Education:

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the ECE department of Michigan Sate University, East Lansing, 2001 to 2006. My advisor was Prof. Hayder Radha and I worked in the WAVES Lab.   

• M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the EE department of Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1994 to 1997. My advisor was Prof. Mohammad Mahdi Nayebi.

• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Electronics) from the EE department of Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, 1989 to 1994.

Research Interests:

• Wavelets and Filter Banks
  • Efficient Representations and Transforms for Images and Videos
  • Applications to Signal Processing such as Coding and Denoising
  • Multirate Filter Design
     
• Biomedical Image Processing
  • Inverse Problems, Image and Volume Reconstruction
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging
  • Compressed Sampling
     

Publications:

   Journal

1. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “A New Family of Nonredundant Transforms using Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 1152-1167, Apr. 2007. (Please email me for the software.)

2. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Translation-Invariant Contourlet Transform and Its Application to Image Denoising,” IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 3362 - 3374, Nov. 2006. (Please email me for the software.)

   Conference

1. R. Eslami and M. Jacob, “Spatial Spectral Modeling for Robust MRSI,” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC), Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009.

2. R. Eslami and M. Jacob, “Reduction of Distortions in MRSI Using a New Signal Model,” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Sym. Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), pp. 438-441, Boston, MA, Jun. 2009.

3. R. Eslami and M. Jacob, “Correction of B0 Field Inhomogeneity Distortion in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging,” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 405-408, Taipei, Taiwan, Apr. 2009.

4. R. Eslami and X. Wu, “Video Denoising Using 3-D Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks,” in Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2340-2343, San Diego, CA, Oct. 2008.

5. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Regular Wavelets Using a Three-Step Lifting Scheme,”  in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 3, pp. 849-852, Honolulu, HI, Apr. 2007.

6. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Regular Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks: Extensions and Applications,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1609-1612, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2006.

7. R. Eslami, J.R. Deller Jr., and H. Radha, “On the Detection of Multiplicative Watermarks for Speech Signals in the Wavelet and DCT Domains,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 1369-1372, Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2006.

8. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Optimal Linear Combination of Denoising Schemes for Efficient Removal of Image Artifacts,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), pp. 465-468, Toronto, Canada, Jul. 2006.

9. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Image Watermarking using Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks,” in Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2006.

10. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “New Image Transforms using Hybrid Wavelets and Directional Filter Banks: Analysis and Design,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 1, pp. 733-736, Genova, Italy, Sep. 2005.

11. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Image Denoising using Translation-Invariant Contourlet Transform,” in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), vol. 4, pp. 557-560, Philadelphia, PA, Mar. 2005.

12. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Wavelet-based Contourlet Packet Image Coding,”  in Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), Baltimore, MD, Mar. 2005.

13. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Wavelet-based Contourlet Transform and Its Application to Image Coding,”  in Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), vol. 5, pp. 3189-3192, Singapore, Oct. 2004.

14. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “Wavelet-based Contourlet Coding using an SPIHT-like Algorithm,”  in Proc. of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), pp. 784-788, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 2004.

15. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “The Contourlet Transform for Image De-noising using Cycle Spinning,"  in Proc. of  Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1982-1986, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2003. Comments.

16. R. Eslami and H. Radha, “On Low Bit-Rate Coding using the Contourlet Transform,” in Proc. of  Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 1524-1528, Pacific Grove, CA, Nov. 2003.
     

Contact Info.:

• Ramin Eslami
  University of Rochester
  Department of Biomedical Engineering
  601 Elmwood Ave.
  Rochester, NY 14627
   
• Tel: +1-585-276-4378
   
• Email: 

Last Updated: 10/01/2009