James E. Fowler

James E. Fowler Professor and Graduate Program Director Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Mississippi State University Box 9571 Mississippi State, MS 39762 USA   ECE   HPC² Office: 225 Simrall   Room 208 Phone: +1 (662) 325-3640   +1 (662) 325-2578 Fax: +1 (662) 325-2298   +1 (662) 325-7692 Simrall Office Hours: MW 9:00-1:00pm, 2:30-4:00pm Email: Web: http://www.ece.msstate.edu/~fowler GPG: GPG Public Key

Biography

• I am a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Mississippi State University and a researcher in the Geosystems Research Institute (GRI) at the Mississippi State HPC². I am currently serving as the Graduate Program Director for the ECE Department.

• I received the B.S. degree in Computer and Information Science Engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1990, 1992, and 1996, respectively, all from the The Ohio State University.

• From May to December, 2004, I was a visiting professor in the Département TSI at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France.

• From January to July, 1997, I held an NSF-sponsored postdoctoral research position in the Laboratoire I3S at the Université de Nice—Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis, France.

• In the summer of 1995, I interned at AT&T Labs Research (formerly AT&T Bell Labs) in Holmdel, NJ.

• I am an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and the EURASIP Journal of Image and Video Processing; previously, I served as an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. I am a member of the program committee for the Data Compression Conference.

• I am a member of the Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. I am currently the IVMSP webmaster and a member of the IVMSP Awards Subcommittee.

My curriculum vitae

Teaching

Class Home Pages

• Fall 2009
  • ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets

Past classes

• Spring 2009
  • ECE8813—Information Theory
• Fall 2008
  • ECE3413—Introduction to Electronic Circuits
• Spring 2008
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
  • ECE8483—Image & Video Coding
• Fall 2007
  • ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 2007
  • ECE8813—Information Theory
• Fall 2006
  • ECE4990/6990—Multimedia Signal Processing
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
• Spring 2006
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
• Fall 2005
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
  • ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 2005
  • ECE8990—Information Theory
  • ECE8483—Image & Video Coding
• Spring 2004
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
• Fall 2003
  • ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 2003
  • ECE8990—Information Theory
• Fall 2002
  • ECE8483—Image & Video Coding
• Spring 2002
  • ECE3163—Signals and Systems
• Fall 2001
  • ECE8453—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 2001
  • ECE8990—Information Theory
• Fall 2000
  • ECE8990—Image & Video Coding
• Spring 2000
  • CPE8113—Digital Image Processing
• Fall 1999
  • EE4813—Communications Theory
  • EE8990—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 1999
  • CPE8113—Digital Image Processing
  • EE3153—Circuit Analysis II
• Fall 1998
  • EE4990/6990—Introduction to Wavelets
• Spring 1998
  • CPE8113—Digital Image Processing
  • EE3123—Networks II
• Fall 1997
  • EE4813/6813—Communications Theory

Senior Design

	SECON Team, Fall 2002–Spring 2003—first-place team in the 2003 IEEE SoutheastCon student hardware competition held in Ocho Rios, Jamaica
	Radio-Controlled Duck Decoy, Fall 2001–Spring 2002
	Wireless Modem, Fall 2000–Spring 2000
	Autodialing One-Way Communication System, Fall 1999–Spring 2000

Useful Class Resources

• MATLAB:
  • My page of MATLAB resources.
• An essay on plagiarism:

  "Avoiding Plagiarism: A Student Survival Guide," revised April 2003

Research

My research interests center around the Communication of Images, Video, and Geospatial Data, including image processing and coding, video coding, and data-communication systems. Specific areas of research include:

• wavelet-based video and image coding
• representation, compression, and ranked access of terascale datasets arising in scientific simulations
• coding of geospatial data, particularly hyperspectral imagery
• image watermarking

Prospective Students

• Interested in joining our research group? See the Information for Prospective Students.

Publications

• Complete publications list

Projects

	QccPack—Quantization, Compression, Coding Library
	EVITA—Efficient Visualization and Interrogation for Terascale Datasets

Current Students

• Eric Tramel, Ph.D. CPE
• Sung Kwang Mun, Ph.D. CPE
• Jing Zhang, co-training Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Former Students

• Kristen M. Parker (M.S. EE, December 2007); thesis: “Watermarking with Wavelet Transforms”; currently at Southern Company, Birmingham, AL.
• Joseph B. Boettcher (M.S. CPE, December 2007); thesis: “Video Coding with 3D Wavelet Transforms”
• Maria Trocan (Ph.D., October 2007); co-advised with B. Pesquet-Popescu at ENST Paris
• Justin T. Rucker (M.S. EE, December 2005); thesis: “3D Wavelet-Based Algorithms for the Compression of Geoscience Data”; currently at Exxon, Beaumont, TX.
• Yonghui Wang (Ph.D. CPE, December 2003); dissertation: “Fully Scalable Video Coding Using Redundant-Wavelet Multihypothesis and Motion-Compensated Temporal Filtering”; currently at the Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.
• Suxia Cui (Ph.D. CPE, August 2003); dissertation: “Motion Estimation and Compensation in the Redundant Wavelet Domain”; currently at the Department of Engineering Technology, College of Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX.
• Li Hua (Ph.D. EE, August 2003); dissertation: “Vector Wavelet Transforms for the Coding of Static and Time-Varying Vector Fields”; currently at Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
• Madhavi Marka (M.S. EE, August 2002); thesis: “Object-Based Unequal Error Protection”.
• Tong Chu (M.S. CPE, Dec. 2000)

Service

My departmental service activities include:

• MSU Library Representative
  • see my page of Library Resources for the ECE Department
• Signal Processing Committee, member

My College of Engineering service activities include:

• College Curriculum Committee

My University service activities include:

• University Library Committee