Quality Assistant

Rajiv Soundararajan

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EDUCATION

The University of Texas at Austin

Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, (expected May 2012)

Advisors: Prof. Alan C. Bovik and Prof. Sriram Vishwanath

The University of Texas at Austin

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 2008

Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, June 2006

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Image and Video Processing - Quality assessment, compression, denoising, super-resolution,

retrieval, natural scene statistics, perceptual approaches

Information Theory - Rate distortion theory, distributed/multiterminal source coding, joint

source-channel coding, statistical signal processing, channels with state, compressed sensing

WORK EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, (Jun 2007 - present)

Research topics include reduced reference image and video quality assessment algorithms, sub-

jective quality assessment, natural scene statistics in multicamera images, multiterminal rate

distortion theory, joint source channel coding in sensor networks, channels with state, compres-

sive sensing.

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, (Sep 2007 - May 2010)

Worked with AT&T Research Laboratories, Austin in performing quality assessment studies

for 2D and 3D MPEG and H.264 compressed videos. Developed software for automatic digit

recognition in a lip sync measurement device and plotting routines for Dolby and Motorola

audio error measurement devices.

Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, (Jun 2007 - Aug 2007)

Worked with The Boeing Company in creating a database of videos su ering from distortions

due to H.264 compression and wireless transmission errors. Conducted a subjective study to

nd out packet loss rates that can be tolerated by an average viewer.

Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin, (Sep 2006 - May 2007)

Assisted students in Real Time DSP class in Fall 2006 and Spring 2007. Involved in conducting

lab sessions, delivering recitations, maintaining the course website and grading assignments.

Intern, Analog Devices (I) Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India, (Jan 2006 - Jun 2006)

Synthesized a CAD tool to automatically design opamps meeting priority based speci cations.

Intern, Central Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Chennai, (May 2004 - Jul 2004)

Classi ed external defects in citrus fruits based on the images using pattern recognition. Studied

the use of wavelet transforms in feature extraction.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner of the Chancellor s Silver Medal awarded to the second best student in a batch

of around 800 at BITS, Pilani, India.

Ranked 1st in the discipline of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at BITS, Pilani for

the batch 2002-2006.

Awarded the merit scholarship of the Central Board of Secondary Education at the result

of All India Senior School Examination (A.I.S.S.C.E) - 2002.

COMPUTER SKILLS

High-Level Languages -C

Assembly Languages - TMSC32054x, TMSC320C67x,ADSPBF533,8086

Algorithm Development Environments - MATLAB, LABVIEW, GAMS

Software Development Environments - TI Code Composer Studio

PUBLICATIONS

Journal (Submitted/Accepted)

Y. K. Chia, R. Soundararajan and T. Weissman, Estimation with a helper who knows

the interference, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Mar. 2012

O. O. Koyluoglu, R. Soundararajan, and S. Vishwanath, State ampli cation subject to

masking constraints, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2011

R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, Video Quality Assessment by Reduced Reference

Spatio-temporal Entropic Di erencing, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Circuits and

Systems for Video Technology, Dec. 2011

R. Soundararajan, A. B. Wagner and S. Vishwanath, Sum Rate of the Vacationing CEO

Problem, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Dec. 2010

Journal (Published)

R. Soundararajan and S. Vishwanath, Communicating Linear Functions of Correlated

Gaussian Sources over a MAC, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no.

3, pp.1853 - 1860, Mar. 2012

R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, RRED Indices: Reduced Reference Entropic Di er-

encing for Image Quality Assessment, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 21,

no. 2, pp. 517-526, Feb. 2012

K. Seshadrinathan, R. Soundararajan, A. C. Bovik and L. K. Cormack, Study of Sub-

jective and Objective Quality Assessment of Video, IEEE Transactions on Image Pro-

cessing, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1427-1441, Jun. 2010

A. K. Moorthy, K. Seshadrinathan, R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, Wireless video

quality assessment: A study of subjective scores and objective algorithms, IEEE Trans-

actions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 587-599, Apr.

2010

Conference

O. O. Koyluoglu, R. Soundararajan, and S. Vishwanath, State ampli cation under mask-

ing constraints, Proc. of 49th Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and

Computing, Monticello, IL, Sep. 2011.

R. Soundararajan and S. Vishwanath, Multiterminal Source Coding Through a Relay,

Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), St. Petersburg,

Russia, Aug. 2011

R. Soundararajan and A. C. Bovik, RRED Indices: Reduced Reference Entropic Dif-

ferencing Framework for Image Quality Assessment, Proc. of IEEE International Con-

ference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, Czech Republic,

May 2011

R. Soundararajan, A. B. Wagner and S. Vishwanath, Sum Rate of the Vacationing

CEO Problem, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT),

Austin, Texas, Jun. 2010

K. Seshadrinathan, R. Soundararajan, A. C. Bovik and L. K. Cormack, A Subjective

Study to Evaluate Video Quality Assessment Algorithms, SPIE Proceedings Human

Vision and Electronic Imaging, San Jose, California, Jan. 2010

R. Soundararajan, A. C. Bovik and S. Vishwanath, Statistical Modeling of Multi-camera

Images, Proc. of 43rd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Paci c

Grove, California, Nov. 2009

R. Soundararajan and S. Vishwanath, Hybrid Coding for Gaussian Broadcast Channels

with Gaussian Sources, Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

(ISIT), Seoul, Korea, Jun. 2009

R. Soundararajan and S. Vishwanath, Communicating the Di erence of Correlated Gaus-

sian Sources Over a MAC, Proc. of Data Compression Conference (DCC), Snowbird,

Utah, Mar. 2009

R. Soundararajan and S. Vishwanath, Adaptive Sum Power Iterative Water lling for

MIMO Cognitive Radios, Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications

(ICC), Beijing, China, May 2008

Book Chapters

R. Soundararajan, K. Seshadrinathan and A. C. Bovik, Video quality assessment for

wireless applications, in The Encyclopedia of Multimedia, Second Edition, B. Furht

(Eds.), New York: Springer, pp. 935-937, 2009

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