Research Interests:
Digital image, video compression, and communications.
Biographical Information:
Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994, Columbia, New York, NY.
Antonio Ortega was born in Madrid, Spain in 1965. He received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain in 1989 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from
Columbia University, New York, NY in 1994. His Ph.D. work was supported by the Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Education of Spain. He joined the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor in 1994 and is currently an Associate Professor. At USC he is also a member of the
Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center. In 1994 he received the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (1996-2000) and of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. He is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP) and
Image and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IMDSP) technical committees. He received the 1997 Northrop Grumman Junior Research Award awarded by the School of Engineering at USC. In 1998 he received the Leonard G. Abraham IEEE Communications Society Prize Paper Award for the best paper published in the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications in 1997, for his paper co-authored with Chi-Yuan Hsu and Amy R. Reibman. He also received the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Signal Processing Magazine Award in 1999 for a paper co-authored with Kannan Ramchandran, which appeared in the Signal Processing Magazine in November 1998. His research interests are in the area of digital image and video compression, including adaptive compression techniques, rate-distortion methods for video coding and video transmission over wireless channels and ATM networks.
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