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Michael Frater
Books and Book Chapters
Arnold, J. F., Frater, M. R. and Pickering, M. R. (2007), Digital Television: Technology and Standards, John Wiley & Sons.
Ryan, M. J. and Frater, M. R. (2007), Battlefield Communications Systems, Argos Press.
Benson, C., Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2007), Tactical Electronic Warfare, Argos Press.
Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2002), Communications and Information Systems, Argos Press.
Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. (2002), “Military Information Systems Security: Challenges and Vulnerabilities”, in L.C. Jain, et al (ed), Advances in Intelligent Systems for Defence, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company.
Ryan, M. and Frater, M. R. (2002), Tactical Communications for the Digitized Battlefield, Norwood MA: Artech House.
Frater, M. R. and Ryan (2001), M., Electronic Warfare for the Digitized Battlefield, Norwood MA: Artech House.
Selected Journal Papers
Guo, X, Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2008) “Design of a Propagation-delay-tolerant MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”. Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering.
Biswas, M., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F. (2008) “Multiple Description Wavelet Video Coding Employing A New Tree Structure”. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Albahrani, S. A., Frater, M. R. and Huntington, E. H. (2008). “Linearly filtered estimation of the time-domain Green's function from measurements of ambient noise”. Accepted for publication in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Shen, Z., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J.F., “Quad-Tree Block-Based Binary Shape Coding”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. Accepted for publication.
Robilliard, C., Huntington, E.H. and Frater, M. R. (2007), "Digital Transmission for Improved Synchronization of Analog Chaos Generators in Communications Systems", Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science. Vol.17, No.2.
Macnicol, J., Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R., Arnold, J.F. (2006), "Network Traffic Demand Patterns for Video Over Relative Differentiated Services Networks”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 21, No. 3 , March, pp. 169-180.
Zhang, F., Macnicol, J., Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R., Arnold, J.F. (2006), “Efficient Streaming Packet Video over Differentiated Services Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, No. 5, October, pp. 1005-1010.
Wei, J. X., Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R., Arnold, J.F., Boman, J. A., and Zeng, W. (2005), “Tile Boundary Artifact Reduction Using Odd Tile Size and the Low-Pass First Convention”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 14, No. 8, August 2005, pp. 1033 - 1042.
Macnicol, J., Arnold, J.F. and Frater, M. R. (2005), “Scalable Video Coding By Stream Morphing”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology Vol. 15, No. 2, February 2005, pp. 306 – 319.
Frater M.R., Arnold J.F. & Vahedian A. (2001), “Impact of Audio on Subjective Assessment of Video Quality”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 11, No. 9, September, pp 1059-1062.
Grasse M., Frater M.R. & Arnold J.F. (2000), “Testing VBR Video Traffic for Stationarity”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 3, April, pp 448-459.
Frater M.R., Lee W.S., Pickering M. & Arnold J.F. (2000), “Error Concealment in Video Coding of Arbitrarily Shaped Objects”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 15, No. 7-8, May, pp 631-641.
Zhang J., Arnold J.F. & Frater M.R. (2000), “A Cell Loss Concealment Technique for MPEG 2 Coded Video”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 4, June, pp 659-665.
Frater M.R. & Arnold J.F. (2000), “Coding of 12-bit Video from Thermal Imaging Systems”, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 15, No. 10, August, pp 907-916.
Lee W.S., Frater M.R., Pickering M.R. & Arnold J.F. (2000), “A Robust Codec for Transmission of Very Low Bit-Rate Video over Channels with Bursty Errors”, IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 10, No. 8, December, pp 1403-1412.
Frater, M. R., Arnold, J. F. and Zhang, J., (1999) “The Importance of the Systems Layer in MPEG 2 Error Resilience Experiments”, Signal Processing-Image Communication, 14, pp. 269 – 275.
Arnold J.F., Frater M.R. & Zhang J. (1999), “Error Resilience in the MPEG-2 Video Coding Standard for Cell Based Networks – A Review”, Invited Paper, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 14, No. 6-8, pp 607-633.
Pickering, M. R., Arnold, J. F. and Frater, M. R. (1997), "An Adaptive Search Length Algorithm for Block Matching Motion Estimation", IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 7(6), pp. 906-912.
Lee, W. S., Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F. (1997), "Error Resilience in Video and Multiplexing Layers for Very Low Bit-Rate Video Coding Systems", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 15(9), pp. 1764-1774.
Zhang, J., Frater, M.R. Arnold, J.F. Percival, T.M. (1997), "MPEG 2 video services for wireless ATM networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 15(1), pp. 119 - 128.
Frater, M. R., Lennon, T. M. and Anderson, B. D. O. (1991) "Optimally Efficient Estimation of the Statistics of Rare Events in Queueing Networks", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Special Issue on Multidimensional Queueing Systems, 36(12), pp. 1395-406.
Recent Conference Papers
Biswas, M., Frater, M. R., Arnold, J. F. and Pickering, M. R. (2007), “Optimal Multiple Description Wavelet Video Coding”, in Proc. Picture Coding Symposium 2007, November 7-9, Lisbon, Portugal.
Krutz, A., Kunter, M., Droese, M., Frater, M. R., and Sikora, T. (2007), “Content-Adaptive Video Coding Combining Object-Based Coding and H.264/AVC”, in Proc. Picture Coding Symposium 2007, November 7-9, Lisbon, Portugal.
Tarannum, N., Frater, M. R., Pickering, M. R. “Estimation of Global Motion Using a Modified Lorentzian Weight Function”, in Proc. Picture Coding Symposium 2007, November 7-9, Lisbon, Portugal.
Kunter, M., Krutz, A., Frater, M. R., and Sikora, T. (2007), “Object-based Multiple Sprite Coding of Unsegmented Videos using H.264/AVC”, in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, San Antonio TX.
Krutz, A., Frater, M. R., Sikora, T. (2007), “Window-Based Image Registration Using Variable Window Sizes” , in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, San Antonio TX.
Shen, Z., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F.(2007), “Optimal Pruning Quad-Tree Block-Based Binary Shape Coding”, in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, San Antonio TX.
Biswas, M., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F. (2007), “Multiple Description Video Coding with 3D-SPIHT Employing a New Tree Structure”, in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Image Processing, September 16-19, San Antonio TX.
Guo, X., Frater, M. R., Ryan, M. J., “Variable Accuracy Sensing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proc. AusWireless'07, 27-30 August, Sydney, Australia.
Benson, C., Ryan, M. J. and Frater, M. R. (2007), “On the Benefits of High Absorption in Practical Multihop Networks”, in Proc. IEEE OCEANS '07, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-21 June.
Guo, X., Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2007), “An Adaptive Propagation-delay-tolerant MAC Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, in Proc. IEEE OCEANS '07, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-21 June.
Howlader, Md. S. A., Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2007), “Estimation in Underwater Sensor Networks Taking into Account Capture”, in Proc. IEEE OCEANS '07, Aberdeen, Scotland, 18-21 June.
Krutz, A., Kunter, M., M. Mandal, Frater, M. R. and Sikora, T. (2007), “Motion-based Object Segmentation using Sprites and Anisotropic Diffusion”, in Proc. 8th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), Santorini, Greece, 6-8 June.
Krutz, A., Dröse, A., Kunter, M., Mandal, M., Frater, M. R. and Sikora, T. (2007), “Low Bit-Rate Object-based Multi-view Video Coding using MVC”, 3DTV-Conference, Kos Island, Greece, 7-9 May.
Lo, E, Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F. (2007), “Image Segmentation Using Invariant Texture Features from the Double Dyadic Dual-Tree Complex Wavelet Transform”, in Proc. 2007 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, April 15-17, Honolulu.
Paul, M., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F. (2006), “Efficient Mode Selection Algorithm Using Image Distortion for H.264 Video Encoder”, in Proc. 8th International Conference on Signal Processing (ICSP2006), Nov. 16-20, Guilin, China.
Krutz, A., Frater, M. R., Kunter, M. and Sikora, T. (2006), “Windowed Image Registration for Robust Mosaicing of Scenes with Large Background Occlusions”, in Proc. 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, October 8-11, Atlanta.
Pickering, M. R., Frater, M. R. and Arnold, J. F., “Enhanced Motion Compensation Using Elastic Image Registration”, in Proc. 2006 International Conference on Image Processing, October 8-11, Atlanta.
Krutz, A., Frater, M. R., Kunter, M. and Sikora, T. (2006), “Improved Image Registration using the Up-Sampled Domain”, in Proc. International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Oct 3-6, Victoria, Canada.
Frater, M. R., Ryan, M. J. and R. M. Dunbar (2006), “Electromagnetic Communications within Swarms of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”, in Proc. ACM Workshop on Underwater Networks WUWNET’06, September 25, Los Angeles, pp. 64-70.
Guo, X., Frater, M. R. and Ryan, M. J. (2006), “A Propagation-Delay-Tolerant Collision Avoidance Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks”, in Proc. IEEE Oceans’06 Asia-Pacific, 16-19 May, Singapore.