Title: Image Compression Techniques

Date: Monday, 14 May 2001

Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue: Lecture Theater F (Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theater), Academic Concourse (near lift nos. 25/26), HKUST

Abstract:
Image compression is an important field of research for computer graphics and image processing applications. This exciting research area has made some fascinating discoveries. This talk will present an overview of image compression techniques, along with how they are combined into a single, standard compression scheme known as JPEG.

Biography:
C. Wayne Brown is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Central Arkansas where he has been teaching computer science courses for the past 11 years. He is currently teaching computer graphics courses at Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia as a Fulbright Scholar. His research interests include a broad range of computer graphics and image processing topics including medical image analysis, volume rendering, image compression, and CAD. For the past 5 years his research emphasis has been the analysis of medical head CT images in collaboration with Dr. Gregory Lewis, a radiologist in central Arkansas.