<H2> Nariman Farvardin </H2>

Nariman Farvardin

Professor and Dean
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

E-mail: farvar@eng.umd.edu
Phone: +1 301-405-3683
Fax: +1 301-314-9281
Office: 2415 A.V. Williams
URL: ww.ee.umd.edu/~farvar/

Last modified: November 2, 2000

Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1983, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1980, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, 1979, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Awards

Invention of the Year Award (Information Sciences), University of Maryland, College Park, (with Eiji Atsumi), 1999.
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998
Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, Institute for Systems Research , 1993
Award of Excellence (with Joseph JaJa), Maryland Industrial Partnership Program, 1992
Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation , (1987-1992)
George Corcoran Award, Department of Electrical Engineering , 1987

Research Interests

Information theory and coding
Signal compression and applications to speech, image and video coding
Multimedia wireless communications
Multi access protocols for wireless networks
Speech and speaker recognition
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Selected Publications

N. Farvardin, "A Study of Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 36, pp. 799-809, July 1990.
N. Farvardin and V. Vaishampayan, "On the Performance and Complexity of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers,'' IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 37, pp. 155-160, Jan. 1991.
N. Tanabe and N. Farvardin, "Subband Image Coding Using Entropy Coded Quantization Over Noisy Channels," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Commun., Vol. 10, pp. 926-943, June 1992.
N. Phamdo, N. Farvardin and T. Moriya, "A Unified Approach to Tree-Structured and Multi-Stage Vector Quantization for Noisy Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 835-850, May 1993.
R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part I: Memoryless Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 851-867, May 1993.
R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "A Structured Fixed-Rate Vector Quantizer Derived from a Variable-Length Encoded Scalar Quantizer - Part II: Vector Sources," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 39, pp. 868-876, May 1993.
R. Laroia and N. Farvardin, "Trellis-Coded Structured Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. 40, pp. 860-870, May 1994.
R. Joshi, H. Jafarkhani, J. Kasner, T. Fischer, N. Farvardin, M. Marcellin and R. Bamberger, "Comparison of Different Methods of Classification in Subband Coding of Images," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., pp. 1473-1487, November 1997.
H. Ito and N. Farvardin, "Wavelet Video Coder Using Entropy-Coded Trellis Coded Quantization," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Proc., pp. I.598-601, Washington, DC, Oct. 1995.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin,"Fast Reconstruction of Subband Decomposed Images for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 230-239, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Fixed Rate Successive Refining Scalar Quantizers for Progressive Transmission," Proc. Data Compression Conference, pp. 250-259, Snowbird, UT, April 1996.
H. Jafarkhani, P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Rate Allocation in a Joint Source/Channel Coding Framework for Wireless Channels," Proc. Vehicular Technology Conference, pp. 492-496, Atlanta, GA, April 1996.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel--Matched Hierarchical Vector Quantization for Transmission of Video Over Wireless Channels," International Conference on Image Processing, pp. III.755-758, Lausanne, Switzerland, October 1996.
P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Finite-State Power Control for Fading Channels," Proc. Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, March, 1997
V. Chande, H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, ``Joint Source-Channel Coding of Images for Channels with Feedback," Proc. IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Diego, CA, Sept. 1997.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Adaptive Image Coding Using Spectral Classification," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 7, pp. 605-610, April 1998.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Fast Reconstruction of Subband-Decomposed Progressively Transmitted Signals," IEEE Trans. Image Proc., Vol. 8, pp. 891-898, July 1999.
E. Atsumi and N. Farvardin, "Lossy/Lossless Region-of-Interest Image Coding Based on Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees," Proc. IEEE ICIP, pp. 87-91, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1998.
V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding for Progressive Transmission of Embedded Source Coders," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
H. Brunk and N. Farvardin, "Joint Design of Progressive Fixed-Rate Source-Channel Codes," Proc. Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 1999.
V. Chande, N. Farvardin and H. Jafarkhani "Image Communication Over Noisy Channels with Feedback," Proc. Int. Conf. Image. Process. Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999.
M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "Admission Control Policy for Wireless Networks Subject to a Quality of Service Constraint," Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC '99), pp. 1521-1525, New Orlean, Sept. 1999.
M. Alasti and N. Farvardin, "D-PRMA: A Dynamic Packet Reservation Multiple Access Protocol for Wireless Communications," Proc. Second Annual Workshop on Modelling and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, pp. 41-49, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1999.
V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Joint Source-Channel Coding Schemes for Progressive Trasnmission over Noisy Channels with or without Feedback," Proc. of the 3rd ITG Conference on Source Channel Coding, Munich, Germany, Jan. 2000.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Design of Channel Optimized Vector Quantizers in the Presence of Channel Mismatch," IEEE Trans. Commun., Vol. 48, pp. 118-124, Jan. 2000.
H. Jafarkhani and N. Farvardin, "Channel-Matched Hierarchical Table-Lookup Vector Quantization," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, to appear.
P. Ligdas and N. Farvardin, "Optimizing the Transmit Power for Slow Fading Channels," IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory,} to appear, March 2000.
V. Chande and N. Farvardin, "Progressive Transmission of Images over Bit Error and Packet Erasure Channels," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, to appear.

Fall 1999 Teaching

ENEE 324 Engineering Probability
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