Ying-zong Huang

I received my Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT, where I wrote the following --

• Model-Code Separation Architectures for Compression Based on Message-Passing (compress.cc)
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015

I show why classic compression systems have a hard time making use of new knowledge about data, and how an entirely different design with a "model-code separation architecture" can do better. This won the Jin-Au Kong Thesis Award, Honorable Mention.

(There is also an associated software toolbox. For commercial concerns, inquire about technology licensing.)

I'm interested in information representation and statistical inference problems on complex signals, including neural-network representations. I am particularly fond of perceptual / multimedia signals, and I've designed algorithms for their optimal procesing, storage, and communication. More recently I was involved in building distributed algorithms and large-scale systems for applied machine learning.

Machine Learning

• Devavrat Shah, Sai Burle, Vishal Doshi, Ying-zong Huang, Balaji Rengarajan
  Prediction Query Language (publication)
  Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, October 2018

Data Compression

• Ying-zong Huang, Gregory W. Wornell
  Separation Architectures for Lossy Compression (pdf, publication)
  IEEE Information Theory Workshop, April 2015


• Ying-zong Huang, Gregory W. Wornell
  Practical Compression with Model-Code Separation (pdf, abstract, publication)
  Data Compression Conference, April 2015


• Ying-zong Huang, Gregory W. Wornell
  A Class of Compression Systems with Model-Free Encoding (pdf, publication)
  Information Theory and Applications Workshop, February 2014

Streaming Media

• Sanjeev Mehrotra, Jin Li, Ying-zong Huang
  Optimizing FEC Transmission Strategy for Minimizing Delay in Lossless Sequential Streaming (pdf, publication)
  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13:5, 1066-76, October 2011


• Sanjeev Mehrotra, Jin Li, Ying-zong Huang
  Minimizing Delay in Lossless Sequential Data Streaming (pdf, publication)
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, July 2010


• Ying-zong Huang, Yuval Kochman, Gregory W. Wornell
  Causal Transmission of Colored Source Frames over a Packet Erasure Channel (pdf, publication)
  Data Compression Conference, March 2010


• Ying-zong Huang, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Jin Li
  A Hybrid FEC-ARQ Protocol for Low-Delay Lossless Sequential Data Streaming (pdf, publication)
  IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, June 2009


• Ying-zong Huang, John G. Apostolopoulos
  A Joint Packet Selection/Omission and FEC System for Streaming Video (pdf, publication)
  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April, 2007


• Ying-zong Huang, John G. Apostolopoulos
  Making Packet Erasures to Improve Quality of FEC-Protected Video (pdf, publication)
  IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, October 2006

Classification

• Anuradha Aiyer, Kyungsuk Pyun, Ying-zong Huang, Deirdre B. O'Brien, Robert M. Gray
  Lloyd Clustering of Gauss Mixture Models for Image Compression and Classification (pdf, publication)
  Signal Processing: Image Communication, 20:5, 459-85, June 2005


• Ying-zong Huang, Deirdre B. O'Brien, Robert M. Gray
  Classification of Features and Images using Gauss Mixtures with VQ Clustering (pdf, publication)
  Data Compression Conference, March 2004

• End-to-End Processing for Streaming Applications (Addenda) (pdf)


• A Lemma on the Compressibility of Modifiable Binary Sequences (pdf)

• Exact Incremental and Distributed Regression (pdf)