I am a Ph.D. candidate at ECE, UC Santa Barbara. Previously, I was affiliated with Docomo Research Labs, Hewlett Packard Research Labs, UCLA and Koc University where I studied video compression and transmission. Although I don't work on video actively, I retain a keen interest and still review papers related to video compression/communications.
My current research interests are in information theory. Currently, I study problems in joint source-channel coding, quantization and transform coding with Prof. Kenneth Rose.
Journal Papers:
E. Akyol, D. Mukherjee, Y. Liu"Complexity Control for Video Coding ",IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, submitted
E. Akyol and M. van der Schaar, "Compression-Aware Energy Optimization for Video Decoding Systems with Passive Power" IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for Video Technology, vol.18, no. 9 Sept 2008 pp.1300-1306 pdf
E. Akyol and M. van der Schaar, "Complexity Model Based Proactive Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Video Decoding Systems," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 7, pp. 1475-1492, Nov. 2007 pdf
E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and M.R. Civanlar, ``A flexible multiple description coding framework for adaptive peer-to-peer video streaming" IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Proc, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 231-245, August 2007. pdf
E. Akyol, A. M. Tekalp, and M. R. Civanlar, ``Content-aware scalability type selection for rate adaptation of scalable video," EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 10236, 11 pages, April 2007. pdf
Refereed Conference Papers:
E. Akyol, K. Rose, T. Ramstad, "Distributed Zero Delay Joint Source Channel Coding", IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2010 (submitted)
E. Akyol, K. Rose, T. Ramstad, "Optimal Mappings for Joint Source Channel Coding", IEEE Information Theory Workshop, 2010 Cairo, Egypt
E. Akyol, K. Rose "Nonuniform Dithered Quantization", IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2009 Salt Lake City, USA
E. Akyol, K. Rose "On Transform Coding with Dithered Quantizers", IEEE Data Compression Conference, 2009, Salt Lake City, USA
E.Akyol, O.G. Guleryuz, M.R.Civanlar, "Royalty Cost Based Optimization for Video Compression ” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007 (ICIP 2007) San Antonio, USA
E.Akyol, D. Mukherjee, Y. Liu, "Complexity Control for Real Time Video Coding” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007 (ICIP 2007) San Antonio, USA
E.Akyol, M. van der Schaar , "Buffer Constrained Proactive Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Video Decoding Systems” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2007 (ICIP 2007), San Antonio, USA
E.Akyol, A.M.Tekalp, M.R.Civanlar, "Adaptive Peer to Peer Video Streaming with Flexible Multiple Description Coding” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2006 (ICIP 2006) , Atlanta
E.Akyol, A.M.Tekalp, M.R.Civanlar, "Optimum Bit Allocation in Scalable Multiple Description Video Coding” , European Signal Processing Conference 2005, Sept. 2005 (EUSIPCO 2005), Turkey
E.Akyol, A.M.Tekalp, M.R.Civanlar, "Scalable Multiple Description Video Coding with Flexible Number of Descriptions” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Sept. 2005 (ICIP 2005) invited paper
E.Akyol, A.M.Tekalp, M.R.Civanlar, "Optimum Scaling Operator Selection in Scalable Video Coding", Picture Coding Symposium , December 2004 (PCS 2004),San Francisco, USA
E.Akyol, A.M.Tekalp, M.R.Civanlar, "Motion Compansated Temporal Filtering Within the H.264/AVC Standard ", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 2004 (ICIP 2004) , Singapore
Patent:
Scaling the Complexity of Video Encoding, US Patent Application No: PCT/US2007/026203
Service
I have served as the invited reviewer of the main journals in my field for more than 25 papers.
Teaching:
I am currently TA for ECE 277B Pattern Recognition (Prof. Rose).
I was the TA for the graduate courses ECE 205: Information Theory and ECE 242 Signal Compression ( Prof. Rose)
Previously, I TA'ed the graduate course Digital Image-Video Processing (Prof. Tekalp) and the undergraduate courses: Probability, Signals and Systems and Digital Signal Processing.
Selected Awards :
- Turkish NSF (TUBITAK) Fellowship for graduate study at Stanford University, along with admission from Stanford. (Declined in favor of UCLA) (2005)
- UCLA Graduate Fellowship (2005)
- Scholarships from Koc, Bilkent, Northeastern, METU for graduate study (2003)
- Finalist (in first 20) in OYUN 99, puzzle game, Turkish Intelligence Foundation (TZV) (2000)
- Ranked 55th among 1.5 million students in nationwide University Entrance Exam (1999)
- Ranked 1st among half million students in nationwide Science High Schools Exam (1996)
- Ranked 28th among half million students in nationwide Anatolian High Schools Exam (1992)
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