Journal submissions under review

 

1. G. Sun, U. Samarawickrame, J. Liang, C. Tian, C. Tu and T.D. Tran,

Multiple description coding with prediction compensation,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Image Processing. Feb. 2007; revised Aug. 2008.

2. M. Masry, C. Tian and H. Lipson,

A sketch-based system for the qualitative design and analysis of 3D objects,

submitted to, Journal of Computer Aided Design, May. 2008; revised Sep. 2008.

3. C. Tian, S. Mohajer and S. Diggavi,

Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Jun. 2008.

4. J. Chen, C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

Multiple description coding for stationary Gaussian sources,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Jul. 2008.

5. C. Tian, and J. Chen,

New coding schemes for the symmetric K-description problem,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Sep. 2008.

 

Journal papers (published or accepted)

 

1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane,

A coding algorithm for constant weight vectors: a geometric approach based on dissections,

accepted, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory.

2. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

Side-information scalable source coding,

to appear, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Dec. 2008

3. C. Tian and J. Chen,

Successive refinement for hypothesis testing and lossless one-helper problem,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 4666-4681, Oct. 2008.

4. C. Tian, A. Steiner, S. Shamai and S. Diggavi,

Successive refinement via broadcast: optimizing expected distortion of a Gaussian source over a Gaussian fading channel,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 2903-2918, Jul. 2008.

5. C. Tian, J. Chen and S. Diggavi,

Multiuser successive refinement and multiple description coding,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 921-931, Feb. 2008.

6. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

On multistage successive refinement for Wyner-Ziv source coding with degraded side information,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 2946-2960, Aug. 2007.

7. J. Chen, C. Tian, T. Berger and S. Hemami,

Multiple description quantization via Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 5197-5217, Dec. 2006.

8. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

A new class of multiple description scalar quantizers and its application to image coding,

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol 12, No. 4, pp. 329-332, Apr. 2005.

9. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

Optimality and sub-optimality of multiple description vector quantization with a lattice codebook,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol 50, No. 10, pp. 2458-2468, Oct. 2004.

10. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

Universal multiple description scalar quantization: analysis and design,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol 50, No. 9, pp. 2089-2102, Sep. 2004.

 

Conference publications

Year 2008:

1. Y. Li, C. Tian, S. Diggavi, M. Chiang and A. R. Calderbank

"Network resource allocation for competing multiple description transmissions,"

Accepted, IEEE Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2008.

2. C. Tian, S. Mohajer and S. Diggavi

"Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

3. C. Tian and J. Chen

"A novel coding scheme for symmetric multiple description coding,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

4. C. Tian and S. Shamai

"A unified coding scheme for hybrid transmission of Gaussian source over Gaussian channel,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

5. S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. Diggavi

"Asymmetric Gaussian multiple descriptions and asymmetric multilevel diversity coding,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

6. C. Tian, S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi,

"On the Gaussian K-description problem under symmetric distortion constraints,"

Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), UCSD, Jan. 2008.

7. C. Tian, S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi,

"On the symmetric Gaussian multiple description rate-distortion function,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2008.

8. S. Mohajer, C. Tian, S. Diggavi,

"Asymmetric multi-level diversity coding,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2008.

Year 2007:

1. C. Ng, C. Tian, A. Goldsmith and S. Shamai,

"Minimum expected distortion in Gaussian source coding with uncertain side information,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, CA, Sep. 2007.

2. C. Tian, A. Steiner, S. Shamai and S. Diggavi,

"Expected distortion for Gaussian source with a broadcast transmission strategy over a fading channel,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) on Wireless Networks, Bergen, Norway, Jul. 2007.

3. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"On scalable source coding with decoder side informations,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, Jun. 2007.

4. C. Tian and J. Chen,

"Hypothesis testing under successive refinement communication constraint,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, Jun. 2007.

5. J. Chen, C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Multiple description coding for stationary sources,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2007.

Year 2006:

1. C. Tian, J. Chen and S. Diggavi,

"Multiuser successive refinement and multiple description coding,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Chengdu China, Oct. 2006.

2. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"A calculation of the Heegard-Berger rate-distortion function for a binary source,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Chengdu China, Oct. 2006.

3. D. Vasudevan, C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Lossy source coding for a cascade communication system with side informations,"

Allerton conference, UIUC, Sep. 2006.

4. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Multistage successive refinement for Wyner-Ziv source coding with degraded side informations,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle WA, Jul. 2006.

5. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Visually optimized multiple description image coding,"

IEEE International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse France, May 2006.

6. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"On scalable source coding for multiple decoders with side information,"

UCSD ITA Center Inaugural Workshop, San Diego CA, Feb. 2006.

Year 2005:

1. J. Chen, C. Tian, T. Berger and S. Hemami,

"A new class of universal multiple description lattice quantizers,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 2005.

2. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane,

"Constant weight codes: a geometric approach,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 2005.

3. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Staggered lattices in multiple description quantization,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2005.

Year 2004:

1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"An embedded image coding system based on tarp filter with classification,"

IEEE International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Quebec, Canada , May 2004

2. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"A special class of multiple description scalar quantizers,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), San Antonio TX, Oct. 2004

3. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Sequential design of multiple description scalar quantizers,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2004.

Year 2003:

1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Universal multiple description scalar quantization: analysis and design,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, March 2003.

2. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"On the asymptotic analysis of multiple description scalar quantization,"

Conference on Information Sciences and Systems(CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2003.

 

 Patents

 

1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane "Encoding of data into constant weight codes." U.S. Patent application, filed with AT&T 2006.

 

 

 Unpublished study notes

 

1. C. Tian, "An alternative converse proof for the Gaussian broadcast channel capacity," Jul., 2008.