Publications

According to Google Scholar, I have over 260 citable works with over 25,000 citations (H-index 78).  Fun fact: my Erdős number is 2, via László Lovász.

Recent

2023

  • T. T. Do, P. A. Chou, and G. Cheung, “Attention Graph Normalized 3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression,” Graph Signal Processing Workshop, June 2023.
  • E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Two Channel Filter Banks on Arbitrary Graphs with Positive Semi Definite Variation Operators,” Graph Signal Processing Workshop, June 2023.
  • T. T. Do, P. A. Chou, and G. Cheung, “Volumetric Attribute Compression for 3D Point Clouds using Feedforward Network with Geometric Attention,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2023.
  • E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Two Channel Filter Banks on Arbitrary Graphs with Positive Semi Definite Variation Operators,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, to appear.  [arxiv]
  • B. Isik, O. G. Guleryuz, D. Tang, J. Taylor, and P. A. Chou, “Sandwiched Video Compression: Efficiently Extending the Reach of Standard Codecs with Neural Wrappers,” [arxiv]

2022

2021

2020

  • D. Tang, S. Singh, P. A. Chou, C. Häne, M. Dou, S. Fanello, J. Taylor, P. Davidson, O. G. Guleryuz, Y. Zhang, S. Izadi, A. Tagliasacchi, S. Bouaziz, and C. Keskin, “Deep Implicit Volume Compression,” IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2020.  [arxiv][project]
  • V. F. Figueiredo, G. L. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Saliency Maps for Point Clouds,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), September 2020.
  • E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Region Adaptive Graph Fourier Transform for 3D Point Clouds,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2020.  Best Paper Award.  [arxiv]
  • J. Ballé, P. A. Chou, D. Minnen, S. Singh, N. Johnston, E. Agustsson, S. J. Hwang, and G. Toderici, “Nonlinear Transform Coding,” IEEE J. Special Topics in Signal Processing, October 2020.  [arxiv]

2019

  • X. Zhang, P. A. Chou, M.-T. Sun, M. Yang, S. Wang, S. Ma, and W. Gao, “Surface Light Field Compression using a Point Cloud Codec,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video, March, 2019.  Longer version available at arXiv:1805.11203, May 2018.
  • J. Park, P. A. Chou, and J.-N. Hwang, “Rate-Utility Optimized Streaming of Volumetric Media for Augmented Reality,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video, March 2019.  Longer version available at arXiv:1804.09864, April 2018.
  • S. Schwarz, M. Preda, V. Baroncini, M. Budagavi, P. S. Cesar, P. A. Chou, R. A. Cohen, M. Krivokuća, S. Lasserre, Z. Li, J. Llach, K. Mammou, R. Mekuria, O. Nakagami, E. Siahaan, A. Tabatabai, A. Tourapis, and V. Zakharchenko, “Emerging MPEG Standards for Point Cloud Compression,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video, March 2019.
  • G. P. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Compression of Plenoptic Point Clouds,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 28, no. 3, March 2019.
  • P. A. Chou, M. Koroteev, and M. Krivokuća, “A Volumetric Approach to Point Cloud Compression, Part I: Attribute Compression,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, March 2019.
  • G. P. Sandri, P. A. Chou, M. Krivokuća, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Integer Alternative for the Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, July 2019.
  • G. P. Sandri, V. Figueiredo, P. A. Chou, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Point Cloud Coding Incorporating Region of Interest Coding,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2019.  Invited to special session on Graph Spectral Processing of 3D Point Cloud Data.
  • M. Krivokuća, P. A. Chou, and M. Koroteev, “A Volumetric Approach to Point Cloud Compression, Part II: Geometry Compression,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, December 2019.

2018

+ 24 standards documents in 2018

2017

+ 10 standards documents in 2017

2016

  • A. Anis, P. A. Chou, and A. Ortega, “Compression of dynamic 3D point clouds using subdivisional meshes and graph wavelet transforms,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2016. Invited to special session on Signal Processing on Graphs.
  • D. Thanou, P. A. Chou, and P. Frossard, “Graph-based compression of dynamic 3D point cloud sequences,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 25, no. 4, April 2016.
  • P. A. Chou and R. L. de Queiroz, “Modeling Signals Embedded in a Euclidean Domain,” Graph Signal Processing (GSP) workshop, May 2016.  Abstract only.
  • R. L. de Queiroz and P. A. Chou, “Compression of 3D Point Clouds Using a Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 25., no. 8. August 2016.
  • J. Jiang, R. Das, G. Ananthanarayanan, P. A. Chou, V. Padmanabhan, V. Sekar, E. Dominique, M. Goliszewski, D. Kukoleca, R. Vafin, and H. Zhang, “VIA: Improving Internet Telephony Call Quality Using Predictive Relay Selection,” ACM SIGCOMM, August 2016.
  • P. A. Chou and R. L. de Queiroz, “Gaussian Process Transforms,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2016. Invited to special session on Graph-Based Multi-Dimensional Image Data Compression.
  • S. Orts-Escolano, C. Rhemann, S. Fanello, W. Chang, A. Kowdle, Y. Degtyarev, D. Kim, P. Davidson, S. Khamis, M. Dou, V. Tankovich, C. Loop, Q. Cai, P. A. Chou, S. Mennicken, J. Valentin, V. Pradeep, S. Wang, S. B. Kang, P. Kohli, Y. Lutchyn, C. Keskin, and S. Izadi, “Holoportation: Virtual 3D Teleportation in Real-time,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), October 2016.
  • C. Loop, Q. Cai, S. Orts-Escolano, and P. A. Chou, “A Closed-Form Bayesian Fusion Equation Using Occupancy Probabilities,” Int’l Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), October 2016.

+ 3 standards documents in 2016

2015

  • Cha Zhang, Dinei Florencio, and Philip Chou, “Graph Signal Processing – A Probabilistic Framework,” no. MSR-TR-2015-31, April 2015.
  • K. Higuchi, Y. Chen, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and Z. Liu, “ImmerseBoard: Immersive Telepresence Experience using a Digital Whiteboard,” ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2015.  Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCU1Ifr5VUc&list=PLOynw4iQRT4S1DYov_-zdM6QAXlFSWl46.
  • Y. Wang, J. Zhang, Z. Liu, Q. Wu, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and Y. Jia, “Handling Occlusion and Large Displacement through Improved RGB-D Scene Flow Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, July 2015. Preprint.
  • D. Thanou, P. A. Chou, and P. Frossard, “Graph-based motion estimation and compensation for dynamic 3D point cloud compression,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2015.
  • P. Wan, G. Cheung, P. A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. C. Au, “Precision Enhancement of 3-D Surfaces from Compressed Multiview Depth Maps,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, October 2015.

2014

  • H. Q. Nguyen, P. A. Chou, and Y. Chen, “Compression of Human Body Sequences Using Graph Wavelet Filter Banks,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 2014. Best Student Paper Award (2nd place).
  • W. Sun, G. Cheung, P.A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. Au, “Rate-Constrained 3D Surface Estimation From Noise-Corrupted Multiview Depth Videos,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, no. 7, July 2014.
  • M. Gonzalez-Franco and P. A. Chou, “Non-linear modeling of eye gaze perception as a function of gaze and head direction,” IEEE Int’l Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), September 2014.
  • P. Pitts, A. Benedetti, M. Slaney, and P.A. Chou, “Time of Flight Tracer,” no. MSR-TR-2014-142, 8 November 2014.

2013

  • C. Zhang, Q. Cai, P. Chou, Z. Zhang, and R. Martin-Brualla, “Viewport: A Fully Distributed Immersive Teleconferencing System with Infrared Dot Pattern,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 17-27, 2013.
  • J. Liao, P. A. Chou, C. Yuan, Y. Hu, and W. Zhu, “Online allocation of communication and computation resources for real-time multimedia services,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, April 2013.
  • P. Wan, E. Cheung, P. A. Chou, and D. Florencio, “Precision enhancement of 3D surfaces from multiple quantized depth maps,” IVMSP, June 2013.
  • W. Sun, E. Cheung, P. A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. C. Au, “Rate-distortion optimized 3D reconstruction from noise-corrupted multiview depth videos,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2013.
  • A. Kirmani, A. Benedetti, and P. A. Chou, “SPUMIC: Simultaneous Phase Unwrapping and Multipath Interference Cancellation in Time-of-Flight Cameras using Spectal Methods,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2013.
  • P. A. Chou, “Advances in Immersive Communication: (1) Telephone, (2) Television, (3) Teleportation,” ACM Trans. Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2013.

2012

  • J. Liao, P. A. Chou, C. Yuan, Y. Hu, and W. Zhu, “Online Allocation of Communication and Computation Resources for Real-time Multimedia Services,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2012-6, January 2012.
  • J. Liao, C. Yuan, W.Zhu, and P. A. Chou, “‘Virtual mixer: Real-time audio mixing across clients and the cloud for multiparty conferencing,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  • J. Wang, C. Zhang, W. Zhu, Z. Zhang, Z. Xiong, and P. A. Chou, “3D Scene Reconstruction by Multiple Structured-Light Based Commodity Depth Cameras,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  • J. Apostolopoulos, P. A. Chou, B. Culbertson, A. Kalker, M. Trott, and S. Wee, “The road to immersive communication,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 100, No. 4., April 2012.
  • C. Zhang, Q. Cai, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and R. Martin-Brualla, “Viewport: A Fully Distributed Immersive Teleconferencing System with Infrared Dot Pattern,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2012-60, April 2012.
  • S. Liu, P. A. Chou, C. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and C.-W. Chen, “Virtual view reconstruction using temporal information,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
  • F. Ribiero, D. Florencio, P. A. Chou, and Z. Zhang, “Auditory Augmented Reality: Sonification for the Visually Impaired,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Banff, Canada, September 2012.
  • S. Sengupta, M. Chen, M. Ponec, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Distributed algorithms for utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems with applications to video delivery,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 20, no. 6, December 2012.

2011

  • Special issue on Immersive Communication, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2011.
  • Y. Altunbasak, J. Apostolopoulos, P. A. Chou, and B.-H. Juang, “Realizing the Vision of Immersive Communication,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2011.
  • B. Byun, A. Awasthi, P. A. Chou, A. Kapoor, B. Lee, M. Czerwinski, “Honest Signals in Video Conferencing,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
  • S. Mehrotra, W. Chen, Z. Zhang, and P. A. Chou, “Realistic audio in immersive video conferencing,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
  • S. Sengupta, S. Liu, M. Chen, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “P2P streaming capacity,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, August 2011.
  • S. Mehrotra, Z. Zhang, Q. Cai, C. Zhang, and P. A. Chou, “Low-Complexity, Near-Lossless Coding of Depth Maps from Kinect-Like Depth Cameras,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Hangzhou, China, October 2011.
  • M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Optimizing multi-rate peer-to-peer video conferencing applications,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 13, No. 5, October 2011.
  • P. A. Chou, F.G.B. De Natale, E. Magli, and E. Steinbach, “Trends in Multimedia Signal Processing,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2011.

Books and Book Chapters

  1. P. A. Chou and M. van der Schaar, eds., Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, Elsevier, 2007.
  2. P. A. Chou, “Streaming Media on Demand and Live Broadcast,” in Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, P. A. Chou and M. van der Schaar, eds., Elsevier, 2007.
  3. M. van der Schaar and P. A. Chou, “Multimedia Networking and Communication: Principles and Challenges,” in Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, P. A. Chou and M. van der Schaar, eds., Elsevier, 2007.

Magazine Articles

  1. P. A. Chou and Y. Wu, “Network Coding for the Internet and Wireless Networks,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 5, September 2007.
  2. Y. Altunbasak, J. Apostolopoulos, P. A. Chou, and B.-H. Juang, “Realizing the Vision of Immersive Communication,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, January 2011.
  3. P. A. Chou, F.G.B. De Natale, E. Magli, and E. Steinbach, “Trends in Multimedia Signal Processing,” IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, November 2011.
  4. P. A. Chou, “Advances in Immersive Communication: (1) Telephone, (2) Television, (3) Teleportation,” ACM Trans. Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), 2013.

Blogs

  1. P. A. Chou, “Compression is Again Driving the Evolution of Media,” Medium, https://medium.com/making-vr-human/compression-is-again-driving-the-evolution-of-media-ac77d599d27b#.279r7yezk, January 11, 2017.

Journal Publications

  1. P.A. Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R.M. Gray, “Entropy-constrained vector quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp.31-42, January 1989. Signal Processing Society Paper Award.
  2. P.A. Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R.M. Gray, “Optimal pruning with applications to tree-structured source coding and modeling,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 299-315, March 1989. Nominated for Information Theory Society Paper Award.
  3. P.A. Chou, “The capacity of the Kanerva associative memory,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 281-298, March 1989.
  4. T. Lookabaugh, E.A. Riskin, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable rate vector quantization for speech, image, and video compression,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 186-199, January 1993.
  5. E.A. Riskin, T. Lookabaugh, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable rate vector quantization for medical image compression,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.290-298, September 1990.
  6. P.A. Chou, “Optimal partitioning for classification and regression trees,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 340-354, April 1991.
  7. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, E.A. Riskin, and R.M. Gray, “A progressive universal noiseless coder,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 108-117, January 1994.
  8. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Document image decoding using Markov source models,” IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 602-617, June 1994.
  9. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable-rate source coding theorems for stationary ergodic sources,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1920-1925, November 1994.
  10. P.A. Chou, M. Effros, and R.M. Gray, “A vector quantization approach to universal noiseless coding and quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 1109-1138, July 1996.
  11. O. Avaro, P.A. Chou, A. Eleftheriadis, C. Herpel, C. Reader, J. Signes, “The MPEG-4 Systems and Description Languages: a way ahead in audio visual information representation,” Signal Processing: Image Communication Vol. 9., No. 4, pp. 385-431, May 1997.
  12. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, R.M. Gray, “Weighted Universal Image Compression,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 8, No. 10, pp. 1317-1329, October 1999.
  13. P. A. Chou, A. E. Mohr, A. Wang, and S. Mehrotra, “Error Control for Receiver-driven Layered Multicast of Audio and Video,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 3, No. 1, March 2001.
  14. P. A. Chou and Z. Miao, “Rate-distortion optimized streaming of packetized media,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 2006. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia Prize Paper Award.
  15. X. Wu, S. Forchhammer and P. A. Chou, “Minimum Conditional Entropy Context Quantization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, May 2001. Submitted.
  16. J. Ribas-Corbera, P. A. Chou, and S. Regunathan, “A generalized hypothetical reference decoder for H.264/AVC,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 13, No. 7, July 2003.
  17. A. György, T. Linder, P. A. Chou, and B. J. Betts, “Do optimal entropy-constrained quantizers have a finite or infinite number of codewords?” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 49, No. 11, November 2003.
  18. J. Chakareski and P. A. Chou, “Application layer error correction coding for rate-distortion optimized streaming to wireless clients,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 52, No. 10, October 2004.
  19. S. Jaggi, P. Sanders, P. A. Chou, M. Effros, S. Egner, K. Jain, and L. Tolhuizen, “Polynomial time algorithms for multicast network code construction,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 51, No. 6, June 2005.
  20. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, Q. Zhang, K. Jain, W. Zhu, and S.-Y. Kung, “Network planning in wireless ad hoc networks: a cross-layer approach,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications, Vol. 23, No. 1, January 2005.
  21. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, and S.-Y. Kung, “Minimum-energy multicast in mobile ad hoc networks using network coding,” IEEE Transactions on Communications.Vol. 53, No. 11, November 2005.
  22. A. Ramamoorthy, K. Jain, P. A. Chou, and M. Effros, “Separating distributed source coding from network coding,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 52, No. 6, June 2006.
  23. K. Jain, L. Lovász, and P. A. Chou, “Building scalable and robust peer-to-peer overlay networks for broadcasting using network coding,” J. Distributed Computing, Springer, December 2006.
  24. J. Chakareski and P. A. Chou, “RaDiO Edge: Rate-distortion optimized proxy-driven streaming from the network edge,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 14, No. 6, December 2006.
  25. S. Sengupta, S. Liu, M. Chen, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “P2P streaming capacity,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, August 2011.
  26. M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Optimizing multi-rate peer-to-peer video conferencing applications,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 13, No. 5, October 2011.
  27. J. Apostolopoulos, P. A. Chou, B. Culbertson, A. Kalker, M. Trott, and S. Wee, “The road to immersive communication,” Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 100, No. 4., April 2012.
  28. S. Sengupta, M. Chen, M. Ponec, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Distributed algorithms for utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems with applications to video delivery,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 20, no. 6, December 2012.
  29. J. Liao, P. A. Chou, C. Yuan, Y. Hu, and W. Zhu, “Online allocation of communication and computation resources for real-time multimedia services,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, April 2013.
  30. C. Zhang, Q. Cai, P. Chou, Z. Zhang, and R. Martin-Brualla, “Viewport: A Fully Distributed Immersive Teleconferencing System with Infrared Dot Pattern,” IEEE MultiMedia, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 17-27, 2013.
  31. W. Sun, G. Cheung, P.A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. Au, “Rate-Constrained 3D Surface Estimation From Noise-Corrupted Multiview Depth Videos,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 23, no. 7, July 2014.
  32. Y. Wang, J. Zhang, Z. Liu, Q. Wu, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and Y. Jia, “Handling Occlusion and Large Displacement through Improved RGB-D Scene Flow Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, July 2015. Preprint.
  33. P. Wan, G. Cheung, P. A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. C. Au, “Precision Enhancement of 3-D Surfaces from Compressed Multiview Depth Maps,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, October 2015.
  34. D. Thanou, P. A. Chou, and P. Frossard, “Graph-based compression of dynamic 3D point cloud sequences,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 25, no. 4, April 2016.
  35. R. L. de Queiroz and P. A. Chou, “Compression of 3D Point Clouds Using a Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 25., no. 8. August 2016.
  36. R. L. de Queiroz and P. A. Chou, “Transform Coding for Point Clouds Using a Gaussian Process Model,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 26, no. 7, July 2017.
  37. R. L. de Queiroz and P. A. Chou, “Motion-Compensated Compression of Dynamic Voxelized Point Clouds,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 26, no. 8, August 2017.
  38. R. L. de Queiroz, D. C. Garcia, P. A. Chou, and D. A. Florencio “Distance-based probability model for octree coding,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 25, no. 6, June 2018.
  39. E. Pavez Carvelli, P. A. Chou, R. L. de Queiroz, and A. Ortega, “Dynamic Polygon Clouds: Representation and Compression for VR/AR,” APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing, November, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2018.15.  Longer version available at arXiv:1610.00402. 
  40. X. Zhang, P. A. Chou, M.-T. Sun, M. Yang, S. Wang, S. Ma, and W. Gao, “Surface Light Field Compression using a Point Cloud Codec,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video March, 2019.  Longer version available at arXiv:1805.11203, May 2018.
  41. J. Park, P. A. Chou, and J.-N. Hwang, “Rate-Utility Optimized Streaming of Volumetric Media for Augmented Reality,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video, March, 2019. Longer version available at arXiv:1804.09864, April 2018.
  42. S. Schwarz, M. Preda, V. Baroncini, M. Budagavi, P. S. Cesar, P. A. Chou, R. A. Cohen, M. Krivokuća, S. Lasserre, Z. Li, J. Llach, K. Mammou, R. Mekuria, O. Nakagami, E. Siahaan, A. Tabatabai, A. Tourapis, and V. Zakharchenko, “Emerging MPEG Standards for Point Cloud Compression,” IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS) special issue on immersive video, March 2019.
  43. G. P. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Compression of Plenoptic Point Clouds,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 28, no. 3, March 2019.
  44. P. A. Chou, M. Koroteev, and M. Krivokuća, “A Volumetric Approach to Point Cloud Compression, Part I: Attribute Compression,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, March 2019.
  45. G. P. Sandri, P. A. Chou, M. Krivokuća, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Integer Alternative for the Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, July 2019.
  46. M. Krivokuća, P. A. Chou, and M. Koroteev, “A Volumetric Approach to Point Cloud Compression, Part II: Geometry Compression,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, December 2019.
  47. J. Ballé, P. A. Chou, D. Minnen, S. Singh, N. Johnston, E. Agustsson, S. J. Hwang, and G. Toderici, “Nonlinear Transform Coding,” IEEE J. Special Topics in Signal Processing, October 2020.  [arxiv]
  48. A. L. Souto, V. F. Figueiredo, P. A. Chou, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Set Partitioning in Hierarchical Trees for Point Cloud Attribute Compression,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, September 2021.
  49. M. Krivokuća, E. Miandji, C. Guillemot, and P. A. Chou, “Compression of Plenoptic Point Cloud Attributes Using 6-D Point Clouds and 6-D Transforms,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, November 2021.
  50. B. Isik, P. A. Chou, S. J. Hwang, N. Johnston, and G. Toderici, “LVAC: Learned Volumetric Attribute Compression for Point Clouds using Coordinate Based Networks,” J. Frontiers in Signal Processing, September 2022. [supplementary material] [software]
  51. L. Lopes, P. A. Chou, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Adaptive Context Modeling for Arithmetic Coding Using Perceptrons,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, December 2022.
  52. E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Two Channel Filter Banks on Arbitrary Graphs with Positive Semi Definite Variation Operators,” IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, to appear.  [arxiv]

Conference Publications

  1. P.A. Chou, “The Kanerva associative memory has exponential capacity,” IEEE Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver, Colorado, November 1987. Also in Neural Information Processing Systems, D.Z. Anderson, ed., American Institute of Physics, New York, 1988.
  2. E.A. Riskin, T. Lookabaugh, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable-rate vector quantization for medical image compression with applications to progressive transmission,” SPIE Conference on Medical Imaging III: Image Capture and Display, SPIE Vol. 1901, Newport Beach, CA, January 1989.
  3. P.A Chou, “Application of entropy-constrained vector quantization to waveform coding of images,” SPIE Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing, Philadelphia, PA, November 1989.
  4. P.A. Chou, “Recognition of equations using a two-dimensional stochastic context-free grammar,” SPIE Conference on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Philadelphia, PA, November 1989.
  5. P.A. Chou and T. Lookabaugh, “Conditional entropy-constrained vector quantization of linear predictive coefficients,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, NM, April 1990.
  6. R.A. Vander Kam, P.A. Chou, E.A. Riskin, and R.M. Gray, “An algorithm for joint vector quantization and halftoner design,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, San Francisco, CA, March 1992.
  7. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Document image decoding using Markov source models,” DARPA Document Understanding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, May 1992.
  8. P.A. Chou and G.E. Kopec, “A consistent approach to document recognition using stochastic grammars,” DARPA Document Understanding Workshop, Palo Alto, CA, May 1992.
  9. P.A. Chou and G.E. Kopec, “A stochastic attribute grammar model of document production and its use in document recognition,” First International Workshop on Principles of Document Processing, Washington, DC, October 1992.
  10. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Document image decoding using Markov source models,” SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA February 1993.
  11. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Document image decoding using Markov source models,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Minneapolis, MN, April 1993.
  12. B.D. Andrews, M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “A mean-removed variation of weighted universal vector quantization for image coding,” Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 1993.
  13. R.A. Vander Kam, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Combined halftoning and entropy-constrained vector quantization,” Society for Information Display International Symposium, Seattle, WA, May 1993.
  14. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Automatic generation of custom document image decoders,” ICDAR ’93: Second IAPR Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, Japan, October 1993.
  15. R.A. Vander Kam, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Performance evaluation of greedy search algorithms for image halftoning and compression,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 1993.
  16. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable dimension weighted universal vector quantization,” Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 1994.
  17. P.A. Chou and T. Lookabaugh, “Variable dimension vector quantization of linear predictive coefficients of speech,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Adelaide, April 1994.
  18. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “One-pass adaptive universal vector quantization,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Adelaide, April 1994.
  19. D. Miller, K. Rose, and P.A. Chou, “Deterministic annealing for trellis quantizer and HMM design using Baum-Welch re-estimation,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Adelaide, April 1994.
  20. M. Vishwanath and P.A. Chou, “An efficient algorithm for hierarchical compression of video,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Austin, TX, November 1994.
  21. P.A. Chou and G.E. Kopec, “A stochastic grammar model of document production and its use in document image decoding,” SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging, San Jose, CA, February 1995.
  22. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Weighted universal bit allocation,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Detroit, April 1995.
  23. N. Chaddha, M. Vishwanath, and P.A. Chou, “Hierarchical vector quantization of perceptually weighted block transforms,” Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 1995.
  24. N. Chaddha, P.A. Chou, and T.H.-Y. Meng, “Scalable compression based on tree structured vector quantization of perceptually weighted block, lapped, and wavelet transforms,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, DC, October 1995.
  25. M. Effros and P.A. Chou, “Weighted universal transform coding: universal image compression with the Karhunen-Loeve transform,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Washington, DC, October 1995.
  26. N. Chaddha, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Constrained and recursive hierarchical table-lookup vector quantization,” Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, March 1996.
  27. Wang, Z. Xiong, P. A. Chou, and S. Mehrotra, “Three-dimensional wavelet coding of video with global motion compensation,” IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, pp. 404-414, March 1999.
  28. P. A. Chou, S. Mehrotra, and A. Wang, “Multiple description decoding of overcomplete expansions using projections onto convex sets,” IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, pp. 72-81, March 1999.
  29. T. Tokuyasu and P. A. Chou, “An iterative decoding approach to document image analysis,” IAPR Workshop on Document Layout Interpretation and its Applications, Bangalore, India, September 1999.
  30. A. Wang, G. Minami, Z. Xiong, S. Mehrotra, and P. A. Chou, “3-D wavelet coding of video with arbitrary regions of support,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, October 1999.
  31. P. A. Chou, A. E. Mohr, A. Wang, and S. Mehrotra, “FEC and Pseudo-ARQ for Receiver-driven Layered Multicast of Audio and Video,” IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, pp. 440-449, March 2000.
  32. P. A. Chou and K. Ramchandran, “Clustering source/channel rate allocations for receiver-driven multicast with error control under a limited number of streams,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, New York, July 2000.
  33. T. Tokuyasu and P. A. Chou, “Turbo recognition: a statistical approach to layout analysis,” Electronic Imaging Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval, San Jose, CA, Document Recognition VIII, Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 4307, pp. 123-129, January 2001.
  34. P. A. Chou and Z. Miao, “Rate-distortion optimized sender-driven streaming over best-effort networks,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, France, pp. 587-592, October 2001.
  35. J. Chakareski, P.A. Chou, and B. Aazhang, “Computing rate-distortion optimized policies for streaming media to wireless clients,” IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, April 2002.
  36. P. A. Chou and A. Sehgal, “Rate-distortion optimized receiver-driven streaming over best-effort networks,” Packet Video Workshop, Pittsburg, PA, April 2002.
  37. V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, P. A. Chou, and K. Sripanidkulchai, “Distributing streaming media content using cooperative networking,” ACM NOSSDAV, Miami Beach, FL, USA, May 2002.  2020 SIGMM Test of Time Award (Honorable Mention).
  38. J. Chakareski and P. A. Chou, “Application layer error correction coding for rate-distortion optimized streaming to wireless clients,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, FL, May 2002.
  39. A. Sehgal and P. A. Chou, “Cost-distortion optimized caching of streaming media,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, FL, May 2002.
  40. A. Sehgal and P. A. Chou, “Cost-distortion optimized streaming media over DiffServ networks,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne, August 2002.  Best Paper Award.
  41. J. Ribas-Corbera, P. A. Chou, S. Regunathan, “A flexible decoder buffer model for JVT video coding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester, NY, September 2002.
  42. J. Chakareski, P. A. Chou, and B. Girod, “Computing rate-distortion optimized policies for hybrid receiver/sender driven streaming of multimedia,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, November 2002.
  43. J. Chakareski, P. A. Chou, and B. Girod, “Rate-distortion optimized streaming from the edge of the network,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, December 2002.
  44. P. A. Chou, H. J. Wang, and V. N. Padmanabhan, “Layered multiple description coding,” Packet Video Workshop, Nantes, France, April 2003.
  45. S. Regunathan, P. A. Chou, and J. Ribas-Corbera, “A generalized video complexity verifier for flexible decoding,” IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, September 2003.
  46. P. A. Chou, Y. Wu, and K. Jain, “Practical network coding,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2003. Invited paper.
  47. V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, and P. A. Chou, “Resilient Peer-to-Peer Streaming,” IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, November 2003.
  48. V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, and P. A. Chou, “Supporting Heterogeneity and Congestion Control in Peer-to-Peer Multicast Streaming,” Third International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems, San Diego, CA, February 2004.
  49. A. Ramamoorthy, K. Jain, P. A. Chou, and M. Effros, “Separating distributed source coding from network coding,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, October 2004. Invited paper.
  50. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, and S.-Y. Kung, “Minimum-energy multicast in mobile ad hoc networks using network coding,” IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, October 2004.
  51. C. Huang, P. A. Chou, and A. Klemets, “Optimal coding rate control for scalable streaming media,” Packet Video Workshop, Irvine, CA, December 2004.
  52. C. Huang, P. A. Chou, and A. Klemets, “Optimal control of multiple bit rates for streaming media,” Picture Coding Symposium, San Francisco, CA, December 2004.
  53. J. Li, P. A. Chou, and C. Zhang, “Mutualcast: An efficient mechanism for one-to-many content distribution,” ACM SIGCOMM ASIA Workshop, April 2005.
  54. K. Jain, L. Lovász, and P. A. Chou, “Building scalable and robust peer-to-peer overlay networks for broadcasting using network coding,” ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, Las Vegas, NV, July 2005.
  55. Y. Wu, J. Padhye, R. Chandra, V. Padmanabhan, and P. A. Chou, “The Local Mixing Problem,” Information Theory and its Applications, January 2006.
  56. Y. Yuan, P. Bahl, R. Chandra, P. A. Chou, J. I. Ferrell, T. Moscibroda, S. Narlanka, Y. Wu, “KNOWS: Cognitive Radio Networks Over White Spaces,” IEEE DySpan, Dublin, Ireland, April 2007.
  57. Z. Liu, Z. Zhang, L.-W. He, and P. A. Chou, “Energy-based sound source localization and gain normalization for ad hoc microphone arrays,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, HI, April 2007.
  58. Minghua Chen, Zicheng Liu, Li-wei He, Philip A. Chou, and Zhengyou Zhang, “Energy-based position estimation of microphones and speakers,” Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, October 2007.
  59. J. P. Dmochowski, Z. Liu, and P. A. Chou, “Blind source separation in a distributed microphone meeting environment for improved teleconferencing,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
  60. M. Chen, S. Sengupta, M. Ponec, P. A. Chou, and J. Li, “Peer-to-peer utility maximization,” Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton, NJ, March 2008 (invited paper).
  61. M. Chen, M. Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Utility Maximization in Peer-to-peer Systems,” ACM SIGMETRICS 2008, Annapolis, Maryland, June 2008.
  62. S. Sengupta, M. Chen, P. A. Chou, and J. Li, “On optimality of routing for multi-source multicast communication scenarios with node uplink constraints,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Toronto, ON, July 2008.
  63. S. Liu, M. Chiang, S. Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “P2P Streaming Capacity for Heterogeneous Users with Degree Bounds,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, September 2008.
  64. S. Junuzovic, R. Hegde, Z. Zhang, P. A. Chou, C. Zhang, Z. Liu, “Requirements and Recommendations for an Enhanced Meeting Viewing Experience,” ACM Multimedia, Vancouver, BC, October 2008.
  65. Y. Wu, Y. C. Hu, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “The Delay Region for P2P File Transfer,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, June 2009.
  66. M. Ponec, Sudipta Sengupta, M. Chen, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Multi-rate Peer-to-Peer Video Conferencing: A Distributed Approach using Scalable Coding,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), New York, NY, June 2009 (plenary paper). Best Paper Award.
  67. M. Chen, M. Chiang, P. A. Chou, J. Li, S. Liu, and S. Sengupta, “P2P Streaming Capacity: Survey and Recent Results,” Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, September 2009.
  68. S. Liu, M. Chen, S. Sengupta, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “P2P Streaming Capacity under Node Degree Bound,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Genoa, Italy, June 2010.
  69. B. Byun, A. Awasthi, P. A. Chou, A. Kapoor, B. Lee, M. Czerwinski, “Honest Signals in Video Conferencing,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
  70. S. Mehrotra, W. Chen, Z. Zhang, and P. A. Chou, “Realistic audio in immersive video conferencing,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Barcelona, Spain, July 2011.
  71. S. Mehrotra, Z. Zhang, Q. Cai, C. Zhang, and P. A. Chou, “Low-Complexity, Near-Lossless Coding of Depth Maps from Kinect-Like Depth Cameras,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Hangzhou, China, October 2011.
  72. J. Liao, C. Yuan, W.Zhu, and P. A. Chou, “‘Virtual mixer: Real-time audio mixing across clients and the cloud for multiparty conferencing,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  73. J. Wang, C. Zhang, W. Zhu, Z. Zhang, Z. Xiong, and P. A. Chou, “3D Scene Reconstruction by Multiple Structured-Light Based Commodity Depth Cameras,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.
  74. S. Liu, P. A. Chou, C. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and C.-W. Chen, “Virtual view reconstruction using temporal information,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.
  75. F. Ribiero, D. Florencio, P. A. Chou, and Z. Zhang, “Auditory Augmented Reality: Sonification for the Visually Impaired,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), Banff, Canada, September 2012.
  76. P. Wan, E. Cheung, P. A. Chou, and D. Florencio, “Precision enhancement of 3D surfaces from multiple quantized depth maps,” IVMSP, June 2013.
  77. W. Sun, E. Cheung, P. A. Chou, D. Florencio, C. Zhang, and O. C. Au, “Rate-distortion optimized 3D reconstruction from noise-corrupted multiview depth videos,” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2013.
  78. A. Kirmani, A. Benedetti, and P. A. Chou, “SPUMIC: Simultaneous Phase Unwrapping and Multipath Interference Cancellation in Time-of-Flight Cameras using Spectal Methods,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), July 2013.
  79. H. Q. Nguyen, P. A. Chou, and Y. Chen, “Compression of Human Body Sequences Using Graph Wavelet Filter Banks,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, May 2014. Best Student Paper Award (2nd place).
  80. M. Gonzalez-Franco and P. A. Chou, “Non-linear modeling of eye gaze perception as a function of gaze and head direction,” IEEE Int’l Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), September 2014.
  81. K. Higuchi, Y. Chen, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and Z. Liu, “ImmerseBoard: Immersive Telepresence Experience using a Digital Whiteboard,” ACM SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2015.  Video available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCU1Ifr5VUc&list=PLOynw4iQRT4S1DYov_-zdM6QAXlFSWl46.
  82. D. Thanou, P. A. Chou, and P. Frossard, “Graph-based motion estimation and compensation for dynamic 3D point cloud compression,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2015.
  83. A. Anis, P. A. Chou, and A. Ortega, “Compression of dynamic 3D point clouds using subdivisional meshes and graph wavelet transforms,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2016. Invited to special session on Signal Processing on Graphs.
  84. J. Jiang, R. Das, G. Ananthanarayanan, P. A. Chou, V. Padmanabhan, V. Sekar, E. Dominique, M. Goliszewski, D. Kukoleca, R. Vafin, and H. Zhang, “VIA: Improving Internet Telephony Call Quality Using Predictive Relay Selection,” ACM SIGCOMM, August 2016.
  85. P. A. Chou and R. L. de Queiroz, “Gaussian Process Transforms,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2016. Invited to special session on Graph-Based Multi-Dimensional Image Data Compression.
  86. S. Orts-Escolano, C. Rhemann, S. Fanello, W. Chang, A. Kowdle, Y. Degtyarev, D. Kim, P. Davidson, S. Khamis, M. Dou, V. Tankovich, C. Loop, Q. Cai, P. A. Chou, S. Mennicken, J. Valentin, V. Pradeep, S. Wang, S. B. Kang, P. Kohli, Y. Lutchyn, C. Keskin, and S. Izadi, “Holoportation: Virtual 3D Teleportation in Real-time,” ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), October 2016.
  87. C. Loop, Q. Cai, S. Orts-Escolano, and P. A. Chou, “A Closed-Form Bayesian Fusion Equation Using Occupancy Probabilities,” Int’l Conf. on 3D Vision (3DV), October 2016.
  88. J. Hou, L.-P. Chau, Y. He, and P. A. Chou, “Sparse Representation for Colors of 3D Point Clouds via Virtual Adaptive Sampling,” Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2017.
  89. E. Pavez and P. A. Chou, “Dynamic Polygon Cloud Compression,” Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 2017.
  90. R. L. de Queiroz and P. A. Chou, “Motion-Compensated Compression of Point Cloud Video,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2017.
  91. G. P. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Compression of Plenoptic Point Clouds Using the Region-Adaptive Hierarchical Transform,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2018. Preprint.
  92. X. Zhang, P. A. Chou, M.-T. Sun, M. Tang, S. Wang, S. Ma, and W. Gao, “A Framework for Surface Light Field Compression,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2018. Preprint.
  93. J. Park, P. A. Chou, and J.-N. Hwang, “Volumetric Media Streaming for Augmented Reality,” IEEE Globecom, Abu Dhabi, UAE, December 2018. Preprint.
  94. G. P. Sandri, V. Figueiredo, P. A. Chou, and R. L. de Queiroz, “Point Cloud Coding Incorporating Region of Interest Coding,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2019.
  95. D. Tang, S. Singh, P. A. Chou, C. Häne, M. Dou, S. Fanello, J. Taylor, P. Davidson, O. G. Guleryuz, Y. Zhang, S. Izadi, A. Tagliasacchi, S. Bouaziz, and C. Keskin, “Deep Implicit Volume Compression,” IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2020.  [arxiv][project]
  96. V. F. Figueiredo, G. L. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Saliency Maps for Point Clouds,” IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), September 2020.
  97. E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Region Adaptive Graph Fourier Transform for 3D Point Clouds,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), October 2020.  Best Paper Award.  [arxiv]
  98. T. Bird, J. Ballé, S. Singh, and P. A. Chou, “3D Scene Compression through Entropy Penalized Neural Representation Functions,” Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), June 2021.  [arxiv]
  99. E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P.A. Chou, “Spectral folding and two-channel filter banks on arbitrary graphs,” Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2021.  [arxiv]
  100. O. G. Guleryuz, P. A. Chou, H. Hoppe, D. Tang, R. Du, P. Davidson, and S. Fanello, “Sandwiched image compression: Wrapping neural networks around a standard codec,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2021.
  101. E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Two Channel Filter Banks on Arbitrary Graphs with Positive Semi Definite Variation Operators,” submitted for possible publication, March 2022.  [arxiv]
  102. O. Guleryuz, P. A. Chou, H. Hoppe, D. Tang, R. Du, P. Davidson, and S. Fanello, “Sandwiched Image Compression: Increasing the resolution and dynamic range of standard codecs,” Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), December 2022.
  103. T. T. Do, P. A. Chou, and G. Cheung, “Attention Graph Normalized 3D Point Cloud Attribute Compression,” Graph Signal Processing Workshop, June 2023.
  104. E. Pavez, B. Girault, A. Ortega, and P. A. Chou, “Two Channel Filter Banks on Arbitrary Graphs with Positive Semi Definite Variation Operators,” Graph Signal Processing Workshop, June 2023.
  105. T. T. Do, P. A. Chou, and G. Cheung, “Volumetric Attribute Compression for 3D Point Clouds using Feedforward Network with Geometric Attention,” IEEE Int’l Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), June 2023.

Conference Publications (abstracts only)

  1. P.A. Chou and R.M. Gray, “On decision trees for pattern recognition,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Ann Arbor, MI, October 1986. Abstract only.
  2. T. Lookabaugh, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Pruned tree-structured vector quantization,” Third Annual Cornell Summer Workshop on Systems, Controls, and Communications, Ithaca, NY, July 1987. Abstract only.
  3. P.A Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R.M. Gray, “Pruned tree-structured source coding,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Kobe, Japan, June 1988. Abstract only.
  4. P.A. Chou, T. Lookabaugh, and R.M. Gray, “Entropy-constrained vector quantization,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Kobe, Japan, June 1988. Abstract only.
  5. E.A. Riskin, T. Lookabaugh, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Applications of variable-rate vector quantization to speech and image coding,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Kobe, Japan, June 1988. Abstract only.
  6. P.A. Chou, “Using decision trees for noiseless compression,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Diego, CA January 1990. Abstract only.
  7. P.A. Chou, “A Cocke-Younger-Kasami parsing algorithm for high-dimensional context-free grammars,” Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Murray Hill, NJ, July 1990. Summary only.
  8. P.A. Chou, “Code clustering for weighted universal VQ and other applications,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, June 1991. Summary only.
  9. P.A. Chou and T. Lookabaugh, “Locally optimal variable-to-variable length source coding with respect to a fidelity criterion,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, June 1991. Summary only.
  10. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, E.A. Riskin, and R.M. Gray, “A progressive universal noiseless coder,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Budapest, June 1991. Summary only.
  11. G.E. Kopec and P.A. Chou, “Document image decoding using Markov source models,” Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, October 1992. Abstract only.
  12. P.A. Chou and M. Effros, “Rate and distortion redundancies for universal source coding with respect to a fidelity criterion,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, San Antonio, TX, January 1993. Summary only.
  13. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Variable-rate source coding theorems for stationary nonergodic sources,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994. Summary only.
  14. M. Effros, P.A. Chou, and R.M. Gray, “Rates of convergence in adaptive universal vector quantization,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994. Summary only.
  15. P.A. Chou, “The distortion of vector quantizers trained on n vectors decreases to the optimum as Op(1/n),” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Trondheim, Norway, June 1994. Summary only.
  16. P.A. Chou, M. Effros, and R.M. Gray, “Universal quantization of parametric sources has redundancy (k/2)log n/n,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Whistler, British Columbia, September 1995. Summary only.
  17. P.A. Chou and B.J. Betts, “When optimal entropy-constrained quantizers have only a finite number of codewords,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, MA, September 1998. Summary only.
  18. X. Wu, P. A. Chou, and X. Xue, “Minimum conditional entropy context quantization,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000. Summary only.
  19. S. Mehrotra and P. A. Chou, “On optimal frame expansions for multiple description quantization,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Sorrento, Italy, June 2000. Summary only.
  20. S. Jaggi, P. A. Chou, and K. Jain, “Low complexity algebraic multicast network codes,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 2003. Summary only.
  21. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, and K. Jain, “A comparison of network coding and tree packing,” IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Chicago, IL, June 2004. Summary only.
  22. P. A. Chou and R. L. de Queiroz, “Modeling Signals Embedded in a Euclidean Domain,” Graph Signal Processing (GSP) workshop, May 2016.  Abstract only.

Technical Reports

  1. P. A. Chou, A. E. Mohr, A. Wang, and S. Mehrotra, “FEC and Pseudo-ARQ for Receiver-driven Layered Multicast of Audio and Video,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-99-86, November 1999.
  2. P. A. Chou, “Joint Source/Channel Coding: a position paper,” NSF Workshop on Source-Channel Coding, San Diego, October 1999.
  3. P. A. Chou and Z. Miao, “Rate-distortion optimized streaming of packetized media,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-35, February 2001.
  4. V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, P. A. Chou, and K. Sripanidkulchai, “Distributing Streaming Media Content using Cooperative Networking,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-37, April 2002.
  5. J. Chakareski and P. A. Chou, “Application layer error correction coding for rate-distortion optimized streaming to wireless clients,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2002-81, August 2002.
  6. V. N. Padmanabhan, H. J. Wang, and P. A. Chou, “Resilient Peer-to-Peer Streaming,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-11, March 2003.
  7. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, and S.-Y. Kung, “Information exchange in wireless networks with network coding and physical-layer broadcast,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-78, August 2004.
  8. Y. Wu, P. A. Chou, Q. Zhang, K. Jain, W. Zhu, and S.-Y. Kung, “Network planning in wireless ad hoc networks: a cross-layer approach,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-74, August 2004.
  9. K. Jain, L. Lovász, and P. A. Chou, “Building scalable and robust peer-to-peer overlay networks for broadcasting using network coding,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2004-135, December 2004.
  10. C. Huang, P. A. Chou, and A. Klemets, “Optimal coding rate control of scalable and multi bit rate streaming media,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2005-47, April 2005.
  11. P. A. Chou and Y. Wu, “Network Coding for the Internet and Wireless Networks,” Microsoft Research Technical Report TR-2007-70, June 2007.
  12. M. Chen, M. Ponec, S. Sengupta, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “Utility maximization in peer-to-peer systems,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2008-47, March 2008.
  13. S. Sengupta, S. Liu, M. Chen, M. Chiang, J. Li, and P. A. Chou, “P2P Streaming Capacity,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2009-68, June 2009.
  14. J. Liao, P. A. Chou, C. Yuan, Y. Hu, and W. Zhu, “Online Allocation of Communication and Computation Resources for Real-time Multimedia Services,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2012-6, January 2012.
  15. C. Zhang, Q. Cai, P. A. Chou, Z. Zhang, and R. Martin-Brualla, “Viewport: A Fully Distributed Immersive Teleconferencing System with Infrared Dot Pattern,” Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2012-60, April 2012.
  16. Phil Pitts, Arrigo Benedetti, Malcolm Slaney, and Phil Chou, “Time of Flight Tracer,” no. MSR-TR-2014-142, 8 November 2014.
  17. Cha Zhang, Dinei Florencio, and Philip Chou, “Graph Signal Processing – A Probabilistic Framework,” no. MSR-TR-2015-31, April 2015.
  18. P. A. Chou, E. Pavez, R. L. de Queiroz, and A. Ortega, “Dynamic Polygon Clouds: Representation and Compression for VR/AR,” Microsoft Research Technical Report, MSR-TR-2016-59, https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00402, October 2016, revised March 2017.
  19. J. Park, P. A. Chou, and J.-N. Hwang, “Rate-Utility Optimized Streaming of Volumetric Media for Augmented Reality,” https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.09864, April 2018.
  20. G. P. Sandri, R. L. de Queiroz, and P. A. Chou, “Comments on compression of 3D point clouds using a region-adaptive hierarchical transform,” Arxiv, https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09146v1, May 2018.
  21. M. Krivokuća, M. Koroteev, and P. A. Chou, “A Volumetric Approach to Point Cloud Compression,” 8i Technical Report, arXiv:1810.00484, September 2018.
  22. B. Isik, P. A. Chou, S. J. Hwang, N. Johnston, and G. Toderici, “LVAC: Learned Volumetric Attribute Compression for Point Clouds using Coordinate Based Networks,” Google Research Technical Report, November, 2021.  [arxiv]

Tutorials

  1. M. Médard, R. Koetter, and P. A. Chou, “Network Coding: A New Network Design Paradigm,” full-day tutorial, IEEE Globecom, Dallas, TX, December 2004.
  2. M. Médard, R. Koetter, and P. A. Chou, “Network Coding: A New Network Design Paradigm,” half-day tutorial, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Adelaide, September 2005.
  3. Y. Wu and P. A. Chou, “Network Coding,” tutorial, IEEE Infocom, Anchorage, AK, May 2007.
  4. Y. Wu and P. A. Chou, “Network Coding,” tutorial, ACM Sigmetrics, San Diego, CA, June 2007.

Special Issues

  1. Special issue on Vector Quantization, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 5, No. 2, February 1996.
  2. W. Zeng, K. Nahrstedt, P. A. Chou, A. Ortega, P. Frossard, and H. H. Yu, “Introduction to the Special Issue on Streaming Media,” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2004.
  3. Special issue on Immersive Communication, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, No. 1, January 2011.

Grant Proposals

  1. with R.M. Gray, PI, “Applications of information theory to pattern recognition and the design of decision tree classifiers,” NSF Division of Information Science and Technology, Grant IST-8509860, 1985-1988.

Theses

  1. P.A. Chou, “Motion compensation with background prediction,” B.S.E. Thesis, Princeton University, 1980.
  2. P.A. Chou, “A procedure to design efficient probabilistic decision trees,” M.S. Thesis, University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
  3. P.A. Chou, “Applications of information theory to pattern recognition and the design of decision trees and trellises,” Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 1988.

Miscellaneous

  1. with J. Allen, M. Ostendorf, R. Willensky, et al., “In Memoriam: Gary Edward Kopec (1952-1998),” International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, Vol. 1, No. 4, May 1999.