Shantanu Rane

MERL Research / Technical Staff
Member Technical Staff
PhD., Stanford University, 2007

Phone: 617.671.7536
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Shantanu Rane joined the Multimedia Group at MERL in 2007. He recently
completed his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
where he applied distributed source coding concepts to error-resilient
video transmission. He has a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from
The University of Minnesota and a B.E. degree in Instrumentation and
Control from Pune University, India.  Shantanu's research interests are
in the areas of image communication and information theory. At MERL, he
is working on problems involving distributed compression of images and
video.

Recent Projects:

Secure Biometrics

Recent Publications:

Sutcu, Y.; Rane, S.; Yedidia, J.S.; Draper, S.C.; Vetro, A., "Feature Extraction for a Slepian-Wolf Biometric System Using LDPC Codes", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), July 2008 (ISIT 2008, TR2008-036)

Sutcu, Y.; Rane, S.; Yedidia, J.S.; Draper, S.C.; Vetro, A., "Feature Transformation of Biometric Templates for Secure Biometric Systems based on Error Correcting Codes", IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2008 (IEEE Xplore, TR2008-029)