Benoit Macq

Benoit Macq is a Professor at Université Catolique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium, in the Telecommunication Laboratory. He has done his military service in 1984-1985 at the Royal Military School of Belgium where he worked on laser interferometer measurements. He worked on networks planning in 1985 for the Tractebel company, Brussels. He did his doctoral thesis on perceptual coding for digital TV under the supervision of Professor Paul Delogne at UCL. He was a Researcher at Philips Research in 1990 and 1991. He has been a Senior Researcher of the Belgian NSF. Benoit Macq has been a Visiting Scientist at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and at the Massachussets Institute of Technology, Boston. He has been a Visiting Professor at the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications,” ENSTParis and at the “Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis.” Benoit Macq is teaching and doing his research work in image processing for visual communications. His main research interests are image compression, image watermarking, and image analysis for medical and immersive communications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received the Bell Telephone Award in 1990.

Biography Updated on 16 October 2005

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Estimation of the deformations induced by articulated bodies: Registration of the spinal column
    Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 16–24, 2007
  2. A particle filter for joint detection and tracking of color objects
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 1271–1281, 2007
  3. Prefetching and Caching Strategies for Remote and Interactive Browsing of JPEG2000 Images
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 1339–1354, 2007
  4. Bayesian Approach for Morphology-Based 2-D Human Motion Capture
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 754–765, 2007
  5. Perceptual Image Representation
    EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 98181, 9 pages, 2007
  6. Video Analysis and Coding for Robust Transmission
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 53981, 3 pages, 2006
  7. A Flexible Hardware JPEG 2000 Decoder for Digital Cinema
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1397–1410, 2006
  8. Watermarking Relying on Cover Signal Content to Hide Synchronization Marks
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 87–101, 2006
  9. Dense deformation field estimation for atlas-based segmentation of pathological MR brain images
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 84, no. 2-3, pp. 66–75, 2006
  10. 3D CT-based cephalometric analysis: 3D cephalometric theoretical concept and software
    Neuroradiology, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 853–862, 2006
  11. Content browsing and semantic context viewing through JPEG 2000-based scalable video summary
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 153, no. 3, p. 274, 2006
  12. Image analysis architectures and techniques for intelligent surveillance systems
    IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image, and Signal Processing, vol. 152, no. 2, p. 224, 2005
  13. Stereoscopic and velocimetric reconstructions of the free surface topography of antidune flows
    Experiments in Fluids, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 535–553, 2005
  14. Efficient multi-modal dense field non-rigid registration: alignment of histological and section images
    Medical Image Analysis, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 538–546, 2005
  15. Versatile Clinical Information System Design for Emergency Departments
    IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 174–183, 2005
  16. Robust Video Hashing Based on Radial Projections of Key Frames
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 4020–4037, 2005
  17. Oversampled Filter Banks as Error Correcting Codes: Theory and Impulse Noise Correction
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 4619–4630, 2005
  18. Registration and Real-Time Visualization of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation With 3-D MR Images
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 1994–2005, 2004
  19. Computing the Word-, Symbol-, and Bit-Error Rates for Block Error-Correcting Codes
    IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 910–921, 2004
  20. Special Issue on Enabling Security Technologies for Digital Rights Management
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 879–882, 2004
  21. Benchmarking of Image Watermarking Algorithms for Digital Rights Management
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 92, no. 6, pp. 971–984, 2004
  22. Conceptualising mixed spaces of interaction for designing continuous interaction
    Virtual Reality, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 83–95, 2004
  23. Physiological noise in murine solid tumours using T2*-weighted gradient-echo imaging: a marker of tumour acute hypoxia?
    Physics in Medicine and Biology, vol. 49, no. 15, pp. 3389–3411, 2004
  24. Design of Signal-Adapted Multidimensional Lifting Scheme for Lossy Coding
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 1589–1603, 2004
  25. Special Issue on Image security: secure imaging—is it necessary?
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 233–234, 2003
  26. Application of spectral decomposition to compression and watermarking of 3D triangle mesh geometry
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 309–319, 2003
  27. Tumor detection in the bladder wall with a measurement of abnormal thickness in CT scans
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 383–390, 2003
  28. Introduction to the special issue on authentication, copyright protection, and information hiding
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 729–731, 2003
  29. Circular interpretation of bijective transformations in lossless watermarking for media asset management
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 97–105, 2003
  30. Data hiding on 3-D triangle meshes
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 4, pp. 939–949, 2003
  31. Geometrically invariant watermarking using feature points
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 1014–1028, 2002
  32. Block error-correcting codes for systems with a very high BER: Theoretical analysis and application to the protection of watermarks
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 409–421, 2002
  33. Serial registration of intraoperative MR images of the brain
    Medical Image Analysis, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 337–359, 2002
  34. Invisibility and application functionalities in perceptual watermarking an overview
    Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 64–77, 2002
  35. Registration of 3-d intraoperative MR images of the brain using a finite-element biomechanical model
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 20, no. 12, pp. 1384–1397, 2001
  36. A distributed adaptive block matching algorithm: Dis-ABMA
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 431–444, 2001
  37. Content-based and perceptual bit-allocation using matching pursuits
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 611–626, 2001
  38. Combined Kohonen neural networks and discrete cosine transform method for iterated transformation theory
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 643–656, 2001
  39. Analyses of error correction strategies for typical communication channels in watermarking
    Signal Processing, vol. 81, no. 6, pp. 1239–1250, 2001
  40. Automatic morphometry of nerve histological sections
    Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 97, no. 2, pp. 111–122, 2000
  41. Image processing for multimedia terminals and related architectures
    Signal Processing, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 1167–1183, 2000
  42. SNR scalability based on matching pursuits
    IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 198–208, 2000
  43. Structures, factorizations, and design criteria for oversampled paraunitary filterbanks yielding linear-phase filters
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 11, pp. 3062–3071, 2000
  44. Postprocessing of images by filtering the unmasked coding noise
    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1050–1062, 1999
  45. Subband dictionaries for low-cost matching pursuits of video residues
    IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 984–993, 1999
  46. Fast Euclidean Distance Transformation by Propagation Using Multiple Neighborhoods
    Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 76, no. 2, pp. 163–172, 1999
  47. Psychovisual approach to digital picture watermarking
    Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 628, 1998
  48. Watermarking algorithm based on a human visual model
    Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 319–335, 1998
  49. Selective prediction error transmission using motion information
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 71–81, 1998
  50. Low cost spatial watermarking
    Computers & Graphics, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 417–424, 1998
  51. A queue-based region growing algorithm for accurate segmentation of multi-dimensional digital images
    Signal Processing, vol. 60, no. 1, pp. 1–10, 1997
  52. A fuzzy logic system for content-based bit-rate allocation
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 10, no. 1-3, pp. 115–141, 1997
  53. Morphological feature extraction for the classification of digital images of cancerous tissues
    IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 1011–1020, 1996
  54. Generic coder for binary sources: the M-coder
    Electronics Letters, vol. 31, no. 7, p. 544, 1995
  55. Post-processing of coded images by neural network cancellation of the unmasked noise
    Neural Processing Letters, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 18–22, 1995
  56. Distributed optimization of codebooks
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 211–223, 1995
  57. Very low bit-rate image coding on adaptive multigrids
    Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 7, no. 4-6, pp. 313–331, 1995
  58. Lossless compression for 3D PET
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 1556–1559, 1994
  59. Lossless compression for 3D PET
    IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol. 41, no. 6, pp. 2765–2770, 1994
  60. Optimization of linear multiresolution transforms for scene adaptive coding
    IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 3568–3572, 1993
  61. Perceptually weighted vector quantisation in the DCT domain
    Electronics Letters, vol. 29, no. 15, p. 1382, 1993
  62. Signal-adapted multiresolution transform for image coding
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 897–904, 1992
  63. Block operations in digital signal processing with application to TV coding
    Signal Processing, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 385–397, 1987