•Preprint          •Journal publications          •Conference publications          •Patents, talks, and study notes         

Journal submissions under review

 

  1. C. Tian, J. Chen, S. N. Diggavi and S. Shamai

Optimality and approximate optimality of source-channel separation in networks,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Apr. 2010; revised, Oct. 2010, Feb. 2012. arXiv:1004.2648.

 

  1. L. Song, J. Chen and C. Tian

Broadcasting correllated vector Gaussians,

submitted to, IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Mar. 2012.

 

 

Journal papers (published or accepted)

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  1. C. Tian, and S. Krishnan

Accelerated bilateral filtering with block skipping,

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, accepted, Feb. 2013.

 

  1. J. W. Yoo, T. Liu, S. Shamai, and C. Tian

Worst-case expected-capacity loss of slow-fading channels,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, accepted, Jan. 2013.

 

  1. E. Hof, I. Sason, S. Shamai and C. Tian

Capacity-achieving polar codes for arbitrarily permuted parallel channels,

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 1505-1516, Mar. 2013. arXiv:1005.2770.

 

  1. C.T.K. Ng, C. Tian, A. Goldsmith and S. Shamai

Distortion minimization in Gaussian source coding with fading side-information channel,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 58, No. 9, pp. 5725-5739, Sep. 2012. arXiv:0812.3709.

 

  1. C. Tian, S. N. Diggavi and S. Shamai

The achievable distortion region of sending a bivariate Gaussian source on the Gaussian broadcast channel,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 10, pp. 6419-6427, Oct. 2011. arXiv:1006.0644.

 

  1. U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang and C. Tian,

A three-layer scheme for M-channel multiple description image coding,(link)

Signal Processing (Elsevier), Vol. 91, No. 10, pp. 2277-2289, Oct. 2011.

 

  1. C. Tian,

Latent capaticy region: a case study on symmetric broadcast with common messages,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 3273-3285, Jun. 2011. arXiv:1103.4784.

 

  1. C. Tian, S. N. Diggavi, and S. Shamai

Approximate characterizations for the Gaussian source broadcast distortion region, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 124-136, Jan. 2011. arXiv:0906.3183.

 

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen,

New coding schemes for the symmetric K-description problem,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 5344-5365, Oct. 2010.

 

  1. S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi,

Asymmetric multilevel diversity coding and asymmetric multiple descriptions,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 4367-4387, Sep. 2010 arXiv:0911.2346.

 

  1. U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang and C. Tian,

M-channel multiple description coding with two-rate predictive coding and staggered quantization,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 933-944, Jul. 2010.

 

  1. Y. Li, C. Tian, S. N. Diggavi, M. Chiang and R. Calderbank

Network resource allocation for competing multiple description transmissions,

IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 1493-1504, May 2010.

 

  1. Z. Sun, C. Tian, J. Chen, and Kon Max Wong

LDPC code design for asynchronous Slepian-Wolf coding,

IEEE Trans. Communications, Vol. 58, No. 2, pp. 511-520, Feb. 2010.

 

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen,

Remote vector Gaussian source coding with decoder side information under mutual information and distortion constraints,(pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 10, pp. 4676-4680, Oct. 2009.

 

  1. C. Tian, S. Mohajer and S. N. Diggavi,

Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 8, pp. 3869-3891, Aug. 2009.

 

  1. J. Chen, C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi,

Multiple description coding for stationary Gaussian sources, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 6, pp. 2868-2881, Jun. 2009.

 

  1. G. Sun, U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang, C. Tian, C. Tu and T. D. Tran,

Multiple description coding with prediction compensation, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 1037-1047, May 2009.

 

  1. C. Tian, M. Masry and H. Lipson,

Physical sketching: reconstruction and analysis of 3D objects from freehand sketches, (link)

Journal of Computer Aided Design, Special Issue on Computer Support for Conceptual Design, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 147-158, Mar. 2009.

 

  1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane,

A coding algorithm for constant weight vectors: a geometric approach based on dissections, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 1051-1060, Mar. 2009.

 

  1. C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi,

Side-information scalable source coding, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 12, pp. 5591-5608, Dec. 2008.

 

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen,

Successive refinement for hypothesis testing and lossless one-helper problem, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 10, pp. 4666-4681, Oct. 2008.

 

  1. C. Tian, A. Steiner, S. Shamai and S. N. Diggavi,

Successive refinement via broadcast: optimizing expected distortion of a Gaussian source over a Gaussian fading channel, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 2903-2918, Jul. 2008.

 

  1. C. Tian, J. Chen and S. N. Diggavi,

Multiuser successive refinement and multiple description coding, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 921-931, Feb. 2008.

 

  1. C. Tian and S. N. Diggavi,

On multistage successive refinement for Wyner-Ziv source coding with degraded side information, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 2946-2960, Aug. 2007.

 

  1. J. Chen, C. Tian, T. Berger and S. S. Hemami,

Multiple description quantization via Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 52, No. 12, pp. 5197-5217, Dec. 2006.

 

  1. C. Tian and S. S. Hemami,

A new class of multiple description scalar quantizers and its application to image coding, (pdf)

IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 329-332, Apr. 2005.

 

  1. C. Tian and S. S. Hemami,

Optimality and sub-optimality of multiple description vector quantization with a lattice codebook, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50, No. 10, pp. 2458-2468, Oct. 2004.

 

  1. C. Tian and S. S. Hemami,

Universal multiple description scalar quantization: analysis and design, (pdf)

IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 2089-2102, Sep. 2004.

 

 

Conference publications

Year 2012:

  1. C. Tian

"Amplification of the hidden Gaussian channel states,"

*IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2012, Boston, MA, Jul. 2012.

  1. L. Song, J. Chen and C. Tian

"Broadcast correlated Gaussians: the vector-scalar case,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2012, Boston, MA, Jul. 2012.

  1. L. Yang, C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and A. Reibman

"An automatic grid corner extration technique for camera calibration,"

*IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2012, Orlando, FL, Sep.-Oct., 2012.

Year 2011:

  1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and Y. Zhang

"Upsampling range camera depth maps using high-resolution vision camera and pixel-level confidence classification,"

*IS&T/SPIE's International Symposium on Electronic Imaging--Stereoscopic Displays and Applications XXII, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2011.

  1. C. Tian and S. Shamai

"Sending Gaussian source on bandwidth-mismatched Gaussian channel with improved robustness,"

*IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2011, Kyoto, Japan, Jun. 2011.

  1. C. Tian

"Inequalities for entropies of sets of subsets of random variables,"

*IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2011.(pdf with typos corrected)

  1. V. Vaishampayan, C. Tian and M. Feuer

"On the capacity of a hybrid broadcast multiple access system for WDM networks,"

*IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2011, Petersburg, Russia, Aug. 2011.

Year 2010:

  1. S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. Diggavi

"On source transmission over deterministic networks,"(invited)

*IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 2010.

  1. C. Tian, J. Chen, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai

"Optimality and approximate optimality of source-channel separation in networks,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, Jun. 2010.

  1. C. Tian, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai

"The achievable distortion region of bivariate Gaussian source on Gaussian broadcast channel,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Austin, TX, Jun. 2010.

  1. C. Tian, J. Chen, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai

"On source-channel separation in networks,"(invited)

International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, Jul. 2010.

  1. U. Samarawickrama, J. Liang, C. Tian

"A three-layer algorithm for M-channel multiple description image coding,"

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hongkong, China, Sep. 2010.

Year 2009:

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen

"Quantization splitting for symmetric K-channel multiple descriptions,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Volos, Greece, Jun. 2009.

  1. C. Tian, S. Diggavi and S. Shamai

"Approximate characterizations for the Gaussian broadcasting distortion region,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2009.

  1. C. Tian

"Latent capacity region: a case study on symmetric broadcast with common messages,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2009.

  1. Z. Sun, C. Tian, J. Chen and Kon Max Wong

"Asynchronous Slepian-Wolf code design,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seoul, Korea, Jul. 2009.

  1. J. Chen and C. Tian

"Capacity region of reversely degraded Gaussian MIMO broadcast channel,"

*IEEE Globecom 2009, Nonolulu, HI, Nov.-Dec. 2009.

Year 2008:

  1. Y. Li, C. Tian, S. Diggavi, M. Chiang and A. R. Calderbank

"Network resource allocation for competing multiple description transmissions,"

IEEE Globecom 2008, New Orleans, LA, Dec. 2008.

  1. C. Tian, S. Mohajer and S. Diggavi

"Approximating the Gaussian multiple description rate region under symmetric distortion constraints,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen

"A novel coding scheme for symmetric multiple description coding,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

  1. C. Tian and S. Shamai

"A unified coding scheme for hybrid transmission of Gaussian source over Gaussian channel,"

*2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

  1. S. Mohajer, C. Tian and S. Diggavi

"Asymmetric Gaussian multiple descriptions and asymmetric multilevel diversity coding,"

2008 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2008.

  1. C. Tian, S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi,

"On the Gaussian K-description problem under symmetric distortion constraints,"(invited)

Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA), UCSD, Jan. 2008.

  1. C. Tian, S. Mohajer, S. Diggavi,

"On the symmetric Gaussian multiple description rate-distortion function,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2008.

  1. S. Mohajer, C. Tian, S. Diggavi,

"Asymmetric multi-level diversity coding,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2008.

Year 2007:

  1. C. Ng, C. Tian, A. Goldsmith and S. Shamai,

"Minimum expected distortion in Gaussian source coding with uncertain side information,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Lake Tahoe, CA, Sep. 2007.

  1. C. Tian, A. Steiner, S. Shamai and S. Diggavi,

"Expected distortion for Gaussian source with a broadcast transmission strategy over a fading channel,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW) on Wireless Networks, Bergen, Norway, Jul. 2007.

  1. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"On scalable source coding with decoder side informations,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, Jun. 2007.

  1. C. Tian and J. Chen,

"Hypothesis testing under successive refinement communication constraint,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Nice, France, Jun. 2007.

  1. J. Chen, C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Multiple description coding for stationary sources,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2007.

Year 2006:

  1. C. Tian, J. Chen and S. Diggavi,

"Multiuser successive refinement and multiple description coding,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Chengdu China, Oct. 2006.

  1. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"A calculation of the Heegard-Berger rate-distortion function for a binary source,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), Chengdu China, Oct. 2006.

  1. D. Vasudevan, C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Lossy source coding for a cascade communication system with side informations,"

*Allerton conference, UIUC, Sep. 2006.

  1. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"Multistage successive refinement for Wyner-Ziv source coding with degraded side informations,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Seattle WA, Jul. 2006.

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Visually optimized multiple description image coding,"

*IEEE International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse France, May 2006.

  1. C. Tian and S. Diggavi,

"On scalable source coding for multiple decoders with side information,"(invited)

UCSD ITA Center Inaugural Workshop, San Diego CA, Feb. 2006.

Year 2005:

  1. J. Chen, C. Tian, T. Berger and S. Hemami,

"A new class of universal multiple description lattice quantizers,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 2005.

  1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and N.J.A. Sloane,

"Constant weight codes: a geometric approach,"

IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Adelaide, Australia, Sep. 2005.

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Staggered lattices in multiple description quantization,"

*IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2005.

Year 2004:

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"An embedded image coding system based on tarp filter with classification,"

*IEEE International Conference on on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Montreal, Quebec, Canada , May 2004.

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"A special class of multiple description scalar quantizers,"

IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), San Antonio TX, Oct. 2004.

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Sequential design of multiple description scalar quantizers,"

*IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, Mar. 2004.

Year 2003:

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"Universal multiple description scalar quantization: analysis and design,"

IEEE Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird, Utah, March 2003.

  1. C. Tian and S. Hemami,

"On the asymptotic analysis of multiple description scalar quantization,"

Conference on Information Sciences and Systems(CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2003.

 

 Patents

 

  1. N.J.A. Sloane, C. Tian and V. Vaishampayan, "Geometric approach for constructing codes of constant weight." U.S. Patent No. 7587641, Sep. 8, 2009.
  1. C. Tian and J. Chen, "Quantization splitting for multiple descriptions." US Patent No. 7944388, May. 2011.
  1. C. Tian, V. Vaishampayan and Y. Zhang, "Upsampling range camera depth map using high-resolution vision camara and confidence information." US patent filed, Aug. 2010.
  1. C. Tian, "Method and apparatus for improving transmission of data on a bandwidth mismatched channel." US patent filed, Oct. 2011.
  1. C. Tian, "Method and apparatus for improving transmission of data on a bandwidth expanded channel." US patent filed, Oct. 2011.
  1. C. Tian and S. Krishnan, "System and method of bilateral image filtering." US patent filed, Jul. 2012.

 

 Presentations

 

  1. "Constant weight codes: a geometric approach based on disection," Henry Landau seminar, AT&T labs--research, NJ, Nov. 2004.
  2. "Multi-terminal salable source coding," Nanyang Technolgical University, Singapore, Feb. 2007.
  3. "Approximating the symmetric Gaussian multiple description rate region," Workshop on Information Theory and Wireless Communications, McMaster University, Canada, Jul. 2008.
  4. "Approximating the symmetric Gaussian multiple description rate region," Henry Landau seminar, Bell labs, NJ, Jul. 2008.
  5. "Recent results on the symmetric multiple description problem," ISN seminar, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Oct. 2008.
  6. "On the approximation of common source broadcast distortion region," ITA workshop, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2009.
  7. "Laten capaticy region: a case study on broadcast channel with common messages," IPG seminar, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2009.
  8. "Separation and approximate separation of source and channel coding in networks," ACORN Coding & Information Theory Retreat, Adelaide, Australia, Nov. 2009.
  9. "Optimality and approximate optimality of source-channel separation in networks," ITA workshop, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2010.
  10. "On source-channel separation in networks," Bergerfest: Living Information Theory (in honor of Prof. Toby Berger's 70th birthday), UCSD, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2011.
  11. "Multiple descriptions, Gaussian source broadcast and approximate source-channel separation," ITA workshop, UCSD, San Diego, CA, Feb. 2011.

 

 Some study notes

 

  1. C. Tian, "An alternative converse proof for the Gaussian broadcast channel capacity," Jul., 2008.

 

 

Last editted in Nov. 2012.