Ravi Krishnamurthy

Work Address:
Sarnoff Corporation
201 Washington Road, CN5300
Princeton, NJ 08543-5300

Home Address:
5614 Hunters Glen Dr.
Plainsboro, NJ 08536

Work: (609) 734-3116
Home: (609) 716-6440
Fax: (609) 734-2049

E-mail: ravik@sarnoff.com

EDUCATION:

Ph.D in Electrical Engineering , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, May 1997, GPA: 4.0
Thesis Title: Compactly-Encoded Optical Flow Fields for Motion-Compensated Video Compression and Processing.
M.S. in Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1995, GPA: 4.0
M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 1992, GPA: 4.0
B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, 1991, GPA: 3.5

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

June 1997 - Present, Memeber of Technical Staff, Sarnoff Corporation, Princeton, NJ.
May 1996 - May 1997, Graduate Research Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Apply compactly-encoded optical flow fields to temporally scalable video coders.
Extend ideas from the MPEG coding standard to perform bidirectional prediction using dense motion estimators.
Summer 1993,1994,1995, Member of Technical Staff at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ.
Implemented video compression algorithms on the MasPar, a massively parallel SIMD machine.
Interfaced the MasPar to high-speed peripherals using HiPPI LANs.
Developed algorithms for advanced optical-flow-based motion estimation for application in video coding schemes.
August 1991 - May 1996, Graduate Teaching Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Teaching Assistant for Electrical Engineering Laboratory, Communication Systems and Circuit Analysis.
Recipient of ECSE TA Award for outstanding contributions to the teaching program.
Summer 1992, Graduate Research Assistant at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Developed algorithms for texture segmentation and restoration using Wold image models.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Computer languages: C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB.
Operating Systems: UNIX, DOS.
Experience with parallel programming on SIMD machines.

PUBLICATIONS:

oR. Krishnamurthy, "Compactly-Encoded Optical Flow Fields for Motion-Compensated Video Compression and Processing," Ph.D. Thesis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, Ny, May 1997.

R. Krishnamurthy, P. Moulin, and J. W. Woods, "`Compactly-Encoded Optical Flow Fields for Video Coding and Bidirectional Prediction," in Visual Communications and Image Processing , San Jose, California, 1997.

P. Moulin and R. Krishnamurthy, "Multiscale modeling and estimation of motion fields for video coding" accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Image Process., 1996.

R. Krishnamurthy, P. Moulin, and J. W. Woods, "`Multiscale motion models for scalable video coding," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing , pp. 965-968, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996.

R. Krishnamurthy, P. Moulin, and J. W. Woods, "`Optical flow techniques applied to video coding," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing , vol. I, pp. 570-573, Washington, DC, Oct. 1995.

R. Krishnamurthy, J. W. Woods and J. M. Francos, "Adaptive restoration of textured images with mixed spectra," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing , vol. 5, pp. 648-652, Apr. 1996.

R. Krishnamurthy, J. W. Woods and J. M. Francos , "Adaptive, model-based restoration of textures by generalized Wiener filtering," Proc. of SPIE Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, pp. 261-268, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Nov. 1993.

Complete list of publications with links to postscript files is available at http://cipr.rpi.edu/ravik/publications.html.

HONORS:

Member of IEEE.
Recipient of ECSE TA Award for outstanding contributions to the department teaching program.
Recipient of National Merit Scholarship for Higher Secondary Education in India.