Dr.-Ing. Vladimir Stankovic 

 

E-mail:    vladimir.stankovic@strath.ac.uk

 

               

            

Address: Vladimir Stankovic
              Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
              University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XW
                UK
              
Room:    RCB.302A
Phone: +44 (0) 141 548-2679
 
 
Vita
General Research Interests
Professional Activity
Teaching
Tutorials
Recent Invited Talks
Mentoring and Supervision
Special Session Organizer
Publications
Funding
 

Vita

10/2013-             Reader at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

2010-09/2013

10/2007-2010

2006-10/2007

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Lecturer at the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Lecturer at the InfoLab21, Lancaster University

2005-2006

Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station

2003-2004

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station

2002-2003

with the Multimedia and signal processing group at the University of Constance, Germany

2000-2003

Dr.-Ing., University of Leipzig, Germany

 

DFG scholarship holder as a member of Graduiertenkolleg Wissensrepräsentation.
Ph.D. thesis: "Efficient transmission of multimedia data over noisy channels". Advisors: Professor Dietmar Saupe and Professor Raouf Hamzaoui

1995-2000 

Dipl.-Ing., University of Belgrade, Serbia, School of Electrical Engineering;
Diploma thesis: "Modification of Stack Algorithm for Sequential Decoding". Advisors: Professor Dusan Drajic and Prof. Dragana Bajic.

 

 

 

Professional Activity

 

Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Associate Editor of IEEE Communication Letters 2006-2012

IEEE Multimedia Technical Committee Review Board Member 2010-2011

IET TPN Vision and Imaging Executive Team Member 2010-2012

IEEE Senior Member

 

 

Teaching

 

Image and Video Processing

Signals and Systems

Multimedia Signal and Image Processing

Mobile and Multimedia Communications

Digital Communications

Information Theory 

Advanced Communication Techniques for 3G Systems and Beyond

 

Tutorials

1.      Distributed Source Coding: Theory, Code Designs and Applications, (together with L. Stankovic and S. Cheng) at ICASSP-2009, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009 (slides).

2.      Distributed Source Coding: Theory and Practice, (together with L. Stankovic and S. Cheng) at Eusipco-2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.

3.      Distributed Source Coding and its Applications (together with L. Stankovic and S. Cheng) at  ICCCN-2008, IEEE 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands, August 2008

4.      Next Generation Multimedia Transmission and Storage Technologies (together with L. Stankovic  and B. Honary) at IEEE ICC-2007, Glasgow, UK, July 2007.

Recent Invited Talks

1.      Distributed compression: Overview of current and emerging multimedia applications, ICIP-2011, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 2011.

2.      Distributed source coding: Theory and applications, Eusipco-2010, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010, with L. Stankovic, S. Cheng (slides)

3.      Distributed acquisition and compression in visual sensor networks, Data Fusion-2010, Edinburgh, UK, July 2010

 

Mentoring and Supervision

1.      Khaled Algarari (start date 12/2013) – PhD student

2.      Hana Altrabalsi (start date 11/2012) – PhD student 

3.      Cheng Yang (10/2011) – PhD student working on smart ICT for healthcare 

4.      Bojana Begovic (02/2010) – PhD student working on image processing with overcomplete dictionary learning

5.      Haidawati Nasir (2008-2012) – PhD student, image super resolution (now with Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur)

6.      Sajid Nazir (02/2009-04/2012) - PhD student working on multimedia delivery over wireless networks (now with University of Aberdeen)

7.      Dr Dejan Vukobratovic, Marie Curie Fellow (06/2009-12/2010) (now with University of Novi Sad)

8.      Dr Chadi Khirallah, Research Assistant (03/2007-03/2010) (now with NEC) 

Special Session Organizer

1.      “Distributed Compression: Diverse Multimedia Applications,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011 (with L. Stankovic and S. Cheng).

2.       “Scalable Video Transmission over Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) Networks” ICME-2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Singapore, July 2010 (with David Gomez-Barquero).

3.       “Distributed video compression for Multimedia Processing and Communication”, Mobimedia-2009, ICST 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference, London, UK, Sept. 2009.

 

Publications

Book Chapters

 

1.      H.F. Rashvand, C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, Cooperative network coding, Cooperative Networking, M.S. Obaidat and S. Misra (Eds.), Wiley, 2011.

2.      Stankovic, V., Host-Madsen, A., Xiong, Z., Cooperative diversity: Capacity bounds and code designs, Adaptive Signal Processing for Communications, M. Ibnkahla (Ed.), CRC Press, 2008.

3.      Hamzaoui, R, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Ramchandran, K., Puri, R., Majumdar, A., Chou, J., Channel protection fundamentals, Multimedia over IP and Wireless Network: Compression, Networking, and Systems, P. Chou and M. van der  Schaar, (Eds.), Academic Press, 2007.

4.      Hamzaoui, R, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Channel protection and joint source-channel coding techniques, Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, P. Chou and M. van der  Schaar, (Eds.), Academic Press, 2007.

 

Journal papers

 

  1. S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, V. Stankovic, I. Andonovic, K. Nybom, and S. Groenroos: “Unequal error protection for data partitioned H.264/AVC video broadcasting,” Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), to appear 2014.
  2. B. Begovic, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, “Dictionary learning for scalable sparse image representation with applications,” Advances in Signal Processing, 2 (2) pp. 55-74, 2014.
  3. D. Vukobratovic, C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, and J. Thompson, “Random network coding for multimedia delivery services in LTE/LTE-advanced,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 16, pp.277-282, January 2014.

4.      J. Chakareski, V. Velisavljevic, and V. Stankovic, “User-action-driven view and rate scalable multiview video coding,” IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, vol. 22, pp. 3473-3484, September 2013.

5.      S. Nazir, V. Stankovic, H. Attar, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “Relay-assisted rateless layered multiple description video delivery,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 31, pp. 1629-1637, August 2013.

6.      Y. Zhu, S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, “Image registration using BP-SIFT,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 24, pp. 448-457, May 2013.

7.      V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, S. Wang, and S. Cheng, “Distributed compression for condition monitoring of wind farms,” IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 4, pp. 174-181, January 2013.

8.      C. Stefanovic, D. Vukobratovic, V. Stankovic, and R. Fantacci, “Packet-centric approach to distributed sparse-graph coding in wireless ad-hoc networks,” Elsevier Ad-hoc Networks, vol. 11, pp. 167-181, January 2013.

9.      D. Vukobratovic and V. Stankovic, “Multi-user video streaming using unequal error protection network coding in wireless networks,” EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2012 2012:218.

10.  S. Nazir, V. Stankovic, I. Andonovic, and D. Vukobratovic, ”Application-layer systematic network coding for sliced H.264/AVC video streaming,” Advances in Multimedia, vol. 2012, 2012.

11.  S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, V. Stankovic, and I. Andonovic, “Rate-adaptive selective segment assignment for reliable wireless video transmission,” International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting, vol. 2012, 2012.

12.  S. Wang, L. Cui, S. Cheng, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Onboard low-complexity compression of solar stereo images,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21, pp. 3114-3118, June 2012.

13.  D. Vukobratovic and V. Stankovic, “Unequal error protection random linear coding strategies for erasure channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, pp. 1243-1252, May 2012.

14.  S. Wang, L. Ciu, L. Stankovic, V. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “Adaptive correlation estimation with particle filtering for distributed video coding,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 22, pp. 649-658, May 2012.

15.  H. Attar, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “A cooperative network coding system for wireless sensor networks,” IET Communications, vol. 6, pp. 344-352, March 2012.

16.  H. Nasir, V. Stankovic, and S. Marshall, “Singular value decomposition based fusion for super-resolution image reconstruction,” Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 27, pp. 180-191, February 2012.

17.  Li, L., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Li, L., Cheng, S., Uttamchandani, D., Single pixel optical imaging using a scanning MEMS mirror, IOPscience Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, January 2011.

18.  Uppal, M., Liu, Z., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Compress-forward coding with BPSK modulation for the half-duplex Gaussian relay channel, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 57, pp. 4467-4481, November 2009.

19.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Sejdinovic, D., Stankovic, L., Xiong, Z., Scalable video multicast using Expanding window fountain codes, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Special Issue on Quality-driven Cross-layer Design for Multimedia Communications, vol. 11, pp. 1094-1104, October 2009.

20.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Multiterminal source coding for multiview images under wireless fading channels, Multimedia Tools and Applications: Special Issue on Distributed Video Coding, Springer, July, 2009.

21.  Sun, Y., Yang, Y., Liveris, A., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Near-capacity dirty-paper code design: A source-channel coding approach, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, pp. 3013-3031, July 2009.

22.  Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., An efficient spectrum sensing scheme for cognitive radio, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, pp. 501-504, June 2009.

23.  Wu, Y., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Kung, S.Y., On practical design for joint distributed source and network coding, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 55, pp. 1709-1720, April 2009.

24.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Compress-spread-forward with multiterminal source coding and complete complementary sequences, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, pp. 884-887, April 2009.

25.  Yang, Y., Stankovic, V., Zhao W., Xiong, Z., Two-terminal video coding, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 18, pp. 534-551, March 2009.

26.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Bandwidth efficient multi-station streaming based on complete complementary sequences, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 8, pp. 552-556, February 2009.

27.  Uppal, M., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Code designs for MIMO broadcast channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, pp. 986-996, April 2009.

28.  Yang, Y., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Zhao, W., On multiterminal source code design, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, pp. 2278-2302, May 2008.

29.  Sun, Y., Uppal, M., Liveris, A., Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Nested turbo codes for the Costa problem, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, pp. 388-399, March 2008.

30.  Stankovic, V., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Distributed source coding for multimedia multicast over heterogeneous networks, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on Network-Aware Multimedia Processing and Communications, vol. 1, pp. 220-230, August 2007.

31.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Wyner-Ziv video compression and fountain codes for receiver-driven layered multicast, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 17, pp. 901-906, July 2007.

32.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Distributed source-channel coding of video using Raptor codes, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on cross-layer optimized wireless multimedia communications, vol. 25, pp. 851-861, May 2007.

33.  Yang, K., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Wang, X., Multiuser resource allocation for video transmission over a chip-interleaved multicarrier system, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Special Issue on Video Communications for 4G Wireless Systems, vol. 7, pp. 143-158, February 2007.

34.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for transmission over unreliable channels, Signal Processing: Special Issue on Distributed Source Coding, vol. 86, pp. 3112-3225, November 2006.

35.  Stankovic, V., Host-Madsen, A., Xiong, Z., Cooperative diversity for wireless ad hoc networks: capacity bounds and code designs, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 22, pp. 37-49, September 2006.

36.  Stankovic, V., Liveris, A.D., Xiong, Z., Georghiades, C.N., On code design for the Slepian-Wolf problem and lossless multiterminal networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 1495-1507, April 2006.

37.  Stankovic, V., Cheng, S., Xiong, Z., On dualities in multiterminal coding problems, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 52, pp. 307-315, January 2006.

38.  Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Computing the channel capacity and rate-distortion function with two-sided state information, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, pp. 4418-4425, December 2005.

39.  Hamzaoui, R, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Optimized error protection of scalable image bitstreams, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, pp. 91-107, vol. 22, November 2005.

40.  Hamzaoui, R, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Fast algorithm for distortion-based error protection of embedded image codes, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, pp. 1417-1421, October 2005.

41.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Robust layered multiple description coding of scalable media data for multicast, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 12, pp. 154-157, February 2005.

42.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Real-time error protection of embedded codes for packet erasure and fading channels, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 14, pp. 1064-1072, August 2004.

43.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Efficient channel code rate selection algorithms for forward error correction of packetized multimedia bitstreams in varying channels, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia: Special Issue on Streaming Media, vol. 6, pp. 240-248, April 2004.

44.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Charfi, Y., Xiong, Z., Real-Time Unequal Error Protection Algorithms for Progressive Image Transmission, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Recent Advances in Wireless Multimedia, vol. 21, pp. 1526-1535, December 2003.

45.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Saupe, D., Fast algorithm for rate-based optimal error protection of embedded codes, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 51, pp. 1788-1795, November 2003.

46.  Charfi, Y., Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Haouari, A., Saupe, D., Joint source-channel fractal image coding with unequal error protection, Optical Engineering, vol. 41, no. 12, pp. 3168-3176, December 2002.

Selected conference papers

1.      G. Elafoudi, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Power disaggregation of domestic smart meter readings using Dynamic Time Warping,” ISCCSP-2014 IEEE International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, Athens, Greece, May 2014.

2.      A. Seeam, J. Liao, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Improving energy efficiency with smart home appliance monitoring,” EEDAL-2013 Energy Efficiency in Domestic Appliances and Lighting, Coimbra, Portugal, September 2013.

3.      C. Yang, U. Ugbolue, B. Carse, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and P. Rowe, “Multiple marker tracking in a single-camera system for gait analysis,” ICIP-2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Melbourne, Australia, September 2013.

4.      C. Yang, U. Ugbolue, B. Carse, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and P. Rowe, “Multiple marker tracking in a single-camera system for gait analysis,” ISB-2013 XXIV Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, Natal Brazil, August 2013.

5.      V. Velisavljevic, J. Chakareski, and V. Stankovic, “Scalable user-adaptive multiview video coder,” DSP-2013 18th Intl. Conf. Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2013 (invited).

6.      B. Begovic, L. Stankovic, V. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “HVS based dictionary learning for scalable sparse image representation,” Asilomar-2012 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2012.

7.      L. Cui, S. Wang, S. Cheng, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Adaptive Slepian-Wolf decoding using Laplace Propagation,” Eusipco-2012 20th European Signal Processing Conference, Bucharest, Romania, August 2012 (invited).

8.      B. Begovic, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Learning scalable dictionaries with application to scalable compressive sensing,” Eusipco-2012 20th European Signal Processing Conference, Bucharest, Romania, August 2012.

9.      D. Vukobratovic, C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, and J. Thompson, “Random network coding for multimedia delivery over LTE-Advanced,” ICME-2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.

10.  S. Wang, S. Cheng, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, “Distributed compression for condition monitoring of wind farms,” ICASSP-2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.

11.  S. Nazir, V. Stankovic, and D. Vukobratovic, “Adaptive layered multiple description coding for wireless video with expanding window random linear codes,” ICASSP-2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.

12.  S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, and V. Stankovic, “Scalable broadcasting of sliced H.264/AVC over DVB-H network,” ICON-2011 IEEE Intl. Conference on Networks, Special Session on Robust and Scalable Multimedia Networking, Singapore, December 2011 (invited).

13.  H. Nasir, S. Marshall, and V. Stankovic, “Singular value decomposition based fusion for super-resolution image reconstruction,” ICSIPA-2011, International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 2011.

14.  D. Vukobratovic, C. Khirallah, V. Stankovic, and J. Thompson, “Scalable video streaming using UEP network coding for wireless multi-hop cellular networks, ISWCS-2011, IEEE Intl. Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems, Special Session on Wireless Network Coding, Aachen, Germany, November 2011.

15.  B. Begovic, V. Stankovic, and L. Stankovic, “Contrast enhancement and denoising of Poisson and Gaussian mixture noise for solar images,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

16.  S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, and V. Stankovic, “Expanding window random linear codes for data partitioned H.264 video transmission over DVB-H network,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

17.  V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “Scalable compressive video,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

18.  L. Stankovic, V. Stankovic, and S. Cheng, “Distributed compression: Overview of current and emerging multimedia applications,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011 (invited).

19.  S. Wang, L. Cui, S. Cheng, L. Stankovic, and V. Stankovic, “Onboard low-complexity compression of solar images,” ICIP-2011 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, September 2011.

20.  V. Velisavljevic, V. Stankovic, J. Chakareski, and G. Cheung, “View and rate scalable multiview image coding with depth-image-based rendering,” Proc. DSP-2011 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Corfu, Greece, July 2011 (invited).

21.  S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, and V. Stankovic, “Unequal Error Protection for Data Partitioned H.264/AVC Video Streaming with Raptor and Random Linear Codes for DVB-H Networks,” Proc. ICME-2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.

22.  S. Nazir, D. Vukobratovic, and V. Stankovic, “Performance evaluation of Raptor and Random Linear Codes for H.264/AVC video transmission over DVB-H networks,” Proc. ICASSP-11 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.

23.  L. Stankovic, V. Stankovic, S. Wang, and S. Cheng, “Correlation estimation with Particle-based Belief Propagation for distributed video coding,” Proc. ICASSP-11 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.

24.  G. Zhang, L. Li, V. Stankovic, L. Stankovic, and D. Uttamchandani, ”Optical MEMS image enhancement with sparse signal representation,” Proc. ICASSP-11 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2011.

25.  Attar, H., Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Performance analysis of node cooperation with network coding in wireless sensor networks, Proc. 3rd International NTMS Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice, Paris, France, February 2011.

26.  Stefanovic, C., Vukobratovic, D., Crnojevic, V., Stankovic, V., A random linear coding scheme with perimeter data gathering for wireless sensor networks, Proc. WONS 2011 8th International Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, Bardonecchia, Italy, January 2011.

27.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., On unequal error protection random linear coding for scalable video broadcasting, Proc. PV-2010 IEEE Packet Video Workshop, Hong Kong, China, December 2010.

28.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Unequal error protection random linear coding for multimedia communications, Proc. MMSP-2010 IEEE Multimedia and Signal Processing Workshop, Saint Malo, France, October 2010 (top 10% paper award).

29.  Vukobratovic, D., Stefanovic, C., Stankovic, V., Fireworks: A random linear coding scheme for distributed storage in wireless sensor networks, Proc. ITW 2010 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, September 2010.

30.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Distributed source coding: Theory and applications, Proc. Eusipco-2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010 (invited).

31.  Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Wang, S., Cheng, S., Distributed video coding with particle filtering for correlation tracking, Proc. Eusipco-2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010 (top 10% paper) (slides).

32.  Nasir, H., Stankovic, V., Marshall, S., Image registration for super resolution, Proc. Eusipco-2010 18th European Signal Processing Conference, Aalborg, Denmark, August 2010.

33.  Barquero, D.G., Nybom, K., Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Scalable video coding for mobile broadcasting DVB systems, Proc. ICME-2010 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Singapore, July 2010, (invited).

34.  Rastovac, D., Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., The design of rate-compatible LDPC codes for IR-HARQ systems over erasure channels, Proc. ICC-2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.

35.  Li, L., Mirza, M., Stankovic, V., Li, L., Stankovic, L., Uttamchandani, D., Cheng, S., Optical imaging with scanning MEMS mirror – a single photodetector approach, Proc. ICIP-09 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, November 2009.

36.  Li, L., Li, L., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Uttamchandani, D., Single-pixel camera using MEMS scanners, Proc. IECON-09 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Porto, Portugal, November 2009.

37.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Compressive image sampling with side information, Proc. ICIP-09 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Cairo, Egypt, November 2009.

38.  Stefanovic, C., Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., On distributed LDGM and LDPC code design for networked systems, Proc. ITW-2009, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Taormina, Italy, October 2009.

39.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Sejdinovic, D., Precoded EWF codes for unequal error protection of scalable video, Proc. ACM  Mobimedia-2009 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference, London, UK, September 2009.

40.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Sparse signal recovery with side information, Proc. Eusipco-2009 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 2009.

41.  Stefanovic, C., Vukobratovic, D., Bajic, D., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Blind time-period synchronization for LDPC convolutionally coded transmission, Proc. Eusipco-2009 17th European Signal Processing Conference, Glasgow, UK, August 2009.

42.  Vukobratovic, D., Stefanovic, C., Stojakovic, M., Stankovic, V., Raptor packets: A packet-centric approach to distributed Raptor code design, Proc.  ISIT-09 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seoul, South Korea, June/July 2009.

43.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Stereo image transmission over fading channels with multiterminal source coding, Proc. ICC-2009 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Dresden, Germany, June 2009.

44.  Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Improved SIFT-based image registration using Belief propagation, Proc. ICASSP-2009 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.

45.  Nelson, C., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V. and Cheng, S., Performance analysis of PUM codes, Proc. 5th International Symposium on Turbo Codes & Related Topics, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2008.

46.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Compressive video sampling, Proc. Eusipco-2008 16th European Signal Processing Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008. 

47.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Multi-session network spread coding, Proc. Eusipco-2008 16th European Signal Processing Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 2008.

48.  Liu, Z., Uppal, M., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Compress-forward coding with BPSK modulation for the half-duplex Gaussian relay channel, Proc.  IEEE ISIT-08 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, July 2008.

49.  Meyer H, Higbee K, Stankovic L., Stankovic V. A HE curriculum for teaching and learning ethical issues arising from pervasive communications, Proc. HEA International conference on innovation, good practice and research in engineering education (EE2008), Loughborough, UK, July 2008.

50.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Sejdinovic, D., Stankovic, L., Xiong, Z., Expanding window fountain codes for scalable video multicast, Proc. IEEE ICME’08 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Hannover, Germany, June 2008.

51.  Liu, Q., Khirallah, C., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Image-in-image hiding using complete complementary sequences, Proc. IEEE ICME’08 International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Hannover, Germany, June 2008.

52.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Cheng, S., Compressive sampling of binary images, Proc. IEEE CISP’08 International Congress on Image and Signal Processing, Hainan, China, May 2008.

53.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Robust multi-server streaming over multipath fading channels, Proc. IEEE ICTTA’08 3rd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, Damascus, Syria, April 2008.

54.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Poutouris, D., Network spread coding, Proc. NetCod-2008, Fourth Workshop on Network Coding, Theory, and Applications, Hong Kong, January 2008.

55.  Oletu, G., Fan, P.,  Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V., Video distribution to handheld devices, Proc. IEEE PV-2007 16th International Packet Video Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2007.

56.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Compress-spread-forward with multiterminal source coding and complete complementary sequences, Proc. IEEE PV-2007 16th International Packet Video Workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 2007. 

57.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Distributed video streaming using complete complementary sequences, Proc. PCS-2007 Picture Coding Symposium, Lisboa, Portugal, November 2007.

58.  Khirallah, C., Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Bandwidth optimized wireless distribution streaming from multiple terminals, Proc. 45th  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007.

59.  Stankovic, V., Stankovic L., Moinian, A., and Cheng, S., Wireless full-duplex communications based on network coding, Proc. 45th  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007.

60.  Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Stankovic L., Resource allocation from the perspective of channel coding, Proc. 45th  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007.

61.  Vukobratovic, D., Stankovic, V., Sejdinovic, D., Stankovic, L., Xiong, Z., Scalable data multicast using expanding fountain codes, Proc. 45th  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2007.

62.  Stankovic, V., Fagoonee L., Moinian, A., and Cheng, S., Two-way video communication based on network coding, Proc. ICIP-07 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, TX, September 2007.

63.  Yang, Y, Stankovic, V., Zhao W., Xiong, Z., Multiterminal video coding, Proc. ICIP-07 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, TX, September 2007.

64.  Yang, Y, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Image encryption and data hiding: Duality and code design, Proc. ITW-2007, IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Lake Tahoe, CA, September 2007.

65.  Stankovic, V., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Efficient multimedia multicast using distributed source coding, Proc. ICC-2007IEEE International Conference on Communications, Glasgow, UK, June 2007.

66.  Yang, Y, Stankovic, V., Zhao W., Xiong, Z., Multiterminal video coding,  Proc. IEEE UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications, San Diego, CA, January 2007.

67.  Stankovic, V., Yang, Y., Xiong, Z., Video multicast over heterogeneous networks based on distributed source coding principles, Proc. ICIP-06 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing: Special Session on Network-aware Multimedia Processing and Communications, Atlanta, GA, October 2006 (invited).

68.  Uppal, M., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Code designs for MIMO broadcast channels, Proc. ISIT-2006 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Seattle, WA, July 2006.

69.  Uppal, M., Stankovic, V., Host-Madsen, A., Xiong, Z., Code design for transmitter cooperation, Proc. MSRI Workshop on Mathematics of Relaying and Cooperation in Communication Networks, Berkeley, CA, April 2006.

70.  Uppal, M., Liu, Z., Stankovic, V., Host-Madsen, A., Xiong, Z., Capacity bounds and code designs for cooperative diversity, Proc. UCSD Workshop on Information Theory and its Applications, San Diego, CA, February 2006.

71.  Yang, Y., Sun. Y, Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Image data-hiding based on capacity approaching dirty-paper coding, Proc. SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006: Security, Steganography, and Watermarking of Multimedia Contents, San Jose, CA, January 2006.

72.  Sun, Y., Liveris, A., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Near-capacity dirty-paper code designs based on TCQ and IRA codes, Proc. ISIT-05 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, Australia, September 2005.

73.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Liveris, A., Xiong, Z., Distributed joint source-channel coding of video, Proc. ICIP-05 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing: Special Session on Distributed Video Coding, Genoa, Italy, September 2005 (invited).

74.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Layered Wyner-Ziv video coding for noisy channels,” Proc. VCIP-2005 Visual Communications and Image Processing, Beijing, China, July 2005.

75.  Wu, Y., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Kung, S.Y., On practical design for joint distributed source and network coding, Proc. NetCod-05, Riva del Garda, Italy, April 2005.

76.  Cheng, S., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Computing the channel capacity and rate-distortion function with two-sided state information, Proc. CISS-05 Conference of Information Science and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

77.  Liu, Z., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Practical compress-forward code design for the half-duplex relay channel, Proc. CISS-05 Conference of Information Science and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

78.  Sun, Y., Liveris, A., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Near-capacity dirty-paper code design: A source-channel coding approach, Proc. CISS-05 Conference of Information Science and Systems, Baltimore, MD, March 2005.

79.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Distributed joint source-channel coding of video using Raptor codes, Proc. DCC-05 Data Compression Conference, J. A. Storer, M. Cohn (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Snowbird, UT, March 2005.

80.  Yang, Y., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Zhao, W., On multiterminal source code design, Proc. DCC-05 Data Compression Conference, J. A. Storer, M. Cohn (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Snowbird, UT, March 2005.

81.  Liu, Z., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Wyner-Ziv coding for the half-duplex relay channel, Proc. ICASSP-05 IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing:  Special Session on Distributed Source and Joint Source Channel Coding, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005 (invited).

82.  Xu, Q., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Wyner-Ziv video compression and Fountain codes for receiver-driven layered multicast, Proc. PCS-2004 Picture Coding Symposium, San Francisco, CA, December 2004 (invited).

83.  Xiong, Z., Stankovic, V., Cheng, S., Liveris, A.D., Sun, Y., Source-channel coding for algebraic multiterminal binning, Proc. ITW-04 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, TX, October 2004 (invited).

84.  Stankovic, V., Cheng, S., Xiong, Z., On dualities in multiterminal coding problems, Proc. 42nd  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2004.

85.  Yang, Y., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Zhao W., Multiterminal source code design based on Slepian-Wolf coded quantization, Proc. 42nd  Annual  Allerton Conference on Communications, Control and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2004 (invited).

86.  Stankovic, V., Liveris, A.D., Xiong, Z., Georghiades, C.N., Code design for lossless multiterminal networks, Proc. ISIT-2004 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, IL, June 2004.

87.  Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Packet erasure protection for multicasting, Proc. DCC-04 Data Compression Conference, J. A. Storer, M. Cohn (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Snowbird, UT, March 2004.

88.  Stankovic, V., Liveris, A.D., Xiong, Z., Georghiades, C.N., Design of Slepian-Wolf codes by channel code partitioning, Proc. DCC-04 Data Compression Conference, J. A. Storer, M. Cohn (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Snowbird, UT, March 2004.

89.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Saupe, D., Influence of channel fluctuations on optimal real-time scalable image transmission, Proc. ICIP-2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, September 2003.

90.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Product code error protection of packetized multimedia bitstreams, Proc. ICIP-2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, September 2003.

91.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Live video streaming over packet networks and wireless channels , Proc. PV-2003 13th Packet Video Workshop, Nantes, April 2003.

92.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Fast forward error protection of packetized multimedia bitstreams for transmission over varying channels, Proc. ICC-2003 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Anchorage, AK, May 2003.

93.  Stankovic, V., Charfi, Y., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Real-time unequal error protection for distortion-optimal progressive image transmission, Proc. WCNC-2003 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 2003.

94.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Joint product code optimization for scalable multimedia transmission over wireless channels, Proc. ICME-2002 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, August 2002.

95.  Stankovic, Hamzaoui, R., Xiong, Z., Packet loss protection of embedded data with fast local search, Proc. ICIP-2002 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002.

96.  Hamzaoui, R., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Fast joint source-channel coding algorithms for Internet/wireless multimedia, Proc. WCCI-2002 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, May 2002 (invited paper).

97.  Hamzaoui, R., Stankovic, V., Xiong, Z., Rate-based versus distortion-based optimal joint source-channel coding, Proc. DCC-02 Data Compression Conference, J. A. Storer, M. Cohn (eds.), IEEE Computer Society Press, Snowbird, UT, April 2002.

98.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Progressive optimal error protection of embedded codes, Proc. of 9th Telecommunications Forum Telfor 2001, Belgrade, November 2001.

99.  Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Saupe, D., Fast algorithm for optimal error protection of embedded wavelet codes, Proc. MMSP-01 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, October 2001.

100.          Stankovic, V., Hamzaoui, R., Saupe, D., Rate-distortion unequal error protection for fractal image codes, Proc. ICIP-2001 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Thessaloniki, October 2001. Errata

Other publications

1.      V. Stankovic, Network coding for effective rate control in Wyner-Ziv video coding,  Multimedia Communications Technical Committee R-Letter, vol. 2 no. 2, pp. 10-11, June 2011.

2.      V. Stankovic, Wyner-Ziv video coding: Pushing limits via effective correlation estimation, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee R-Letter, vol. 2 no. 2, pp. 11-12, April 2011.

3.      V. Stankovic, Energy-efficient multihop network broadcasting: A rateless coding approach, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee R-Letter, vol. 2 no. 1, pp. 3-4, Feb. 2011.

4.      V. Stankovic, Application layer forward error protection for wireless video broadcasting, Multimedia Communications Technical Committee R-Letter, vol. 1 no. 2, pp. 8-9, Dec. 2010.

5.      V. Stankovic, Network coding in video delivery: What does the future hold? Multimedia Communications Technical Committee R-Letter, vol. 1 no. 1, pp. 8-9, Oct. 2010.

6.      Stankovic, V., Stankovic, L, Distributed source coding for multimedia: Past, present and future, IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee E-Letter, March 2009 (invited).

7.      Gomes, J., Brown, G., Poland, S., Li, L., Lubeigt, W., Burns, D., Stankovic, V., Uttamchandani, D., Integrated 2-axis MEMS Scanners for Optical Applications, 6th EMRS DTC Technical Conference, Edinburgh, UK, 2009.

 
 Ph.D. thesis

Ph. D. thesis: Efficient transmission of multimedia data over noisy channels, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, February 2003.

 

Funding

- EPSRC REFIT 2012-2015  http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K002368/1

- EPSRC APAtSCHE 2012-2014  http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/K002708/1

- FP7 QoStream 2012-2016 http://www.qostream.org/

- EPSRC Wireless Video Transmission Based on Distributed Source Coding Principles 2007-2010  http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/E021964/2

- FP7 Marie Curie MMSTREAM Design, Analysis and Applications of Robust and Efficient Transmission Schemes for Multimedia Streaming in Wireless Networks 2009-2010

- Royal Society Early Roots of Cognitive Science and Communications 2010-2011