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Publications:

Submitted papers

(none currently)

To be published papers

(none currently)

Published journal papers

Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. Coding of 3D virtual objects with NURBS. Signal Processing, special issue on image and video coding beyond standards, pp. 1581-1593, volume 82, no. 11, Nov. 2002.
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Diego Santa-Cruz, Raphaël Grosbois and Touradj Ebrahimi. JPEG 2000 performance evaluation and assessment. Signal Processing: Image Communication, pages 113-130, volume 17, no. 1, Jan. 2002. This is a corrected version, the original published version, as well as the other articles of the same issue, are freely available from Elsevier online.
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Published conference papers

Nicolas Aspert, Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. MESH: Measuring Errors between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference in Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2002, volume 1, pages 705-708, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 26-29, 2002.
Software available at http://mesh.berlios.de/.
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Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. Compression of parametric surfaces for efficient 3D model coding. In Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2002, Proc. of SPIE, volume 4671, pages 280-291, San Jose, CA, USA, January 21-23, 2002. Winner of the VCIP'02 Best Student Paper Award.
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Raphaël Grosbois, Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. New approach to JPEG 2000 compliant region of interest coding. In SPIE's 46th annual meeting, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIV , Proc. of SPIE, volume 4472, pages 267-275, San Diego, California, Jul. 29-Aug. 3, 2001.
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Franck Leprévost, Raphaël Erard, Touradj Ebrahimi, Martin Kutter and Diego Santa-Cruz. How to Bypass the Wassenaar Arrangement: A New Application for Watermarking. In Proc. on ACM multimedia 2000 workshops, pages 161-164, Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 30-November 3, 2000.
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Diego Santa-Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi, Joel Askelöf, Mathias Larsson and Charilaos Christopoulos. JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards. In Proc. of the SPIE's 45th annual meeting, Applications of Digital Image Processing XXIII , volume 4115, pages 446-454, San Diego, California, Jul. 30-Aug. 4, 2000.
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Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. An analytical study of JPEG 2000 functionalities. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), volume 2, pages 49-52, Vancouver, Canada, September 10-13, 2000.
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Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. A study of JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards. In Proc. of the X European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), volume 2, pages 673-676, Tampere, Finland, September 5-8, 2000.
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Diego Santa Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi, Mathias Larsson, Joel Askelöf and Charilaos Cristopoulos. Region of Interest Coding in JPEG2000 for interactive client/server applications. In Proc. of the IEEE Third Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pages 389-394, Copenhagen, Denmark, September 13-15, 1999.
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Maryline Charrier, Diego Santa Cruz and Mathias Larsson. JPEG2000, the next millenium compression standard for still images. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS), volume 1, pages 131-132, Florence, Italy, June 7-11, 1999.
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Java(TM) Demo

Theses

Diego Santa Cruz Ducci, Compression of 3D models with NURBS, Ph.D. Thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2003.
Software available: NURBS-20040223.tar.gz (6 MB).
Abstract
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Diego Santa Cruz, Multiple feature extraction for robust image sequence segmentation, Master Thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, February 1997.
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Other publications

Diego Santa Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi and Charilaos Cristopoulos. The JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard. In Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 26, issue 4, pages 46-54, April 2001.
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BibTeX references of published papers

Below is the source of the BibTeX references of the above papers.

Compression of 3D models with NURBS

@PhdThesis{sc:phd-3d-nurbs-comp,
  author = 	 {Santa Cruz Ducci, Diego},
  title = 	 {Compression of {3D} models with {NURBS}},
  school = 	 {Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)},
  year = 	 2003,
  address =	 {Switzerland}
}

Coding of 3D virtual objects with NURBS

@Article{sceb02:coding-nurbs,
  author =	 {Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {Coding of {3D} virtual objects with {NURBS}},
  journal =	 {Signal Processing},
  year =	 2002,
  volume =	 82,
  number =	 11,
  pages =	 {1581-1593},
  month =	 nov
}

MESH: Measuring Errors between Surfaces using the Hausdorff distance

@InProceedings{aspert02:mesh,
  author =	 {Nicolas Aspert and Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {MESH: Measuring Errors between Surfaces using the Hausdorff
                  distance},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. of the IEEE International Conference in Multimedia and
                  Expo (ICME) 2002},
  pages =	 {705-708},
  year =	 2002,
  volume =	 1,
  address =	 {Lausanne, Switzerland},
  month =	 aug,
  date =	 {August 26-29}
}

Compression of parametric surfaces for efficient 3D model coding

@InProceedings{sceb02:parsurf-comp,
  author =	 {Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {Compression of parametric surfaces for efficient {3D} model
                  coding},
  booktitle =	 {Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) 2002},
  pages =	 {280-291},
  year =	 2002,
  series =	 {Proc. of SPIE},
  volume =	 4671,
  address =	 {San Jose, CA, USA},
  month =	 jan,
  date =	 {January 21-23},
  note =	 {Winner of the VCIP'02 Best Student Paper Award}
}

JPEG 2000 performance evaluation and assessment

@Article{sceb:j2k-eval,
  author =	 {Diego Santa-Cruz and Rapha\"{e}l Grosbois and Touradj
                  Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {JPEG~2000 performance evaluation and assessment},
  journal =	 {Signal Processing: Image Communication},
  year =	 2002,
  volume =	 17,
  number =	 1,
  pages =	 {113-130},
  month =	 jan
}

New approach to JPEG 2000 compliant region of interest coding

@InProceedings{grsceb01:new-j2k-roi,
  author =	 {Rapha\"{e}l Grosbois and Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj
                  Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {New approach to {JPEG~2000} compliant region of interest
                  coding},
  booktitle =	 {SPIE's 45th annual meeting, Applications of Digital Image
                  Processing XXIV},
  pages =	 {267-275},
  year =	 2001,
  volume =	 4472,
  series =	 {Proc. of SPIE},
  address =	 {San Diego, California},
  month =	 aug,
  date = 	 {July 29-August 3},
}

How to Bypass the Wassenaar Arrangement: A New Application for Watermarking

@InProceedings{leprevost00:how-bypass-wassenaar,
  author =	 {Franck Lepr\'{e}vost and Rapha\"{e}l Erard and Touradj
                  Ebrahimi and Martin Kutter and Diego Santa-Cruz},
  title =	 {How to Bypass the {W}assenaar Arrangement: A New Application
                  for Watermarking},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. on ACM multimedia 2000 workshops},
  pages =	 {161-164},
  year =	 2000,
  address =	 {Los Angeles, CA, USA},
  month =	 nov,
  date = 	 {October 30 - November 3}
}

The JPEG 2000 Image Coding Standard

@Article{sceb:j2k-standard,
  author =	 {Diego {Santa Cruz} and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {The {JPEG~2000} Image Coding Standard},
  journal =	 {Dr. Dobb's Journal},
  year =	 2001,
  volume =	 26,
  number =	 4,
  pages =	 {46-54},
  month =	 apr
}

JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards

@InProceedings{sceb:j2k-vs-stds-spie,
  author =	 {Diego {Santa-Cruz} and Touradj Ebrahimi and Joel Askel\"{o}f
                  and Mathias Larsson and Charilaos Christopoulos},
  title =	 {{JPEG~2000} still image coding versus other standards},
  booktitle =	 {SPIE's 45th annual meeting, Applications of Digital Image
                  Processing XXIII},
  pages =	 {446-454},
  year =	 2000,
  volume =	 4115,
  series =	 {Proc. of SPIE},
  address =	 {San Diego, California},
  month =	 aug,
  date =	 {July 30-August 4}
}

An analytical study of JPEG 2000 functionalities

@InProceedings{sceb:anal-study-j2k,
  author =	 {Diego {Santa-Cruz} and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {An analytical study of {JPEG~2000} functionalities},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. of the
                  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
  pages =	 {49-52},
  year =	 2000,
  volume =	 2,
  address =	 {Vancouver, Canada},
  month =	 sep,
  date =	 {September 10-13},
}

A study of JPEG 2000 still image coding versus other standards

@InProceedings{sceb:j2k-vs-stds,
  author =	 {Diego {Santa-Cruz} and Touradj Ebrahimi},
  title =	 {A study of {JPEG~2000} still image coding versus other
                  standards},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. of the X European Signal Processing Conference},
  pages =	 {673-676},
  year =	 2000,
  volume =	 2,
  address =	 {Tampere, Finland},
  month =	 sep,
  date =	 {September 5-8},
}

Region of Interest Coding in JPEG2000 for interactive client/server applications

@InProceedings{scetal:mmsp99,
  author =	 {Diego {Santa Cruz} and Touradj Ebrahimi and Mathias
                  Larsson and Joel Askel{\"o}f and Charilaos
                  Cristopoulos},
  title =	 {Region of Interest Coding in {JPEG2000} for
                  interactive client/server applications},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. of the {IEEE} Third Workshop on Multimedia
                  Signal Processing (MMSP)},
  address =	 {Copenhagen, Denmark},
  year =	 1999,
  month =	 Sep,
  date =         {September 13-15},
  pages =	 {389-394}
}

JPEG2000, the next millenium compression standard for still images

@InProceedings{cscl:icmcs99,
  author =	 {Maryline Charrier and Diego {Santa Cruz} and Mathias
                  Larsson},
  title =	 {{JPEG2000}, the Next Millenium Compression Standard
                  for Still Images},
  booktitle =	 {Proc. of the {IEEE} International Conference on
                  Multimedia Computing and Systems (ICMCS)},
  volume =	 1,
  address =	 {Florence, Italy},
  year =	 1999,
  month =	 Jun,
  date =         {June 7-11},
  pages =	 {131-132}
}

Multiple feature extraction for robust image sequence segmentation

@MastersThesis{sc:master-multif-segment,
  author =	 {Santa Cruz, Diego},
  title =	 {Multiple feature extraction for robust image sequence
                  segmentation},
  school =	 {Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)},
  year =	 1997,
  address =	 {Switzerland},
  month =	 feb
}

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