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	International MPEG Standards	Top
	1. Kai-Kuang Ma, et al., "Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique (MVFAST)," MPEG-4 Optimization Model ( OM ), ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N3325, Core Reference Technology Part, Text of ISO/IEC 14496-7 CD Registration and Consideration (Optimized Code for MPEG-4 Visual Standards, Committee Draft), Noordwijkerout, 24 March 2000. or "Text of 14496-7-PDTR Optimization Model," July 2001. [PDF] 2. Kai-Kuang Ma, et al ., "Diamond Search (DS): Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation," Annex J, MPEG-4 Verification Model (VM) Version 14.0, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11/N2932, Melbourne, October 1999. [PDF]
	Journal Papers	Top
	Color Code: Red (> 2000); Green (> 500); Blue (>100); Cyan (> 50 citations by Google Scholar) 1. Chen Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Feature Histogram Equalization for Feature Contrast Enhancement,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation. Volume 26, pp. 255–264, January 2015. 2. Chen Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Bipartite Graph-based Mismatch Removal for Wide-baseline Image Matching,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Volume 25, Issue 6, pp. 1416–1424, August 2014. 3. Chen Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Common Visual Pattern Discovery via Directed Graph,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1408-1418, 2014. 4. Zhe Wei and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Contrast-guided Image Interpolation,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 22, No. 11, pp. 4271-4285, 2013. 5. Zhe Wei, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Canhui Cai, “Prediction-Compensated Polyphase Multiple Description Image Coding with Adaptive Redundancy Control,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 456-478, 2012. 6. Huanqiang Zeng, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Canhui Cai, “Fast Mode Decision for Multi-view Video Coding Using Mode Correlation,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, No. 11, pp.1659-1666, Nov. 2011. 7. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A Survey on Super-resolution Imaging (in the Special Issue on Video Restoration and Enhancement: Algorithms and Applications),” Signal, Image, and Video Processing, Springer Verlag. First Quarter, 2011. 8. Turgay Celik and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Multi-temporal Image Change Detection Using Undecimated Discrete Wavelet Transform and Active Contours,’’ IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 706-716, Feb. 2011. 9. Baojiang Zhong and Kai-Kuang Ma, “On the Convergence of Planar Curves under Smoothing,’’ IEEE Trans. on Image Processing. Vol. 19, No. 8, pp. 2171-2189, August 2010. 10. Huanqiang Zeng, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Canhui Cai, “Hierarchical Intra Mode Decision for H.264/AVC,’’ IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, pp. 907-912, June 2010. 11. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Stochastic Super-resolution Image Reconstruction,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 232-244, April 2010. 12. Turgay Celik and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Unsupervised Change Detection for Satellite Images Using Dual-tree Complex Wavelet Transform,’’ IEEE Trans. on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 48, Issue 3, Part 1, pp. 1199-1210, March 2010. 13. Shaoshuai Gao and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Error-resilient H.264/AVC Video Transmission Using Two-way Decodable Variable Length Data Block,’’ IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 340-350, March 2010. 14. Xuwei Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Noise Adaptive Rational Filter,” Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer Verlag), Vol. 4, Issue 1, 2010. 15. Huanqiang Zeng, Canhui Cai, and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Fast Mode Decision for H.264/AVC Based on Macroblock Motion Activity,’’ IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 491-499, 2009. 16. Baojiang Zhong, Kai-Kuang Ma and Wenhe Liao, "Scale-Space Behavior of Planar-Curve Corners," IEEE Trans. on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 31, No. 8, pp. 1517-1524, Aug 2009. 17. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, "A State-space Super-resolution Approach for Video Reconstruction," Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer Verlag), Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 217-240, 2009. 18. Zheng Wu, Ming-Yi He, Kai-Kuang Ma, "Dilation-run Wavelet Image Coding," Signal, Image and Video Processing (Springer Verlag), Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2008. 19. Ju Han and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Rotation Invariant and Scale-Invariant Gabor Features for Texture Image Retrieval,” Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 25, Issue 9, pp. 1474-1481, Sept. 2007. 20. Canhui Cai, Jing Chen, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Sanjit K. Mitra, "Multiple Description Wavelet Coding with Dual Decomposition and Cross Packetization," Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer Verlag, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 53-61, April 2007. 21. Jie Liang, Chengie Tu, Lu Gan, Trac D. Tran, and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Wiener Filter-based Error Resilient Time Domain Lapped Transform," IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 491-502, Feb. 2007. 22. Lu Gan, Chengie Tu, Jie Liang, Trac D. Tran, and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Under-sampled Boundary Pre-/Post-Filters for Low Bit Rate Block DCT Coders," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 428-441, Feb. 2007. 23. Pei-Eng Ng and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A Switching Median Filter With Boundary Discriminative Noise Detection for Extremely Corrupted Images,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp.1506-1516, June 2006. 24. Tong Gan, Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Reducing Video-quality Fluctuations for Streaming Scalable Video Using Unequal Error Protection, Retransmission, and Interleaving,” IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 819-832, April 2006. 25. Yao Nie and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Adaptive Irregular Pattern Search with Matching Prejudgment for Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation ,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 789 – 794, June 2005. 26. Tong Gan, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Liren Zhang, “Dual-Plan Bandwidth Smoothing for Layer-encoded Video,” IEEE Trans. on Multimedia , Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 379-392, Apr. 2005. 27. Tong Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Weighted Unequal Error Protection for Transmitting Scalable Object-oriented Images over Packet-erasure Networks,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 189-199, Feb. 2005. 28. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “On Minimal Lattice Factorization of Symmetric-Antisymmetric Multifilter Banks,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 2, pp. 606-621, Feb. 2005. 29. Jianhua He, Zongkai Yang, Zhen Fan, Zuoyin Tang, Liren Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Modeling Two-windows TCP Behavior in Differentiated Services Networks," Computer Communications, Vol. 27, Issue 18, pp. 1840-1850, Dec 2004. 30. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma , “Time-domain Oversampled Lapped Transforms: Theory, Structure and Application in Image Coding,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 52, Issue 10, pp. 2762 – 2775, Oct 2004. 31. Nan Chen and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Java's Future: Challenge and Opportunity ,” IEEE IT Professional , Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 19-26, July-Aug. 2004. 32. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Semantic Video Object Segmentation via Scale-adaptive 3D Structure Tensor,” Special Issue on OBJECT-BASED AND SEMANTIC IMAGE AND VIDEO ANALYSIS, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 1, pp. 798-813, June 2004. 33. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “On Simplified Order-one Factorizations of Paraunitary Filterbanks,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 52, Issue 3, pp. 674-686, March 2004. 34. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A Simplified Lattice Factorization for Linear-phase Paraunitary Filter Banks with Pairwise Mirror Image Frequency Responses,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 51, Issue 1, pp. 3-7, Jan 2004. 35. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Oversampled Linear-phase Perfect Reconstruction Filterbanks: Theory, Lattice Structure and Parameterization," IEEE Trans. Signal Processing , Vol. 5, Issue 3, pp. 744-759, March 2003. 36. Yong Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Error Concealment for Video Transmission with Dual Multiscale Markov Random Field Modeling,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 12, Issue 2, pp. 236-242, Feb. 2003. 37. Yao Nie and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Adaptive Rood Pattern Search for Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 11, Issue 12, pp. 1442-1449, Dec. 2002. 38. Ju Han and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Fuzzy Color Histogram and Its Use in Color Image Retrieval,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 944-952, Aug 2002. 39. Zenyong Lin, Junxian Wang, and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Using Eigencolor Normalization for Illumination-invariant Color Object Recognition,” Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Science, Vol. 35, Issue 11, pp. 2629-2642, November 2002. 40. Lu Gan, Kai-Kuang Ma, Truong Q. Nguyen, Trac D. Tran, Ricardo L. de Queiroz, “On the Completeness of the Lattice Factorization for Linear-phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 133-136, April 2002. 41. Dan Yu, Farook Sattar, and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Watermarking Detection and Extraction Using Independent Component Analysis Method,” EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, Vol. 2002, No.1, pp. 92-104, January 2002. 42. Jianhua He, K. R. Subramanian, Liren Zhang, and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Analysis of A Full-Memory Multidestination ARQ Protocol Over Broadcast Links," IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 49, No. 11, pp. 1889-1894, Nov. 2001. 43. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, "A Simplified Lattice Factorization for Linear-Phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Bank," IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 207-209, July 2001. 44. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Noise Adaptive Soft-switching Median Filter,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 242-251, February 2001. 45. Kai-Kuang Ma and Shan Zhu, “Fundamental Error Analysis and Geometric Interpretation for Block Truncation Coding Techniques,” SIGNAL PROCESSING: IMAGE COMMUNICATION, Elsevier Science, (15), pp. 859-867, July 2000. 46. Guoan Bi, Gang Li, Kai-Kuang Ma, and T.C. Tan, “On the computation of two-dimensional DCT,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 1171-1183, April 2000. 47. Shan Zhu and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A New Diamond Search Algorithm for Fast Block Matching Motion Estimation,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 287 –290, Feb. 2000. 48. Tao Chen , Kai-Kuang Ma and Li-Hui Chen, “Tri-State Median Filter for Image Denoising,” IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 12, pp.1834-1838, December 1999. 49. Yong Zhang, Kai-Kuang Ma, Qindong Yao, “A Software/Hardware Co-design Methodology for Embedded Microprocessor Core Design,” IEEE Trans. Consumer Electronics , Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 1241-1246, Nov. 1999. 50. Tao Chen, Li-Hui Chen, and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Color Image Indexing Using SOM for Region-of-Interest Retrieval,” Journal of Pattern Analysis and Application, Special Issue: Neural Networks in Image Processing, SPRINGER-VERLAG, (2), pp. 164 - 171, 1999. 51. Kai-Kuang Ma, “Put Absolute Moment Block Truncation in Perspective,” IEEE Trans. Communications, pp. 284-286, March 1997. 52. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, “Subband Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding,” Optical Engineering, Special Issue on Visual Communications and Image Processing, pp. 213 - 231, January 1996. 53. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, “New Properties of the AMBTC,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, pp. 34-36, February 1995.
	MPEG Technical Contributions	Top
	1. Kai-Kuang Ma and G. Qiu, “ Normalized Computational Cost (NCC): A Platform-independent Speed-up Measurement Metric for Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation in JVT/H.264,” ITU-T SG.16/JVT-G028, Pattaya, Thailand, Mar. 2003. 2. Kai-Kuang Ma and G. Qiu, “ A New Adaptive Rood Pattern Search for Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation in the JVT/H.264,” ITU-T SG.16/JVT-G029, Pattaya, Thailand, Mar. 2003. 3. Kai-Kuang Ma and G. Qiu, “Verification for Fast Motion Estimation for JVT,” ITU-T SG.16/JVT-G017, Pattaya, Thailand, Mar. 2003. 4. Kai-Kuang Ma and Prabhudev Irappa Hosur, ''Performance Report of Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique (MVFAST),'' [Document No.: M5851], the 51th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), March 2000, Noordwijkerout, Netherlands. [PDF] 5. Ju Han and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''A Novel Color Histogram Representation for Color Images,'' [Document No.: M5510], the 50th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 06-10 December 1999, Maui, Hawaii, USA. 6. Shaojie Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''A New Proposal for Shape Description and Matching,'' [Document No.: M5507], the 50th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 06-10 December 1999, Maui, Hawaii, USA. 7. Prabhudev Irappa Hosur and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Report on Performance of Fast Motion Estimation using Motion Vector Field Adaptive Search Technique (MVFAST),'' [Document No.: M5453], the 50th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 06-10 December 1999, Maui, Hawaii, USA. 8. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''A Motion Trajectory Analysis Tool for MPEG Video,'' [Document No.: M5184], the 49th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 04-08 October 1999, Melbourne, Australia. 9. Kai-Kuang Ma and Prabhudev I. Hosur, ''Core Experiment Results of Fast Motion Estimation Based on New Test Conditions (Q4a)" [Document No.: M4934], the 48th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 12-16 July 1999, Vancouver , British Columbia, Canada. 10. Kai-Kuang Ma and Prabhudev I. Hosur, ''The Fourth Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation (Q4)'' [Document No.: M4611], the 47th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 15 - 19 March 1999, Seoul, Korea. 11. Kai-Kuang Ma and Prabhudev I. Hosur, ''The Third Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation (Q4)'' [Document No.: M4069], the 45th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 12 - 16 October 1998, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. 12. Kai-Kuang Ma and Prabhudev I. Hosur, ''The Second Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation (Q4)'' [Document No.: M3717], the 44 th MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 6 - 10 July 1998, Dublin, Ireland. 13. Kai-Kuang Ma, Prabhudev I. Hosur, and Lei Huang, ''Status Report of Core Experiment on Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation'' [Document No.: M3299], the 43rd MPEG Meeting (ISO/IEC/JTC1/SC29/WG11), 16 - 20 March 1998, Tokyo, Japan.
	International Conference Paper	Top
	1. Huanqiang Zeng, Canhui Cai, and Kai-Kuang Ma "A Novel Fast Mode Decision for the H.264/AVC Based on Local Macroblock Motion Activity," *The Fourth International Conference on Image and Graphics* (ICIG), Chengdu, P.R. China, Aug. 2007. 2. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Grid Computing for Stochastic Super-resolution Imaging: Fundamentals and Algorithms," Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Grid Computing and Applications (GCA), GridAsia2007, Singapore, June 2007. 3. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Super-resolution imaging using Grid computing,” IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2007, pp. 293-300. 4. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Markov Chain Monte Carlo Super-resolution Image Reconstruction with Artifacts Suppression,” IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS), Singapore Dec. 2006. 5. Jing Chen, Canhui Cai, Kai-Kuang Ma, "Layered Spanning Multiple Description Coding," International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Tottori, Japan, Dec. 2006. 6. Zhe Wei, Canhui Cai, Kai-Kuang Ma, "A Novel H.264-based Multiple Description Video Coding Via Polyphase Transform and Partial Prediction," International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Tottori, Japan, Dec. 2006. 7. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Super-resolution Image Reconstruction with Simultaneous Adaptation of The Prior Image Model, Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia (PCM), Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China., Nov. 2006. 8. Zhe Wei, Canhui Cai, Kai-Kuang Ma, "H.264-based Multiple Description Video Coder and Its DSP Implementation," IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Atlanta, GA, USA, Oct. 2006. 9. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A New State-Space Approach for Super-Resolution Image Sequence Reconstruction,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp.881-884, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005. 10. Jing Tian and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A MCMC Approach for Bayesian Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 45-48, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005. 11. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma,“ Accurate optical flow estimation in noisy sequences by robust tensor-driven anisotropic diffusion,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 3, pp. 1292-1295, Genoa, Italy, Sept. 2005. 12. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Motion Field Discontinuity Classification for Tensor-based Optical Flow Estimation,” Fourth International Conference on Information, Communications & Signal Processing, Fourth IEEE Pacific-Rim Conference On Multimedia, Singapore, 15-18 December 2003. 13. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Automatic Video Object Segmentation via 3D Structure Tensor,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003. 14. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Oversampled Lapped Transforms via Time-Domain Pre- and Post-Processing,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003. 15. Tong Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Sliding-Window Packetization for Unequal Loss Protection Based Multiple Description Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003. 16. Kai-Kuang Ma and Gang Qiu, “Unequal-Arm Adaptive Rood Pattern Search for Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation in the JVT/H.26L,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Barcelona, Spain, September 2003. 17. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “A Simplified Lattice Factorization for Linear-phase Paraunitary Filter Banks with Pairwise Mirror Image Frequency Responses,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), Bangkok, Thailand, May 2003. 18. Kai-Kuang Ma and Gang Qiu, “An Improved Adaptive Rood Pattern Search For Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation in JVT/H.26L,” International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, (ISCAS), Bangkok, Thailand, May 2003. 19. Tong Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “ Sliding-window Packetization for Forward Error Correction based Multiple Description Transcoding,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, Apr. 2003. 20. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Oversampled Lapped Transform via Time-domain Pre- and Post-Processing,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong , Apr. 2003. 21. Jie Liang, Lu Gan, Chengie Tu, Trac D. Tran, and Kai-Kuang Ma, “On Efficient Implementation of Oversampled Linear Phase Perfect Reconstruction Filter Banks,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hong Kong, Apr. 2003. 22. Yao Nie and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Adaptive Irregular Pattern Search with Zero-motion Prejudgment for Fast Block-matching Motion Estimation,” The seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2-5 December 2002. 23. Kai-Kuang Ma and Hai-Yun Wang, “Unsupervised Semantic Video Objects Segmentation Over Optical Flow Field,” The seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2-5 December 2002. 24. Kai-Kuang Ma and Junxian Wang, “Color Distance Histogram: A Novel Descriptor for Color Image Segmentation,” The seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, 2-5 December 2002. 25. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Accurate optical flow estimation using adaptive scale-space and 3D structure tensor,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Rochester, New York, USA , September 2002. 26. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “On Lattice Factorization of Symmetric-antisymmetric Multifilter Banks,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Rochester, New York, USA, September 2002. 27. Tong Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma, “Dual-plan Bandwidth Smoothing for Layer-encoded Video,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002. 28. Kai-Kuang Ma and Hai-Yun Wang, “Region-based Nonparametric Optical Flow Segmentation with Pre-clustering and Post-clustering,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2002. 29. Lu Gan and Kai-Kuang Ma , “Theory and Lattice Factorization of Oversampled Linear-phase Perfect Reconstruction,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 2, pp. 1161-1164, Orlando, Florida, USA, May 2002. 30. Hai-Yun Wang and Kai-Kuang Ma, "New Quadtree Partition and Feature Selection for Region Classification," International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 15-18 October 2001. 31. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Unsupervised Image Objects Segmentation Based on DCT Coefficients for Image Indexing and Retrieval," International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vol. 3, pp. 758 –761, Vancouver, BC Canada, 10-13 September 2000. 32. Yong Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Error Concealment for Image Transmission by Multiscale Markov Random Field Modeling," International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, NY, USA, 30 July - 2 August 2000. 33. Shaojie Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, "A Novel Shape Matching Method Using Biological-Sequence Dynamic Alignment," International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, NY, USA, 30 July - 2 August 2000. 34. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Spatiotemporal Segmentation of Moving Video Objects Over MPEG's Compressed Domain," International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), New York, NY, USA, 30 July - 2 August 2000. 35. Ju Han and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Fuzzy Color Histogram: An Efficient Color Feature for Image Indexing and Retrieval," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 4, pp. 2011-2014, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 June 2000. 36. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, "Noise Adaptive Soft-switching Median Filter for Image Denoising," International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vol. 4, pp. 2175 –2178, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-9 June 2000. 37. Yong Zhang, Kai-Kuang Ma, and Qindong Yao, “A Novel Video Signal Processor with VLIW-controlled SIMD Architecture,” Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP), Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4067, Perth, Australia, 20-23 June 2000. 38. Yong Zhang and Kai-Kuang Ma, “An Embedded RISC Core Design for Variable Length Coding,” The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on High Performance Computing in the Asia-Pacific Region , Vol. 1, pp. 361-365, 2000. 39. Prabhudev I. Hosur and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Motion Vector Field Adaptive Fast Motion Estimation, '' International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS), Singapore, 7-10 December 1999. [PDF] 40. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Bidirectional Motion Tracking for Video Indexing,'' IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 September 1999. 41. Prabhudev I. Hosur and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Optimal Progressive Polygon Approximation of Shape Contour,'' IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Copenhagen, Denmark, 13-15 September 1999. 42. How-Lung Eng and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Motion Trajectory Extraction Based on Macroblock Motion Vectors for Video Indexing,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, 25-28 October 1999. 43. Prabhudev I. Hosur and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Optimal Progressive Polygon Approximation of Discrete Planar Curves,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'99), Kobe, Japan, 25-28 October 1999. 44. Jinhong Mao and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Semantic Spatio-Temporal Segmentation for Extracting Video Objects,'' IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS'99), Centro Affari, Florence, Italy, 7-11 June 1999. 45. Tao Chen, Kai-Kuang Ma and Li-Hui Chen, ''Discrete Wavelet Frame Representation of Color Texture Features for Image Query,'' IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'98), Redondo Beach, CA, USA, 7-9 December 1998, pp. 45 - 50. 46. Tao Chen, Li-Hui Chen, and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Unsupervised Texture Segmentation Using DWF Decomposition and Fuzzy SOFM Clustering,'' The Fifth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICCARV'98), Singapore, 8-11 December 1998. 47. Prabhudev I. Hosur and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Fast Block Motion Estimation Based on Prediction of Initial Motion Vectors of Interleaved Blocks Using Spatial Correlation,'' IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC'98) and International Conference on Communication Systems (ICCS'98), Singapore, 23-27 November 1998, pp. 659 - 662. 48. Shan Zhu and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''A New Star Search Algorithm for Fast Block-Matching Motion Estimation,'' International Workshop on Very Low Bit Rate Video Coding (VLBV'98), Urbana, Illinois, USA, 8-9 October 1998, pp. 173 - 176. [PDF] 49. Tao Chen , Li-Hui Chen, and Kai-Kuang Ma, ''ROI-Oriented Image Query and Indexing for Content-Based Retrieval,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'98), Chicago, Illinois, USA, 4-7 October 1998, pp. 799 - 802. 50. Shan Zhu and Kai-Kuang Ma , ''A New Diamond Search Algorithm for Fast Block Matching Motion Estimation,'' International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS'97), Singapore , 9-12 September 1997, pp. 292 - 296. [PDF] 51. Kai-Kuang Ma and Lei Huang, ''Perceptually Based Subband AMBTC Image Coder,'' International Conference on Information, Communications and Signal Processing (ICICS'97), Singapore, 9-12 September 1997, pp. 505 - 509. 52. Kai-Kuang Ma, Lei Huang, Shan Zhu, Anthony T.S. Ho, ''SPOT Image Compression Using Block Truncation Coding Techniques,'' International Conference of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium , (IGARSS'97), Singapore, 4-8 August 1997, pp. 1996 - 1998. 53. Kai-Kuang Ma, Lei Huang, Shan Zhu, Anthony T.S. Ho, ''SPOT Image Compression Using Block Truncation Coding Techniques,'' International Conference of Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, (IGARSS'97), Singapore, 4-8 August 1997, pp. 1996 - 1998. 54. Kai-Kuang Ma, Yee-Koon Loh, and Wung-Hwee Lok, ''Entropy-Based Visual Pattern Image Coding,'' International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology (ICSPAT'96), Boston, MA, USA, 7-10 October 1996, pp. 992 - 996. 55. Kai-Kuang Ma, ''Modified Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'96), Lausanne, Switzerland, 16-19 September 1996, pp. 197 - 200. 56. Kai-Kuang Ma and Dinesh P. Mital, ''Practical Issues of Dynamic Bit Allocation in Multimedia Source Compression,'' [Invited Paper], International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP'96), 14th World Computer Congress, Canberra, Australia, 2-6 September 1996, pp. 525 - 531. 57. Kai-Kuang Ma, ''New Bit Allocation Method for Wavelet and Octave Subband Coding,'' IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS'94), Taiwan, Republic of China, 5-8 December 1994, pp. 624 - 629. 58. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, ''Generalized Optimum Dynamic Bit Allocation Scheme for Source Compression,'' IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'94), Austin, Texas, USA, 13-16 November 1994, pp. 864 - 868. 59. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, ''A Shannon-Bound Dynamic Bit Allocation Algorithm,'' The Second International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP'93), Beijing, China, October 1993, pp. 971 - 974. 60. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, ''Subband Coding of Digital Images Using Absolute Moment Block Truncation,'' IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'91), Toronto, Canada, May 1991, pp. 2645 - 2648. 61. Kai-Kuang Ma and Sarah A. Rajala, ''A Comparison of Absolute Moment Block Truncation Coding and the Minimum Mean Square Error Quantizer,'' IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS'91), Singapore, June 1991, pp. 296-299.
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	1. Kai-Kuang Ma , “Image Data Compression: Block Truncation Coding,” [Media Review], IEEE Multimedia, pp. 83-84, summer 1996.