Welcome
to the
website of the Signal
Compression Lab
(SCL).
A constituent of the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (ECE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara
(UCSB), we are located at 3166, Harold Frank Hall, on the
beautiful oceanfront of the campus.
Our research covers a wide spectrum of topics in signal compression and
related areas, and is a confluence of both theoretical foundations, and
practical algorithms and applications. Multimedia compression and
networking, in particular audio and video coding,
and transmission, estimation
theory,
distributed source coding, pattern recognition and classification,
indexing and retrieval from databases, and bio-informatics, are some of
our current research emphases. Follow the various links at the top of
this page for more
information on our research activities and people involved.
| News! |
| Jingning
Han again awarded for outstanding
performance as a Teaching
Assistant in 2011 by the Department of ECE. |
| Vinay Melkote's dissertation titled "Optimal Delayed Decisions in Encoding and Decoding of Audio Signals and General Sources" featured in IEEE Signal Processing Newsletter Nov. 2010... (more). |
| The paper titled "Perceptual Distortion-Rate Optimization of Long Term Prediction in MPEG AAC", by Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, Vinay Melkote, Emmanuel Ravelli and Prof. Rose, wins the Student Technical Paper Award of the Audio Engineering Society, to be presented at AES 129th Convention, Nov 2010... (more). |
| Emrah
Akyol awarded the Spring
2010
ECE Dissertation Fellowship. |
| Jingning
Han awarded for outstanding
performance as a Teaching
Assistant in 2010 by the Department of ECE. |
| The paper titled "A
modified
distortion metric for audio coding", by Vinay Melkote and Prof. Rose,
awarded the Best Student
Paper Award
at
IEEE ICASSP, 2009 (more...). |
| Dr.
Aggarwal, Dr. Regunathan, and Prof. Rose awarded the 2007 IEEE
Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (more...). |
| Prof.
Gersho awarded the 2007 IEEE
James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio
Processing Award - "For contributions to the theory and
application of
speech coding" by the IEEE Board of Governors (more...). |