Anthony Vetro

Anthony Vetro
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  • Biography

    Anthony joined MERL in 1996. His technical background is in the area of multimedia signal processing, with a focus on video compression. He has been active in both academic and standardization communities, and has contributed to the transfer and development of several technologies to digital television, surveillance, automotive, and satellite imaging systems. He joined MERL's top management in 2014, where he contributed to the strategic direction of the company and led teams in a variety of emerging technology areas. He became President & CEO of MERL in 2023.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2025
      Date: Sunday, April 6, 2025 - Friday, April 11, 2025
      Location: Hyderabad, India
      MERL Contacts: Wael H. Ali; Petros T. Boufounos; Radu Corcodel; François Germain; Chiori Hori; Siddarth Jain; Devesh K. Jha; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Yoshiki Masuyama; Joshua Rapp; Diego Romeres; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Electronic and Photonic Devices, Machine Learning, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2025, which is being held in Hyderabad, India from April 6-11, 2025.

        Sponsorship

        MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, April 10. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.

        MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Björn Erik Ottersten, the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Shrikanth Narayanan, the recipient of the 2025 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award. Both awards will be presented in-person at ICASSP by Anthony Vetro, MERL President & CEO.

        Technical Program

        MERL is presenting 15 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including source separation, sound event detection, sound anomaly detection, speaker diarization, music generation, robot action generation from video, indoor airflow imaging, WiFi sensing, Doppler single-photon Lidar, optical coherence tomography, and radar imaging. Another paper on spatial audio will be presented at the Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA) Satellite Workshop.

        MERL Researchers Petros Boufounos and Hassan Mansour will present a Tutorial on “Computational Methods in Radar Imaging” in the afternoon of Monday, April 7.

        Petros Boufounos will also be giving an industry talk on Thursday April 10 at 12pm, on “A Physics-Informed Approach to Sensing".

        About ICASSP

        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 has been attracting more than 4000 participants each year.
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    •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2024
      Date: Sunday, April 14, 2024 - Friday, April 19, 2024
      Location: Seoul, South Korea
      MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; François Germain; Chiori Hori; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Hassan Mansour; Kieran Parsons; Joshua Rapp; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Machine Learning, Robotics, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2024, which is being held in Seoul, Korea from April 14-19, 2024.

        Sponsorship and Awards

        MERL is proud to be a Bronze Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, April 18. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.

        MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Stéphane G. Mallat, the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Keiichi Tokuda, the recipient of the 2024 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

        Jonathan Le Roux, MERL Speech and Audio Senior Team Leader, will also be recognized during the Awards Ceremony for his recent elevation to IEEE Fellow.

        Technical Program

        MERL will present 13 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including automated audio captioning, speech separation, audio generative models, speech and sound synthesis, spatial audio reproduction, multimodal indoor monitoring, radar imaging, depth estimation, physics-informed machine learning, and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). Three workshop papers have also been accepted for presentation on audio-visual speaker diarization, music source separation, and music generative models.

        Perry Wang is the co-organizer of the Workshop on Signal Processing and Machine Learning Advances in Automotive Radars (SPLAR), held on Sunday, April 14. It features keynote talks from leaders in both academia and industry, peer-reviewed workshop papers, and lightning talks from ICASSP regular tracks on signal processing and machine learning for automotive radar and, more generally, radar perception.

        Gordon Wichern will present an invited keynote talk on analyzing and interpreting audio deep learning models at the Workshop on Explainable Machine Learning for Speech and Audio (XAI-SA), held on Monday, April 15. He will also appear in a panel discussion on interpretable audio AI at the workshop.

        Perry Wang also co-organizes a two-part special session on Next-Generation Wi-Fi Sensing (SS-L9 and SS-L13) which will be held on Thursday afternoon, April 18. The special session includes papers on PHY-layer oriented signal processing and data-driven deep learning advances, and supports upcoming 802.11bf WLAN Sensing Standardization activities.

        Petros Boufounos is participating as a mentor in ICASSP’s Micro-Mentoring Experience Program (MiME).

        About ICASSP

        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 3000 participants.
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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.
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    •  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.
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    •  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

    •  Hori, C., Vetro, A., "At Last, A Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself", IEEE Spectrum, March 2022.
      BibTeX IEEE Spectrum
      • @article{Hori2022mar,
      • author = {Hori, Chiori and Vetro, Anthony},
      • title = {{At Last, A Self-Driving Car That Can Explain Itself}},
      • journal = {IEEE Spectrum},
      • year = 2022,
      • month = mar,
      • url = {https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-last-a-self-driving-car-that-can-explain-itself}
      • }
    •  Das, P., Ortega, A., Chen, S., Mansour, H., Vetro, A., "Application-agnostic spatio-temporal hand graph representations for stable activity understanding", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICIP42928.2021.9506054, September 2021, pp. 1074-1078.
      BibTeX TR2021-112 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Das2021sep,
      • author = {Das, Pratyusha and Ortega, Antonio and Chen, Siheng and Mansour, Hassan and Vetro, Anthony},
      • title = {{Application-agnostic spatio-temporal hand graph representations for stable activity understanding}},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
      • year = 2021,
      • pages = {1074--1078},
      • month = sep,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICIP42928.2021.9506054},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-112}
      • }
    •  Hu, W., Pang, J., Liu, X., Tian, D., Lin, C.-W., Vetro, A., "Graph Signal Processing for Geometric Data and Beyond: Theory and Applications", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, DOI: 10.1109/​TMM.2021.3111440, Vol. 24, pp. 3961-3977, September 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-121 PDF
      • @article{Hu2021oct,
      • author = {Hu, Wei and Pang, Jiahao and Liu, Xianming and Tian, Dong and Lin, Chia-Wen and Vetro, Anthony},
      • title = {{Graph Signal Processing for Geometric Data and Beyond: Theory and Applications}},
      • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 24,
      • pages = {3961--3977},
      • month = sep,
      • doi = {10.1109/TMM.2021.3111440},
      • issn = {1941-0077},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-121}
      • }
    •  Hori, C., Tsuchiya, M., Chen, S., Cherian, A., Hori, T., Harsham, B.A., Marks, T.K., Le Roux, J., Sullivan, A., Vetro, A., "マルチモーダルセンシング情報に基づくScene-aware Interaction 技術", Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, Vol. 75, No. 5, pp. 66-71, May 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-042 PDF Video
      • @article{Hori2021may,
      • author = {Hori, Chiori and Tsuchiya, Masato and Chen, Siheng and Cherian, Anoop and Hori, Takaaki and Harsham, Bret A. and Marks, Tim K. and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Sullivan, Alan and Vetro, Anthony},
      • title = {{マルチモーダルセンシング情報に基づくScene-aware Interaction 技術}},
      • journal = {Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan},
      • year = 2021,
      • volume = 75,
      • number = 5,
      • pages = {66--71},
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-042}
      • }
    •  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, September 2019.
      BibTeX TR2019-037 PDF
      • @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}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Method and System for Scene-Aware Interaction"
      Inventors: Hori, Chiori; Cherian, Anoop; Chen, Siheng; Marks, Tim; Le Roux, Jonathan; Hori, Takaaki; Harsham, Bret A.; Vetro, Anthony; Sullivan, Alan
      Patent No.: 11,635,299
      Issue Date: Apr 25, 2023
    • 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: Chen, Siheng; Tian, Dong; Feng, Chen; Vetro, Anthony
      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: Zou, Feng; Tian, Dong; Vetro, Anthony
      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.; Jin, Guoxin; Vetro, Anthony
      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
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