IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, vol 2, pp. 513-529, September 2007.
  8. Z. Liu, S. Cheng, A. Liveris, and Z. Xiong, "Slepian-Wolf coded nested lattice quantization for Wyner-Ziv coding: High-rate performance analysis and code design," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 4358-4379, October 2006.
  9. V. Stankovic, S. Cheng, and Z. Xiong, "On dualities in multiterminal coding problems,"IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 307- 315, January 2006.
  10. S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and Z. Xiong, "Computing the channel capacity and rate distortion function with two-sided state information," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 51, pp. 4418-4425, December 2005.
  11. S. Cheng and Z. Xiong, "Audio coding and image denoising based on the nonuniform modulated complex lapped transform," IEEE Trans. Multimedia, vol. 7, pp. 817-827, October 2005.
  12. S. Cheng and Z. Xiong, "Successive refinement for the Wyner-Ziv problem and layered code design," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, vol. 53, pp. 3269-3281, August 2005.
  13. Z. Xiong, A. Liveris, and S. Cheng, "Distributed source coding for sensor networks," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 21, pp. 80-94, September 2004.
  14. Z. Xiong, X.Wu, S. Cheng, and J. Hua, "Lossy to lossless compression of medical volumetric data using three-dimensional integer wavelet transforms," IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging: Special Issue on Wavelets in Medical Imaging, vol. 22, pp. 459-470, March 2003.
  15. S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, and X.Wu, "Fast trellis-coded color quantization of images," Real-Time Imaging, vol. 8, pp. 265-275, August 2002.
  16. X. Wu, S. Cheng, and Z. Xiong, "On packetization of embedded multimedia bitstreams", IEEE Trans. Multimedia: Special Issue on Multimedia over IP, vol. 3, pp. 132-140, March 2001.
  17. S. Cheng, Lie-Ming Li, CT Chan and ZW Zhang, "Defect and transmission properties of two-dimensional quasiperiodic photonic band-gap systems," Phys. Rev. B, vol. 59, pp. 4091-4099, February 1999.

Conference Papers:

  1. S. Chen, S. Cheng, P.K. Verma, R.C. Huck, "Heuristic algorithms for designing minimum cost FSO networks," in Proc. ANTS 2009, December 2009.
  2. L. Li, M. Mirza, V. Stankovic, L. Li, L. Stankovic, D. Uttamchandani, and S. Cheng, "Optical imaging with scanning MEMS mirror--a single photodetector approach," in Proc. ICIP 2009, November 2009.
  3. V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, "Compressive image sampling with side information," in Proc. ICIP 2009, November 2009.
  4. S. Cheng, S. Wang, and L. Cui, "Adaptive Slepian-Wolf decoding using particle filtering based belif propagation," in Proc. the 47th Annual Allerton Conference, October 2009.
  5. S. Wang, L. Cui, S. Cheng, and R.C. Huck, "Noise adaptive LDPC decoding using particle filtering based on parallel GPU architecture," in 2009 Nvidia Research Summit, October 2009.
  6. V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, S. Cheng, "Sparse signal recovery with side information," Proc. Eusipco-2009 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 2009.
  7. A.K. Ghosh, P. Verma, S. Cheng, R.C. Huck, M.R. Chatterjee, and M. Al-Saedi, "Design of acousto-optic chaos based secure free-space optical communication links," in Proc. SPIE 7464, San Diego, CA, USA.
  8. C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “Stereo image transmission over fading channels with multiterminal source coding,” in Proc. ICC 2009, June 2009.
  9. S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, "Improved SIFT-based Image Registration using Belief Propagation," in Proc. ICASSP 2009, April 2009.
  10. S. Cheng, "Non-asymmetric Slepian-Wolf decoding using belief propagation," in Proc. CISS 2009, March 2009.
  11. L. Cui, S. Wang, S. Cheng, and Q. Wu, "Noise adaptive LDPC decoding using particle filters," in Proc. CISS 2009, March 2009.
  12. Z. Tai, S. Cheng, and P. Verma, "Braille Document Parameters Estimation for Optical Character Recognition," in Proc. 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 2008.
  13. S. Wang, S. Cheng, and Q. Wu, "A Parallel Decoding Algorithm of LDPC Codes using CUDA," in Proc. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 2008.
  14. R. C. Huck, M. K. Akkoumi, S. Cheng, James J. Sluss Jr., and T. L. Landers, "Aerial Surveillance Vehicles Augment Security at Shipping Ports," in Proc. SPIE Europe Remote Sensing, Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2008.
  15. Nelson, C., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V. and Cheng, S., "Performance Analysis of PUM codes," in Proc. 5th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2008.
  16. V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, "Compressive Video Sampling," in Proc. Eusipco 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.
  17. V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, "Compressive Sampling of Binary Images," in Proc. 2008 Congress on Image and Signal Processing, Sanya, Haina, China, May 2008.
  18. P. Verma, A. Ghosh, R. Huck, S. Cheng, S. Chen, "Continuous Wireless Monitoring of the Cervical Dilation of a Pregnant Woman," in Proc. IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications, Ottawa, Canada, May 2008.
  19. Z. Tai and S. Cheng, "Automatic Fluorescent Dot Counting in Interphase Cell Nuclei using Basis Pursuit Image Analysis," in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical, Professional and Student Conference, Kansas City, April 2008.
  20. D. Liu and S. Cheng, "A Brief Introduction of Feature Matching," in Proc. IEEE Region 5 Technical, Professional and Student Conference, Kansas City, April 2008.
  21. A. Venugopalan, A. Ghosh, P. Verma and S. Cheng, “Performance of an Optical identification and interrogation system”, in Enabling Photonic Technologies for Defense, Security, and Aerospace Applications IV: Proc. SPIE, Vol. 6975, Orlando, March 2008.
  22. V. Stankovic, L. Fagoonee, A. Moinian, and S. Cheng, "Wireless Full-Duplex Communications Based on Network Coding," in Proc. of the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, September 2007.
  23. S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and L. Fagoonee, "Resource Allocation from the Perspective of Channel Coding," in Proc. of the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Allerton, IL, September 2007.
  24. V. Stankovic, L. Fagoonee, A. Moinian, S. Cheng, "Two-way video communications based on network coding", in Proc ICIP'07, San Antonio, TX, September 2007.
  25. A. Ghosh, P. Verma, S. Cheng, and A. Venugopalan, "A Free Space Optics based Identification and Interrogation System," in Proc. IEEE Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Woburn, MA, May 2007.
  26. L. Zou, S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, M. Lu, K.R. Castleman, "Facial Feature Extraction From Range Images Using a 3D Morphable Model," in Proc. ICASSP'07, Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
  27. S. Cheng, H. Choi, Q. Wu, K.R. Castleman, "Extended depth-of-field microscope imaging: MPP image fusion v.s. wavefront coding," in Proc. ICIP'06, Atlanta, GA, October 2006.
  28. H. Choi, S. Cheng, Q. Wu, K.R. Castleman, and A.C Bovik, "Extended depth-of-field using adjacent plane debluring and MPP wavelet fusion for microscope images," in Proc. ISBI'06, Airlington, VA, April 2006.
  29. S. Cheng, Q. Wu, H. Choi, and K.R. Castleman, "An improved method of wavelet image fusion for extended depth-of-field microscope imaging," in Proc. SPIE-MI'06, San Diego, CA, February 2006.
  30. S. Cheng, Q. Wu, and K.R. Castleman, "Non-ubiquitous digital watermarking for record indexing and integrity protection of medical images," in Proc. ICIP'05, Genoa, Italy, September 2005.
  31. S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and Z. Xiong, "Computing the Channel Capacity and rate distortion function with two-sided information," in Proc. CISS'05, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.
  32. V. Stankovic, S. Cheng, and Z. Xiong, "On dualities in multiterminal coding problems," in Proc. Allerton'04, Allerton, IL, October 2004.
  33. S. Cheng and Z. Xiong, "Channel symmetry in Slepian-Wolf code design based on LDPC codes with application to the quadratic Gaussian Wyner-Ziv problem," in Proc. ITW'04, San Antonio, TX, October 2004.
  34. Z. Xiong, V. Stankovic, S. Cheng, A. Liveris, and Y. Sun, "Source-channel coding for algebraic multiterminal binning," in Proc. ITW'04, San Antonio, TX, October 2004.
  35. S. Cheng and Z. Xiong, "Successive refinement for theWyner-Ziv problem and layered code design," in Proc. DCC'04, Snowbird, UT, March 2004.
  36. Z. Liu, S. Cheng, A.D. Liveris, and Z. Xiong, "Slepian-Wolf coded nested quantization (SWC-NQ) for Wyner-Ziv coding: performance analysis and code design," in Proc. DCC'04, Snowbird, UT, March 2004.
  37. Y. Yang, S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, and W. Zhao, "Wyner-Ziv coding based on TCQ and LDPC codes," in Proc. 37th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers: Special Session on Distributed Methods in Image and Video Coding, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2003.
  38. Z. Xiong, A. Liveris, S. Cheng, and Z. Liu, "Nested quantization and Slepian-Wolf coding: A Wyner-Ziv coding paradigm for i.i.d. sources," in Proc. IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing, St. Louis, MO, September 2003.
  39. S. Cheng, H. Yu, and Z. Xiong, "Enhanced spread spectrum watermarking of AAC audio," in Proc. ICASSP'02, Orlando, FL, May 2002.
  40. S. Cheng, H. Yu, and Z. Xiong, "Error concealment of AAC audio using modulo watermarks," in Proc. ISCAS'02, Scottsdale, AZ, May 2002.
  41. H. Yu, P. Yin, S. Cheng, X. Kong, "Smart media: Empower media with active data hiding," in Proc. the Sixth International Computer Science Conference - Active Media Technology, LNCS 2252, 18-20 December 2001, Hong Kong, pp. 5-16.
  42. S. Cheng and Z. Xiong, "Image deblocking using the nonuniform modulated complex lapped transform," in Proc. ICICS'01, Singapore, October 2001 (invited).
  43. S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, and M. Fossorier, "Joint source-channel video coding for a power constrained noisy channel," in Proc. 33rd Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 1999 (invited).
  44. S. Cheng, Z. Xiong, and J. Q. Huang, "Trellis coded color quantization of images," in Proc. ICIP'99, Kobe, Japan, October 1999.

Patent Awarded:

  1. S. Cheng, H. Yu, and Z. Xiong, "Method and apparatus for audio error concealment using data hiding," US Patent 7,047,187, May 2006.
  2. S. Cheng, H. Yu, and Z. Xiong, "Enhanced method for digital data hiding," US Patent 7,076,659, July 2006.
  3. S. Cheng and H. Yu, "Apparatus and method for fingerprinting digital media," US Patent 7,110,338, September 2006.
  4. Z. Liu, S. Cheng, A. Liveris, and Z. Xiong, "Data encoding and decoding using Slepian-Wolf coded nested quantization to achieve Wyner-Ziv coding," US Patent 7,256,716, August 2007.