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Biography

Vetro joined MERL in 1996 and has been conducting research in the area of multimedia signal processing. He has contributed to the transfer and development of several technologies to digital television, surveillance, automotive, and satellite imaging systems. He has been an active participant in video coding standards and currently serves as Head of the US Delegation to MPEG. He joined MERL top management in 2014.
Recent News & Events
- NEWS Anthony Vetro appointed as a Senior Area Editor of the new IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
  Date: November 8, 2019
  MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
  Research Area: Signal Processing
  Brief
  - Anthony Vetro has been appointed for a two-year term as a Senior Area Editor of the new IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing.
    
    This fully open access journal will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed papers covering the enabling technology for the generation, transformation, extraction, and interpretation of information. It comprises the theory, algorithms with associated architectures and implementations, and applications related to processing information contained in many different formats broadly designated as signals.
- NEWS MERL presenting 16 papers at ICASSP 2019
  Date: May 12, 2019 - May 17, 2019
  Where: Brighton, UK
  MERL Contacts: Petros Boufounos; Anoop Cherian; Chiori Hori; Takaaki Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Hassan Mansour; Tim Marks; Niko Moritz; Philip Orlik; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
  Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
  Brief
  - MERL researchers will be presenting 16 papers at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech & Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held in Brighton, UK from May 12-17, 2019. Topics to be presented include recent advances in speech recognition, audio processing, scene understanding, computational sensing, and parameter estimation. MERL is also a sponsor of the conference and will be participating in the student career luncheon; please join us at the lunch to learn about our internship program and career opportunities.
    
    ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year.
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Awards
- AWARD APSIPA recognizes Anthony Vetro as a 2016 Industrial Distinguished Leader
  Date: October 15, 2016
  Awarded to: Anthony Vetro
  MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
  Brief
  - Anthony Vetro was recognized by APSIPA (Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association) as a 2016 Industrial Distinguished Leader. This distinction is reserved for selected APSIPA members with extraordinary accomplishments in any of the fields related to APSIPA scope. A list of past recipients can be found online: http://www.apsipa.org/industrial.htm.
- AWARD INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management
  Date: April 14, 2015
  Awarded to: Anthony Vetro
  Awarded by: InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS)
  MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
  Brief
  - The INCITS Gene Milligan Award for Effective Committee Management recognizes individuals who, as officers, have provided outstanding leadership to the subgroup in its national and/or international work, have demonstrated proficiency in achieving consensus in the national and/or international arenas and have followed the approved procedures in an exemplary fashion. Anthony Vetro was the recipient of this award in 2015. He has more than 15 years of participation in standards development, including service as the INCITS L3.1 Vice-Chair and Chair and an active technical participant in the MPEG committee.
- AWARD ICCE 2008 Best Paper Award
  Date: January 1, 2008
  Awarded to: Jun Xin, Anthony Vetro and Shun-ichi Sekiguchi
  Awarded for: "A Study of MPEG-2 to H.264/AVC Transcoding with Half-Horizontal Resolution"
  Awarded by: IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)
  MERL Contact: Anthony Vetro
  Research Area: Digital Video
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MERL Publications
- Kao, J.-Y., Ortega, A., Tian, D., Mansour, H., Vetro, A., "Graph Based Skeleton Modeling for Human Activity Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803186, ISSN: 2381-8549, ISBN: 978-1-5386-6249-6, September 2019.
  BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-037
  - @inproceedings{Kao2019sep,
  - author = {Kao, Jiun-Yu and Ortega, Antonio and Tian, Dong and Mansour, Hassan and Vetro, Anthony},
  - title = {Graph Based Skeleton Modeling for Human Activity Analysis},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  - year = 2019,
  - month = sep,
  - publisher = {IEEE},
  - doi = {10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803186},
  - issn = {2381-8549},
  - isbn = {978-1-5386-6249-6},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-037}
  - }
- Das, P., Kao, J.-Y., Ortega, A., Mansour, H., Vetro, A., Sawada, T., Minezawa, A., "Hand Graph Representations for Unsupervised Segmentation of Complex Activities", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683643, May 2019.
  BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2019-009
  - @inproceedings{Das2019may,
  - author = {Das, Pratyusha and Kao, Jiun-Yu and Ortega, Antonio and Mansour, Hassan and Vetro, Anthony and Sawada, Tomoya and Minezawa, Akira},
  - title = {Hand Graph Representations for Unsupervised Segmentation of Complex Activities},
  - booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
  - year = 2019,
  - month = may,
  - doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2019.8683643},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-009}
  - }
- Shou, Z., Pan, J., Chan, J., Miyazawa, K., Mansour, H., Vetro, A., Giro-i-Nieto, X., Chang, S.-F., "Online Detection of Action Start in Untrimmed, Streaming Videos", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), September 2018.
  BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2018-109
  - @inproceedings{Shou2018sep,
  - author = {Shou, Zheng and Pan, Junting and Chan, Jonathan and Miyazawa, Kazuyuki and Mansour, Hassan and Vetro, Anthony and Giro-i-Nieto, Xavier and Chang, Shi-Fu},
  - title = {Online Detection of Action Start in Untrimmed, Streaming Videos},
  - booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  - year = 2018,
  - month = sep,
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-109}
  - }
- Sugimoto, K., Cohen, R.A., Tian, D., Vetro, A., "Trends in efficient representation of 3D point clouds", APSIPA ASC, DOI: 10.1109/APSIPA.2017.8282059, December 2017.
  BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2017-189
  - @inproceedings{Sugimoto2017dec,
  - author = {Sugimoto, Kazuo and Cohen, Robert A. and Tian, Dong and Vetro, Anthony},
  - title = {Trends in efficient representation of 3D point clouds},
  - booktitle = {APSIPA ASC},
  - year = 2017,
  - month = dec,
  - doi = {10.1109/APSIPA.2017.8282059},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-189}
  - }
- Chen, S., Tian, D., Feng, C., Vetro, A., Kovacevic, J., "Fast Resampling of 3D Point Clouds via Graphs", IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2017.2771730, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 666-681, November 2017.
  BibTeX Download PDFAbout TR2017-215
  - @article{Chen2017nov,
  - author = {Chen, Siheng and Tian, Dong and Feng, Chen and Vetro, Anthony and Kovacevic, Jelena},
  - title = {Fast Resampling of 3D Point Clouds via Graphs},
  - journal = {IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing},
  - year = 2017,
  - volume = 66,
  - number = 3,
  - pages = {666--681},
  - month = nov,
  - doi = {10.1109/TSP.2017.2771730},
  - url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-215}
  - }
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- Point cloud quality metric software
- Fast Resampling on Point Clouds via Graphs
Videos
MERL Issued Patents
- Title: "System and Method for Inter-Frame Predictive Compression for Point Clouds"
  Inventors: Pavez, Eduardo; Tian, Dong; Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 10,499,054
  Issue Date: Dec 3, 2019
- Title: "Methods and Systems for Fast Resampling Method and Apparatus for Point Cloud Data"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Feng, Chen; Vetro, Anthony; Chen, Siheng
  Patent No.: 10,229,533
  Issue Date: Mar 12, 2019
- Title: "System and Method for Processing Images using Online Tensor Robust Principal Component Analysis"
  Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Zhang, Zemin; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 10,217,018
  Issue Date: Feb 26, 2019
- Title: "Systems and Methods of Fusing Multi-angle View HD Images Based on Epipolar Geometry and Matrix Completion"
  Inventors: Liu, Dehong; Ma, Yanting; Mansour, Hassan; Kamilov, Ulugbek; Taguchi, Yuichi; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 10,212,410
  Issue Date: Feb 19, 2019
- Title: "Method and Apparatus for Keypoint Trajectory Coding on Compact Descriptor for Video Analysis"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 10,154,281
  Issue Date: Dec 11, 2018
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,892,520
  Issue Date: Feb 13, 2018
- Title: "Depth-Weighted Group-Wise Principal Component Analysis for Video Foreground/Background Separation"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,679,387
  Issue Date: Jun 13, 2017
- Title: "Method for Extracting Low-Rank Descriptors from Images and Videos for Querying, Classification, and Object Detection"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Rane, Shantanu D.; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,639,761
  Issue Date: May 2, 2017
- Title: "Method for Estimating Parameters of a Graph Spectral Filter Using Training Data"
  Inventors: Wang, Yongzhe; Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony; Ortega, Antonio
  Patent No.: 9,619,755
  Issue Date: Apr 11, 2017
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting Pedestrian Flows in Videos"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Dicle, Caglayan; Tian, Dong; Benosman, Mouhacine; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,600,896
  Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017
- Title: "Method for Graph Based Processing of Signals"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Kniazev, Andrei; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,600,865
  Issue Date: Mar 21, 2017
- Title: "Method and System for Segmenting an Image Based on Motion Vanishing Points"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Kao, Jiun-Yu; Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,430,840
  Issue Date: Aug 30, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Encoding Collections of Images and Videos"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony; Rane, Shantanu D.
  Patent No.: 9,338,461
  Issue Date: May 10, 2016
- Title: "Method for Improving Compression Efficiency of Distributed Source Coding Using Intra-Band Information"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sugimoto, Kazuo
  Patent No.: 9,307,257
  Issue Date: Apr 5, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Backward 3D-View Synthesis Prediction using Neighboring Blocks"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Zou, Feng; Tian, Dong
  Patent No.: 9,264,691
  Issue Date: Feb 16, 2016
- Title: "Method and System for Motion Field Backward Warping Using Neighboring Blocks in Videos"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Zou, Feng; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,253,486
  Issue Date: Feb 2, 2016
- Title: "Method for Video Background Subtraction Using Factorized Matrix Completion"
  Inventors: Mansour, Hassan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,247,139
  Issue Date: Jan 26, 2016
- Title: "Perceptually Coding Images and Videos"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Jin, Guoxin
  Patent No.: 9,237,343
  Issue Date: Jan 12, 2016
- Title: "Distributed Source Coding using Prediction Modes Obtained from Side Information"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 9,014,499
  Issue Date: Apr 21, 2015
- Title: "Method for Enhancing Depth Images of Scenes Using Trellis Structures"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Wang, Yongzhe; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,994,722
  Issue Date: Mar 31, 2015
- Title: "Method for Selecting Transform Types From Mapping Table for Prediction Modes"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,929,455
  Issue Date: Jan 6, 2015
- Title: "Disparity Estimation for Misaligned Stereo Image Pairs"
  Inventors: Rzeszutek, Richard; Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,867,826
  Issue Date: Oct 21, 2014
- Title: "Method and System for Processing Multiview Videos for View Synthesis Using Skip and Direct Modes"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony; Cheung, Ngai-Man
  Patent No.: 8,854,486
  Issue Date: Oct 7, 2014
- Title: "Method and System for Processing Multiview Videos for View Synthesis Using Adaptive References"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony; Zou, Feng
  Patent No.: 8,823,821
  Issue Date: Sep 2, 2014
- Title: "Coding Images Using Intra Prediction Modes"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Xu, Xiaozhong
  Patent No.: 8,811,760
  Issue Date: Aug 19, 2014
- Title: "Method for Coding Videos Using Dictionaries"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Kang, Jewon
  Patent No.: 8,767,835
  Issue Date: Jul 1, 2014
- Title: "Method for Coding Pictures Using Hierarchical Transform Units"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 8,750,634
  Issue Date: Jun 10, 2014
- Title: "Method for Modeling and Estimating Rendering Errors in Virtual Images"
  Inventors: Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Cheung, Ngai-Man
  Patent No.: 8,692,840
  Issue Date: Apr 8, 2014
- Title: "Method and System for Binarization of Biometric Data"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Vetro, Anthony; Nagar, Bbhishek
  Patent No.: 8,634,606
  Issue Date: Jan 21, 2014
- Title: "Method for Securely Determining Manhattan Distances"
  Inventors: Sun, Wei; Rane, Shantanu D.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,631,053
  Issue Date: Jan 14, 2014
- Title: "Method for Embedding Messages into Structured Shapes"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Vetro, Anthony; Das, Samarjit
  Patent No.: 8,630,444
  Issue Date: Jan 14, 2014
- Title: "Method for Training and Utilizing Separable Transforms for Video Coding"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Sezer, Osman G; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,630,341
  Issue Date: Jan 14, 2014
- Title: "Method and System for Managing a Hierarchy of Passwords"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Rane, Shantanu D.; Wang, Yige; Yedidia, Jonathan S.
  Patent No.: 8,495,379
  Issue Date: Jul 23, 2013
- Title: "Method for Coding Pictures Using Hierarchial Transform Units"
  Inventors: Cohen, Robert A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 8,494,290
  Issue Date: Jul 23, 2013
- Title: "Method and System for Decoding Multiview Videoswith Prediction Dependencies"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,451,895
  Issue Date: May 28, 2013
- Title: "Method and System for Authenticating Reliable Biometric Data"
  Inventors: Wang, Yige; Rane, Shantanu D.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,433,920
  Issue Date: Apr 30, 2013
- Title: "Method for Distributed Source Coding of Wavelet Coefficients in Zerotrees"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Wang, Yige; Boufounos, Petros T.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,428,379
  Issue Date: Apr 23, 2013
- Title: "Method for Embedding Messages into Documents Using DistanceFields"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Vetro, Anthony; Perry, Ronald N.
  Patent No.: 8,427,509
  Issue Date: Apr 23, 2013
- Title: "Method for Determining Functions Applied to Signals"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Sun, Wei; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,416,955
  Issue Date: Apr 9, 2013
- Title: "Method for Virtual Image Synthesis"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Oh, Kwan Jung; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,395,642
  Issue Date: Mar 12, 2013
- Title: "Pre-Processing Biometric Parameters Before Encoding and Decoding"
  Inventors: Draper, Stark C.; Vetro, Anthony; Sutcu, Yagiz; Yedidia, Jonathan S.
  Patent No.: 8,375,218
  Issue Date: Feb 12, 2013
- Title: "Method for Synthesizing a Virtual Image from a Reduced Resolution Depth Image"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Oh, Kwan Jung; Yea, Sehoon
  Patent No.: 8,374,456
  Issue Date: Feb 12, 2013
- Title: "Method for Handling Pixel Occlusions in Stereo ImagesUsing Iterative Support and Decision Processes"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Min, Dongbo; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,315,426
  Issue Date: Nov 20, 2012
- Title: "Method for Determining Functions Applied to Signals"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Sun, Wei; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,311,213
  Issue Date: Nov 13, 2012
- Title: "Determining Disparity Search Range in Stereo Videos"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Min, Dongbo; Arican, Zafer; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,290,248
  Issue Date: Oct 16, 2012
- Title: "Depth Reconstruction Filter for Depth Coding Videos"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Oh, Kwan Jung; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,270,752
  Issue Date: Sep 18, 2012
- Title: "Secure Similarity Verification Between Encrypted Signals"
  Inventors: Rane, Shantanu D.; Sun, Wei; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,249,250
  Issue Date: Aug 21, 2012
- Title: "Method for Up-Sampling Depth Images"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Oh, Kwan Jung; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,189,943
  Issue Date: May 29, 2012
- Title: "Inverse Tone Mapping for Bit-Depth Scalable Image Coding"
  Inventors: Liu, Shan; Vetro, Anthony; Kim, Woo-Shik
  Patent No.: 8,085,852
  Issue Date: Dec 27, 2011
- Title: "Method and System for Decoding and Displaying 3D Light Fields"
  Inventors: Matusik, Wojciech; Zwicker, Matthias B.; Yea, Sehoon; Pfister, Hans Peter; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 8,044,994
  Issue Date: Oct 25, 2011
- Title: "Inverse Tone Mapping for Bit-Depth Scalable Image Coding Adapted to Variable Block Sizes"
  Inventors: Liu, Shan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,983,496
  Issue Date: Jul 19, 2011
- Title: "Method and System for Acquiring, Encoding, Decoding and Displaying 3D Light Fields"
  Inventors: Matusik, Wojciech; Zwicker, Matthias B.; Yea, Sehoon; Vetro, Anthony; Pfister, Hans Peter
  Patent No.: 7,916,934
  Issue Date: Mar 29, 2011
- Title: "Method and System for Randomly Accessing Multiview Videos with Known Prediction Dependency"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Xin, Jun; Martinian, Emin; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,903,737
  Issue Date: Mar 8, 2011
- Title: "Method and Apparatus for Compressing SAR Signals"
  Inventors: Burgess, Stephen R.; Liu, Shan; Vetro, Anthony; Lou, Jian
  Patent No.: 7,876,257
  Issue Date: Jan 25, 2011
- Title: "Coding Correlated Images Using Syndrome Bits"
  Inventors: Yedidia, Jonathan S.; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,860,158
  Issue Date: Dec 28, 2010
- Title: "Filtering Artifacts in Images with 3D Spatio-Temporal FuzzyFilters"
  Inventors: Vo, Dung Trung; Yea, Sehoon; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,822,286
  Issue Date: Oct 26, 2010
- Title: "Biometric Based User Authentication and Data Encryption"
  Inventors: Draper, Stark C.; Yedidia, Jonathan S.; Vetro, Anthony; Khisti, Ashish J.; Martinian, Emin
  Patent No.: 7,779,268
  Issue Date: Aug 17, 2010
- Title: "Context Aware Image Conversion Method and Playback System"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Forlines, Clifton L.
  Patent No.: 7,773,099
  Issue Date: Aug 10, 2010
- Title: "Method and System for Processing Multiview Videos for View Synthesis using Side Information"
  Inventors: Oh, Jong Dae; Vetro, Anthony; Martinian, Emin; Ince, Serdar; Yea, Sehoon
  Patent No.: 7,728,878
  Issue Date: Jun 1, 2010
- Title: "Method and System for Synthesizing Multiview Videos"
  Inventors: Behrens, Alexander; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Xin, Jun; Martinian, Emin
  Patent No.: 7,728,877
  Issue Date: Jun 1, 2010
- Title: "Video Encoding With Motion-Selective Wavelet Transform"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Yao; Wang, Bei Bei
  Patent No.: 7,715,480
  Issue Date: May 11, 2010
- Title: "Method for Randomly Accessing Multiview Videos"
  Inventors: Martinian, Emin; Vetro, Anthony; Xin, Jun; Sun, Huifang; Behrens, Alexander
  Patent No.: 7,710,462
  Issue Date: May 4, 2010
- Title: "Quality Control for Image Transcoding"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Schwenke, Derek L.
  Patent No.: 7,672,524
  Issue Date: Mar 2, 2010
- Title: "Method and System for Processing Multiview Videos for View Synthesis using Skip and Direct Modes"
  Inventors: Yea, Sehoon; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,671,894
  Issue Date: Mar 2, 2010
- Title: "Biometric Based User Authentication and Data Encryption"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Yedidia, Jonathan S.; Yekhanin, Sergey M.; Martinian, Emin
  Patent No.: 7,620,818
  Issue Date: Nov 17, 2009
- Title: "System and Method for Reducing Ringing Artifacts in Images"
  Inventors: Kong, Hao-Song; Vetro, Anthony; Barner, Kenneth E.
  Patent No.: 7,551,792
  Issue Date: Jun 23, 2009
- Title: "Resource-Constrained Sampling of Multiple Compressed Videos"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 7,489,726
  Issue Date: Feb 10, 2009
- Title: "Method and System for Managing Reference Pictures in Multiview Videos"
  Inventors: Martinian, Emin; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Xin, Jun; Behrens, Alexander
  Patent No.: 7,489,342
  Issue Date: Feb 10, 2009
- Title: "System and Method for Joint De-Interlacing and Down-Sampling using Adaptive Frame and Field Filtering"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Xin, Jun; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,483,577
  Issue Date: Jan 27, 2009
- Title: "Multiview Video Decomposition and Encoding"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Xin, Jun; Martinian, Emin
  Patent No.: 7,468,745
  Issue Date: Dec 23, 2008
- Title: "Image Transcoding"
  Inventors: Kuwahara, Naoki; Vetro, Anthony; Kong, Hao-Song; Hata, Toshihiko
  Patent No.: 7,440,626
  Issue Date: Oct 21, 2008
- Title: "System and Method for Filtering Artifacts in Images"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Nie, Yao; Kong, Hao-Song
  Patent No.: 7,412,109
  Issue Date: Aug 12, 2008
- Title: "Error Concealing Decoding Method of Intra-Frames of Compressed Videos"
  Inventors: Kung, Wei-Ying; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Kong, Hao-Song
  Patent No.: 7,394,855
  Issue Date: Jul 1, 2008
- Title: "Video Transcoding of Scalable Multi-Layer Videos to Single Layer Video"
  Inventors: Chiang, Tihao; Lin, Yao-Chung; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Chung-Neng
  Patent No.: 7,391,807
  Issue Date: Jun 24, 2008
- Title: "Method for Ordering Data Structures in Multimedia"
  Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,383,504
  Issue Date: Jun 3, 2008
- Title: "Rate-Distortion Models for Error Resilient Video Transcoding"
  Inventors: Xia, Minghui; Vetro, Anthony; Liu, Bede; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 7,349,472
  Issue Date: Mar 25, 2008
- Title: "System and Method for Classifying Pixels in Images"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Nie, Yao; Kong, Hao-Song
  Patent No.: 7,346,224
  Issue Date: Mar 18, 2008
- Title: "Error Resilient Encoding Method for Inter-Frames of Compressed Videos"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Kong, Hao-Song; Vetro, Anthony; Kung, Wei-Ying
  Patent No.: 7,324,698
  Issue Date: Jan 29, 2008
- Title: "Resource-Constrained Encoding of Multiple Videos"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 7,324,592
  Issue Date: Jan 29, 2008
- Title: "System and Method for Determining Coding Modes, DCT Types and Quantizers for Video Coding"
  Inventors: Zhang, Ximin; Kong, Hao-Song; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 7,280,597
  Issue Date: Oct 9, 2007
- Title: "Encoding a Video with a Variable Frame Rate while Minimizing Total Average Distortion"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Wang, Yige
  Patent No.: 7,209,519
  Issue Date: Apr 24, 2007
- Title: "Video Transcoder with Spatial Resolution Reduction and Drift Compensation"
  Inventors: Yin, Peng; Vetro, Anthony; Liu, Bede; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 7,170,932
  Issue Date: Jan 30, 2007
- Title: "Transcoding Compressed Videos to Reducing Resolution Videos"
  Inventors: Kong, Hao-Song; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,142,601
  Issue Date: Nov 28, 2006
- Title: "Adaptive Error-Resilient Video Encoding Using Multiple Description Motion Compensation"
  Inventors: Lin, Shunan; Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Yao
  Patent No.: 7,106,907
  Issue Date: Sep 12, 2006
- Title: "Dynamic Optimal Path Selection in Multiple Communications Networks"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sahinoglu, Zafer
  Patent No.: 7,099,277
  Issue Date: Aug 29, 2006
- Title: "System and Method for Adaptive Field and Frame Video Encoding Using Motion Activity"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Zhang, Ximin; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,092,442
  Issue Date: Aug 15, 2006
- Title: "Video Transcoder with Drift Compensation"
  Inventors: Poon, Tommy C; Yin, Peng; Sun, Huifang; Liu, Bede; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 7,088,780
  Issue Date: Aug 8, 2006
- Title: "Environment Aware Services for Mobile Devices"
  Inventors: Cukier, Johnas I.; Matsubara, Tsutoma; Vetro, Anthony; Bhatti, Ghulam M.; Sahinoglu, Zafer
  Patent No.: 7,013,149
  Issue Date: Mar 14, 2006
- Title: "Directivity Characteristics of Mobile Terminals"
  Inventors: Sahinoglu, Zafer; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,954,650
  Issue Date: Oct 11, 2005
- Title: "Dynamic Network Resource Allocation Using Multimedia Content Features and Traffic Features"
  Inventors: Joyce, Robert A.; Wu, Min; Vetro, Anthony; Kung, Sun-Yuan; Wong, Hau-San; Guan, Ling
  Patent No.: 6,947,378
  Issue Date: Sep 20, 2005
- Title: "Constant Quality Bit-Rate Allocation for Scalable Video Bitstreams"
  Inventors: Zhang, Ximin; Shi, Yun-Qing; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,925,120
  Issue Date: Aug 2, 2005
- Title: "Video Transcoder with Up Sampling"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,898,241
  Issue Date: May 24, 2005
- Title: "Digital Video Format Converter and Method Therefor"
  Inventors: Bao, Jay; Poon, Tommy C; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,859,495
  Issue Date: Feb 22, 2005
- Title: "Extraction of Semantic and Higher Level Features from Low-Level Features of Multimedia Content"
  Inventors: Xu, Peng; Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Chang, Shih-Fu; Divakaran, Ajay
  Patent No.: 6,763,069
  Issue Date: Jul 13, 2004
- Title: "Estimating Total Average Distortion in a Video with Variable Frameskip"
  Inventors: Wang, Yao; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,671,324
  Issue Date: Dec 30, 2003
- Title: "Video Transcoder with Spatial Resolution Reduction"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Poon, Tommy C; Vetro, Anthony; Yin, Peng; Liu, Bede
  Patent No.: 6,671,322
  Issue Date: Dec 30, 2003
- Title: "Method for Encoding and Transcoding Multiple Video Objects with Variable Temporal Resolution"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 6,650,705
  Issue Date: Nov 18, 2003
- Title: "Network Surveillance and Control System"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Divakaran, Ajay; DaGraca, Paul
  Patent No.: 6,646,676
  Issue Date: Nov 11, 2003
- Title: "Video Transcoding Using Syntactic and Semantic Clues"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Divakaran, Ajay
  Patent No.: 6,574,279
  Issue Date: Jun 3, 2003
- Title: "Method for Representing and Comparing Multimedia Content"
  Inventors: Lin, I-Jong; Kung, Sun-Yuan; Divakaran, Ajay; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,546,135
  Issue Date: Apr 8, 2003
- Title: "Adaptable Compressed Bitstream Transcoder"
  Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,542,546
  Issue Date: Apr 1, 2003
- Title: "Estimating Rate-Distortion Characteristics of Binary Shape Data"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Guleryuz, Onur G.; Wang, Yao; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,542,545
  Issue Date: Apr 1, 2003
- Title: "Three-Layer Scaleable Decoder and Method of Decoding"
  Inventors: Poon, Tommy C; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,519,288
  Issue Date: Feb 11, 2003
- Title: "Object-Based Bitstream Transcoder"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Wang, Yao
  Patent No.: 6,493,386
  Issue Date: Dec 10, 2002
- Title: "Adaptable Bitstream Video Delivery System"
  Inventors: Divakaran, Ajay; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,490,320
  Issue Date: Dec 3, 2002
- Title: "Method for Ordering Image Spaces to Search for Object Surfaces"
  Inventors: Lin, I-Jong; Sun, Huifang; Kung, Sun-Yuan; Vetro, Anthony
  Patent No.: 6,400,846
  Issue Date: Jun 4, 2002
- Title: "Method for Ordering Image Spaces to Represent Object Shapes"
  Inventors: Sun, Huifang; Lin, I-Jong; Vetro, Anthony; Kung, Sun-Yuan
  Patent No.: 6,307,964
  Issue Date: Oct 23, 2001
- Title: "Object Boundary Detection Using a Constrained Viterbi Search"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Lin, I-Jong; Sun, Huifang; Kung, Sun-Yuan
  Patent No.: 6,266,443
  Issue Date: Jul 24, 2001
- Title: "Motion Compensated Digital Video Signal Processing"
  Inventors: Kung, Sun-Yuan; Sun, Huifang; Vetro, Anthony; Chen, Yen-Kuang
  Patent No.: 6,192,080
  Issue Date: Feb 20, 2001
- Title: "Digital Video Decoder and Method of Decoding a Digital Video Signal"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang; Bao, Jay; Poon, Tommy C
  Patent No.: 6,144,698
  Issue Date: Nov 7, 2000
- Title: "Adaptive Video Coding Method"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 5,969,764
  Issue Date: Oct 19, 1999
- Title: "Adaptive Video Coding Method"
  Inventors: Vetro, Anthony; Sun, Huifang
  Patent No.: 5,790,196
  Issue Date: Aug 4, 1998
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