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Petros T. Boufounos

Petros T. Boufounos
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  • Biography

    After completing his doctoral studies, Petros joined Rice University as a Postdoctoral associate until Jan. 2009, when he joined MERL. Since joining MERL, Petros has contributed in areas such as high-speed video acquisition, ultrasonic imaging, and privacy-preserving secure embeddings. His interests include signal acquisition and processing, signal representations and compressive sensing. He is also a visiting scholar at Rice University and an Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters.

  • Recent News & Events

    •  EVENT    MERL Contributes to ICASSP 2023
      Date: Sunday, June 4, 2023 - Saturday, June 10, 2023
      Location: Rhodes Island, Greece
      MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Francois Germain; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Jonathan Le Roux; Dehong Liu; Suhas Lohit; Yanting Ma; Hassan Mansour; Joshua Rapp; Anthony Vetro; Pu (Perry) Wang; Gordon Wichern
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Computational Sensing, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Speech & Audio
      Brief
      • MERL has made numerous contributions to both the organization and technical program of ICASSP 2023, which is being held in Rhodes Island, Greece from June 4-10, 2023.

        Organization

        Petros Boufounos is serving as General Co-Chair of the conference this year, where he has been involved in all aspects of conference planning and execution.

        Perry Wang is the organizer of a special session on Radar-Assisted Perception (RAP), which will be held on Wednesday, June 7. The session will feature talks on signal processing and deep learning for radar perception, pose estimation, and mutual interference mitigation with speakers from both academia (Carnegie Mellon University, Virginia Tech, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and industry (Mitsubishi Electric, Bosch, Waveye).

        Anthony Vetro is the co-organizer of the Workshop on Signal Processing for Autonomous Systems (SPAS), which will be held on Monday, June 5, and feature invited talks from leaders in both academia and industry on timely topics related to autonomous systems.

        Sponsorship

        MERL is proud to be a Silver Patron of the conference and will participate in the student job fair on Thursday, June 8. Please join this session to learn more about employment opportunities at MERL, including openings for research scientists, post-docs, and interns.

        MERL is pleased to be the sponsor of two IEEE Awards that will be presented at the conference. We congratulate Prof. Rabab Ward, the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Fourier Award for Signal Processing, and Prof. Alexander Waibel, the recipient of the 2023 IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award.

        Technical Program

        MERL is presenting 13 papers in the main conference on a wide range of topics including source separation and speech enhancement, radar imaging, depth estimation, motor fault detection, time series recovery, and point clouds. One workshop paper has also been accepted for presentation on self-supervised music source separation.

        Perry Wang has been invited to give a keynote talk on Wi-Fi sensing and related standards activities at the Workshop on Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC), which will be held on Sunday, June 4.

        Additionally, Anthony Vetro will present a Perspective Talk on Physics-Grounded Machine Learning, which is scheduled for Thursday, June 8.

        About ICASSP

        ICASSP is the flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on the research advances and latest technological development in signal and information processing. The event attracts more than 2000 participants each year.
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    •  NEWS    Keynote Speech by Dr. Petros Boufounos
      Date: August 5, 2021
      MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
      Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Signal Processing
      Brief
      • MERL's Distinguished Researcher Dr. Petros Boufounos is the keynote speaker for the Center for Advanced Signal and Image Sciences (CASIS) 25th Annual Workshop on Aug. 5, 2021, with talk titled, "The Computational Sensing Revolution in Array Processing."
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  • Awards

    •  AWARD    MERL’s Paper on Wi-Fi Sensing Earns Top 3% Paper Recognition at ICASSP 2023, Selected as a Best Student Paper Award Finalist
      Date: June 9, 2023
      Awarded to: Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio, Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, Petros Boufounos and Petar Popovski
      MERL Contacts: Petros T. Boufounos; Toshiaki Koike-Akino; Pu (Perry) Wang; Ye Wang
      Research Areas: Artificial Intelligence, Communications, Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Machine Learning, Signal Processing
      Brief
      • A MERL Paper on Wi-Fi sensing was recognized as a Top 3% Paper among all 2709 accepted papers at the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023). Co-authored by Cristian Vaca-Rubio and Petar Popovski from Aalborg University, Denmark, and MERL researchers Pu Wang, Toshiaki Koike-Akino, Ye Wang, and Petros Boufounos, the paper "MmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning" was also a Best Student Paper Award finalist.

        Performed during Cristian’s stay at MERL first as a visiting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow and then as a full-time intern in 2022, this work capitalizes on standards-compliant Wi-Fi signals to perform indoor localization and sensing. The paper uses a neural dynamic learning framework to address technical issues such as low sampling rate and irregular sampling intervals.

        ICASSP, a flagship conference of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS), was hosted on the Greek island of Rhodes from June 04 to June 10, 2023. ICASSP 2023 marked the largest ICASSP in history, boasting over 4000 participants and 6128 submitted papers, out of which 2709 were accepted.
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    •  AWARD    Petros Boufounos Elevated to IEEE Fellow
      Date: January 1, 2022
      Awarded to: Petros T. Boufounos
      MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
      Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Signal Processing
      Brief
      • MERL’s Petros Boufounos has been elevated to IEEE Fellow, effective January 2022, for “contributions to compressed sensing.”

        IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the IEEE. It honors members with an outstanding record of technical achievements, contributing importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, and bringing significant value to society. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, the IEEE Fellow Committee recommends a select group of recipients for elevation to IEEE Fellow. Less than 0.1% of voting members are selected annually for this member grade elevation.
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    •  AWARD    2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award
      Date: December 1, 2015
      Awarded to: Mark A. Davenport, Petros T. Boufounos, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk
      MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
      Research Area: Computational Sensing
      Brief
      • Petros Boufounos is a recipient of the 2015 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award for the paper that he co-authored with Mark A. Davenport, Michael B. Wakin and Richard G. Baraniuk on "Signal Processing with Compressive Measurements" which was published in the April 2010 issue of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. The Best Paper Award honors the author(s) of a paper of exceptional merit dealing with a subject related to the Society's technical scope, and appearing in one of the Society's solely owned transactions or the Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. Eligibility is based on a five-year window: for example, for the 2015 Award, the paper must have appeared in one of the Society's Transactions between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2014.
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    •  AWARD    GRSS 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award
      Date: May 1, 2014
      Awarded to: Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos
      Awarded for: "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight"
      Awarded by: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)
      MERL Contacts: Dehong Liu; Petros T. Boufounos
      Research Area: Computational Sensing
      Brief
      • Dehong Liu and Petros T. Boufounos are the recipients of the the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2014 Symposium Prize Paper Award for their paper "Synthetic Aperture Imaging Using a Randomly Steered Spotlight," presented at IGARSS 2013 (TR2013-070).
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    •  AWARD    MMSP 2012 Top 10% Paper Award
      Date: September 1, 2012
      Awarded to: Mu Li, Shantanu Rane and Petros Boufounos
      Awarded for: "Quantized Embeddings of Scale-Invariant Image Features for Mobile Augmented Reality"
      Awarded by: IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP)
      MERL Contact: Petros T. Boufounos
      Research Areas: Digital Video, Computational Sensing
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  • Internships with Petros

    • ST1762: Computational Sensing Technologies

      The Computational Sensing team at MERL is seeking motivated and qualified individuals to assist in the development of computational methods for a variety of sensing applications. Ideal candidates should be Ph.D. students and have solid background and publication record in any of the following, or related areas: imaging inverse problems, deep learning for inverse problems, large-scale optimization, blind inverse scattering, radar/lidar/THz imaging, joint communications and sensing, multimodal sensor fusion, object or human tracking, sensing of dynamical systems, or wave-based inversion. Experience with experimentally measured data is desirable. Publication of the results produced during our internships is expected. The duration of the internships is anticipated to be 3-6 months. Start date is flexible.

    • ST1763: Technologies for Multimodal Tracking and Imaging

      MERL is seeking a motivated intern to assist in developing hardware and algorithms for multimodal imaging applications. The project involves integration of radar, camera, and depth sensors in a variety of sensing scenarios. The ideal candidate should have experience with FMCW radar and/or depth sensing, and be fluent in Python and scripting methods. Familiarity with optical tracking of humans and experience with hardware prototyping is desired. Good knowledge of computational imaging and/or radar imaging methods is a plus.

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  • MERL Publications

    •  Berk, A., Ma, Y., Boufounos, P.T., Wang, P., Mansour, H., "Deep Proximal Gradient Method for Learned Convex Regularizers", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10094632, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX TR2023-032 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Berk2023may,
      • author = {Berk, Aaron and Ma, Yanting and Boufounos, Petros T. and Wang, Pu and Mansour, Hassan},
      • title = {Deep Proximal Gradient Method for Learned Convex Regularizers},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10094632},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-6327-7},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-032}
      • }
    •  Vaca-Rubio, C., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Boufounos, P.T., Popovski, P., "mmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continuous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10096474, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX TR2023-033 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Vaca-Rubio2023may,
      • author = {Vaca-Rubio, Cristian and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Boufounos, Petros T. and Popovski, Petar},
      • title = {mmWave Wi-Fi Trajectory Estimation with Continuous-Time Neural Dynamic Learning},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10096474},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-6327-7},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-033}
      • }
    •  Zhao, Q., Ma, Y., Boufounos, P.T., Nabi, S., Mansour, H., "Deep Born Operator Learning for Reflection Tomographic Imaging", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-029 PDF Data
      • @inproceedings{Zhao2023may,
      • author = {Zhao, Qingqing and Ma, Yanting and Boufounos, Petros T. and Nabi, Saleh and Mansour, Hassan},
      • title = {Deep Born Operator Learning for Reflection Tomographic Imaging},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • month = may,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-029}
      • }
    •  Ulvog, A., Rapp, J., Koike-Akino, T., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., Parsons, K., "Phase Unwrapping in Correlated Noise for FMCW LIDAR Depth Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10095456, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX TR2023-028 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Ulvog2023may,
      • author = {Ulvog, Alfred and Rapp, Joshua and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Parsons, Kieran},
      • title = {Phase Unwrapping in Correlated Noise for FMCW LIDAR Depth Estimation},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • month = may,
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095456},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-6327-7},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-028}
      • }
    •  Jin, S., Wang, P., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., Roy, S., "Spatial-Domain Object Detection Under MIMO-FMCW Automotive Radar Interference", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP49357.2023.10095409, May 2023, pp. 1-5.
      BibTeX TR2023-027 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Jin2023may,
      • author = {Jin, Sian and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei and Roy, Sumit},
      • title = {Spatial-Domain Object Detection Under MIMO-FMCW Automotive Radar Interference},
      • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2023,
      • pages = {1--5},
      • month = may,
      • publisher = {IEEE},
      • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49357.2023.10095409},
      • isbn = {978-1-7281-6327-7},
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-027}
      • }
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  • Other Publications

    •  M. A. Davenport, P. T. Boufounos, M. B. Wakin and R. G. Baraniuk, "Signal processing with compressive measurements", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 445-460, April 2010.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{DBWB_JSTSP10,
      • author = {Davenport, M. A. and Boufounos, P. T. and Wakin, M. B. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Signal processing with compressive measurements},
      • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
      • year = 2010,
      • volume = 4,
      • number = 2,
      • pages = {445--460},
      • month = apr,
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2039178}
      • }
    •  M.A. Davenport, P. T. Boufounos and R. G. Baraniuk, "Compressive domain interference cancellation", Proc. Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS), April 6-9 2009.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{DBB_SPARS09,
      • author = {Davenport, M.A. and Boufounos, P. T. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Compressive domain interference cancellation},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Workshop on Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS)},
      • year = 2009,
      • address = {Saint-Malo, France},
      • month = {April 6-9},
      • url = {http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00369498/fr/}
      • }
    •  J.N. Laska, P. T. Boufounos and R. G. Baraniuk, "Finite Range Scalar Quantization for Compressive Sensing", Proc. Int. Conf. Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA), May 18-22 2009.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{LBB_SampTA09,
      • author = {Laska, J.N. and Boufounos, P. T. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Finite Range Scalar Quantization for Compressive Sensing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Int. Conf. Sampling Theory and Applications (SampTA)},
      • year = 2009,
      • address = {Toulouse, France},
      • month = {May 18-22},
      • url = {http://www.latp.univ-mrs.fr/SAMPTA09/FinalSubmissions/180.pdf}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, A. V. Oppenheim and V. K. Goyal, "Causal compensation for erasures in frame representations", IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, Vol. 56, No. 3, pp. 1071-1082, March 2008.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{BOG_TSP07,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Oppenheim, A. V. and Goyal, V. K.},
      • title = {Causal compensation for erasures in frame representations},
      • journal = {IEEE Trans. Signal Processing},
      • year = 2008,
      • volume = 56,
      • number = 3,
      • pages = {1071--1082},
      • month = mar,
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSP.2007.908963}
      • }
    •  Boufounos P. T. and R. G. Baraniuk, "1-Bit compressive sensing", Proc. Conf. Inform. Science and Systems (CISS), March 19-21 2008.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BB_CISS08,
      • author = {T., Boufounos P. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {1-Bit compressive sensing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Conf. Inform. Science and Systems (CISS)},
      • year = 2008,
      • address = {Princeton, NJ},
      • month = {March 19-21},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CISS.2008.4558487}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos and R. G. Baraniuk, "Reconstructing sparse signals from their zero crossings", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 30-April 4 2008.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BB_ICASSP08,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Reconstructing sparse signals from their zero crossings},
      • booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2008,
      • address = {Las Vegas, NV},
      • month = {March 30-April 4},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2008.4518371}
      • }
    •  F. Koushanfar, P. T. Boufounos and D. Shamsi, "Post-silicon timing characterization by compressed sensing", Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), November 2-5 2008.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{KBS_ICCAD08,
      • author = {Koushanfar, F. and Boufounos, P. T. and Shamsi, D.},
      • title = {Post-silicon timing characterization by compressed sensing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)},
      • year = 2008,
      • address = {San Jose, CA},
      • month = {November 2-5},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAD.2008.4681572}
      • }
    •  D. Shamsi, P. T. Boufounos and F. Koushanfar, "Noninvasive leakage power tomography of integrated circuits by compressive sensing", Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), August 11-13 2008.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{SBK_ISPLED08,
      • author = {Shamsi, D. and Boufounos, P. T. and Koushanfar, F.},
      • title = {Noninvasive leakage power tomography of integrated circuits by compressive sensing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. ACM/IEEE Int. Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)},
      • year = 2008,
      • address = {Bangalore, India},
      • month = {August 11-13},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1393921.1394011}
      • }
    •  P. Smaragdis and P. Boufounos, "Position and trajectory learning for microphone arrays", IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 358-368, January 2007.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{SB_TASL07,
      • author = {Smaragdis, P. and Boufounos, P.},
      • title = {Position and trajectory learning for microphone arrays},
      • journal = {IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing},
      • year = 2007,
      • volume = 15,
      • number = 1,
      • pages = {358--368},
      • month = jan,
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TASL.2006.876758}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos and R. G. Baraniuk, "Quantization of sparse representations", Rice University ECE Department Technical Report 0701. Summary appears in Proc. Data Compression Conference (DCC), March 27-29 2007.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BB_DCC07,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Quantization of sparse representations},
      • booktitle = {Rice University ECE Department Technical Report 0701. Summary appears in Proc. Data Compression Conference (DCC)},
      • year = 2007,
      • address = {Snowbird, UT},
      • month = {March 27-29},
      • url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13034}
      • }
    •  P. Boufounos and R. G. Baraniuk, "Sigma Delta Quantization for Compressive Sensing", Proc. SPIE Waveletts XII, August 26-29 2007.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BB_SPIE07,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Sigma Delta Quantization for Compressive Sensing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. SPIE Waveletts XII},
      • year = 2007,
      • address = {San Diego, CA},
      • month = {August 26-29},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.734880}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, M. F. Duarte and R. G. Baraniuk, "Sparse signal reconstruction from noisy compressive measurements using cross validation", Proc IEEE 14th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP)., August 26-29 2007.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BDB_SSP07,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Duarte, M. F. and Baraniuk, R. G.},
      • title = {Sparse signal reconstruction from noisy compressive measurements using cross validation},
      • booktitle = {Proc IEEE 14th Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP).},
      • year = 2007,
      • address = {Madison, WI.},
      • month = {August 26-29},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SSP.2007.4301267}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, "Generating binary processes with autoregressive spectra", Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), April 15-20 2007.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{B_ICASSP07,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T.},
      • title = {Generating binary processes with autoregressive spectra},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2007,
      • address = {Honolulu, HI},
      • month = {April 15-20},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2007.366846}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos and A. V. Oppenheim, "Compensation of coefficient erasures in frame representations", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 14-19 2006.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BO_ICASSP06,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Oppenheim, A. V.},
      • title = {Compensation of coefficient erasures in frame representations},
      • booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2006,
      • address = {Toulouse, France},
      • month = {May 14-19},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1660787}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos and A. V. Oppenheim, "Quantization noise shaping on arbitrary frame expansions", EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Frames and Overcomplete Representations in Signal Processing, Communications, and Information Theory, Vol. 2006, 2006.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{BO_JASP06,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Oppenheim, A. V.},
      • title = {Quantization noise shaping on arbitrary frame expansions},
      • journal = {EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special issue on Frames and Overcomplete Representations in Signal Processing, Communications, and Information Theory},
      • year = 2006,
      • volume = 2006,
      • publisher = {Hindawi Publishing Corp.},
      • note = {Article ID 53807, 12 pages},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ASP/2006/53807}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, "Quantization and erasures in frame representations", January 2006 2006, MIT.
      BibTeX External
      • @Phdthesis{B_DSc06,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T.},
      • title = {Quantization and erasures in frame representations},
      • school = {MIT},
      • year = 2006,
      • address = {Cambridge, MA},
      • month = {January 2006},
      • url = {http://boufounos.com/Publications/Boufounos_DScThesis06.pdf}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos and A. V. Oppenheim, "Quantization noise shaping on arbitrary frame expansions", Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 18-23 2005.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BO_ICASSP05,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and Oppenheim, A. V.},
      • title = {Quantization noise shaping on arbitrary frame expansions},
      • booktitle = {Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
      • year = 2005,
      • address = {Philadelphia, PA},
      • month = {March 18-23},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2005.1415981}
      • }
    •  P. Smaragdis and P. T. Boufounos, "Learning source trajectories using wrapped-phase hidden markov models", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), October 16-19 2005.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{SB_WASPAA05,
      • author = {Smaragdis, P. and Boufounos, P. T.},
      • title = {Learning source trajectories using wrapped-phase hidden markov models},
      • booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA)},
      • year = 2005,
      • address = {New Paltz, NY},
      • month = {October 16-19},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASPAA.2005.1540182}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, S. El-Difrawy and D. Ehrlich, "Basecalling using hidden Markov models", Journal of the Franklin Institute, Special Issue On Genomics, Signal Processing, and Statistics, Vol. 341, No. 1-2, pp. 23-36, January-March 2004.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{BEE_JFI04,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and El-Difrawy, S. and Ehrlich, D.},
      • title = {Basecalling using hidden Markov models},
      • journal = {Journal of the Franklin Institute, Special Issue On Genomics, Signal Processing, and Statistics},
      • year = 2004,
      • volume = 341,
      • number = {1-2},
      • pages = {23--36},
      • month = {January-March},
      • publisher = {Elsevier},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2003.12.008}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, "Signal Processing For DNA Sequencing", June 2002, MIT.
      BibTeX External
      • @Mastersthesis{B_MEng02,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T.},
      • title = {Signal Processing For DNA Sequencing},
      • school = {MIT},
      • year = 2002,
      • address = {Cambridge, MA},
      • month = jun,
      • url = {http://boufounos.com/Publications/Boufounos_MEngThesis02.pdf}
      • }
    •  P. T. Boufounos, S. El-Difrawy and D. Ehrlich, "Hidden Markov models for DNA sequencing", Proc. Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), October 11-13 2002.
      BibTeX External
      • @Inproceedings{BEE_GENSIPS02,
      • author = {Boufounos, P. T. and El-Difrawy, S. and Ehrlich, D.},
      • title = {Hidden Markov models for DNA sequencing},
      • booktitle = {Proc. Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS)},
      • year = 2002,
      • address = {Raleigh, NC},
      • month = {October 11-13},
      • url = {http://www.gensips.gatech.edu/proceedings/Contributed/CP1-16.pdf}
      • }
    •  G. Zacharia, T. Evgeniou, A. Moukas, P. Boufounos and P. Maes, "Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace" in E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand, Liu, Jiming and Ye, Yiming, Eds., vol. 2033 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 25-38, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2001.
      BibTeX External
      • @Incollection{ZEMBM_ECA01,
      • author = {Zacharia, G. and Evgeniou, T. and Moukas, A. and Boufounos, P. and Maes, P.},
      • title = {Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace},
      • booktitle = {E-Commerce Agents: Marketplace Solutions, Security Issues, and Supply and Demand},
      • year = 2001,
      • editor = {Liu, Jiming and Ye, Yiming},
      • volume = 2033,
      • series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
      • pages = {25--38},
      • publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45370-9_3}
      • }
    •  G. Zacharia, T. Evgeniou, A. Moukas, P. Boufounos and P. Maes, "Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace", Electronic Commerce Research, Vol. 1, pp. 85-100, 2001.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{ZEMBM_ECR01,
      • author = {Zacharia, G. and Evgeniou, T. and Moukas, A. and Boufounos, P. and Maes, P.},
      • title = {Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace},
      • journal = {Electronic Commerce Research},
      • year = 2001,
      • volume = 1,
      • pages = {85--100},
      • publisher = {Springer Netherlands},
      • url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1011523612549}
      • }
    •  G. Zacharia, A. Moukas, P. Boufounos and P. Maes, "Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Knowledge Marketplace", Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Vol. 8, pp. 8064, 2000.
      BibTeX External
      • @Article{ZMBM_HICSS00,
      • author = {Zacharia, G. and Moukas, A. and Boufounos, P. and Maes, P.},
      • title = {Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Knowledge Marketplace},
      • journal = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences},
      • year = 2000,
      • volume = 8,
      • pages = 8064,
      • address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
      • url = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/HICSS.2000.927026}
      • }
    •  G. Zacharia, A. Moukas, P. Boufounos and Maes P., "Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace.", Proc. of Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce, The 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-99), December 1999.
      BibTeX
      • @Inproceedings{ZMBM_IAT99,
      • author = {Zacharia, G. and Moukas, A. and Boufounos, P. and P., Maes},
      • title = {Economics of Dynamic Pricing in a Reputation Brokered Agent Mediated Marketplace.},
      • booktitle = {Proc. of Workshop on Agents in E-Commerce, The 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-99)},
      • year = 1999,
      • address = {Hong Kong},
      • month = dec
      • }

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