Conference Participation and Contributed Talks

I have been attending the following conferences and have given the listed talks:

• Mathematical Imaging: Wavelet applications in signal and image processing II
  July 1994, San Diego, CA.
  Talk: Compact image coding using wavelets and wavelet packets based on non-stationary and inhomogeneous multiresolution analysis.
• International workshop on parallel processing
  December 1994, Bangalore, India.
  Talk: Parallel compact coding of satellite images with wavelet packets using PVM.
• Seventh SIAM Conference on PARALLEL PROCESSING for Scientific Computing
  February 1995, San Francisco, CA.
  Talk: Vector and parallel wavelet transforms for the analysis of time-varying signals.
• Irregular'95
  September 1995, Lyon, France.
  Talk: Adapted wavelet analysis on moderate parallel distributed memory MIMD architectures.
• International Workshop Parallel Numerics '95
  September 1995, Sorrento, Italy.
  Talk: The Best Basis and Local Discriminant Bases Algorithms on Moderate Parallel MIMD Architectures.
• International Conference on High Performance Computing
  December 1995, New Delhi, India.
  Talk: A parallel wavelet image block-coding algorithm.
• International Conference on Visual Information Systems
  Februar 1996, Melbourne, Australia.
  Talk: Parallel Algorithms for Fractal Image Coding on MIMD Architectures.
• International Picture Coding Symposium 1996
  March 1996, Melbourne, Australien.
  Talk: Wavelet Image Block Coding: Adaptive Methods and Parallel Implementation.
• Wavelet Applications III
  April 1996, Orlando, FL.
  Talk: Adaptive wavelet image block coding.
• EuroPar'96
  August 1996 , Lyon, France.
  Talk: Parallel algorithms for using non-stationary MRA in image compression.
• International Workshop Parallel Numerics'96
  September 1996, Gozd Martuljek, Slovenia.
  Talk: Adaptive Quadtree based Wavelet Packet Image Block-Coding on MIMD parallel architectures.
• International Conference of the ACPC'96
  September 1996, Klagenfurt, Austria.
  Talk: Parallel Computation of Optimal Parameters for Pseudo Random Number Generation.
• EuroPVM'96
  Oktober 1996, Munich, Germany.
  Talk: Parallel Image Compression on a Workstationcluster Using PVM.
• Visual Communications and Image Processing '97 (VCIP'97)
  February 1997, San Jose, CA.
  Talks: Issues in Implementing Block-Based Image Compression Techniques on Parallel MIMD Architectures & Approaching Real-Time Processing for Fractal Compression.
• High Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN Europe 1997)
  Aprli 1997, Vienna, Austria.
  Talk: Hybrid fractal/wavelet image compression in a high performance computing environment.
• Sixth international Conference on Image Processing and its Applications (IPA'97)
  July 1997, Dublin, Irland.
  Talk: Double tree wavelet image compression on parallel MIMD architectures.
• International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM'97)
  September 1997, Zakopane, Poland.
  Talk: Fractal Image Compression on Multiprocessors and Multicomputers.
• International Workshop Parallel Numerics 1997 (ParNum'97)
  September 1997, Zakopane, Poland.
  Talk: Parallel Computing in Cryptoanalysis: Experiences in a Graduate Students' Project.
• International Picture Coding Symposium (PCS'97)
  September 1997, Berlin, Germany.
  Talks: Comparison of Wavelet, Fractal, and DCT based Methods on the Compression of Prediction-error Images & Enhancing wavelet image compression by partial fractal coding of spatial self-similarities.
• Parallel Computing 1997 (ParCo'97)
  September 1997, Bonn, Germany.
  Talk: Fractal Compression of Satellite Images: Combining Parallel Processing and Geometric Searching.
• Visual Communications and Image Processing '98 (VCIP'98)
  January 1998, San Jose, CA.
  Talk: Predictive and direct fractal quantization of the wavelet packet domain.
• Multimedia Hardware Architectures 1998
  Januar 1998, San Jose, CA.
  Talk: Improving the efficiency of parallel fractal compression using localized domain-pools.
• Wavelets and Multiscale Methods (IWC'98)
  April 1998, Tanger, Maroc.
  Talk: Evolving Subband Structures for Wavelet Packet based Image Compression using Genetic Algorithms with Non-additive Cost Functions.
• 12th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'98)
  May 1998, Banff, Canada.
  Talk: Linear and Inversive Pseudorandom Numbers for Parallel and Distributed Simulation.
• Parallel Computation. 4th International Conference of the ACPC (ACPC'99)
  February 1999, Salzburg, Austria.
  Talk: Classification Based Speed-up Methods for Fractal Image Compression on Multicomputers.
• 2nd IMACS Seminar on Monte Carlo Algorithms and Applications
  Juni 1999, Varna, Bulgaria.
  Talk: Techniques for parallel quasi-Monte Carlo integration and associated problems.
• EuroPar'99
  August 1999, Toulouse, France.
  Talk: Parallel Wavelet Transforms on Multiprocessors.
• International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2000
  May 2000, Cancun, Mexico.
  PDIVM 2000 Chair.
• Monte Carlo Simulation MCS 2000
  June 2000, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
• EuroPar 2000
  August 2000, Munich, Germany.
  Multimedia Track Global Chair.
• International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2000
  September 2000, Barcelona, Spain.
  Talk: Resolving a Defect in Quadrant-based Classification for Fast Block-Matching.
• ParNum 2000
  September 2000, Bratislava, Slovakia.
  Talk: Parallel Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Integration: the Leap-Frog Case.
• Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing MCQMC 2000
  November 2000, Hong Kong, China.
  Talk: Defects in parallel Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo integration
• Evolutionary Computation EC'01
  February 2001, Puerto de la Cruz (Tenerife), Spain.
  Session Chair.
• International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium IPDPS 2001
  April 2001, San Franzisco, USA.
  PDIVM 2001 Chair.
• Communications and Multimedia Security CMS 2001
  May 2001, Darmstadt, Germany.
• International Symposium on Signal and Image Processing and Analysis ISPA 2001
  Juni 2001, Pula, Croatia.
  Talks: Wavelet Image and Video Coding on Parallel Architectures & oSPIHT - Embedded Object-based SPIHT Image Coding & A Remark on the Interplay between Image Compression and Watermark Embedding Techniques.
• International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2001
  October 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece.
  Poster: Watermark security via wavelet filter parametrization.
• Third Benelux Signal Processing Symposium SPS 2002
  March 2002, Leuven, Belgium.
  Poster: New Models for Generating Optimal Wavelet-Packet-Tree-Structures.
• Workshop on Multimedia Security and Watermarking
  May 2002, Vienna, Austria.
  Talk (German): Sicherheit für Wavelet Watermarks durch Filterparametrisierung.