Mohammed Ghanbari

M. Ghanbari is a Professor of Video Networking in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering, University of Essex, United Kingdom. He is best known for the pioneering work on two-layer video coding for ATM networks, now is known as SNR scalability in the standard video codecs, which earned him the Fellowship of IEEE in 2001. He has registered for eleven international patents and published more than 300 technical papers on various aspects of video networking and is the author of three books. His Video Coding: An Introduction to Standard Codecs book received the Rayleigh prize as the best book of year 2000 by IEE. His recent book Standard Codecs: Image Compression to Advanced Video Coding was published by IEE in 2003. He has been an organizing member of several international conferences and workshops. He was the General Chair of 1997 International Workshop on Packet Video and Guest Editor to 1997 IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special issue on Multimedia Technology and Applications. He has served as Associate Editor to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (IEEETMM from 1998–2004). He is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IEE, and Charted Engineer (C.Eng.).

Biography Updated on 18 February 2006

Personal Home Page

http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~ghan/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Unequal Protection of Video Streaming through Adaptive Modulation with a Trizone Buffer over Bluetooth Enhanced Data Rate
    EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. 2008, Article ID 658794, 16 pages, 2008
  2. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 71–83, 2008
  3. Binary Partition Tree for Semantic Object Extraction and Image Segmentation
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 378–383, 2007
  4. Fuzzy Logic Control of Adaptive ARQ for Video Distribution over a Bluetooth Wireless Link
    Advances in Multimedia, vol. 2007, Article ID 45798, 13 pages, 2007
  5. Binary Partition Tree Analysis Based on Region Evolution and Its Application to Tree Simplification
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1131–1138, 2007
  6. Accurate packet-by-packet measurement and analysis of video streams across an Internet tight link
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 69–85, 2007
  7. Buffer size resilience for Bluetooth video streams from adaptive ARQ with active discard
    Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 20, p. 1075, 2007
  8. Correct Bluetooth EDR FEC performance with SEC-DAEC decoding
    Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 22, p. 1209, 2007
  9. Adaptive packetisation for video streams for Bluetooth v.2.0 data rates
    Electronics Letters, vol. 43, no. 4, p. 229, 2007
  10. Wavelet-based video coding with early-predicted zerotrees
    IET Image Processing, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 95, 2007
  11. Generic object registration using multiple hypotheses testing in partition trees
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 153, no. 3, p. 323, 2006
  12. Non-packet-loss-based rate adaptive video over the Internet
    Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 8, p. 492, 2006
  13. Image segmentation by binary partition tree
    Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 17, p. 966, 2006
  14. Efficient packetisation scheme for Bluetooth video transmission
    Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 20, p. 1143, 2006
  15. Combined turbo coding and hierarchical QAM for unequal error protection of H.264 coded video
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 390–395, 2006
  16. Error concealment for SNR scalable video coding
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 91–99, 2006
  17. Layered H.264 video transmission with hierarchical QAM
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 451–466, 2006
  18. Reliable Video Transmission Using Codes Close to the Channel Capacity
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1550–1556, 2006
  19. H.264 Layered Coded Video over Wireless Networks: Channel Coding and Modulation Constraints
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 85870, 8 pages, 2006
  20. Spatio-Temporal Scalability-Based Motion-Compensated 3-D Subband/DCT Video Coding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 43–55, 2006
  21. Region-Based Analysis and Retrieval for Tracking of Semantic Objects and Provision of Augmented Information in Interactive Sport Scenes
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1084–1096, 2005
  22. Multilayer Transcoding With Format Portability for Multicasting of Single-Layered Video
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1–15, 2005
  23. A Low Bit Rate Hybrid Wavelet-DCT Video Codec
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 935–937, 2005
  24. Prioritized Transmission of Data Partitioned H.264 Video With Hierarchical QAM
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, no. 8, pp. 577–580, 2005
  25. Special issue on visual communication in the ubiquitous era
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 16, no. 4-5, pp. 393–396, 2005
  26. An efficient and scalable low bit-rate video coding with virtual SPIHT
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 267–283, 2004
  27. Best packetisation scheme for H.263 internet video communication
    Electronics Letters, vol. 40, no. 23, p. 1476, 2004
  28. Smoothing transcoded MPEG-1 video streams for Internet transmission
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 151, no. 4, p. 298, 2004
  29. Iterative Error Detection and Correction of H.263 Coded Video for Wireless Networks
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, no. 12, pp. 1294–1307, 2004
  30. Loss concealment using b-pictures motion information
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 257–266, 2003
  31. Description based object tracking in region space using prior information
    Electronics Letters, vol. 39, no. 7, p. 600, 2003
  32. Hybrid DCT/pixel domain architecture for heterogeneous video transcoding
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 601–620, 2003
  33. Hierarchical network management: a scalable and dynamic mobile agent-based approach
    Computer Networks, vol. 38, no. 6, pp. 693–711, 2002
  34. Key components for an advanced segmentation system
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 97–113, 2002
  35. Very low bit rate video coding using virtual SPIHT
    Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 1, p. 40, 2001
  36. The importance of the bi-directionally predicted pictures in video streaming
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 402–414, 2001
  37. Picture quality optimization in ABR video services
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 733–744, 2001
  38. The performance of layered video over an IP network
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 785–794, 2001
  39. Nonlinear Dynamics, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 71–101, 2001
  40. Mobile software agents for decentralised network and systems management
    Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 101–109, 2001
  41. Efficient SPIHT-based embedded colour image coding techniques
    Electronics Letters, vol. 37, no. 15, p. 951, 2001
  42. Minimum cell queueing delay with optimised ABR video quality
    Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 13, p. 1160, 2000
  43. Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 521–522, 2000
  44. Texture driven quadrilateral matching motion estimation for video coding
    Electronics Letters, vol. 36, no. 1, p. 27, 2000
  45. Advanced network monitoring applications based on mobile/intelligent agent technology
    Computer Communications, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 720–730, 2000
  46. Blockiness detection for MPEG2-coded video
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 213–215, 2000
  47. A multi-metric objective picture-quality measurement model for MPEG video
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 1208–1213, 2000
  48. Buffer analysis and control in CBR video transcoding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 83–92, 2000
  49. Heterogeneous video transcoding to lower spatio-temporal resolutions and different encoding formats
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 101–110, 2000
  50. Congestion reduction in transmission of video over ABR networks
    IEE Proceedings - Communications, vol. 147, no. 6, p. 305, 2000
  51. Exploiting interlayer correlation of SNR scalable video
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 783–797, 1999
  52. In-service monitoring of quality of service in ATM networks using OAM cells
    IEE Proceedings - Communications, vol. 146, no. 2, p. 102, 1999
  53. Nonlinear Gaussian filtering approach for object segmentation
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 146, no. 3, p. 137, 1999
  54. Optimization of MPEG-2 SNR scaleable codecs
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 10, pp. 1435–1438, 1999
  55. Content-based MPEG video traffic modeling
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 77–87, 1999
  56. Cell loss concealment and packetization in packet video
    International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 54–58, 1999
  57. Measuring blocking artefacts using harmonic analysis
    Electronics Letters, vol. 35, no. 16, p. 1322, 1999
  58. Analysis of spatial transform motion estimation with overlapped compensation and fractional-pixel accuracy
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 146, no. 6, p. 339, 1999
  59. Accurate curve matching for object-based motion estimation
    Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 23, p. 2220, 1998
  60. MPEG video model based on scene content
    Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 9, p. 868, 1998
  61. Frame sequence partitioning of video for efficient multiplexing
    Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 15, p. 1480, 1998
  62. Fast nonlinear diffusion approach for object segmentation
    Electronics Letters, vol. 34, no. 19, p. 1836, 1998
  63. An objective measurement tool for MPEG video quality
    Signal Processing, vol. 70, no. 3, pp. 279–294, 1998
  64. AN EXPERIMENTALLY VERIFIED NON-LINEAR DAMPING MODEL FOR LARGE AMPLITUDE RANDOM VIBRATION OF A CLAMPED–CLAMPED BEAM
    Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 215, no. 2, pp. 343–379, 1998
  65. A frequency-domain video transcoder for dynamic bit-rate reduction of MPEG-2 bit streams
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 953–967, 1998
  66. On the coding of the enhancement layer of an MPEG-2 SNR scalable coder
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 516, 1998
  67. Guest Editorial
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 571–574, 1997
  68. Scalable coding of very high resolution video using the virtual zerotree
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 719–727, 1997
  69. Fast computation of MC-DCT for video transcoding
    Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 284, 1997
  70. Optimal bit rate conversion of MPEG-2 video bit streams
    Electronics Letters, vol. 33, no. 8, p. 675, 1997
  71. EXTREME-VALUE PREDICTION FOR NON-LINEAR STOCHASTIC OSCILLATORS VIA NUMERICAL SOLUTIONS OF THE STATIONARY FPK EQUATION
    Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 206, no. 5, pp. 697–724, 1997
  72. Optimisation of enhancement layer DCT coefficients in MPEG-2 SNR scalable video
    Electronics Letters, vol. 32, no. 22, p. 2053, 1996
  73. Postprocessing of late cells for packet video
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 669–678, 1996
  74. Super high definition image coding using wavelet vector quantization
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 399–406, 1996
  75. A successive approximation vector quantizer for wavelet transform image coding
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 299–310, 1996
  76. On the performance of linear phase wavelet transforms in low bit-rate image coding
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 689–704, 1996
  77. On the improvement of the quality of service of video services in an asynchronous transfer mode network using forced frame refreshment
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 159, 1996
  78. Efficient H.261-based two-layer video codecs for ATM networks
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 171–175, 1995
  79. Layered image coding using the DCT pyramid
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 512–516, 1995
  80. A protocol for carrying two-layer coded moving images
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 43, no. 5, pp. 1881–1883, 1995
  81. Proposed UPC meeting both packet video and network goals
    IEE Proceedings - Communications, vol. 142, no. 4, p. 227, 1995
  82. Measurement of scene-dependent quality variations in digitally coded television pictures
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 142, no. 3, p. 149, 1995
  83. Bursty error model for digital transmission channels
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 25, p. 2144, 1995
  84. Wavelet vector quantisation scheme for image sequence coding at 64 kbit/s
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 2, p. 92, 1995
  85. Graphics segmentation based coding of multimedia images
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 7, p. 542, 1995
  86. Low bit-rate video coding using wavelet vector quantisation
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 142, no. 3, p. 141, 1995
  87. A Hybrid Subband-DCT Codec for Transmission of High Resolution Still Pictures at 64K bit/s
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 164–177, 1995
  88. Motion compensation for very low bit-rate video
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 7, no. 4-6, pp. 567–580, 1995
  89. Wavelet transform image coding using lattice vector quantisation
    Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 18, p. 1477, 1994
  90. Effect of video synchronisation in an ATM multiplexer
    Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 9, p. 683, 1994
  91. Fast motion estimation with spatial transformation
    Electronics Letters, vol. 30, no. 11, p. 847, 1994
  92. Generalised block-matching motion estimation using quad-tree structured spatial decomposition
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 141, no. 6, p. 446, 1994
  93. Effect of bit rate variation of the base layer on the performance of two-layer video codecs
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 8–17, 1994
  94. Adaptive motion estimation based on texture analysis
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 42, no. 2/3/4, pp. 1277–1287, 1994
  95. Packing coded video signals into ATM cells
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 1, no. 5, pp. 505–509, 1993
  96. Modeling and subjective assessment of cell discard in ATM video
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 212–222, 1993
  97. Cell-loss concealment in ATM video codecs
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 238–247, 1993
  98. A DCT-based aliasing cancellation method in subband coding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 384–387, 1993
  99. Lattice quantisation for image sequences coding at 16 dimension
    Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 2, p. 178, 1993
  100. Priority mechanisms in ATM switches carrying two layer video data
    Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 273, 1993
  101. Effect of scene cuts on ATM video
    Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 7, p. 578, 1993
  102. Image sequence coding using temporal co-occurrence matrices
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 185–193, 1992
  103. An adapted H.261 two-layer video codec for ATM networks
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 40, no. 9, pp. 1481–1490, 1992
  104. Compact image coding using two-dimensional DCT pyramid
    Electronics Letters, vol. 28, no. 8, p. 791, 1992
  105. Forgiveness effect in subjective assessment of packet video
    Electronics Letters, vol. 28, no. 21, p. 2013, 1992
  106. A motion vector replenishment video codec for ATM networks
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 143–156, 1991
  107. Arithmetic coding with limited past history
    Electronics Letters, vol. 27, no. 13, p. 1157, 1991
  108. Digital demodulation by a non-coherent differential PSK modem
    Electronics Letters, vol. 26, no. 24, p. 2028, 1990
  109. Use of co-occurrence matrices in the temporal domain
    Electronics Letters, vol. 26, no. 15, p. 1116, 1990
  110. The cross-search algorithm for motion estimation (image coding)
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 950–953, 1990
  111. Two-layer coding of video signals for VBR networks
    IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 771–781, 1989
  112. Components of bit-rate variation in videoconference signals
    Electronics Letters, vol. 25, no. 4, p. 285, 1989
  113. Variable bit rate transmission of television signals
    Electronics Letters, vol. 24, no. 7, p. 392, 1988