Center for Bio-Image Informatics

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9560

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Links to: Signal Compression Laboratory and Research Group

Kenneth Rose joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1991. His research activities are in the areas of information theory, signal compression, source-channel coding, image/video coding and processing, pattern recognition, and nonconvex optimization. He is particularly interested in application of information and estimation theoretic approaches to fundamental problems in signal processing, as well as in the underlying relations between information theory and statistical physics. Recent research contributions of his group include methods for end-to-end distortion estimation in video transmission and streaming over lossy packet networks, optimal prediction in scalable video and audio coding, as well as information theoretic approaches to optimization with applications in pattern recognition, signal compression and content-based search and retrieval from high-dimensional databases. His optimization algorithms have been adopted by others in numerous disciplines beside electrical engineering and computer science, including physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, materials, astronomy, geology, psychology, linguistics, ecology, and economics.

Professor Rose currently serves as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He co-chaired the technical program committee of the 2001 IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cannes, France. He has served as a member of the Communication Theory Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, and currently serves as a member of the Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Dr. Rose was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2003 "for contributions to information-theoretic methods in signal processing". He received the William R. Bennett Prize-Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society (1990), as well as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award (2004).

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