Publications

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Books
  1. M. D. Adams, Continuous-Time Signals and Systems, ISBN 978-0-9879197-0-0 (ebook, PDF format, 336 pages), 2012. Book Web Page.
  2. M. D. Adams, Solutions Manual for Continuous-Time Signals and Systems, ISBN 978-0-9879197-1-7 (ebook, PDF format, 194 pages), 2012. Book Web Page.

Refereed Journal Publications
  1. M. D. Adams, "A Flexible Content-Adaptive Mesh-Generation Strategy for Image Representation," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 2414-2427, Sept. 2011, doi:10.1109/TIP.2011.2128336. Preprint (in PDF format).
  2. M. D. Adams and D. Xu, "Optimal Design of High-Performance Separable Wavelet Filter Banks for Image Coding", Signal Processing, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 180-196, Jan. 2010, doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.06.008 . Preprint (in PDF format).
  3. M. D. Adams, "An Efficient Progressive Coding Method for Arbitrarily-Sampled Image Data", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 15, pp. 629-632, 2008, doi:10.1109/LSP.2008.2004516. Preprint (in PDF format).
  4. D. Xu and M. D. Adams, "An Improved Normal-Mesh-Based Image Coder", IEEE Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 33, no. 1, 10 pages, 2008, doi:10.1109/CJECE.2008.4621789. Preprint (in PDF format).
  5. Y. Chen, M. D. Adams, and W.-S. Lu, "Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, article ID 83858, 18 pages, 2007, doi:10.1155/2007/83858. Preprint (in PDF format). MATLAB Source Code for Filter Bank Design Algorithms.
  6. M. D. Adams and R. K. Ward, Symmetric-Extension-Compatible Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 2624-2636, Oct. 2003, doi:10.1109/TSP.2003.816886. Preprint (in PDF format).
  7. M. D. Adams, F. Kossentini, and R. Ward, Generalized S Transform, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 50, no. 11, pp. 2831-2842, Nov. 2002, doi:10.1109/TSP.2002.804085. Preprint (in PDF format).
  8. M. D. Adams and A. Antoniou, Reversible EZW-Based Image Compression Using Best-Transform Selection and Selective Partial Embedding, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems---II. Analog and Digital Processing, vol. 47, no. 10, pp. 1119-1122, Oct. 2000, doi:10.1109/82.877156. Preprint (in gzipped PostScript format).
  9. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression: Performance Evaluation and Analysis, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 1010-1024, Jun. 2000, doi:10.1109/83.846244. Preprint (in gzipped PostScript format). Errata (in ASCII format).
  10. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, On the Relationship Between the Overlapping Rounding Transform and Lifting Frameworks for Reversible Subband Transforms, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, vol. 48, no. 1, pp. 261-266, Jan. 2000, doi:10.1109/78.815499. Preprint (in gzipped PostScript format).

Refereed Conference Publications
  1. M. D. Adams, "An Incremental/Decremental Delaunay Mesh-Generation Framework for Image Representation," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 2011, pp. 189-192, doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2011.6115840. Preprint (in PDF format). . Poster (in PDF format).
  2. X. Tu and M. D. Adams, "Image Representation Using Triangle Meshes with Explicit Discontinuities," in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2011, pp. 97-101, doi: 10.1109/PACRIM.2011.6032874. Preprint (in PDF format). Slides (in PDF format).
  3. M. D. Adams, "An Improved Content-Adaptive Mesh-Generation Method for Image Representation," in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Hong Kong, China, Sep. 2010, pp. 873--876, DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2010.5650466. Preprint (in PDF format). Slides (in PDF format).
  4. M. D. Adams, "A Comparison of Two Fully-Dynamic Delaunay Triangulation Methods," in Proc. of Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2009, to appear. Preprint (in PDF format). Slides (in PDF format).
  5. M. D. Adams, "Progressive Lossy-to-Lossless Coding of Arbitrarily-Sampled Image Data Using the Modified Scattered Data Coding Method", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009, to appear. doi:???. Preprint (in PDF format). Poster (in PDF format).
  6. M. D. Adams, "On the Coding Gain of Separable 2D Wavelet Filter Banks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 2008, pp. 1204-1207. doi:10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711977. Preprint (in PDF format).
  7. M. D. Adams, "An Evaluation of Several Mesh-Generation Methods Using a Simple Mesh-Based Image Coder", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct. 2008, pp. 1041-1044. doi:10.1109/ICIP.2008.4711936. Preprint (in PDF format). Poster (in PDF format).
  8. D. Xu and M. D. Adams, "An Improved Multiscale Normal-Mesh-Based Image Coder", in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2007, to appear. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.2007.4313174 .
  9. Y. Chen, M. D. Adams, and W.-S. Lu, "Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding Using Sequential Quadratic Programming", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Honolulu, HI, USA, Apr. 2007, vol. 3, pp. 897-900. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366825. Preprint (in PDF format).
  10. D. Xu and M. D. Adams, "Design of High-Performance Filter Banks for Image Coding", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2006, pp. 868-873. doi:10.1109/ISSPIT.2006.270920. Preprint (in PDF format). Filter coefficients.
  11. M. D. Adams, "Efficient Breadth-First Implementation of the Wavelet Transform", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug. 2006, pp. 127-132. doi:10.1109/ISSPIT.2006.270783.
  12. Y. Chen, M. D. Adams, and W.-S. Lu, "Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, May 2006, pp. 2041-2044. doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693016. Preprint (in PDF format). Slides (in PDF format).
  13. P. W. van Vugt and M. D. Adams, "Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms With Improved Approximation Properties", in Proc. of Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, Oct. 2005, pp. 247-251. doi:10.1109/ACSSC.2005.1599742. Preprint (in PDF format).
  14. Y. Chen, M. D. Adams, and W.-S. Lu, "Symmetric Extension for Two-Channel Quincunx Filter Banks," in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, Sept. 2005, vol. 1, pp. 461-464. doi:10.1109/ICIP.2005.1529787. Preprint (in PDF format). Poster (in PDF format).
  15. Y. Chen, M. D. Adams, and W.-S. Lu, "Symmetric Extension for Quincunx Filter Banks," in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2005, pp. 569-572. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.2005.1517346. Preprint (in PDF format). Slides (in PDF format).
  16. M. D. Adams and R. K. Ward, JasPer: A Portable Flexible Open-Source Software Tool Kit for Image Coding/Processing, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Montreal, PQ, Canada, May 2004, vol. 5, pp. 241-244. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2004.1327092. Preprint (in PDF format).
  17. M. D. Adams, Generalized Reversible Integer-to-Integer Transform Framework, in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2003, pp. 569-572. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.2003.1235845. Preprint (in PDF format).
  18. M. D. Adams and R. Ward, Two Families of Symmetry-Preserving Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, May 2002, vol. 2, pp. 600-603. doi:10.1109/ISCAS.2002.1011424. Preprint (in PDF format).
  19. M. D. Adams and R. Ward, Symmetry-Preserving Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Orlando, FL, USA, May 2002, vol. 3, pp. 2509-2512. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2002.1005195. Preprint (in PDF format).
  20. M. D. Adams and R. Ward, Wavelet Transforms in the JPEG-2000 Standard, in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2001, vol. 1, pp. 160-163. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.2001.953547. Preprint (in PDF format).
  21. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Generalized S Transform, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, May 2001, vol. 3, pp. 1749-1752. doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2001.941278.
  22. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, JasPer: A Software-Based JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Oct. 2000, vol. 2, pp. 53-56. (Part of the Special Session on JPEG 2000.) doi:10.1109/ICIP.2000.899223. Preprint (in PDF format).
  23. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Low-Complexity Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms for Image Coding, in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 1999, pp. 177-180. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.1999.799506. Preprint (in PDF format).
  24. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Evaluation of Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan, Oct. 1999, vol. 3, pp. 541-545. doi:10.1109/ICIP.1999.817173.
  25. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Performance Evaluation of Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression, in Proc. of IEEE Data Compression Conference, Snowbird, UT, USA, p. 514, Mar. 1999. doi:10.1109/DCC.1999.785671. Full paper (in gzipped PostScript format).
  26. I. Balasingham, M. Adams, T. Ramstad, F. Kossentini, H. Coward, A. Perkins, and G. Oien, Performance Evaluation of Different Filter Banks in the JPEG-2000 Baseline System, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago, IL, USA, Oct. 1998, vol. 2, pp. 569-573. doi:10.1109/ICIP.1998.723525.
  27. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Performance Evaluation of Different Reversible Decorrelating Transforms in the JPEG-2000 Baseline System, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Advances in Digital Filtering and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, June 1998, pp. 20-24. doi:10.1109/ADFSP.1998.685687.
  28. M. D. Adams and A. Antoniou, A Multi-Transform Approach to Reversible Embedded Image Compression, in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Monterey, CA, USA, June 1998, vol. 4, pp. 93-96. doi:10.1109/ISCAS.1998.698766.
  29. M. D. Adams and A. Antoniou, Design of Reversible Subband Transforms Using Lifting, in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 1997, vol. 1, pp. 489-492. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.1997.620004.
  30. M. D. Adams and A. Antoniou, A Comparison of New Reversible Wavelet Transforms for Image Compression, in Proc. of IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers, and Signal Processing, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 1997, vol. 1, pp. 298-301. doi:10.1109/PACRIM.1997.619959.

International Standards Contributions
  1. M. D. Adams, The JPEG-2000 Still Image Compression Standard, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 2412, Dec. 2002. Paper in PDF format. This paper has also been published in PD 6777: 2003 Guide to the practical implementation of JPEG 2000, British Standards Institute, UK. See the home page for this BSI document for more information.
  2. M. D. Adams, "JasPer Software Status Report (Dec. 2003)", ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 3151, Dec. 2003.
  3. M. D. Adams, JasPer Software Reference Manual, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 2415, Dec. 2001. Document in PDF format.
  4. M. D. Adams, H. Man, F. Kossentini, and T. Ebrahimi, JPEG 2000: The Next Generation Still Image Compression Standard, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 1734, June 2000.
  5. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, UBC's Comments on the JPEG-2000 WD Version 3.1, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 1522, Dec. 1999.
  6. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, JasPer: UBC's JPEG-2000 Codec Implementation, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 1485, Dec. 1999.
  7. M. D. Adams, I. Kharitonenko, and F. Kossentini, Report on Core Experiment CodEff4: Performance Evaluation of Several Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms in the JPEG-2000 Verification Model (Version 2.1), ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 1015, Oct. 1998.
  8. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Performance Evaluation of the Spatially Segmented Wavelet Transform in the JPEG-2000 Baseline System, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 868, June 1998.
  9. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, SBTLIB: A Flexible Computation Engine for Subband Transforms, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 867, June 1998. Paper (in gzipped PostScript format).
  10. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Performance Evaluation of Several Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms in the JPEG-2000 Baseline System (VM Release 0.0) , ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 866, June 1998.
  11. M. D. Adams and F. Kossentini, Performance Evaluation of Different Reversible Decorrelating Transforms in the JPEG-2000 Baseline System, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 1 N 750, Mar. 1998.

Theses and Technical Reports
  1. D. Xu, Improved Subband-Based and Normal-Mesh-Based Image Coding, M.A.Sc. thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Aug. 2007. Thesis (in PDF format).
  2. Y. Chen, Design and Application of Quincunx Filter Banks, M.A.Sc. thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, May 2006. Thesis (in PDF format).
  3. M. D. Adams, Reversible Integer-to-Integer Wavelet Transforms for Image Coding, Ph.D. thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sept. 2002. ISBN 0612749835. Thesis (in PDF format). (This thesis has been nominated for several awards including the Governor General's Gold Medal, CAGS/UMI Dissertation Award, and NSERC Doctoral Prize.)
  4. M. D. Adams, Reversible Wavelet Transforms and Their Application to Embedded Image Compression, M.A.Sc. thesis, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, Jan. 1998. ISBN 0612344789. Thesis (in gzipped PostScript format). Thesis errata (in ASCII format). Thesis (in PDF format with ugly bitmapped fonts). Shameless plug: This thesis was nominated for the Lieutenant Governor's Silver Medal.