Research interests & projects: Source Coding at Low Bit Rates Model-Based Rate-Distortion Optimzation Compatible Zerotree Quantization for Wavelet Packets (CZQ) Progressive image coding using augmented zerotrees (contents) (AZIC) Optimal parsing for dictionary based compression schemes (FP) Subband coding for pattern recognition Wavelet compression and analysis of 3D images Compression of DNA sequences Publications Data compression benchmark suite Related Conferences