Alan C. Brooks

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Public Projects

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• Structural similarity quality metrics in a coding context: exploring the space of realistic distortions (2.5MB pdf). A paper given at the Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XI conference where I evaluate structural similarity metrics with image distortions that commonly occur when compressing images and video. Also, I provide an example MATLAB implementation of my WCWSSIM metric.
• What Makes an Image Look Good? (4MB pdf). Discussions on: Image Phase, Pyramid Subband Transforms, Statistical Modeling of Natural Images, and Perceptual Image Quality. This really isn't good without the verbal part that accompanies.
• Face Recognition: Eigenface and Fisherface Performance Across Pose: Project for a very interesting class at Northwestern EE 432 (Computer Vision). Also, here is a presentation (4MB pdf) on this topic.
• Vision as Information Processing: Sampling the Plenoptic Function (1MB pdf): A research presentation from EE 421 (Multimedia Signal Processing).
• Image Stabilization Paper (pdf) and Results Video (mpeg 4): Project implementing video stabilization in EE 420 (Image Processing). See good M-files for code.
• Very Sad Space Invaders (zip): A simple OpenGL invaders clone for Windows that is not fun to play. I'm embarrassed by this. Why don't I take it down?
• Good M-files: Some useful files for MATLAB development projects. See also Steve's m-file library.
• Undergraduate Project: implementing a simple OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) demo.
• Mp3 Research Paper: A paper discussing the future of online music (written in 1999).
• Undergraduate Mini-Project (pdf): Component Oven Temperature Controller.