Ming-Ting Sun

Ming-Ting Sun received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1976, the M.S. degree from University of Texas at Arlington in 1981, and the Ph.D. degree from University of California, Los Angeles in 1985, all in electrical engineering. He joined the University of Washington in August 1996 where he is now a Professor. Previously, he was the Director of the Video Signal Processing Research Group at Bellcore. He holds 11 patents and has published over 180 technical papers, including 13 book chapters in the area of video and multimedia technologies. He coedited a book Compressed Video over Networks. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Circuits and Systems Society from 2000 to 2001. He received an IEEE CASS Golden Jubilee Medal in 2000, and was the General Cochair of the Visual Communications and Image Processing 2000 Conference. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) from 1995 to 1997. He received the TCSVT Best Paper Award in 1993. From 1988 to 1991, he was the Chairman of the IEEE CAS Standards Committee and established the IEEE Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform Standard. He received an Award of Excellence from Bellcore for his work on the digital subscriber line in 1987.

Biography Updated on 3 August 2006

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Rate-Distortion Modeling for Efficient H.264/AVC Encoding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 530–543, 2007
  2. Video Adaptation for Heterogeneous Environments
    EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 18578, 4 pages, 2007
  3. Multimodality Sensor System for Long-Term Sleep Quality Monitoring
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 217–227, 2007
  4. Efficient Rate-Distortion Estimation for H.264/AVC Coders
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 600–611, 2006
  5. Advanced Video Technologies and Applications for H.264/AVC and Beyond
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 27579, 3 pages, 2006
  6. Fast Multiple Reference Frame Motion Estimation For H.264/AVC
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 447–452, 2006
  7. A network condition classification scheme for supporting video delivery over wireless Internet
    Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE A, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 794–800, 2006
  8. FGS enhancement layer truncation with reduced intra-frame quality variation
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 830–841, 2006
  9. Fast motion estimation and Inter-mode decision for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 243–263, 2006
  10. Fast variable-size block motion estimation for efficient H.264/AVC encoding
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 595–623, 2005
  11. Special Issue on Advances in Video Coding and Delivery
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 3–5, 2005
  12. Global Motion Estimation From Coarsely Sampled Motion Vector Field and the Applications
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 232–242, 2005
  13. Digital Video Transcoding
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 93, no. 1, pp. 84–97, 2005
  14. Editorial
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 2, pp. 155–157, 2004
  15. Finding structure in home videos by probabilistic hierarchical clustering
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 539–548, 2003
  16. Dynamic region of interest transcoding for multipoint video conferencing
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 10, pp. 982–992, 2003
  17. A Standard-Compliant Virtual Meeting System with Active Video Object Tracking
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2002, no. 6, pp. 622–634, 2002
  18. Wireless video transport using conditional retransmission and low-delay interleaving
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 558–565, 2002
  19. An HDTV-to-SDTV spatial transcoder
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 998–1008, 2002
  20. Encoding DCT Coefficients Based on Rate–Distortion Measurement
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 29–43, 2001
  21. Semantic video object extraction using four-band watershed and partition lattice operators
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 603–618, 2001
  22. Encoding stored video for streaming applications
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 199–209, 2001
  23. Multiview extensive partition operators for semantic video object extraction
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 788–801, 2001
  24. Extensive partition operators, gray-level connected operators, and region merging/classification segmentation algorithms: theoretical links
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 10, no. 9, pp. 1332–1345, 2001
  25. A rate-control scheme for video transport over wireless channels
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 569–580, 2001
  26. MPEG video streaming with VCR-functionality
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 415–425, 2001
  27. Region-Based Video Coding Using a Geometric Motion Compensation
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 279–301, 2000
  28. Video Transcoding with H.263 Bit-Streams
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 385–403, 2000
  29. Motion vector refinement for high-performance transcoding
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 30–40, 1999
  30. Modeling DCT coefficients for fast video encoding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 608–616, 1999
  31. Special Issue On Representation And Coding Of Images And Video II
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1–4, 1999
  32. Special Issue On Representation And Coding Of Images And Video I [Guest Editorial]
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 797–801, 1998
  33. Guest Editorial
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 521–524, 1998
  34. Statistical Computation of Discrete Cosine Transform in Video Encoders
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 163–170, 1998
  35. Dynamic bit allocation in video combining for multipoint conferencing
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 5, pp. 644–648, 1998
  36. Approximation of calculations for forward discrete cosine transform
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 264–268, 1998
  37. Motion estimation for high performance transcoding
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 649–658, 1998
  38. Video bridging for multipoint video conferencing
    International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 427–431, 1997
  39. A coded-domain video combiner for multipoint continuous presence video conferencing
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 855–863, 1997
  40. Video bridging based on H.261 standard
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 425–437, 1994
  41. Design and hardware architecture of high-order conditional entropy coding for images
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 176–186, 1992
  42. An all-ASIC implementation of a low bit-rate video codec
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 123–134, 1992
  43. An entropy coding system for digital HDTV applications
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 147–155, 1991
  44. A family of VLSI designs for the motion compensation block-matching algorithm
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 36, no. 10, pp. 1317–1325, 1989
  45. VLSI implementation of a 16*16 discrete cosine transform
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 610–617, 1989
  46. A concurrent architecture for VLSI implementation of discrete cosine transform
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 34, no. 8, pp. 992–994, 1987
  47. Adaptive filters suitable for real-time spectral analysis
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 218–229, 1986
  48. An ADPCM Receiver for NTSC Composite Video Signals
    IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. BC-28, no. 3, pp. 85–93, 1982