Department of Electrical Engineering

University of Hawaii at Manoa

Honolulu, HI 96822

(808) 956-5309

trreed@hawaii.edu

Education

Ph.D. (1988) Electrical Engineering. University of Minnesota. Thesis: "Texture Segmentation Using Joint Spatial/Spatial-Frequency Representations".

M.S. (1986) Electrical Engineering. University of Minnesota. Thesis: "The Approximation of Arbitrary Group Delay Characteristics Using Discrete-time Allpass IIR Filters".

B.S. (1977) Electrical Engineering. University of Minnesota. Graduated with distinction.

Academic and Industrial Experience

2008 Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley.

2004-present Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

2002-2004 Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

2000-2002 Adjunct Professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden.

1998-1999 Visiting Scholar, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.

1991-2002 Professor (previously Associate and Assistant Professor), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis. Member of the Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Informatics Graduate Groups.

1989-91 Assistant, Laboratoire de Traitement des Signaux, Departement D'Electricite, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Head of the image sequence processing research group.

1988-89 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota. Lecturer, digital signal processing.

1986-88 Consultant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lincoln Laboratory. Development of algorithms for texture segmentation.

1984-86 Senior Design Engineer, Astrocom Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota. Design of analog and digital signal processing subsystems for digital data transmission.

1977-83 Electrical Engineer, IBM Corporation: San Jose, California; Rochester, Minnesota; Boulder, Colorado. Design of head positioning control systems and disk file read/write channels, technology transfer from IBM Research Zurich to IBM Boulder.

Professional Affiliations

IEEE, SIAM, AAUP.

Professional Activities

Invited Lecturer: Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics and the Electronics Laboratory, University of Patras, Patras, Greece (June 7-9, 1999); Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (June 29 - July 6, 1999).

Editorial Board, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. Co-General Chair, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Honolulu, Hawaii. Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition, 1994-2006. Guest Editor, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Very Low Bit-rate Coding (fourth quarter 1997 (part I) and first quarter 1998 (part II)). Member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Technical Committee on Visual Signal Processing and Communications. Member of the International Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Intercommision Working Group V/III ``Image Sequences.'' Member of the Gerson Lehrman Group Council of Technical Advisors.

Contributions to conducting and organizing conferences: Session Chair, 1990 Picture Coding Symposium, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Program Chair and Session Chair, Visual Communications and Image Processing `90, Lausanne, Switzerland. Program Committee member and Session Chair, SID '92 International Symposium Seminar and Exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts. Image Processing Subcommittee Chair, SID '93. Image Processing Subcommittee Chair and Session Chair, SID '94, San Jose, California. Program Chair and Local Organization Committee member, 1994 Picture Coding Symposium, Sacramento, California. Program Committee member, 1996 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Lausanne, Switzerland. Program Committee member 1996 SPIE International Photonics China Symposium (Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Systems), Beijing, China. Session Chair, Thirtieth Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, California. Program Committee member, Thirteenth International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece. Session Co-Chair, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Orlando, Florida. Program Committee member, 1997 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Santa Barbara, California. Program Committee member, 1998 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Tucson, Arizona. Program Committee member, 1998 SPIE International Photonics China Symposium (Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Systems), Beijing, China. Program Committee member, 1999 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Kobe, Japan. Program Committee member, 2000 IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, Tucson Arizona. Program Committee member, 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, 2002. Program Committee member, 2003 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Barcelona, Spain.Program Committee member, International Networking and Communications Conference, Lahore, Pakistan, 2004. Program Committee member and Session Chair, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Singapore. Program Committee member, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Reviewer journals, publishers, funding and governmental agencies, including: the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing; IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Signal Processing; Image Communication; IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing; Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation; Image and Vision Computing; International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence; Computer Vision Graphics, and Image Processing: Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Computer Vision Graphics, and Image Processing: Graphical Models and Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Journal of the Optical Society of America - A; Optical Engineering; Academic Press; Swedish Research Council for Engineering Sciences; Research Grants Council of Hong Kong; the National Science Foundation (US); U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation Cooperative Grants Program; UC MICRO (University of California); and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. External Examiner for promotion to Professor, Catholic University of America; External Examiner for the granting of tenure, Catholic University of America; External Ph.D. Examiner, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Nominated to serve as consultant for the graduate program in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Honors and Awards

Senior Member of the IEEE. Member Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi.

Research Interests

Signal, image and image sequence processing, multidimensional digital signal processing, and computer vision. Current activities are in the processing and coding of images and image sequences, the application of local frequency and local scale (wavelet) representations to phonocardiogram-based cardiac diagnosis, and the application of local frequency representations in image processing and computer vision. Other research interests include segmentation and segmentation-based algorithms for image, image sequence and volumetric data processing and analysis.

Teaching Activities

Courses Developed

• EEC106 - Introduction to Image Processing and Computer Vision. (University of California, senior design elective. Fall 1993-97, 1999, 2001.)
• EEC208 - Image Analysis and Computer Vision. (University of California, graduate course. Spring 1991-93, 1996, 1998.)
• EEC209 - Image Sequence Processing. (University of California, graduate course. Spring 1995, 1997.)
• EE616 - Digital Image Processing. (University of Hawaii, graduate course. Taught Spring 2002, Fall 2004-07.)
• EE416 - Introduction to Digital Image Processing. (University of Hawaii, undergraduate design elective. Taught in Spring 2005 and 2006 as EE491D Special Topics in Communications, and Spring 2007.)

Other Courses Taught

• EE5002 - Digital Signal Processing. (University of Minnesota, upper division undergraduate course. Summer, Fall 1988.)
• EEC206 - Digital Image Processing. (University of California, graduate course. Winter 1993-98, 2000-01.)
• EEC150B - Introduction to Signals and Systems II. (University of California, undergraduate design elective. Spring 1996, Fall 1999.)
• ENG005 - Applications of Computers. (University of California, undergraduate service course. Fall 1991, 1992, 1994, 1997; Winter 1992, 2000; Spring 1994, 1997.)
• EE211 - Basic Circuit Analysis I. (University of Hawaii, undergraduate service course. Fall 2004, Spring 2005.)
• EE415 - Digital Signal Processing. (University of Hawaii, undergraduate design elective. Fall 2005-07.)

Graduates Supervised

• Jeffrey Bloom (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1999) Dissertation: The Derivative of Gaussian Transform.
• Jeong Hwan Bang (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2007) Thesis: Level-Weighted Wavelet Fusion: A Soft Decision Image Fusion Technique
• Troy Chinen (M.S. Applied Mathematics, University of California, Davis, 1995) Thesis: Fast Gabor Transforms.
• Joo (Paul) Chong (M.S. (Elec. Eng.), University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2005) Thesis: Error Concealment for Image Sequences.
• Jay Dawes (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1996) Thesis: Space Varying Image Enhancement Using the Gabor Transform.
• Mu Feng (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2005) Dissertation: Motion Estimation in3-D Gabor Domain.
• Iftekhar Hussain (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1995) Dissertation: Segmentation-based Compression of Monochrome and Color Images.
• Clifton Kussmaul (Ph.D. Computer Science, University of California, Davis, 1998) Dissertation: Spatial Frequency Representations for Three-Dimensional Surfaces.
• Xiangang Li (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2004) Thesis: Image Coding using the Derivative of Gaussian Transform with Embedded Zerotree Quantization
• Tang Chu (Staci) Lin (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2005) Thesis: Phonocardiogram Segmentation
• Brian Moyle (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1994) Project: A Survey of Motion Analysis Techniques.
• Shawn Newsam (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1996) Thesis: Successive Still Image Transmission Based on Focus of Attention.
• Alex Soohoo (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1994) Thesis: Image and Image Sequence Compression Using the 2-D Gabor Transform.
• Cheung Tam (M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1996) Thesis: Motion Compensated Coding using the 2-D Gabor Transform.
• Gene Wu (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1997) Dissertation: Image Sequence Processing using 3-D Segmentation.