Conference Publications Since 1995

J. Pires, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``A BCJR-based turbo equalizer for multicarrier time-varying fading channels'', Conference on Information System Sciences, March 2017.

K. Doty, S. Roy, and T. R. Fischer, ``Filtering and smoothing state estimation for flag hidden Markov models,'' IEEE Automatic Control Conference, pp. 7042-7047, 2016.

K. Doty, S. Roy, and T. R. Fischer, ``State estimation for flag hidden Markov models with imperfect sensors, Conf. Inform. System Sciences, pp. 360-365, March 2016.

Zhe Dang, D. Dementyev, Thomas Fischer, and William Hutton, ``Security of numerical sensors in automata,'' CIAA'15, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9223, 2015

Zhe Dang, Thomas Fischer, William Hutton, Oscar Ibarra, Qin Li, ``Quantifying Communication in Synchronized Languages,'' COCOON 2015.

Oscar H. Ibarra, Cewei Cui, Zhe Dang, and Thomas R. Fischer, ``Lossiness of communication channels modeled by transducers,'' CiE'14 (Computability in Europe), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8493, pp. 224-233, Springer, 2014.

Cewei Cui, Zhe Dang, Thomas R. Fischer and Oscar Ibarra, ``Information Rate of Some Classes of Non-regular Languages: An Automata-theoretic Approach'', Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, MFCS 2014

W. Patchoo, T. R. Fischer, and C. Maddex, "L1-Norm-Based Coding for Lattice Vector Quantization", Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA-ASC 2013), Oct. 31- Nov. 1, 2013, Taiwan.

C. Cui, Z. Dang, T. R. Fischer, O. H. Ibarra, ``Execution Information Rate for Some Classes of Automata,'' 7th International Conference on Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2013).

W. Patchoo and T. R. Fischer, ``Block-adaptive lattice vector quantization in image coding,'' International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics Computer Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON) 2012, pp. 1075-1079, May 2012.

Y. Zhu, T. R. Fischer, and B. Belzer, ``OFDM-constrained channel capacity estimates of the SIMO underwater communication channel,''Conf. on Info. Sciences and Systems (CISS'09), Princeton Univ., March, 2012.

Sungjin Kim, Heewan Park, Sangwon Kang, and T. R. Fischer, ``Fixed codebook design for ACELP coder using algebraic trellis vector codes'', ICSPCS'2011.

L. Yang, Z. Dang, T. R. Fischer, M. S. Kim, and L. Tan, ``Entropy and software systems: Towards an information-theoretic foundation for software testing,'' 18th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, 2010 FSE/SDP Workshop on the Future of Software Engineering Research, pp. 427-432, Nov. 7-8, 2010.

Linmin Yang, Zhe Dang, and Thomas R. Fischer, ``A Syntax-Independent Complexity Metric,'' Conference Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, TMFCS 2010, pp. 127-134, 2010.

M.-S. Koh, E. Rodriguez-Marek, and T. R. Fischer, ``A new two dimensional empirical mode decomposition for images using inpainting,'' IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Conference Proceeding}, Oct., 2010.

W. Patchoo and T. R. Fischer, ''Rate-distortion modeling of spherical vector quantization performance in transform audio coding,'' Conference Proceedings, 7th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON 2010), 19-21 May 2010.

W. Patchoo, T. R. Fischer, Changho Ahn, and Sangwon Kang, ''Analysis of amplitude quantization in ACELP excitation coding,'' Data Compression Conference, March 2010.

W. Patchoo and T. R. Fischer, ``Gaussian mixture modeling of lattice-based spherical vector quantization performance in transform audio coding,'' 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, March 2010.

L. Yang, Z. Dang, and T. R. Fischer, ``Optimal software testing - A cooling down process,'' Conf. Proceedings, International Conference on Foundations of Computer Science, July 2009 (7 pages).

C. Keeser, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``Shallow underwater communication with passive phase conjugation and iterative demodulation and coding,'' Conf. on Info. Sciences and Systems (CISS'09), Princeton Univ., Mar. 16-18, 2009.

T. R. Fischer, H. Sung, J. Zhan, and E. Oh, "High-quality audio transform coded excitation using trellis codes,'' Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 2008.

T. R. Fischer, ``Searchable compression,'' IEEE Workshop on Information Theory and Applications, San Diego, CA, Jan. 2007.

Yongwon Shin, Sangwon Kang, Thomas R. Fischer, Changyong Sohn, and Yongbeom Lee, ``Low-Complexity Predictive Trellis Coded Quantization of Wideband Speech LSF parameters,'' Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2004.

T. Halbach and T. R. Fischer, ``SNR scalability by transform coefficient refinement for block-based video coding,'' Conference Proceedings, Visual Communications and Information Processing, Lugano, Switzerland, July 2003.

T. Halbach and T. R. Fischer, ``Channel rate allocation for error-robust packet transmission of SNR-scalable DPCM-coded video,'' Conference Proceedings, International Symposium on Signal Processing and Applications, July 2003, Paris, France.

P. Hou, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``On the capacity of the partially coherent additive white noise channel,'' Proceedings, 2003 International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 29 - July 4, 2003. (1 page)

B. A. Banister, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``Robust Video Transmission over Binary Symmetric Channels with Packet Erasures,'' Conference Proceedings, Data Compression Conference, April 2002.

B. Banister, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``Robust image transmission unsing JPEG2000 and turbo-codes,'' Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 375-379, Sept. 2000.

E. Rodriguez-Marek and T. R. Fischer, ``A multiple description image coder for packet erasure channels,'' Conference Proceedings, Nordic Signal Processing Conference, June 2000.

P. Hou, B. Belzer, and T. R. Fischer, ``Shaping gain of partially coherent additive white Gaussian noise channel,'' Conference Proceedings, Conf. on Info. Sciences and Systems (CISS'00), Princeton Univ., Mar. 15-17, 2000, pp. WP6 17-22.

A. Risley, B. Belzer, P. Hou, and T. R. Fischer, "Capacity of OOK-PSK on Channels with Uncertain Phase," Conference Proceedings, Conf. on Info. Sciences and Systems (CISS'99), Johns Hopkins Univ., Mar. 17, 1999, pp. 225-230.

B. A. Banister and T. R. Fischer, ``Quadtree classification and TCQ image coding,'' Conference Proceedings, Data Compression Conference, pp. 149-157, 1999.

E. Rodriguez-Marek and T. R. Fischer, ``Video Coding Over Packet-Erasure Channels,'' Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Image Processing, 1998.

T. R. Fischer and B. A. Banister, ``Progressive classification in subband image coding,'' Proceedings, Information Theory Workshop, Killarney, Ireland, pp. 22-23, June 1998.

Magatho Mello and T. R. Fischer, ``Low bit rate video coding with trellis source codes,'' Conference Proceedings, p. 562, Data Compression Conference, March 1998.

A. Fuldseth, T. R. Fischer, and T. A. Ramstad, ``Channel-optimized trellis-coded vector quantization for channels with a power constraint,'' Proceedings, Information Theory Workshop, Univ. of Calf. at San Diego, Feb. 1998.

V. Crump and T. R. Fischer, ``Intraframe low bit rate video coding robust to packet erasure,'' Conference Proceedings, p. 432, Data Compression Conference, March 1997.

John M. Lervik and T. R. Fischer, ``Robust subband image coding for waveform channels with optimum power- and bandwidth allocation,'' Conference Proceedings, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April. 1997.

Q. Chen and T. R. Fischer, ``Subband image coding for packet erasure channels,'' Conference Proceedings, 1996 International Conference on Image Processing, Sept. 1996.

W. Zhang and T. R. Fischer, ``TCQ subband image coding to exploit dependence,'' Conference Proceedings, 1996 International Conference on Image Processing, Sept. 1996.

L. Yang and T. R. Fischer, ``A fixed-rate trellis source code for memoryless sources,'' 1995 International Symposium on Information Theory.

Q. Chen and T. R. Fischer, ``Robust quantization for transmission over noisy channels,'' 1995 International Symposium on Information Theory.

L. Yang, T. R. Fischer, S. Kang, and I. Lee, ``Codebook optimization for variable-rate CELP coders with sparse codebooks,'' 1995 Speech Coding Workshop.

R. L. Joshi, T. R. Fischer, and R. H. Bamberger, ``Lossy encoding of motion vectors using entropy-constrained vector quantization,'' 1995 International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1995.

Z. Mohdyusof and T. R. Fischer, ``Subband image coding usign a fixed-rate lattice vector quantizer,'' 1995 International Conference on Image Processing, Oct. 1995.

R. L. Joshi, T. R. Fischer, and R. H. Bamberger, ``Comparison of different methods of classification in subband coding of images,'' 1995 SPIE Conference on Image Processing, Feb. 1995.